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I took the test yesterday, and I am a little dissappointed by a couple scores. Anyway, I want to thank this forum for any help on questions or topics, and those of you who I talked with through PM (you know who you are). The rest of my stats are on my predents link if you want to check it out.
PAT 22
QR 15👎
RC 17😱 I'll explain below
BIO 20
OC 20
GC 18
TS 19
AA 18
PAT. This section I thought was pretty easy. I was always scoring 22's on crackPAT, and even a 25 and 28. Very similar to crackPAT. Keyholes were really easy, no crazy shapes. TFE was a little harder than crackPAT, there were a lot of dotted lines and hidden figures, so be prepared for that. Angles were insane, hands down the hardest part of the PAT section. Most of the angles were acute. This is where I probably lost most of the points. Hole punching was very easy compared to crack. There were no half-holes or anything like that. Cube-counting was really easy as well. 4 figures, with the most having 12 cubes. Pattern-folding was also not that bad. Unlike crack, there wasn't much "shading" in the patterns, and more shapes. I am pleased with my score, it was 97%.
QR. This was a complete disaster. I've never seen so many word problems before. The algebra/geometry ones were basic, so I skipped through and solved all of those first. I literally had about 12-15 word problems. The window popped up to say 1 min left, and I was only on question 31.......so I had to guess on most end questions. I used Destroyer, and Kaplan for this, as well as some old math books. IMO, nothing really prepares you for this, because the word problems are extremely random and plentiful. I hope this doesn't keep me out of Dental School.
RC. Again, I am a little embarrassed to post this score. I was scoring 20-21 on all my practice tests. I had a set strategy down, but that all went out the window on the 2nd passage. I did not get FRAPPED, however I believe I had a passage equal in difficulty if not worse. I prepared for an ethics passage, none of which I received. My 2nd passage was the "piano" passage, which was extremely long and tedious. The paragraphs and questions were so complex I had to read them a few times just to see what they were asking. It was terrible, and I am pretty sure 2 of the answers were no where to be found in this passage. The other two passages were normal science ones, but since the piano one took so long I only had 15 min to read/answer the entire last one. Thanks to this, my overall score is brought down, I am most upset by this section.
BIO. It was pretty straightforward, nothing that was impossible. I used Schaums, Kaplan, and Destroyer for this section. The questions were as everyone else said, extremely random! Hardly anything on human systems. I think the hardest aspect of this section is the way the questions are worded. A few (which I probably got wrong judging by my score) I knew the correct answer, but found myself re-reading ambiguously worded answer choices to find the correct one. Schaums was a great resource.
OC. This was probably the most fair section on the test. The reactions were very basic and seldom longer than 1-2 steps. However, there were very few reaction questions. Destroyer was great for this. I swear there was one question with no answer, I marked it and went back to it later. There was also an IR question that had none of the characteristic peaks (OH, C=O, C triple bond C, N's), which was insanely hard (just a bunch of hyrdocarbons). Overall, I am pleased with my score on this section.
GC. This was a little tricky. There were 2 problems which I have never seen before. Other than that, the math was not intense, and the conceptual questions were straightforward. Like I said, there were 2 setups which I have never seen before and probably got those wrong. I really wanted a 20 on this, oh well. I used Kaplan and Destroyer.
My practice tests scores for achiever and topscore ranged from 16-21. All were pretty consistent. RC I was always getting a 20-21, so I am really upset about this section on the real test, because I think if I had a 21 on the real test, my AA would be higher.
Anyway, thanks to those who have answered any of my questions over the past month.
Please let me know what you think. Like I said above the rest of my stats are in predents (my post bacc grade is from 1 graduate molecular neuro class I took at night last semester....b/c I could). Overall, I am somewhat happy with my PAT and sciences. I really hope QR doesn't keep me out.
PAT 22
QR 15👎
RC 17😱 I'll explain below
BIO 20
OC 20
GC 18
TS 19
AA 18
PAT. This section I thought was pretty easy. I was always scoring 22's on crackPAT, and even a 25 and 28. Very similar to crackPAT. Keyholes were really easy, no crazy shapes. TFE was a little harder than crackPAT, there were a lot of dotted lines and hidden figures, so be prepared for that. Angles were insane, hands down the hardest part of the PAT section. Most of the angles were acute. This is where I probably lost most of the points. Hole punching was very easy compared to crack. There were no half-holes or anything like that. Cube-counting was really easy as well. 4 figures, with the most having 12 cubes. Pattern-folding was also not that bad. Unlike crack, there wasn't much "shading" in the patterns, and more shapes. I am pleased with my score, it was 97%.
QR. This was a complete disaster. I've never seen so many word problems before. The algebra/geometry ones were basic, so I skipped through and solved all of those first. I literally had about 12-15 word problems. The window popped up to say 1 min left, and I was only on question 31.......so I had to guess on most end questions. I used Destroyer, and Kaplan for this, as well as some old math books. IMO, nothing really prepares you for this, because the word problems are extremely random and plentiful. I hope this doesn't keep me out of Dental School.
RC. Again, I am a little embarrassed to post this score. I was scoring 20-21 on all my practice tests. I had a set strategy down, but that all went out the window on the 2nd passage. I did not get FRAPPED, however I believe I had a passage equal in difficulty if not worse. I prepared for an ethics passage, none of which I received. My 2nd passage was the "piano" passage, which was extremely long and tedious. The paragraphs and questions were so complex I had to read them a few times just to see what they were asking. It was terrible, and I am pretty sure 2 of the answers were no where to be found in this passage. The other two passages were normal science ones, but since the piano one took so long I only had 15 min to read/answer the entire last one. Thanks to this, my overall score is brought down, I am most upset by this section.
BIO. It was pretty straightforward, nothing that was impossible. I used Schaums, Kaplan, and Destroyer for this section. The questions were as everyone else said, extremely random! Hardly anything on human systems. I think the hardest aspect of this section is the way the questions are worded. A few (which I probably got wrong judging by my score) I knew the correct answer, but found myself re-reading ambiguously worded answer choices to find the correct one. Schaums was a great resource.
OC. This was probably the most fair section on the test. The reactions were very basic and seldom longer than 1-2 steps. However, there were very few reaction questions. Destroyer was great for this. I swear there was one question with no answer, I marked it and went back to it later. There was also an IR question that had none of the characteristic peaks (OH, C=O, C triple bond C, N's), which was insanely hard (just a bunch of hyrdocarbons). Overall, I am pleased with my score on this section.
GC. This was a little tricky. There were 2 problems which I have never seen before. Other than that, the math was not intense, and the conceptual questions were straightforward. Like I said, there were 2 setups which I have never seen before and probably got those wrong. I really wanted a 20 on this, oh well. I used Kaplan and Destroyer.
My practice tests scores for achiever and topscore ranged from 16-21. All were pretty consistent. RC I was always getting a 20-21, so I am really upset about this section on the real test, because I think if I had a 21 on the real test, my AA would be higher.
Anyway, thanks to those who have answered any of my questions over the past month.
Please let me know what you think. Like I said above the rest of my stats are in predents (my post bacc grade is from 1 graduate molecular neuro class I took at night last semester....b/c I could). Overall, I am somewhat happy with my PAT and sciences. I really hope QR doesn't keep me out.
