CBT MCAT score vs. Paper version MCAT score

[chojj]

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I am little confused or worried about how medical schools will use MCAT CBT scores for admissions. For example, verbal reasoning now has 40 questions instead of 60, and say, to get 12 from verbal reasoning, I have to miss only 3 questions instead of 9 questions according to new MCAT CBT score chart. This mean is that even getting total score of 30 is extremely tough for CBT, and I wonder medical school will take such under consideration and not compare score from CBT to paper version of MCAT.
I live in Ohio, and most people say, in general, 30 from MCAT and 3.6 GPA will get you into U of Cinci Medical school. But since CBT is whole different matter, I am confused what will be a good or at least safe MCAT score for CBT.
Do you guys heard anything about how new CBT score will be used for medical school admission?
Please let me know,

 

[146233]

The score charts are estimates. Each administration is scaled based on the performance of test takers on a given day and test form. Don't sweat it. Yes, there may be less room for error in terms of raw score, but it will be scaled. The new CBT score is not given any additional or less weight by admissions committees. Of all the things you can worry about as a pre-med, this one is seriously not worth your time. It's still the MCAT. Good luck!

 

[odddodo]

You're a glass-half-empty type of person, huh? Think of it this way: To get a 12, you only need to get 37 correct now instead of 51

 

[Captain Fantastic]

The new CBT score is not given any additional or less weight by admissions committees.

Yup. AAMC designed the CBT scaled scores to be valid and equivalent to the scaled scores from the paper test. That makes it really easy on the medical schools: a 30 is a 30 regardless of the testing medium.

 

[GeorgeFoster]

it's my understanding that the raw score to scale score conversion always changed from test to test before the CBT was around and essentially the MCAT is semi-curved to account for small clutter variations from test form to test form. The CBT is not a different matter in any regard, in fact, the AAMC themselves say they were going to downscale the number of questions regardless of the switch to CBT but decided to make both changes at the same time for convenience's sake. In short, no excuses, it still the same test.

 

[chojj]

Um.. I guess you guys are right in that MCAT is still same MCAT.
I guess I will just keep studying instead of wasting time worrying this.
Thanks!

 

[jae9970]

MCAT section scores are based on your percentile.. so the computer based MCAT won't necessarily be harder

but having 40 questions instead of 60-some can have some impact to people who guess a lot. I think it'll be easier to luckily get a high score by guessing when there are fewer number of question. Unfortunately, the inverse is also true, haha

 

[benzene21]

My advisor told me that, overall, the computer-based scores are looking lower than the paper-based exams did. I don't know what he was basing this on, but it seems like since everything is scaled based on the test that day, this can't really be accurate.

 

[chojj]

um, tats interesting.