Karen Preztal
Discounts:
- $100 off if you are a paid member
- Practice tests: will get full report back and all the explanations of what is right/wrong
- OAT Kaplan auction course
- Admission:
o Test-taking facts: apps up 12%, # spots in grad school has not changed
o Schools wants diversity to experiences
o Admission is very competitive
o Schools will look at GPA as whole: if get C- in prereq class, recommend to take over
o OAT standardize test to see how well you will do in graduate school
o Experience: shows if you really want to know who you are
o Personal statement: essay showing who you are
o Letters of recommendation: someone who knows you well, make experience sheet to see what makes you different
o Interviews: just be yourself; profession but show who you are; confidence, not arrogance, remember to ask questions about their program
o Application itself; make sure application is perfect, clean, and neat
o Essays: can start at any time, start/end with BANG (story, joke, theme, want them to keep reading and stand out, who are you?, why are you wanting to be at this problem? DON’T use formal language
o Find 3 partners to read each others and give good critics
o Admission consultants with Kaplan
o Try to create theme to tie together essays (overcome a hard event)
o Good idea to create timeline of what you need to do/turn in
- The OAT Test:
o Content: Organic chemistry, chemistry, biology, math, physics
o Critical thinking: strategy, many questions, little time
o Crisis prevention: knowing how to overcome outside disturbance
o Register 6-8 weeks before, administered daily but not
o First thing to go through = 15 minutes tutorial about how to take test
o 1st section = 100 questions, 90 minutes: bio (40), chem. (30), ochem. (30)
o 2nd section = 40 questions, 50 minutes: test ability to find main idea, process info, and read/understand dense information
o 50 minute optional break (TAKE IT!!)
o 3rd section: physics; 40 questions, 50 minutes; energy, movement, vectors, magnets, optics
o 4th section: math; 40 questions, 45 minutes
o 4 hours approx for test
o 200-400 score range; median = 300 average, 75th %tile = 350. 90th%tile = 370, 99%tile = 390
- Kaplan: www.kaptest.com
o If not satisfied or if not ready to take OAT can take class again for free
o Lower score than in Kaplan class guarantee refund or free classes again
o Scores are good for 5 years
