The AAMC's attempt to assess the "reasoning capacity" a test-taker has, runs the risk of asking increasingly flawed or ambiguous questions and adopting completely arbitrary answers. The most salient tenet to any scientific inquiry asserts the fact that not everything is completely understood. The earliest Greek philosophers (who developed the scientific method) assumed everything is unknown, until provided concrete evidence and developed hypothesizes strictly from the evidence provided. If we lack needed evidence to develop any hypothesis, we must proclaim such is not known. I fear the AAMC is abandoning this most salient tenet in the development of the MCAT and provide two examples to this end.
The CARS section is the most poorly constructed section in the MCAT. Providing a 4-5 paragraph excerpt of a larger body of abstract text and requiring a test-taker to apprehend what arbitrary answers the AAMC adopted, is akin to providing a 1inchx1inch piece of a 10inchx10inch Jackson Pollock painting and asking what the artist attempted to express in the painting. A well constructed test question must adopt a correct answer that is capable of being cross checked by the test writer. If you write question about the definition of a diastereomer, you must be capable of cross checking the answer you adopt as correct, with an authoritative source (like the IUPAC Gold Book). If you write a question about a laboratory technique, assertions you adopt as accurate must be cross checked with claims made in US Patent Applications for said techniques. The CARS section is not constructed in a manner which the AAMC may cross check an answer it adopts as correct, which makes its construction purely arbitrary.
Pre-Med, Pre-Vet and Pre-DPM students should confront the AAMC about how the MCAT is being curated, peer-reviewed and subsequently marketed. Keep in mind, the AAMC has a commercial relationship with the Test-Taker in the administration of the MCAT, Not the allopathic/osteopathic, veterinary or podiatric medical schools.
***Update***
Along with others, I have submitted a formal complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission pertaining to the AAMC's mismarketing of its MCAT product and in-ability to do what it claims about the MCAT. Feel free to see a sample of part of the complaint below (the preceding pages were omitted as they contain evidence being used against the AAMC).

The CARS section is the most poorly constructed section in the MCAT. Providing a 4-5 paragraph excerpt of a larger body of abstract text and requiring a test-taker to apprehend what arbitrary answers the AAMC adopted, is akin to providing a 1inchx1inch piece of a 10inchx10inch Jackson Pollock painting and asking what the artist attempted to express in the painting. A well constructed test question must adopt a correct answer that is capable of being cross checked by the test writer. If you write question about the definition of a diastereomer, you must be capable of cross checking the answer you adopt as correct, with an authoritative source (like the IUPAC Gold Book). If you write a question about a laboratory technique, assertions you adopt as accurate must be cross checked with claims made in US Patent Applications for said techniques. The CARS section is not constructed in a manner which the AAMC may cross check an answer it adopts as correct, which makes its construction purely arbitrary.
Pre-Med, Pre-Vet and Pre-DPM students should confront the AAMC about how the MCAT is being curated, peer-reviewed and subsequently marketed. Keep in mind, the AAMC has a commercial relationship with the Test-Taker in the administration of the MCAT, Not the allopathic/osteopathic, veterinary or podiatric medical schools.
***Update***
Along with others, I have submitted a formal complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission pertaining to the AAMC's mismarketing of its MCAT product and in-ability to do what it claims about the MCAT. Feel free to see a sample of part of the complaint below (the preceding pages were omitted as they contain evidence being used against the AAMC).

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