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Preface: I'm sure this has been discussed before, and I used the search function and went thru 5 pages of results without finding anything on this topic. This is a pre-emptive strike against all the idiots who are going to come on here and say "use the search function!"
The AAMC has announced the format of the MCAT is changing in 2015; they are adding sections on "critical/analytical reasoning" and a "social and behavioral" section.
https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/mcat2015/
https://www.aamc.org/students/download/266006/data/2015previewguide.pdf
1. Basically they are adding psychiatry/psychology to the MCAT. For the first time, you will have to know the details of a specific disease process. Note that they are NOT doing this for other areas of medicine -- only psychiatry. Example: they will want you to know about serotonin's role in depression.
2. They are adding a psych 101 content list: theories of memory, personality, coping mechanisms, etc. Basically one semester of psychology is going to be a de-facto required course for premeds. Awesome! 🙄
3. They are basically adding content on "cultural competency." That includes race-based, class-based, and gender-based systems of "discrimination." In other words, a social liberal's wet dream.
4. Looks like the verbal reasoning section is going to consist almost entirely of "social engineering" style passages. You'll be reading passages about how racist doctors are and the questions will ask you to validate their pre-conceived notions of "racial justice."
5. Looks like the writing section is going away. I remember when the writing section was added to the MCAT years ago -- the ivory tower academicians told us that it was very important to assess the ability of future doctors to read and write clearly. Now it turns out all that needed skill was just bull****. Amazing how that turns out.
6. Test is being expanded to about 7 hours. With the academic liberals running the show, I predict in 20 years it will be a 2 day test. You need a ton of time to test on history, politics, geography, "justice", diversity, social learning theories, group behavior theories, and all the other soft crap with no objective truths they are trying to push.
Here are some sample questions, note that some of these questions have figures attached to them that I couldnt copy over. You get the general idea however.
12) Which of the following explanations describes why the Identity vs. Role Confusion stage likely affects views about voting and being a voter? During that stage people are:
A. establishing a philosophy of life.
B. perpetuating and transmitting culture.
C. gaining life experiences to provide bedrock for their ideals.
D. contributing to the betterment of society
18) How would a Social Identity Theorist most likely explain the results summarized in Figure 1?
A. The physician is ethnocentric and places high value on belonging to his racial in-group.
B. The physician perceives Blacks as competing against Whites for scarce societal resources.
C. The physician is a product of prejudiced parents and peers.
D. The physician is surrounded by inaccurate stereotypes.
20) Which of the following conclusions is supported by the findings?
A. Participants high in implicit bias prescribed thrombolytic therapy for Black patients more often than for White patients.
B. Participants prescribed thrombolytic therapy less than 50% of the time for all patients,
regardless of their implicit bias levels.
C. Participants high in implicit bias prescribed thrombolytic therapy for Black patients 77% of the time.
D. Participants high in implicit bias prescribed thrombolytic therapy for White patients more often than for Black patients.
27) Researchers asked participants to rate the importance of several tasks for performing a job. Thirty minutes later they asked participants to rate the tasks again, but this time the tasks were paired with a random rating. Participants were told that ratings were averages provided by their peers. Then, they asked participants to rate the tasks again. Which of the following results would you predict when comparing results from the first and second rating? Participants rated tasks with:
A. lower peer ratings as more important the second time.
B. moderate peer ratings as less important the second time.
C. higher peer ratings as more important the second time.
D. the same, regardless of peer ratings.
The AAMC has announced the format of the MCAT is changing in 2015; they are adding sections on "critical/analytical reasoning" and a "social and behavioral" section.
https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/mcat2015/
https://www.aamc.org/students/download/266006/data/2015previewguide.pdf
1. Basically they are adding psychiatry/psychology to the MCAT. For the first time, you will have to know the details of a specific disease process. Note that they are NOT doing this for other areas of medicine -- only psychiatry. Example: they will want you to know about serotonin's role in depression.
2. They are adding a psych 101 content list: theories of memory, personality, coping mechanisms, etc. Basically one semester of psychology is going to be a de-facto required course for premeds. Awesome! 🙄
3. They are basically adding content on "cultural competency." That includes race-based, class-based, and gender-based systems of "discrimination." In other words, a social liberal's wet dream.
4. Looks like the verbal reasoning section is going to consist almost entirely of "social engineering" style passages. You'll be reading passages about how racist doctors are and the questions will ask you to validate their pre-conceived notions of "racial justice."
5. Looks like the writing section is going away. I remember when the writing section was added to the MCAT years ago -- the ivory tower academicians told us that it was very important to assess the ability of future doctors to read and write clearly. Now it turns out all that needed skill was just bull****. Amazing how that turns out.
6. Test is being expanded to about 7 hours. With the academic liberals running the show, I predict in 20 years it will be a 2 day test. You need a ton of time to test on history, politics, geography, "justice", diversity, social learning theories, group behavior theories, and all the other soft crap with no objective truths they are trying to push.
Here are some sample questions, note that some of these questions have figures attached to them that I couldnt copy over. You get the general idea however.
12) Which of the following explanations describes why the Identity vs. Role Confusion stage likely affects views about voting and being a voter? During that stage people are:
A. establishing a philosophy of life.
B. perpetuating and transmitting culture.
C. gaining life experiences to provide bedrock for their ideals.
D. contributing to the betterment of society
18) How would a Social Identity Theorist most likely explain the results summarized in Figure 1?
A. The physician is ethnocentric and places high value on belonging to his racial in-group.
B. The physician perceives Blacks as competing against Whites for scarce societal resources.
C. The physician is a product of prejudiced parents and peers.
D. The physician is surrounded by inaccurate stereotypes.
20) Which of the following conclusions is supported by the findings?
A. Participants high in implicit bias prescribed thrombolytic therapy for Black patients more often than for White patients.
B. Participants prescribed thrombolytic therapy less than 50% of the time for all patients,
regardless of their implicit bias levels.
C. Participants high in implicit bias prescribed thrombolytic therapy for Black patients 77% of the time.
D. Participants high in implicit bias prescribed thrombolytic therapy for White patients more often than for Black patients.
27) Researchers asked participants to rate the importance of several tasks for performing a job. Thirty minutes later they asked participants to rate the tasks again, but this time the tasks were paired with a random rating. Participants were told that ratings were averages provided by their peers. Then, they asked participants to rate the tasks again. Which of the following results would you predict when comparing results from the first and second rating? Participants rated tasks with:
A. lower peer ratings as more important the second time.
B. moderate peer ratings as less important the second time.
C. higher peer ratings as more important the second time.
D. the same, regardless of peer ratings.
