AAMC Practice Tests: How to Get Your Essay?

[music2doc]

Anyone know how to get your essay response on the AAMC practice tests? I am logged in but cannot seem to find a link to get my essay responses. (There are links to review the rest of each exam but none for the writing section.) I want to send them to my Kaplan instructors for feedback before my MCAT Thurs.

Thanks!

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[music2doc]

Anybody? There's got to be a way....

 

[SN2ed]

From the e-MCAT FAQ:

Are the writing samples scored?

No. Only the multiple choices questions are scored on the test. MCAT Practice Online does provide sample reading passages, complete with scores and comments. A guideline to scoring the writing sample is also provided.

 

[music2doc]

From the e-MCAT FAQ:

Are the writing samples scored?

No. Only the multiple choices questions are scored on the test. MCAT Practice Online does provide sample reading passages, complete with scores and comments. A guideline to scoring the writing sample is also provided.

Right, I saw that, but doesn't the whole "a guidelines to scoring is provided" part imply that you can get to the essay you typed up during the exam? I can't find a way of viewing my practice test essays. If they're going to provide a rubric to grade your essay by (should you choose to do so), it only makes sense that they save your essays and provide a way for you to access them. I do not, however, see any way of doing that.

 

[dsoz]

Right, I saw that, but doesn't the whole "a guidelines to scoring is provided" part imply that you can get to the essay you typed up during the exam? I can't find a way of viewing my practice test essays. If they're going to provide a rubric to grade your essay by (should you choose to do so), it only makes sense that they save your essays and provide a way for you to access them. I do not, however, see any way of doing that.

The only way that I was able to save my practice essay was to highlight it, then copy and paste it into word when I was finished writing it.

If you want to send one to Kaplan, then pick a prompt at random (from the many that AAMC has somewhere on their website) and practice writing a response to it in a basic word processing program (wordpad or the like). Don't turn on spell checker...

Good luck. I found that the most important part of the essay is meeting the three goals. Thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis. Use several examples for each goal. Then make sure to develop each example to a logical conclusion (in the synthesis).

I thought I bombed the real WS on the March MCAT, but ended up with an R?!?!?! It must have been because of all the examples that I was able to merge into a coherent ending. Or maybe it is because they assign those letters, at random, to people (just kidding).

dsoz

 

[fredxc]

Click the blue "Review All" button. Keep clicking "Next" until you get to the writing section. A screen will appear that shows the prompt and the solution (aka their sample essay). If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see your essay.

 

[MDminded]

click the blue "review all" button. Keep clicking "next" until you get to the writing section. A screen will appear that shows the prompt and the solution (aka their sample essay). If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see your essay.

+1.