kaplan mock exams (scores)

[oddiess]

HI~! I am registered for the August PCAT and I am currently enrolled in the PCAT classroom experience course.
For people who took the pcat and the Kaplan course before, how well did your diagnostic/midterm/final exams approximate your actual PCAT score?
I recently took the Midterm and my raw scores are
VERBAL 394
BIO 446
CHEM 450
READ COMP 465
QUANT 452
Over all 441

according to the Kaplan book I am in the 80-94% for my composit. But I dont know how much I should believe in these scores. I keep on feeling like I should be studying more... I guess I am very paranoid about these things. Please give me some of your opinions for what I should do. I guess I just need a rough idea of how much I already know and if I am doing the right things right now with my studies...

Thank you so much!

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[oddiess]

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[omnione]

Have you taken the Harcourt online practice exams yet? Those offer some indication too.

If Kaplan has some concept of correct scoring, which I question, then your scores seem really good (~90). But other exams offer a different perspective.

 

[tiffany88]

hey omnione...i had a question regarding what you said above. if a 440 is about a 90%, do you know what a 397 is approximate to?

 

[oddiess]

I took one of those Harcourt exams. It was really short and in the end they told me I am around 76%-99% or something... which is a big range too...

 

[Wan2BPharmD]

I'm not sure how close those scores resemble actual scores, but my Kaplan instructor said VERY, VERY few people get scores lower than their diagnostic exam score.

Kaplan has a higher score guarantee, where you get all your money back if you do not score higher than your diagnostic exam. I was told that very few people have ever been given the chance to take advantage of the guarantee (i.e. they score higher than the diagnostic).

Let's hope they're right! I got a 436 on my diagnostic...which I think is around upper 80s? Eek, less than 3 weeks left...

 

[omnione]

hey omnione...i had a question regarding what you said above. if a 440 is about a 90%, do you know what a 397 is approximate to?

Actually, I looked back at my scores and old scores on this board, and a 440 is probably around 97. I got a 94 for a scaled score of 433 after all.

Looking at old threads, a 397 is in between 60-70. Once again, don't ask me about how many questions are needed to get that on your upcoming PCAT.

EDIT: I saw that a 401 yields a 53, so I would guess that a 397 is bad. However, Kaplan does make their tests in a way where you'll score higher on the real PCAT most of the time. I do believe that you need to kick your studying up another notch.

 

[think]

HI~! I am registered for the August PCAT and I am currently enrolled in the PCAT classroom experience course.
For people who took the pcat and the Kaplan course before, how well did your diagnostic/midterm/final exams approximate your actual PCAT score?
I recently took the Midterm and my raw scores are
VERBAL 394
BIO 446
CHEM 450
READ COMP 465
QUANT 452
Over all 441

according to the Kaplan book I am in the 80-94% for my composit. But I dont know how much I should believe in these scores. I keep on feeling like I should be studying more... I guess I am very paranoid about these things. Please give me some of your opinions for what I should do. I guess I just need a rough idea of how much I already know and if I am doing the right things right now with my studies...

Thank you so much!

is the 80 to 94% how much stuff you got correct ? if not did they tell you what % u got correct