OAT
Abbreviation with 2 meanings
| Stands for | Optometry Admission Test |
|---|---|
| Meanings | 2 |
| Categories | Education & Academia, Business & Finance |
OAT has two meanings. It stands for Optometry Admission Test (standardized test) or Obligation assimilable du Trésor (French Treasury bond) (bond & Fixed-Income).
Meanings of OAT at a glance
| # | OAT stands for | Context |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Optometry Admission Test | Education & Academia › Standardized Test |
| 2 | Obligation assimilable du Trésor (French Treasury bond) | Business & Finance › Bond & Fixed-Income |
1. Optometry Admission Test
Education & Academia · Standardized Test Abbreviations
Computer-based exam required by optometry schools in the US and Canada, sponsored by the Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry (ASCO). It covers biology, general and organic chemistry, reading comprehension, physics and quantitative reasoning on a scale of 200 to 400.
Example: The optometry program's admitted students averaged 330 on the OAT.
The OAT closely resembles the Dental Admission Test but replaces the DAT's perceptual ability section with physics. Scores are reported to schools through the testing program and used alongside applications submitted through OptomCAS, the centralized optometry application service.
2. Obligation assimilable du Trésor (French Treasury bond)
Business & Finance · Bond & Fixed-Income Abbreviations
Long-term bond issued by the French government, with maturities typically from 2 to 50 years and managed by the Agence France Trésor. OATs are a benchmark for euro-area sovereign debt alongside German Bunds.
Example: The spread between 10-year OATs and Bunds widened as political uncertainty in Paris grew.
"Assimilable" means new issuance can be added to existing bond lines, building large, liquid issues. France also sells inflation-linked OATi and OAT€i bonds and green OATs. The OAT-Bund spread is watched as a measure of French political and fiscal risk.
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