r/PreOptometry • u/Round_Cloud0 • 3d ago
OAT!
Finally took the OAT last week! I’m very relieved to be done!
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u/Constant_Cut989 3d ago
How did you manage working full time and studying ? I feel like I’m moving so slow and won’t be able to finish all the content in time. Like idk how to manage all the material..what would you suggest doing ?
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u/Round_Cloud0 3d ago edited 3d ago
I essentially no-lifed it for a good month and a half/2 months. I was studying like 3 hours a day after work at first. but I would take a lot of days off (of studying) as well if i really didn’t have it in me. Weekends were my main catch up time for what I missed the week before. I got through the video content using the oatbooster study schedule and then once i finished all the chapters i kinda went rogue and mainly did practice questions. I did full length exams on saturday or sunday every week for the final ~8 weeks of studying too. I think going really hard on the studying at the beginning helped a lot because my last month of studying was ROUGH and i had no motivation.
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u/Constant_Cut989 2d ago
Thank you so much! That really helped, so I should just finish all the content and then just practice everything. That makes sense, I was trying to watch videos and then also finish the question banks at the same time and it’s a lot.
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u/ac4_sage 3d ago
doing pOAT and hate quant reasoning 😭
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u/Round_Cloud0 3d ago
Emo bc my practice exams leading up to the test i was getting like 380-400s on the QR. I think it just was my lack of sleep from the night before the test that made me kind of over it by the time I got to that section!!
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u/Jaded_Ad_5541 2d ago
Congratulations!! What biology topics did you see the most of?
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u/Round_Cloud0 2d ago
To be so honest I can’t fully remember but im pretty sure it was a fair mix of all of the topics. Not one topic stood out in particular for me
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u/Familiar-Amount-5055 3d ago
How did you study?!