Pharmacy College Admission Test
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The Pharmacy College Admission Test (PCAT) is a standardized test
administered to prospective pharmacy school students by Harcourt Assessment, Inc.
The test is divided into seven sections to be taken in approximately four and a half hours. These sections include Verbal Ability
, Quantitative Ability
, Biology
, Chemistry
, Reading Comprehension and two Writing
sections. As with the MCAT, calculators are not allowed during the testing period and no penalty is given for incorrect answers.
Standardized test
A standardized test is a test that is administered and scored in a consistent, or "standard", manner. Standardized tests are designed in such a way that the questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent and are administered and scored in a...
administered to prospective pharmacy school students by Harcourt Assessment, Inc.
Harcourt Assessment
Harcourt Assessment was a company that published and distributed educational and psychological assessment tools and therapy resources and provided educational assessment and data management services for national, state, district and local assessments...
The test is divided into seven sections to be taken in approximately four and a half hours. These sections include Verbal Ability
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
, Quantitative Ability
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, Reading Comprehension and two Writing
Writing
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols . It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.Writing most likely...
sections. As with the MCAT, calculators are not allowed during the testing period and no penalty is given for incorrect answers.