OAT Booster Review

Article Outline & Table of Contents

• How The OAT Booster Program Works
• OAT Booster Price
• OAT Booster Strengths 📈
• OAT Booster Weaknesses 📉
• Verdict: Is OAT Booster Worth It?

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In early 2025, our team had a chance to reevaluate a number of OAT prep products and study materials to see how they stack up against one another. Below you’ll find our updated opinions regarding the prep course from OAT Booster.

How The OAT Booster Program Works

I want to start this post by running down how the OAT Booster course works before getting into my thoughts.

From a high-level point of view, OAT Booster is essentially a massive collection of OAT study materials. The course includes study notes, cheat sheets, video lectures, practice problems, full-length tests, flashcards, and a few other features.

Generally speaking, in terms of organization, it’s all grouped by OAT subject: Biology, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Reading Comprehension, Physics, and Quantitative Reasoning.

Almost all of the study material is grouped into these subject-based modules, and you access this content under a tab for each subject along the left hand side of the dashboard. In other words, all of the material is broken out into buckets based on topic.

Without any clear instruction on what to study, this would give the course a somewhat disjointed feel, as material is kind of scattered. However, tying everything together is the study schedule.

Booster has created a 10-week study schedule that guides you through all of the study material in a sequenced order. For reference, there are 8- and 12-week schedules as well, but 10 weeks is their recommended timeline.

In any event, the schedule is incredibly granular and gives you a checklist of exactly what you need to complete everyday. It literally line items out every task in your day. In short, it is very thorough, and it’s the glue that holds the course together.

To sum this up, you follow the checklist-style study schedule and work your way through all of the materials in the course (video lessons, practice sets, study notes, etc.).

I would venture that an average study day takes around 5 hours to complete depending on what’s on your schedule, as well as how fast you’re moving, so it does require a solid amount of commitment.

Honestly though, that’s about it for the high-level overview. You take it day-by-day and work your way through all of the different tools and resources in the Booster program.

OAT Booster Price

Before we dive into discussing the pros and cons of this program, let’s quickly discuss cost.

OAT Booster has two course offerings—their premium membership, and their premium “max” membership. The premium plan costs $479 and grants you access to all of OAT Booster’s materials for 90 days.

Their premium “max” membership costs $799 and grants you access for 180 days.

Booster costs about $20 less than Bootcamp (their package retails for around $499), and it retails for almost $220 less than Kaplan’s OAT course (their package retails for around $699). In short, Booster is a strong value at this price point.

Though I would just note that while OAT Bootcamp is $20 more expensive, our team does rate their course ahead of Booster’s.

OAT Booster Strengths

After that quick overview of how the OAT Booster course works and how it stacks up with other prep providers from a cost perspective, let me enumerate a few things I really like about OAT Booster, as well as a couple of things I also wasn’t crazy about. Positives first.

Solid Video Lectures

The first highlight worth calling out with this program is the video lessons. If you’re a visual learner, OAT Booster is good option (though we do prefer the video lectures from OAT Bootcamp).

OAT Booster’s videos have high production value, focus on high-yield concepts, and include tons animations and visual elements, which I appreciated. Not to mention, unlike some other prep resources we’ve reviewed where you only get a handful of videos, Booster has hundreds of short videos.

Most of them are only 5 to 10 minutes long, making them easily digestible.  And lastly, I would just note that the subject of Physics is a real strength of this prep program. Booster has clearly dedicated some serious resources to their Physics material (including the written study notes).

Practice Like The Real Thing

The second strength with OAT Booster is the practice work. Specifically, there are two things I want to note about OAT Booster’s practice work. The first thing is that they offer a a good amount of practice problems.

Booster has over 7,800 practice problems in their Qbank and another 80 subject-based practice tests, which is about twice as much work as Kaplan offers.

Yet, almost more importantly, the practice work is very realistic. They have done an excellent job mimicking test style, content, and difficulty. Practicing under exam-like conditions is huge, so this is a big positive.

With that said, it’s worth pointing out that OAT Bootcamp actually offers more practice materials than Booster, and their practice tests/questions are very high-quality and realistic as well.

Cheat Sheets & Notes

The Booster written study materials are very good, especially all of the visual elements that they layer into them. The visuals are really helpful for demonstrating key points, and the notes are super detailed.

The cheat sheets are quite helpful as well. They are essentially highly condensed versions of the longer study notes and you should plan on relying on them a ton as test day gets closer. They’re color-coded, packed with visuals, and use helpful little acronyms.

For the record, OAT Bootcamp provides extremely helpful written study materials as well. You may want to check out their materials too before making a decision.

Fun Gamification Aspect

One neat new aspect of the OAT Booster course is how they have gamified the prep experience. Within the course (though outside of the main coursework), you can compete in learning-based games against other students.

Not only are the games pretty fun (and I like the competition aspect), but you can also win prizes. The prizes tend to include more mundane stuff, like the ability pause or extend your membership, but it’s nonetheless fun and has a nice monetary aspect to it.

Good Value

Lastly, I don’t want to harp on this too much because it was just discussed above, but at $479, Booster is a solid bargain. They are clearly trying to position themselves as the value prep provider in the space, along with OAT Bootcamp.

OAT Booster Weaknesses

While there is a lot I like about OAT Booster, there were also some shortcomings. Let’s address those next.

Slightly Disjointed Feel

While the course overall has a very clean and sleek interface, it seems like they stopped short of taking it all the way. For some reason, your course schedule is a separate PDF from the portal, and it’s not directly integrated into the dashboard.

This means that you end up jumping around a little bit between materials. It’s not the end of the world, but it’s just odd, as the course is otherwise so modern and cool. It’s like they took it 98% of the way, and then just added the PDF study schedule as an afterthought.

If the study guide was better integrated right into the program, it would make this course a lot better. 

No Print Materials

There aren’t any printed prep books, study notes or cheat sheets with this course. Everything is digital and accessible through the online portal, which is great, but I do think there is a benefit to printed materials.

You can highlight key points, haul your notes to places where a computer isn’t practical, and drop in post-it notes if you want.

Given how good their study notes and cheat sheets are, this could be a big value add, especially given that they don’t have a dedicated mobile app. I just wish they would include print versions of these written materials as it would be a lot more practical than looking at PDFs.

Verdict: Is OAT Booster Worth It?

All in all, I think Booster is a solid option to help you prepare for the OAT. Their practice problems are realistic of what you’ll see on test day; the video lessons are well suited for visual learners; and the cheat sheets are helpful for the final week or two of studying.

With that said, I do have a few minor gripes with their program, and in the end, our team rates OAT Bootcamp ahead of Booster. For only $20 more, our team recommends going with Bootcamp for your OAT prep needs.

Alternatively, if you are seeking live instruction, be sure to check out the live online course from Kaplan. They offer some stellar live class options with expert instructors.