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Do you guys think the MCAT would make a whole passage on a section an experimental?
Do you guys think the MCAT would make a whole passage on a section an experimental?
wait they have experimental questions on the real MCAT??? i had no idea. how many?
Its not clear. It just questions not passages. That's why on the MCAT you don't stay stuck on a question and move on.
Discussion of the MCAT Exam
The AAMC developed a set of guidelines to help you understand the terms under which you sit for the
MCAT exam, the prohibition on disclosure of exam content, and how to appropriately share your exam
experience.
What IS permitted:
Commenting on your general exam experience, such as test center conditions, or how you
felt about a particular test section
What is NOT permitted:
Discussing or posting the text (full or partial) of a test question and/or answer
Reconstructing an exam question (in whole or in part), list of topics, or exam question
arrangement tested in a particular section
Mentioning a specific topic that was tested on an exam
Outlining the steps or process to answer a question
Speculating about which passages are field-test or experimental items
I think that the fifth passage of the biological sciences passage was a 'field test' section. Can I ask if anyone else had the same suspicion?
No, you may not speculate about which passages are field test or experimental items.
Oh, premeds...
Maybe I'm in a bad mood because it's getting closer to exams, but it says you're accepted to a medical school. Word of advice: If you're going to be a doctor, watch what you say. You can't spew bull feces when someone's life is in your hands. If you're going to make a claim, either back it up or if you're not sure, you best not state it as fact.
Now, let's actually think for a second.
Logically, it doesn't make sense to only have individual experimental questions, and not passages. Doing so would make it impossible to create de novo passages for the MCAT. You literally can't create a new passage without creating a completely new set of questions. Throwing in a new passage without any field testing can't be done, because the scoring rubric for each examination is predetermined.
Now, since we're going into a science-based practice, let's actually look at what we know instead of nonsense/unsourced claims.
From the AAMC themselves:
Source: MCAT Essentials, Page 30
And again:
Source: Discussion of the MCAT FAQ
Field test/experimental items are not graded. This says, in words, that both passages and items are field test/experimental.
These are directly from the AAMC. My expectation is that the AAMC would not indicate passages if entire passages weren't experimental. It simply wouldn't make sense to address them directly if they weren't.
TL;DR: There are both experimental questions and experimental passages on the MCAT.
wait they have experimental questions on the real MCAT??? i had no idea. how many?