MCAT Sample Test vs. Practice Exam 2

[LACMA]

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Hello!

Just wanted to know if these 2 exams are the same thing or if they're different. Anybody know? Before I pay for practice exam 2... Thanks!

 

[FunkosaurusRex]

Sample test is the unscaled exam where all you can see is the % of questions you answered correctly. AAMC FL1 and FL2 are both scaled and give you a number that you can look at. I think the general consensus is that the sample test is a bit easier than the FLs, but I thought they were all fairly similar really.

 

[LACMA]

Sample test is the unscaled exam where all you can see is the % of questions you answered correctly. AAMC FL1 and FL2 are both scaled and give you a number that you can look at. I think the general consensus is that the sample test is a bit easier than the FLs, but I thought they were all fairly similar really.

So just to be clear, there aren't repeated questions, or the exact same passages in the sample test and FL2? Thanks!

 

[LACMA]

Sample test is the unscaled exam where all you can see is the % of questions you answered correctly. AAMC FL1 and FL2 are both scaled and give you a number that you can look at. I think the general consensus is that the sample test is a bit easier than the FLs, but I thought they were all fairly similar really.

Also the question banks seem ridiculously easy and the section bank is like extra hard. How am I supposed to gauge the real difficulty of the exam? I took the real deal mcat in september (but voided) and it seemed a lot more difficult than the question packs and full length 1.

 

[foucault]

No repeated questions (or at least not exactly -- similar themes/topics, obviously).

I'd strongly recommend shelling out for AAMC's FL1 and FL2. They're the most predictive of actual (scaled) exam scores.

 

[FunkosaurusRex]

Also the question banks seem ridiculously easy and the section bank is like extra hard. How am I supposed to gauge the real difficulty of the exam? I took the real deal mcat in september (but voided) and it seemed a lot more difficult than the question packs and full length 1.

I dunno, I just received my score from the May 13th MCAT, and for me and most other people, your actual score will likely be somewhere in the neightborhood of FL1 + FL2 (obviously, some outliers).

No question that the Q-packs are probably the easiest material. Don't use them to try to get a "feel" for the actual test. Use them just to test your familiarity with the topics they cover. Be on the lookout for questions you're just like "hey I don't know that".

The Section Banks are definitely harder, and I think pretty representative of the real MCAT. I think my MCAT may have had a few more "gimmes" than the Section Bank did, just like FL1 and FL2. But yea, the 2 full lengths are the best available predictors. IF you thought FL1 was super easy, you might just be well prepared!