What do these Dr Collins scores equate to?

[Girlinthewindow]

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Decided to take all of the Dr Collins exams in order of the actual PCAT (verbal, bio, chem, break, reading, quant) while excluding the essay portion. I used the Dr Collins compressed times and finished well ahead of time in pretty much every section. Here are my scores and I was wondering what I should be looking at percentile-wise on the actual PCAT based on these scores.

Verbal 39/50
Bio 38/48
Chem 34/50
Reading 39/48
Quantitative 43/50

I still have about a month till my PCAT so I am still improving, and it looks like I have some weak areas I need to work on especially in chem, but really hoping I can get an estimate of my percentile scores based on these scores.

Much thanks!

 

[blueheron]

60-90ish from chem to quant.

 

[Derozan]

^pretty big range

 

[Girlinthewindow]

60-90ish from chem to quant.

What would my composite be?

 

[blueheron]

^pretty big range

Yeah... there was a pretty big range of correct answers.

Maybe a composite of 75-85.

 

[blueheron]

You know, since OP was using scores plural the whole time.

 

[Girlinthewindow]

Do you mind letting me in on how you figured out what the composite/individual percentiles? As in what's the logic behind your calculations? I'm just curious and want to figure these things out on my own in the future 🙂

 

[blueheron]

Just a guess really, based on my experience and logic. For instance most people with a BS have bio degrees, so it is harder to do well compared to them. So missing 4 from bio will likely be a lower score than missing only 4 from chem or quant. Many people have trouble making connections, so VA and RC are probably going to yield higher scores with the same # missed. Then it's luck whether the ones you miss are experimental.

I missed on average 3-4 per section on practice tests and got a 97.

Just do a couple that score them for you such as the Kaplan and Pearson tests.

 

[Girlinthewindow]

I missed on average 3-4 per section on practice tests and got a 97.

Thank you very much, bluehorn.

Is that 3-4 from Dr Collins or the practice Pearson PCAT exam? My other point/question I guess is how similar are these practice tests that Dr Collins has to the real deal?

I am planning on purchasing the 3 Pearson exams to get a better feel after I am finished with the Dr Collins exams.

 

[Girlinthewindow]

Bumping for more opinions

 

[blueheron]

They are very close, you should be fine.

 

[rshah816]

I didn't want to make a completely new thread about the same topic, so could someone tell me what my Dr. Collins scores equate to?

Verbal: 39/50
Bio: 40/48
Chem: 44/49
Reading: 46/48
Quant: 49/52

Thanks!

 

[blueheron]

The chem is probably low 90s, QA and RC are high 90s. Verbal I would guess 80s, and bio would be 70s-low 80s I would say.