How do you score a 6 on the MCAT (total)?

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Looking at the tables, some poor guy actually scored a 6!

Is that even possible, or do you think this guy just walked out and forgot to void?
It just seems completely impossible to score this low if you take the 5 minutes to fill in the bubbles.

LOL. What a waste of 200 bucks!
 
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If you think about it, there are a few outliers who score outside of the ranges depicted in the histogram or in the percentiles (e.g. those who scored 43 are not depicted). So it is probable, and actually even likely, that a few people scored lower than 6. Bummer.
 
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Who cares man, maybe they forgot to void, maybe they weren't an english speaker, or perhaps it was difficult, maybe he/she had a bad day. I just hope they can pick it up next time around. Good luck to whoever that was, don't be discouraged! :luck:
 
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The stress of the exam can make people freak out beyond belief. It seems reasonable to think 0.1 percent or 1 of every 1000 test-takers would suffer from an extreme panic attack. They probably couldn't function during the exam.
 
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somebody at my school got an 8! , scary thing is, our premed program isnt large and I might know them
 
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sooo ur laughing at someone who just got a 6.................let's hope ur not the one who will score the least on USMLE 1 2 or 3 because someone might end up laughing back...........well, not me he he.....
 
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If you walk out after one section, does your test get automatically voided, or is it still graded since you didn't go through the formalities ? 😕
 
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It's voided if you don't return from lunch.

I think you have to take each section and not void at the end for it to be counted.

BTW, I paid 5 friends to sit and get 3Js. Helping the curve everyway I can 🙂 :laugh:
 
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BrettBatchelor said:
It's voided if you don't return from lunch.

I think you have to take each section and not void at the end for it to be counted.

BTW, I paid 5 friends to sit and get 3Js. Helping the curve everyway I can 🙂 :laugh:
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😱 If you're that rich to shell out that kind of cash for s&g, no wonder you're a Republican 😉
 
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Sick and too stubborn to stay home perhaps.

My classmate had to void his test because some sick jackass who sat behind him was too stubborn to stay home and coughed the entire time.

I sat in the other room and still heard her cough.
 
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gujuDoc said:
Yeah I noticed the averages were lower in August both last year and this year. There were almost 10k more people who took it last August then in last April. Same has been true for this year.

I wonder if the larger sample size has something to do with lowering the averages some.

One of you statistic buffs could perhaps help on that one. Paging Dr. Oxeye Paging Dr. Oxeye. you are needed ASAP to answer stats question. 😉 😛
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I think the more people taking, the more normal the curve would be.
 
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It kind of makes since that August scores would be somewhat lower. I would guess that many of the gunners took it in April and were pleased with their scores. So the ratio of retakers to first-timers is higher. I'm not saying that is the rule... just enough of a trend to shift the mean.
 
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gujuDoc said:
Yeah I noticed the averages were lower in August both last year and this year. There were almost 10k more people who took it last August then in last April. Same has been true for this year.

I wonder if the larger sample size has something to do with lowering the averages some.

One of you statistic buffs could perhaps help on that one. Paging Dr. Oxeye Paging Dr. Oxeye. you are needed ASAP to answer stats question. 😉 😛
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LOL, no idea - I tend to agree with my score quad though - more people should give a more normal curve.

Maybe it's the whole more retakers in August thing that lowers the curve? Don't most people tend to do worse on a retake?
 
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UMP said:
If you walk out after one section, does your test get automatically voided, or is it still graded since you didn't go through the formalities ? 😕
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There were only 5 of us taking at my center, and one of the girls did walk out after the first section. I never saw her again. I almost didn't come back after lunch, not because it was too difficult, but I got locked out of the building for over an hour. I was 😡



Oh, and Durden, I absolutely adore your avatar. Nice choice! 😍
 
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DrJen said:
It kind of makes since that August scores would be somewhat lower. I would guess that many of the gunners took it in April and were pleased with their scores. So the ratio of retakers to first-timers is higher. I'm not saying that is the rule... just enough of a trend to shift the mean.
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A lot of gunners take the MCAT the summer after their sophomore year, a full year before they'll apply. This group (20 and younger) score the highest, statistically, as far as I know. So I also find the data puzzling.
 
