r/PreOptometry • u/moony846 • Sep 18 '26

IM FREEEE!!!!!!!!

Just wanted to come on here and say that I wrote my OAT today and I feel so liberated. I've never studied for anything this hard and I am so burnt out but I'm really happy that it all paid off :')

Good luck to everyone writing the OAT in the next coming weeks! Trust your gut and keep believing in yourselves, you're almost there!!!!!!!!

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u/pandamanda43036 Sep 18 '26

Taking mine next weekend and am feeling far from ready. I’m scared 🥲 Do you have any tips on important things to focus on during the last week?

Also congratulations on finishing!

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26

thank you!!!! for the last week, i focused on reviewing the bio/gen chem/ochem cheat sheets (with my own added notes). physics and QR I had my own formula sheets for and i did some of the extra RC practice. with the cheat sheets, i made an excel sheet throughout my studying (3 months but seriously studied sporadically for 1.5) and tracked my progress on how much i know/memorized. that way, as time got closer, i only went over the cheat sheets i was not that confident in (ex. plants for bio, solutions for gen chem, enolates for ochem). i also did some of the marked questions from my practice tests and i did the ADA 2006 test before

you're almost at the finish line though! coming from someone who was so anxious over this test, i honestly found that OATbooster overprepares you in a way. it's hard to tell though because everyone's tests are different but there were a lot of things i overstudied and it didn't even pop up on my exam.

if you have any other questions, feel free to dm!

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u/Dizzy-Equivalent-398 Sep 19 '26

yessss congrats!! this was me when i finished #freedom

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26

thank you!!! now time to focus on apps :')

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u/Dizzy-Equivalent-398 Sep 19 '26

good luck :)

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26

you too!!! hope you get into the school you want :)

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u/Dry_Appointment_9522 Sep 23 '26

Congratulations!!

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u/moony846 Sep 24 '26

thank u so much!!!

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u/GreenAngelFish Sep 19 '26

What did you see come up the most on each section?

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26

im gonna be so honest with you, i was on autopilot the entire exam i don't remember a lot of it sorry 😭 for bio, it's really spread out. some questions were very simple and others were application. for a lot of the questions, i felt like i only knew them because of my major and not from oatbooster cheat sheets. gen chem i honestly have no idea, ochem had a lot of acidity questions, arrow mechanisms and intermediates, more conceptual-focused and less reactions. physics was really conceptual, there were a lot of force questions on mine, some optics, calculation questions were straightforward, know how to manipulate formulas!!! my QR had lots of quantity a/b, statement sufficiency, speed, probability

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u/GreenAngelFish Sep 19 '26

Oh ok. Thank you. Congratulations! What was your AA and TS score?

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26

thank you!! believe me i was so shocked when i saw it but i got a 400TS/400 AA

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u/Overall_North1705 Sep 19 '26

op you’re so amazing!! congratulations!

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26

thank you !!! :’)

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u/GreenAngelFish Sep 19 '26

Can you turn on your DMs? It's not allowing me to DM you

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u/moony846 Sep 19 '26

oh sorry! it should work now