What's a good PCAT score?

What defines a good score can vary significantly based on personal situation. Much depends on the strength of the rest of your application (e.g., if your transcript is first-rate, then the pressure to do well on the PCAT isn’t as intense) and on where you want to go to school (e.g., different schools have different score expectations). For each PCAT administration, the average scaled scores are approximately 400 for each section; this equates to the 50th percentile. To be considered competitive, you’ll want to score above the 50th percentile. Especially competitive schools may want scores above the 70th percentile or even higher.It’s important to check the scores for each individual school. One commonality is that most schools will consider scores that are evenly distributed across sections to be more favorable than a very high performance on one section offset by a very low performance on another section. Performing consistently across the board is preferred. Because all of your section scores factor into your cumulative score, maximizing your performance on every question is important. Just a few questions one way or the other can make a big difference in your scaled score. Make an extra effort to score well on a test section if you did poorly in a corresponding class; the best revenge for getting a C in a chemistry class is excelling on the Chemical Processes section of the PCAT.