different forms = different test??

[med_malpractice]

i was under the impression that the actual content of all the forms were the same, only the arrangement of the material presented was scrambled. Also i was reading on another thread that your score is only averaged with the scores of other people who had the same form as you. Can anyone enlighten me?

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[Kikaku21]

i was under the impression that the actual content of all the forms were the same, only the arrangement of the material presented was scrambled. Also i was reading on another thread that your score is only averaged with the scores of other people who had the same form as you. Can anyone enlighten me?

Totally different usually.

 

[supafield]

i was under the impression that the actual content of all the forms were the same, only the arrangement of the material presented was scrambled. Also i was reading on another thread that your score is only averaged with the scores of other people who had the same form as you. Can anyone enlighten me?

Nope... there are a bunch of different forms.... as I understand it those with the same first letter have the same questions but in different orders depending on the second letter.... however those with different first letters have different tests all together....

You're graded against people that had the same passages as you

 

[med_malpractice]

Nope... there are a bunch of different forms.... as I understand it those with the same first letter have the same questions but in different orders depending on the second letter.... however those with different first letters have different tests all together....

You're graded against people that had the same passages as you

wow..icic thanks.. hopefully there weren't a grip of geniuses that had my form..

 

[med_malpractice]

hmm

 

[Kikaku21]

Nope... there are a bunch of different forms.... as I understand it those with the same first letter have the same questions but in different orders depending on the second letter.... however those with different first letters have different tests all together....

You're graded against people that had the same passages as you

Are you sure?

The EM folks thought the verbal was really tough (myself included), but EG thought is was easy... By your rules, they should have the same questions.

 

[DrBowtie]

Are you sure?

The EM folks thought the verbal was really tough (myself included), but EG thought is was easy... By your rules, they should have the same questions.

Does anyone ever know for sure they did well on verbal?

 

[supafield]

Are you sure?

The EM folks thought the verbal was really tough (myself included), but EG thought is was easy... By your rules, they should have the same questions.

I'm not sure... but I've talked to a lot of other F'ers haha that seemed to have the same questions I did.... maybe there are slight variations.... but that was what I thought....

 

[Kikaku21]

Does anyone ever know for sure they did well on verbal?

No. Good point.

 

[thadocta26]

NO ONE on EARTH could have possibly thought they did well on form EM verbal. You may be inclined to argue this point, but if so, you are WRONG.

 

[mdthisyear]

It seems they equate test forms, so looks like all the August examinees will be graded together. Probably to satisfy their statistical instincts, they also compare the median, sd, etc. with a previous administration.

Probably they give extra weight to a tougher test form. Test Form 1 = 1.001 * Test Form 2.

Here's where I got the above information from ("How are MCAT scores derived and reported?", page 6).

 

[supafield]

hmmm