MCAT – Medical College Admission Test
Association of American Medical Colleges states that “ The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) is a standardized, multiple-choice examination designed to assess the examinee’s problem solving, critical thinking, writing skills, and knowledge of science concepts and principles prerequisite to the study of medicine. Scores are reported in Verbal Reasoning, Physical Sciences, Writing Sample, and Biological Sciences. Medical colleges consider MCAT exam scores as part of their admission process.”
It’s well-known fact that almost all of US medical schools require applicants to submit scores of test- MCAT exam. It’s important that many schools don’t accept MCAT exam scores that are more than three years old.
You should be prepared to provide personal identification in the form of a current valid government-issued ID containing an expiration date, your photo, and signature (e.g., driver’s license or passport) in which the name matches that of your registration exactly. The Test Center Administrator will admit only those examinees who can be positively identified through qualifying forms of identification.
The Association of American Medical Colleges, which handles MCAT administration, zealously guards the contents of the test. The Association has released some practice tests and sample questions, but test takers are not allowed to disclose the contents of the tests they take. Study guides and classes to help people prepare for the MCAT exam, therefore, must rely on familiarizing test takers with the kind of content they will be expected to know, rather than providing people with actual questions from real MCAT exams.
The Medical College Admissions Test includes four sections, which taken over the course of around five hours. Students have to answer multiple choice questions in verbal reasoning, biological sciences, and physical sciences, and they complete writing samples for the fourth section. The MCAT exam is administered on a computer in a testing center, with most testing centers offering numerous available dates for students to choose from if they want to take the test.
The multiple choice sections are scored from 1 to 15, while the writing sample is scored from J to T. Scores take several weeks to report, and students can request rescoring if they feel that the scores are erroneous.
Test takers also have the right to void the exam on the day of the test. People may opt to void if they feel that they have not performed adequately on the exam and they do not want their tests scored and reported.
