Physics Units

[sgreen]

I have a question for anyone who has written the OAT recently.

I'm wondering whether we have to be familiar with conversions between SI and non-SI units. A lot of the physics practice problems I'm doing deal with units like slugs, lbs, and ft. I especially find the use of lbs to be a bit ambiguous. I'm not sure if it makes a difference that I'm writing the test in Canada.

Thanks!

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[Oogilily]

I didn't see any conversions like that on my test. It was pretty straight forward and all in SI units. None of that SI - non-SI conversion stuff.

 

[hokulele]

I took the OAT earlier this year and didn't have any conversions either.

If you go to http://www.opted.org and then read the OAT Examinee Guide, there is a section which lists the specific topics each section of the OAT will cover. It can be found under the section entitled, "Scope of Test."

 

[sgreen]

thanks for the responses!
hmm now i'm also wondering if this also applies to the quantitative reasoning section. thanks!