My Take on the PCAT

[Wow Strong Armz]

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I didnt think it was that bad at all. Even though i prob did horrible. I think i regret not doing more CliffsPCAT 5 Exams. The exam was almost identical in everyway to this. Even some of the questions in bio were lifted word for word😱 . Hardest part had to be Chem, i didnt even read the question. It was like i skimmed and circled something not that i didnt know it but i didnt have time. 30% was prob orgo. Reading was teh ghey with all those author's tone and opinions and what to add. Bio was aight.


So if i were to take the exam exam which i prob will. Study from the Kaplan and do all the practice problems in the Cliffs 5 Pcat exam and understand them. I wouldnt buy PCAT Professor, Barron's or Peterson.

Material:
Kaplan
5 PCat exam by cliffs
Cliffs Quick review Calculus.


I'll let you guys know my score in 4 weeks 🙂

 

[cycloketocaine]

Uuuuhhh, it'll be at least 6 weeks.

 

[Wow Strong Armz]

Uuuuhhh, it'll be at least 6 weeks.

6? proctor said 4 weeks, definite by 5 weeks. Call at the end of 5 weeks

 

[PharmDKD]

Quantative and chem seemed the hardest for me. The chem seemed to have a lot more organic chem than I expected it to have in it. But, I think bio, read comp, writing and verbal were pretty good. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

 

[cycloketocaine]

6? proctor said 4 weeks, definite by 5 weeks. Call at the end of 5 weeks

I've taken it twice, and the scores have not come before six weeks. I don't live in the boonies either. No one I know has gotten their scores before 5 1/2 weeks.

And I know what the proctor said.

 

[Wow Strong Armz]

I've taken it twice, and the scores have not come before six weeks. I don't live in the boonies either. No one I know has gotten their scores before 5 1/2 weeks.

And I know what the proctor said.

cool cool, i guess she then made stuff up. Damn that is almost 2 month. I guess i just gota keep studying and refreshing my memorry incase i have to take it again

 

[acetyl]

Yep, 6 weeks is what you should be expecting.

 

[unit18]

Well i wrote the PCAT today.... my impression is that it is VERY similar to kaplan final exam. the questions were a bit harder than kaplans actually. I found math to be the hardest

 

[Wow Strong Armz]

Well i wrote the PCAT today.... my impression is that it is VERY similar to kaplan final exam. the questions were a bit harder than kaplans actually. I found math to be the hardest

math wasnt that hard but it required a **** load of basics that i completely forgot.

 

[najeroni]

math wasnt that hard but it required a **** load of basics that i completely forgot.

So basically it was hard.

 

[Wow Strong Armz]

So basically it was hard.

no not hard that is impossible to do. If i knew my basic systematic equations and what graph goes with wat function.

 

[LiLbELLyDaNcEr]

What really ticks me off about the PCAT is how much time they give you for the math...even as fast as I was working, I still didn't get every question done! I had like 15 problems left and had to guess on all of them 🙁 Oh well.

 

[saradempsey]

6? proctor said 4 weeks, definite by 5 weeks. Call at the end of 5 weeks

I didn't get my scores from the Oct PCAT until 6 weeks after.....I about had a heart attack

 

[Quiksilver]

why not take a kaplan class? When i first got there, i couldn't even complete 3/4 of the math section, by the time of the exam, i finished with time to spare and got a 93 percentile on it

 

[YooperPharm]

I thought the PCAT was going to be a lot more like a foreign language to me because I have not taken like half the classes needed as Pharmacy Pre-Requisites. The math section was by far the most challenging because of the time constraints. I had like 22 questions left with 5 minutes to go 😱 and I wasn’t really taking my time on the previous questions I was just making sure that I got them correct.

This waiting crap is by far worse than studying for the damn test!! AHHHHHH I hate this!!

Oh if anyone wanted to know I used the Kaplan book to study from…👍

 

[omnione]

What really ticks me off about the PCAT is how much time they give you for the math...even as fast as I was working, I still didn't get every question done! I had like 15 problems left and had to guess on all of them 🙁 Oh well.

That happened to me to on the October exam where I had bubble in around 6 questions randomly. I got a 96 so I suppose that most people don't ever finish that portion the way they want to given that I could earn a high score while guessing on 10% of the questions.