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gujuDoc said:
I knew a girl that got a 9 total and then tried to lie and say she got a 24.

Never understood how people can do that low.

Most people who I know either went to the carrib after scoring well below average or they went into something else. The MCAT is another weeding out process in its own right. Who's to say that person at your school who got an 8 is going to stay in the premed direction and not try something else?? I've known people who couldn't do super well on the MCAT but then kicked butt on the PCAT or DAT or OAT and went into fields like that instead. I've known others who decided to go to grad school and kicked butt on the GRE etc.

Its not like every single one of those people will stay in medicine anyhow.
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Yup, i am one of them...i scored a 23 on MCAT (2nd try) and i scored a 21 Overall on the DAT, which can get me easily in any Dental school i want to go in, but the fact I dont like dentistry, i am not going that way.
 
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simpleman said:
Yup, i am one of them...i scored a 23 on MCAT (2nd try) and i scored a 21 Overall on the DAT, which can get me easily in any Dental school i want to go in, but the fact I dont like dentistry, i am not going that way.
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what would a 21 correlate to on the MCAT? like a 35? 40?
 
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...and who plan on taking a review course:

1) Which one (Kaplan, Princeton Review, Exam Crackers, etc.) do you plan on taking, and why?

2) EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY: When do you plan on starting it? i.e. When does the appropriate course for your choice begin? It seems like for Kaplan they would begin in January. Does this square with your experience? How close to the beginning dates do you think you can sign up for these courses?
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
I just looked up wiki on it, it only costs $75 for an exam. I feel sick.
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so I had my bottom wisdom teeth pulled the other day at the local dental school, b/c I'm broke 😳 ... anyways I was chatting about med school, and the dental surgeon (resident?) had to do med school and dental school at the same time. Being nervous I giggled like a 5 year old. He took it the wrong way, and decided to make it the most painfull experience of my life...

bottom line is: oral surgeons make a **** load of money 😱 so do dentists in general
 
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UMP said:
so I had my bottom wisdom teeth pulled the other day at the local dental school, b/c I'm broke 😳 ... anyways I was chatting about med school, and the dental surgeon (resident?) had to do med school and dental school at the same time. Being nervous I giggled like a 5 year old. He took it the wrong way, and decided to make it the most painfull experience of my life...

bottom line is: oral surgeons make a **** load of money 😱 so do dentists in general
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I've only had 1 wisdom tooth removed, lol. It was done by a regular dentist, not an oral surgeon. Only local anesthetics. He tried to remove the other top one, but it wouldn't come out. He referred me to an oral surgeon to take them out, but my insurance expired by that time. I'm not paying for any of that. :laugh: I still have that tooth, though.
 
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I just got my wisdom teeth out this morning (all 4), so I'm nice and relaxed on Vicodin right now. Two of them were impacted, so my medical insurance covered that (along with the anesthesia, etc), but I don't have dental, and my top two wisdom teeth were erupted (they have come in fully, pretty much) and so that had to come out of pocket. Luckily, it was only a little more expensive than taking the MCAT ($250).....I'm pretty broke, but I needed these out, and I expected to pay more (I also expected to have to retake the MCAT after this past August, but I don't, so it all evens out . . . like Jerry in that Seinfeld episode where he's "Even Steven.")
 
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Wonder what these people do that they got so low.

Someone once told me that this person they knew got a 10 overall. When they heard this person tell them that they asked what section they got a 10 in and they said no they got a 10 overall.
That's just sad. I don't know how anyone could do that low.
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I have a question for you, Guju. Why is it you keep harping on this? Don't you think the people who are out here reading this thread who may have done so poorly are feeling bad enough as it is? Why must you continually point out how sad it is and imply that if they have any semblance of a brain, they would have done better? I haven't taken the MCAT yet, but even if I got a 40, I would NEVER put people down the way you have been in this thread and in threads on the Pre-Allo board. Karma's a boomerang you know. Some day, these people may be wondering why you can't pass the USMLE.
 
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