Is it MCAT or MCATs?

[LifetimeDoc]

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Just a quick and fun poll. Is it MCAT or MCATs when you specify your score? (i.e. "I got a 30 on my MCAT!" or "I got a 30 on my MCATs!") I always thought the MCAT was a single test, not multiples you take on the same day. 😀

 

[Law2Doc]

Just a quick and fun poll. Is it MCAT or MCATs when you specify your score? (i.e. "I got a 30 on my MCAT!" or "I got a 30 on my MCATs!") I always thought the MCAT was a single test, not multiples you take on the same day. 😀

If you took multiple MCAT sittings it is MCATs. Otherwise, singular is correct.

 

[Agent Splat]

Just a quick and fun poll. Is it MCAT or MCATs when you specify your score? (i.e. "I got a 30 on my MCAT!" or "I got a 30 on my MCATs!") I always thought the MCAT was a single test, not multiples you take on the same day. 😀

It bugs me when people say "MCATs" almost as much as when people say MY MCAT or MCATs.

 

[DoctorFunk]

It bugs me when people say "MCATs" almost as much as when people say MY MCAT or MCATs.

Yeah, what's so hard about saying "I rawked the MCAT." I've never seen anybody turning the GRE, ACT, or SAT into their plural forms. Perhaps pre-meds don't pay any no mind to grammar.

 

[Vvandenn]

"Dude, I owned that Med Cat! Uber cool!"

 

[CCEMTP2DOC]

It is MCAT..just like K Mart, Wal Mart, Meijer...not K Marts, Wal Marts, or Meijers.


Rob (s)🙄

 

[boo-yeh]

For pre-meds it is MCAT. For everyone else it is MCATs. As to why this is, I have no idea. I like to think that everyone else is just an idiot, but I don't think that's an answer many people like. Whenever my friends and I have a problem like this there are only two routes we follow:

1) Wikipedia
2) ignore it

Since Wikipedia is oddly devoid of sociolinguistics, I think it's best to go with #2.

 

[MonkeyNuts!]

I had an interviewer call it the "MedCat", apparently that's what it used to be called in the old days.

 

[Ginkneephur]

My old physiology professor always called it the MedCats. By old I mean former physiology professor but come to think of it he was kinda old. 🙄

 

[etf]

who cares? i call it the 'cat.

 

[Kuba]

Yeah, what's so hard about saying "I rawked the MCAT." I've never seen anybody turning the GRE, ACT, or SAT into their plural forms. Perhaps pre-meds don't pay any no mind to grammar.

That's because it wouldnt sound right on those tests. We don't call the MCAT, the M C A T. We say M CAT, so it allows itself to be ... pluralized? lol