Just took the pcat.

[chunmngm]

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I just took the pcat for the first time and they gave me a paper with my potential score.
I had a 84 composite with a 99% in chemistry as highest, but a 15% in verbal comprehension. I know it is pretty low (Im hispanic and my first language is spanish). Though, it is highly recommended to take it again?

 

[jchen14]

Congrats on your score!
I think it all depends on where you want to go to pharmacy school. I also took the PCAT today and my composite was a 79 with my highest score being 95 in chem. If you want to go to a high tier school but your GPA isn't too great then I recommend taking it again to see if you can do better. 84 is a great score. Plus, I believe schools look at the physical sciences more than the RC and Verbal sections.

 

[chunmngm]

Thank you very much, I was afraid I had to take the test again. I hope I can get in with this score.

 

[YOWAT]

hey hispanic, which one are you in the picture? single? haha but good job bro. i feel proud of u. yo, this calls for a celebration in the spanish community. did u do well in math? what were yr scores?

 

[chunmngm]

I did 85 on math 99 chem 79 bio 49 verbal and 15 comprehension.

 

[YOWAT]

How do you do so well in preparing for math? Donde 1-5, could u rate la difficil de collins math con pcat math? yo necessito practicar matematica mucho por mi vida bueno o soy dumb. any tips welcome!

 

[chunmngm]

Hey, well i think math is really tricky. The thing is that I took calc. 2 when I was studying Engineering (by my second year of college). Then, i changed concentration. Basically, my last math class was then, and was about almost 4 years from now. Im really good in practical classes such as math and chemistry, and physics. In my experience, I rate 8 (from 1-10) in difficulty. That is my opinion and some other person might tell you differently. Math is just about practice, and I did a lot, Frankly, 85% was more from what i was expecting. If any question, feel free to ask. 🙂

 

[PharmD.93]

I wouldn't retake it. My scores are very similar to yours. RC and verbal are like the same and the rest three were all 90+. It was my second time taking it, my sciences and math and increased dramatically but your reading and verbal scores can't really change much anyway. If you don't get in this year and you wanna retake it to improve math and bio it would be worth it but I got accepted with similar scores so I wouldn't worry about it