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If you have lost your credit card or it has been replaced since you registered, you may still cancel your PCAT registration online. It takes approximately 6—8 weeks for the refund to be sent to the address supplied on your PCAT profile. If your address has changed or if you wish to confirm the mailing address on file, please email PCAT Customer Relations with your correct address within three 3 business days of requesting the cancellation.
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Canceling Your Registration To cancel your registration online you will need the same credit card you used at registration. Blueprint and Other Changes for — Biological Processes and Chemical Processes: At least half of the items in each of these two subtests are associated with passages that focus on a specific research study or experiment requiring content knowledge and analytic skills to interpret and evaluate.
Critical Reading: At least half of the items in this subtest include items that require the interpretation, analysis, and evaluation of passages with humanities or social science content.
Quantitative Reasoning: At least half of the items in this subtest involve a practical scenario or situation and pose a quantitative problem that must be solved.
Scores reported on Official Score Reports: Beginning with the July administrations, all multiple-choice scores are reported using the new subtest titles Biological Processes, Chemical Processes, Critical Reading, and Quantitative Reasoning , and Composite scaled scores are now calculated without a Verbal Ability score, because there is no longer a Verbal Ability subtest on the PCAT.
Blueprint changes for Quantitative Reasoning: This subtest formerly called Quantitative Ability includes a greater proportion of items on basic math and algebra content, with fewer items covering precalculus and calculus. Use of a calculator and a periodic table: An online standard calculator will be provided for use with the Biological Processes, Chemical Processes, and Quantitative Reasoning subtests, and a periodic table will be provided for use with the Chemical Processes subtest.
Blueprint changes from Beginning with the July administration of the PCAT testing cycle, the Verbal Ability subtest was reduced in length, and there was no experimental Writing subtest. These reductions allowed for additional time for the Biology, Chemistry, and Quantitative Ability subtests without lengthening the overall testing time and did not affect the calculation of candidates' scores.
The additional time for the Biology and Chemistry subtests accommodated the addition of a few items associated with short passages, and the time added to the Quantitative Ability subtest allowed for the addition of more items involving word-problem or problem-solving scenarios.
The Pearson online practice tests available to PCAT candidates reflect these revisions and continue to mirror the actual PCAT in length and in the proportion of items addressing each content objective and each item format. These components are available to provide you with a unique opportunity to prepare for the actual exam. Click the link below to register. You only need to register once and can reuse the site as often as you like. If you have registered previously, click the "Login" link to get to the "My Profile" page.
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Below is an example prompt you could expect to see on the PCAT. Discuss a solution to the problems involved in raising children in a country that allows few restrictions on the mass media. The best writers take the time to think through the points of their argument and come up with persuasive sub-points to back up their claims.
Each of the points of their argument go to supporting their overall conclusion. A large portion of questions in this section will involve familiarity with biology in general. Each question is multiple choice with four choices provided. The correct answer here is B. In turn, this increases the pH of the blood! Like biology, chemistry questions are all multiple choice with four answers available. Chemistry questions are formatted similarly, where a graphic is sometimes used to give context to a question.
Here is a PCAT practice test question to try:. To find this answer, you must know how to put the information from the question into an equation and balance it. Because the final volume is equal to the initial volume, you solve for the unknown quantities, and thus 50M is your answer. Answering questions from the critical reading section involves reading the passage and then answering the questions. A section of a passage from an example section is below, along with one PCAT practice test question.
Note that reading comprehension is measuring your ability to recall and interpret information, not to choose the answer that makes the most logical sense to the problem in your opinion. Finally, quantitative reasoning requires you to use your problem-solving skills quickly and across several different kinds of mathematics.
The calculator provided to you during the test has limited functions, so you need to know how to solve equations quickly and simply.
The correct answer to this problem is B. If you do, solving this problem is a piece of cake The average PCAT score is , and most top-tier pharmacy schools prefer a or above. Keep in mind that you can retake the PCAT, though it is limited to five times. The best strategy in this case is to study hard to limit the number of times you need to retake the PCAT exam. Here are a few examples of the scores required for two top-tier and two middle-tier schools from around the United States.
As you can guess from the percentiles and scores, the PCAT is a tough exam. After all, it can take up to eight years to graduate from pharmacy school! Our blog also has comprehensive study guides on some of the topics you might see on the PCAT exam.
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