Scoring

[Shjfr]

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Is the scoring on the ADA website pretty accurate in regards to how many you can miss to get what score (bio 32/40 = 19, gen chem 24/30 = 19) on the DAT?

 

[DCRedskinsRule]

I think that's a pretty accurate estimate. Of course on test day, one question my swing you one point in either direction from those averages, but more than likely, that grid on the ada.org is correct.

 

[paul510psu]

Is the scoring on the ADA website pretty accurate in regards to how many you can miss to get what score (bio 32/40 = 19, gen chem 24/30 = 19) on the DAT?

The scoring on the ADA website is for a normal test. I'm pretty sure that the scoring is different for each day that the DAT is given but I could be wrong. For example, some days getting a perfect score in the organic chemistry section will be a 29 and others it will be a 30.

As far as I know the ADA is the official organization that determines the standard score/raw score correlations.

Hope this helps

 

[PreDent2009]

I would say that the scoring has to change day-to-day, depending on the test that you take. I only got two wrong on Organic and got a 23, got 1 wrong on G-Chem and got a 29, and got 3 wrong on Bio and got a 22. The only way to know how many you get wrong and how the scoring was done that day is to look at your TS score. This tells you exactly how many you got wrong total. From that you can backtrack to see how many you got wrong in each section and how the scoring was conducted that day.