TOPScore scores vs. real DAT scores

[ucizotzot]

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for those of you who used TOPscore to as a study aid for the DAT; i was wondering what your actual score was compared to your TOPscore scores. i heard that TOPscore is harder in the academic sections and thus if you are scoring a 19-20 on TOPscore, you are probably hitting low 20's on the real thing. is it safe to say that you add somewhere between 1-3 points to the TOPscore score to get the estimated real score? thanks

 

[Biogirl361]

if you do a search in the DAT forum you will find tonnnsss of threads about this (probably including some ones i contributed to last year 🙂 )

 

[balance]

for those of you who used TOPscore to as a study aid for the DAT; i was wondering what your actual score was compared to your TOPscore scores. i heard that TOPscore is harder in the academic sections and thus if you are scoring a 19-20 on TOPscore, you are probably hitting low 20's on the real thing. is it safe to say that you add somewhere between 1-3 points to the TOPscore score to get the estimated real score? thanks

That's about right, since DAT is curved and TopScore is not. I used to get low 20's on TopScore and did much better on DAT.

 

[IcemanDDS]

That's about right, since DAT is curved and TopScore is not. I used to get low 20's on TopScore and did much better on DAT.

How is DAT curved?