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Hello Dr. Magic here everyone and I wanted to start a thread titled "MCAT High Scoring Thread - Methods and Preparation" as a resource to fellow pre-medicine students to discuss how to achieve coveted high scores on the examination. As of this point now I have spent little time on preparation for the medical college admission test and I would like to get off on the right foot by taking advice from this online medical community. I plan on taking the test within the next year and I hope to score high as to further validate the methods we will discuss on this forum.
Taking tests is about test taking skills just as much if not more-so than it is about pure subject knowledge and I was wanting to know of a break down of which methods are recommended to achieve high scores? I think making a jump from lets say a 27 MCAT scorer to a 35 MCAT scorer, or even a 40+ MCAT scorer there would most likely be a big change in how that person prepares, especially in the very upper echelon of scores.
The next thing I would like to know is do people have old MCAT exams, and out of the available guides / test banks how close are the questions to the MCAT exam. I releize that discussions of MCAT specifics have been warned about by the AMCAS but this is an anonymous forum and I would just like some initial insight into the topic. When you hear of some monster MCATs well above acceptable, I tend to think someone spent a lot of time trying to find the right guides to have achieved those numbers.
People all have their preferences in guides purchased, whether they are Kaplan or Princeton review, what are the pluses and minuses of these particular guides? Maybe one of these guides is suited for one type of a student while the Kaplan could be good for another. Just browsing a recent thread someone mentioned that Kaplan did not have much similarity in MCAT question representation. Maybe another guide or method has better MCAT question representation?
Well thank you everyone, good luck to all MCAT test takers, and may you score very high.
Taking tests is about test taking skills just as much if not more-so than it is about pure subject knowledge and I was wanting to know of a break down of which methods are recommended to achieve high scores? I think making a jump from lets say a 27 MCAT scorer to a 35 MCAT scorer, or even a 40+ MCAT scorer there would most likely be a big change in how that person prepares, especially in the very upper echelon of scores.
The next thing I would like to know is do people have old MCAT exams, and out of the available guides / test banks how close are the questions to the MCAT exam. I releize that discussions of MCAT specifics have been warned about by the AMCAS but this is an anonymous forum and I would just like some initial insight into the topic. When you hear of some monster MCATs well above acceptable, I tend to think someone spent a lot of time trying to find the right guides to have achieved those numbers.
People all have their preferences in guides purchased, whether they are Kaplan or Princeton review, what are the pluses and minuses of these particular guides? Maybe one of these guides is suited for one type of a student while the Kaplan could be good for another. Just browsing a recent thread someone mentioned that Kaplan did not have much similarity in MCAT question representation. Maybe another guide or method has better MCAT question representation?
Well thank you everyone, good luck to all MCAT test takers, and may you score very high.
