Difficulty of Kaplan Diagnostic Exam??

[JoeKing]

Hey, so I have taken the AAMC 4 (28), and some gold standard practice tests (between 28 and 33). Recently I took the Kaplan online diagnostic, I kinda rushed through it because I felt like I was just going to be pitched with a "pay for the prep course to see your score!" type of deal. Anyhow I only scored a 24. I was wondering if the Kaplan diagnostic exam was designed to be more difficult, perhaps to make one inclined to take their courses?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

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[Jepstein30]

Hey, so I have taken the AAMC 4 (28), and some gold standard practice tests (between 28 and 33). Recently I took the Kaplan online diagnostic, I kinda rushed through it because I felt like I was just going to be pitched with a "pay for the prep course to see your score!" type of deal. Anyhow I only scored a 24. I was wondering if the Kaplan diagnostic exam was designed to be more difficult, perhaps to make one inclined to take their courses?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I would think Kaplan's diagnostic would be harder based on their "Higher Score Guarantee" but I've never seen nor taken the test myself.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I took it a month ago, I got a 16 and I really tried my hardest. It was certainly very very difficult. Since then my score has nearly doubled. Don't worry....

 

[JoeKing]

How have you been preparing?

 

[r0703]

it is more difficult cause they have the higher score guarantee but they also cover more topics on the test since it is a diagnostic...i took the kaplan diagnostic a few months back, scored a 20 and freaked out so I took one of the aamc tests right after and got a 24. not a huge improvement but the level of difficulty was definitely different!

 

[Romz]

Hey, so I have taken the AAMC 4 (28), and some gold standard practice tests (between 28 and 33). Recently I took the Kaplan online diagnostic, I kinda rushed through it because I felt like I was just going to be pitched with a "pay for the prep course to see your score!" type of deal. Anyhow I only scored a 24. I was wondering if the Kaplan diagnostic exam was designed to be more difficult, perhaps to make one inclined to take their courses?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

I decided to sign up for one of their courses so I took the diagnostic aswell. I scored a 22 and am confident my diagnostic is not an accurate prediction of my performance on the real thing.

Granted, It had been four years since I last saw some of those subjects, so I was not too concerned about my low score in PS. I asked my instructor about VR and he said it's definitely tougher than on the actual MCAT.

 

[NeverBackDown]

How have you been preparing?

Yes I have!!

 

[JoeKing]

I meant like what resources are you using to study?

 

[inycepoo]

Not sure if you're talking about the same thing, but I didn't think the Kaplan Diagnostic was really hard. If anything, the BS was very on point with the experiment-based passages and PS was great practice. We all know Kaplan VR sucks so whatever, just another VR lol.

I have been scoring around that score on my other practice tests (only TPR and AAMC 3 to date).

 

[JoeKing]

Interesting cuz im in the 30s for gold standard which are known to be tough. And got a 22 on Kaplan diagnostic, although I was sick when I took it so that prolly didnt help

 

[inycepoo]

Interesting cuz im in the 30s for gold standard which are known to be tough. And got a 22 on Kaplan diagnostic, although I was sick when I took it so that prolly didnt help

Your AAMC scores and average are what counts. Everything else is just for consideration purposes only.

 

[r0703]

Interesting cuz im in the 30s for gold standard which are known to be tough. And got a 22 on Kaplan diagnostic, although I was sick when I took it so that prolly didnt help

i've been taking the gold standard tests between aamc and kaplan tests cause someone recommended them to me and said they were tough...however I don't think they're as tough as kaplan's tests and a little bit tougher than the aamc ones. I've been getting 10s and 11s on the gold standard, and 9s on the aamcs. Also, I've noticed there are a lot of vaguely worded questions/answers on the gold standard tests so I've stopped using them

 

[JoeKing]

For sure I just got a 29 on the Princeton review free test so that's a testament to the Kaplan difficulty