Kaplan Practice Tests Really Discouraging Me - MCAT April 1st

[Mariolee]

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Been taking a ton of Kaplan Practice Tests alongside my content review these past couple of months (trying to do one a week) and have been somewhat discouraged by my stagnation in test scoring. Really want to get to 80th or event 70th percentile and yet...

FL# Score Che/CARS/Bio/Psych
FL 1 487 15th percentile
FL 2 495 34th percentile 123/126/123/123
--The previous two were taken last summer before I seriously did any content review--
FL 3 496 37th percentile 123/127/124/122
FL 4 503 61st percentile 125/126/125/ 127
FL 5 496 37th percentile 124/124/122/126 -had a bad day haha-
FL 6 503 61st percentile 125/126/125/ 127
FL 7 500 51st percentile 124/127/125/124
FL 8 501 54th percentile 124/128/124/125

However, I was slightly encouraged when I found this graph of people who compared their Kaplan MCAT scores to the real MCAT, but can anyone vouch if this disparity between Kaplan and AAMC's test is still the same currently? I haven't done any official AAMC ones yet.

 

[aldol16]

What that chart tells you is that Kaplan FLs have very little predictive value of the real MCAT. Kaplan did change its scoring tables since 2015 but those changes were mostly minute and, according to them, result in only single-point alterations. So the only way to gauge where you are is to do the official AAMC practice exams.

 

[PrepareMCAT Advisor]

Like aldol said, don't base where you are off of your Kaplan FLs! They do not completely reflect the AAMC MCAT and test some material in quite a detail-oriented way that does not mimic the big-picture style of the AAMC MCAT. Make sure you take the two available AAMC exams and just go into the testing center open minded. You may do better than you anticipate!

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