PCAT Math

[eddyRDH]

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Is it possible to take the PCAT with only having college alegebra and pre-cal? I want to take the exam in June but I won't take calc. till the fall.

What should I do?

 

[Iseebigppl]

wait. Or learn basic calc beforehand.

 

[starsweet]

I would wait till I took Calc I, there are a lot of Calc I questions on the test.

 

[beccala33]

A lot isn't even a good way to describe it. I would say that about 30% of the test is Calc. DEFINITELY wait until you take calc. Some schools offer it as an "express term", meaning that they start later than the rest of the classes. You could definitely take precalc at the same time as you take calc, they have virtually nothing to do with one another. It's not like you need precalc to take calc...

 

[DownonthePharm]

The stuff that isnt calc is just mostly algebraic manipulations. But as others have said calculus ranges from some to a lot of the test. I took it in June of 2005 and cant remember doing anything but guessing on the calc questions (it had been about 6 years and I ran out of time to reteach myself) and still got an 85% on the math. Not really great, but if you are able to get high enough scores on the other sections you can theoretically score just fine overall on the exam.

If you've taken all your bios up through physiology, chemistry up through organic and are extremely skilled in the english language areas you can take it. If not, I'd wait, at least until the fall when you'll be about 1/2 way through calc.

 

[eddyRDH]

Thanks for all of the advice !!!!!!

 

[ndearwater]

Moving to PCAT forum. 🙂

 

[evilolive]

Is it possible to take the PCAT with only having college alegebra and pre-cal? I want to take the exam in June but I won't take calc. till the fall.

What should I do?

I found in the January PCAT that most of the calculus questions were simple limit questions, l'hopital manipulations, and a few derivative/integration questions. Nothing past the first semester of calculus although I totally had forgotten how to sum things up from statistics (only one question). Perhaps picking up a review book from Barnes and Noble might help you.