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can someone explain the curve ? thanks
Psycho Doctor said:and i hope that's true that traditionally August people do worse
Psycho Doctor said:thanks, that was a very comprehensive and informative descriptin of the process
and i hope that's true that traditionally August people do worse
sirvandy said:I really do not fully understand that aamc quote! From what I got out of it, the curve really is set before we take the exam, but there is a separate curve for each passage, not the entire exam. i guess the overall curve for your form is actually a composite of the individual passage curves that comprise it. Thus the curve for form AK (my ridiculously hard form) should be a more generous curve based on the individual passages that all happened to be hard passages, and happened to find themselves together on my particular form, but the curve was set by prior examinees over the years who took those passages-- passages which were scattered over many different forms at the time-- and not the other people who were taking the exam the same time I was. I guess this would make sense. I just hope I'm right that form AK was very hard and has a more generous curve. Of course, this begs the question why AAMC would allow one form to be comprised of harder passages than another form. Even though there might be a more generous curve, that is not taking into account the psychological effects of having one hard pasage after another. That really deflates one's confidence and could ruin their focus and resolve during the exam. Such happened to me.
tweaks said:Granted I'm only a HS student... I have a friend interested in the MCAT and I took the free AAMC practice test to starve off boredom (I know, I'm weird)... but if it's scaled like the SAT (I think it is) it goes like this: