Practice Tests vs. The Real Thing

[BYUIDoctor]

Anyone who has used practice test material and have since taken the real thing please post a reply!

I'm wondering how your scores compared to the real thing. Please indicate what you used and how well you were doing on practice tests compared to how you actually did. Thanks

Kaplan
TopScore Pro
OAT Achiever
OAT Professor
www.opted.org
Etc.

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[brownyeyed]

i had used OAT achiever and Kaplan to help me prepare for it. Here are the scores i got with the third test in Oat Achiever vs the real OAT

OAT achiever Actual OAT
Bio 270 320
GC 320 340
OC 350 380
RC 350 280 (yikes)
Phy 290 370
QR 390 380
TS 320 360
AA 330 350

In general, the achiever as said in other posts is generally harder except for RC. i used the DAT kaplan to review bio, gc, and ochem and i think that was a tremendous help. for physics i just used my own lecture notes. As long as you put in the time and dedication to really studying, i think you should be fine.

 

[Oogilily]

Going to BYU eh? I'm up at Weber. Good luck with everything! Anyways, I also used some of OAT Achiever and it was a lot higher. Here's my scores from one test and then what I actually got on the real thing.

QR: 310....350
RC: 380....370
Bio: 310....360
G Chem: 300....370
O Chem: 350....400
Physics: 310....330
TS: 320....380
AA: 320....360

OAT Achiever was WAY harder than the real thing. I didn't like it all that much. On the opted.org site, I was scoring 380+ on everything so I thought it was a little easier than the real thing but closer to the way it is then Achiever.

 

[tina13rvs]

Achiever spanked me too when I was using its DAT version. I bet it's been so designed to make you really work a lot harder for the test. Great scores though, Oogilily and brownyeyed!

 

[prettygreeneyes]

I used TopScore Pro and for every section my actual OAT score was at least 40 points higher than the TopScore Pro score. Store the thought in the back of your head but don't count on it. Make sure you are going through every wrong answer and understanding WHY you got it wrong, and what you need to learn to ensure you get it right the next time.

Also, from what I've heard, your score on the www.opted.org practice test is an excellent predictor of your actual scores. (I didn't take it myself, so I'll let others chime in here.)

 

[cessna]

I agree with most of the comparisons that have been made. I only took the Kaplan and ASCO practice exams. Here's the comparison of my real OAT scores (from today) and the two Kaplan practice tests I took out of the purple book.
Subj K1 K2 OAT
QR 370 300 390
RC 360 400 400
Bio 360 340 390
GCh 310 330 370
OCh 370 390 380
Phy 280 320 380
TS 330 350 400
AA 340 350 390

As you can see, for the most part my real OAT was 40 points above the average of my Kaplans.