Just took my first practice PCAT

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hye345

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I must confess, I didn't exactly take it under 'standard conditions', in the sense that I did one section at a time, over the period of a few days. However, for each section, I did give myself the proper time limits, and the 'lack' of any test aids.

Anyway, most the sub-sections were in the 80's and 90's percentile, but my score on the quantitative portion was lousy (between 35 and 55 percentile). This was probably because I actually tried to answer the 'long' questions, which often took me over 2 minutes each. In the end, I had to blindly guess the last 12 problems or so, to stay within the allocated time limit.

All in all, my average percentile fell between the 73% and 93%. I'm curious, where would this rank overall? I realize its somewhat of a vague question, but I just wanna know where I stand at the moment. Thanks.
 
P.S. I'm not sure if this post belongs in the "should I retake? What do my scores mean..." thread, since it was a practice PCAT with percentile spreads. If it does, then please let me know...
 
I must confess, I didn't exactly take it under 'standard conditions', in the sense that I did one section at a time, over the period of a few days. However, for each section, I did give myself the proper time limits, and the 'lack' of any test aids.

Anyway, most the sub-sections were in the 80's and 90's percentile, but my score on the quantitative portion was lousy (between 35 and 55 percentile). This was probably because I actually tried to answer the 'long' questions, which often took me over 2 minutes each. In the end, I had to blindly guess the last 12 problems or so, to stay within the allocated time limit.

All in all, my average percentile fell between the 73% and 93%. I'm curious, where would this rank overall? I realize its somewhat of a vague question, but I just wanna know where I stand at the moment. Thanks.
73rd: meh. 93rd: good.

Work on the quantitative. See the thread above about tricks to solve math questions quickly.