A heads up on the new AAMC 2015 Practice Items

[TryingOnceMore]

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I just finished Part I of the AAMC Biology Practice Items for 2105 - 120 questions.

Over 75% of these, and all of the first 84 questions are from AAMC Practice Tests 3-11. The AAMC answer key, for me, is light on most explanations, but you can Google "AAMC practice test 3, 4, 5, ...," and Kaplan has detailed explanations of these for free. So far, I'd say see if you can get the older AAMC tests and answer keys from Kaplan rather than spend money on the "new" 2015 items.

Haven't tried the other 2015 Practice Items, nor the full-length test, but will be over the next couple of weeks.

Oh, and the 120, 4-section, 30 questions per section for 2015?
From another planet. If this is representative of the new test, the big-name test prep companies are missing the mark badly. Don't know about them all.

Just my cents, for what it's worth...

 

[ready2go2]

AAMC didn't hide the fact that every single question in the question packs are from their old exams. They are hand picked and relevant to 2015 test.

From the website:
"These questions, written by the MCAT test developers, are real MCAT questions that were used on previous MCAT exams – our test developers selected these questions as relevant to the new MCAT exam and mapped the questions to the foundational concepts, content categories, and skills that you need to know."

 

[El-Rami]

Thanks for the heads up. By the way, are the question pack questions in the same format as the new exam?

 

[TryingOnceMore]

ready2, yep, I knew that, just saying that they are the same and where they came from. Hand-picked? Maybe, but they're not much like the 4-section, 120-question sample

El, don't know about the new exam other than the sort of "mini" 120-question one with the four sections. As I mentioned, if this 120-question one is anything like the new one, they're going to be different than the old passages. I'll post when I've done more, and the full-length one. Obviously, I can't say lot about the content because of the AAMC confidentiality thing, , but I can compare, in general, to the prep stuff I've seen - EK, TPR, NextStep, and Kaplan.

I would strongly recommend spending the ten bucks for the 120-question, 4-section sample:
https://members.aamc.org/eweb/Dynam..._prd_key=204477E2-2CA4-4E10-B28D-69B09AF7D928

I don't have anything really to add to the endless debates/questions/comparisons and on and on and on and on that take place here, other than my personal experience...for whatever that's worth...

 

[El-Rami]

Did you take the sample test (full-length)? You are given one question at a time on the right with the passage on the left.