Announcement: Major Changes For The Mcat Starting 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hsperson]

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I got scared that the MCAT might be on my 21st birthday when I take it next year so I checked online and to my great surprise found that the aamc is doing away with the old MCAT! The new one will be about 3 hours shorter (down to 5.5 hours from 8), have 1/3 less questions and only one essay instead of two! Breaks will be optional with no lunch hour, you can register up until the week before it! It will be on computer so it will be scored faster (30 days in 2007 and 14 days starting 2008). And it will be offered up to twenty times a year!!!!!!!!!!

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Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

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[omniatlas]

5.5 hours sounds hellofalot better then a 8 hour test, however, I'm not too thrilled with taking a test on a computer. It seems like all MCATs after 2006 will be computer based so we might as well get use to it. I can probably type faster then I can write anyway

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I got scared that the MCAT might be on my 21st birthday when I take it next year so I checked online and to my great surprise found that the aamc is doing away with the old MCAT! The new one will be about 3 hours shorter (down to 5.5 hours from 8), have 1/3 less questions and only one essay instead of two! Breaks will be optional with no lunch hour, you can register up until the week before it! It will be on computer so it will be scored faster (30 days in 2007 and 14 days starting 2008). And it will be offered up to twenty times a year!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this chart

Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

 

[NapeSpikes]

Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

I think you're not using enough exclamation marks.

 

[Arsenic]

5.5 hours sounds hellofalot better then a 8 hour test, however, I'm not too thrilled with taking a test on a computer. It seems like all MCATs after 2006 will be computer based so we might as well get use to it. I can probably type faster then I can write anyway

The USMLE is already only administered on computers. Look at the brightside, with the MCAT on computer you'll be used to the style by the time you take Step 1 in medical school.

 

[rehanyazdani]

I am taking the computerized version this April in Atlanta.

 

[Nikki2002]

am i the only one who would love to have taken the mcat on the computer?? that would rock!!

 

[Sundarban1]

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I got scared that the MCAT might be on my 21st birthday when I take it next year so I checked online and to my great surprise found that the aamc is doing away with the old MCAT! The new one will be about 3 hours shorter (down to 5.5 hours from 8), have 1/3 less questions and only one essay instead of two! Breaks will be optional with no lunch hour, you can register up until the week before it! It will be on computer so it will be scored faster (30 days in 2007 and 14 days starting 2008). And it will be offered up to twenty times a year!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this chart

Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

Calm down chicken little, we've known about this for almost a year now.

 

[omniatlas]

am i the only one who would love to have taken the mcat on the computer?? that would rock!!

the only really problem is you can't annotate on your passages.

 

[millen]

the only really problem is you can't annotate on your passages.

For those people taking the mcats in August what do you guys think...should you take it in august and take prep courses that are currently geared towards the written test or hold out till 2007 when you can take it on the computer and the test be cut down in hours?

I feel as if the computer test would be easier but nobody would be prepared for what the computer test would be like not even TPR or Kaplan would be prepared for the changes, have experience or tricks yet. It's like a clean slate.
what do you think?

 

[gujuDoc]

Calm down chicken little, we've known about this for almost a year now.

 

[Gavanshir]

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I got scared that the MCAT might be on my 21st birthday when I take it next year so I checked online and to my great surprise found that the aamc is doing away with the old MCAT! The new one will be about 3 hours shorter (down to 5.5 hours from 8), have 1/3 less questions and only one essay instead of two! Breaks will be optional with no lunch hour, you can register up until the week before it! It will be on computer so it will be scored faster (30 days in 2007 and 14 days starting 2008). And it will be offered up to twenty times a year!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this chart

Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

Finally the announcement we've all been waiting for!!!!!!

Next thing you know we're planning to invade Iraq!!!

 

[Sundarban1]

Finally the announcement we've all been waiting for!!!!!!

Next thing you know we're planning to invade Iraq!!!

 

[Mr. Tee]

Thanks Captain Obvious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

 

[PPatel]

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I got scared that the MCAT might be on my 21st birthday when I take it next year so I checked online and to my great surprise found that the aamc is doing away with the old MCAT! The new one will be about 3 hours shorter (down to 5.5 hours from 8), have 1/3 less questions and only one essay instead of two! Breaks will be optional with no lunch hour, you can register up until the week before it! It will be on computer so it will be scored faster (30 days in 2007 and 14 days starting 2008). And it will be offered up to twenty times a year!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this chart

Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

Kaplan is always having free seminars about this, I would check that out:

http://www.kaptest.com/mcatchanges

 

[xonkdt]

so are we going to be able to have some blank paper for sketches and equations? or do you not need those during the MCAT (haven't taken it yet)

 

[DrBowtie]

For those people taking the mcats in August what do you guys think...should you take it in august and take prep courses that are currently geared towards the written test or hold out till 2007 when you can take it on the computer and the test be cut down in hours?

I feel as if the computer test would be easier but nobody would be prepared for what the computer test would be like not even TPR or Kaplan would be prepared for the changes, have experience or tricks yet. It's like a clean slate.
what do you think?

They will be ready. Most of their stuff is online now already.

 

[Arsenic]

They will be ready. Most of their stuff is online now already.

yeah, they've known about this for about a year now. the AAMC announced the 2007 format change in feb 2005.

 

[Ugly Boy]

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I got scared that the MCAT might be on my 21st birthday when I take it next year so I checked online and to my great surprise found that the aamc is doing away with the old MCAT! The new one will be about 3 hours shorter (down to 5.5 hours from 8), have 1/3 less questions and only one essay instead of two! Breaks will be optional with no lunch hour, you can register up until the week before it! It will be on computer so it will be scored faster (30 days in 2007 and 14 days starting 2008). And it will be offered up to twenty times a year!!!!!!!!!!

Look at this chart

Simply put: what does everyone think about this?

Liar!

 

[omniatlas]

A 33% reduction in questions is tempting....one less essay to write is tempting....this could also mean they will be testing more focused material (less questions to work with).

How long does it take you to bubble vs. clicking? I was trying out one of the free AAMC practice tests today and I think I would be okay on the computer; however I noticed with the verbal section I would always go back and forth between the questions and the passages. Is there going to be a split screen?

Oh, btw...I will be annoyed as hell if I'm taking the computer based test and their monitorrs flicker like crazy. I'm pretty sensitive to light and can notice if a computer monitor's refresh rate is not set above 65hz.

 

[NRAI2001]

I m waiting to retake the test in 2009 when they move it to cell phone based and its 3.25 hours long.

 

[gujuDoc]

I m waiting to retake the test in 2009 when they move it to cell phone based and its 3.25 hours long.

I can just imagine that now. People will be claiming to learn their radiowaves by testing it with the use of their cell phones. hahahahaha

 

[HCW212]

So will it be 4 days a year with 5 time slots within that 1 day, or vice versa? I don't get it...or do they mean 20 dates per year...which I find very hard to believe.

 

[DrBowtie]

So will it be 4 days a year with 5 time slots within that 1 day, or vice versa? I don't get it...or do they mean 20 dates per year...which I find very hard to believe.

There will be 4-5 "periods" in which you can take it 4-5 days within the period.

 

[HCW212]

^ So it'll be something like:

Jan.-March: 4 dates within those 3 months

April-June: 4 dates within those 3 months

July-September: 4 dates ... etc.?

 

[DrBowtie]

^ So it'll be something like:

Jan.-March: 4 dates within those 3 months

April-June: 4 dates within those 3 months

July-September: 4 dates ... etc.?

Umm possibly but I would guess it would be like every Sat in January, March, June, etc.

 

[omniatlas]

Umm possibly but I would guess it would be like every Sat in January, March, June, etc.

Do you all know when the new computer based 5hr mcat will start? January 2007?

 

[DrBowtie]

Do you all know when the new computer based 5hr mcat will start? January 2007?

Yes. Probably January 2007 at the earliest.