<p>If you've studied for the mcats would you be prepared for the pcats/dats?</p>
<p>Of course not.</p>
<p>There's actually very little difference between MCAT and PCAT.</p>
<p>Just the first letter.</p>
<p>Actually, there's a really a lot of crossover. However, the PCAT like the DAT and the OAT is not passage based. The PCAT and DAT have no physics (Kaplan usually puts their OAT and DAT classes together, but the OAT students have a Physics lesson, while the DAT students are going over perceptual ability). There's actual math sections on both the PCAT and the DAT - not sure about the OAT, but pretty sure it has one too.</p>
<p>I wouldn't recommend preparing for the MCAT and then turning around to take any of the other exams in a week. But you could significantly speed up your prep of the others if you'd just taken the MCAT.</p>
<p>Is the MCAT the most difficult out of all those? Since the DAT and others are not passage-based, I think they would be easier.</p>
<p>From the people I know who have taken the MCAT and one of the others - the general consensus is yes, the MCAT is the most difficult. However, I don't know of anyone who has done this with the shorter MCAT that's now in place...part of the difficulty of the old paper and pencil MCAT was definitely the length. While the new MCAT is still the longest graduate school admissions test in place, it's much, much closer to the lengths of the other exams:</p>
<p>LSAT - 175 minutes (5 x 35)
DAT - 255 (90 + 60 + 60 + 45)
OAT - 235 (90 + 50 + 50 + 45)
MCAT now - 260 (70 + 60 + 60 + 70)
Old MCAT - 345 (100 + 85 + 60 + 100)
GRE - 150 (45 + 30 + 30 + 45)
GMAT 210 (75 + 75 + 60)</p>