How's MCAT Score?

[Sum1xxSp3ciaL]

Advertisement - Members don't see this ad

hey guys, I hope you guys can clarify something for me.

Say on the Verbal section, there are 60 questions. If I got 40 questions correctly, then that's 67% correct. 15 is the highest score possible so 67% correct would yield me a score of about 10 or something. How come when I practiced it on aamc.org official test, they gave me a score of about 7-8. Anybody understands why? Thanks

 

[tacrum43]

hey guys, I hope you guys can clarify something for me.

Say on the Verbal section, there are 60 questions. If I got 40 questions correctly, then that's 67% correct. 15 is the highest score possible so 67% correct would yield me a score of about 10 or something. How come when I practiced it on aamc.org official test, they gave me a score of about 7-8. Anybody understands why? Thanks

It's scored on a sort of curve. The top scores (13, 14, 15) are only separated by a few wrong answers. This is especially true in the verbal reasoning section, where the "average" might be 80% of questions correct (depending on the specific MCAT).

 

[crys20]

It isn't straight up like that. All the aamc tests are scored against the curve that's unique to the test. You can't break it down by percents like that.

 

[gluon999]

thats because it is not graded on a 1:1 basis. Your raw score is not linearly proportional to your scaled score. that is just the nature of the beast.

btw, I took an AAMC from 1991 and I got 53 out of 65 on the verbal which translated to a scaled score of 7. Hopefully, the curve isn't that bad these days.