MCAT Scoring

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Can anyone give a detailed idea of how the MCAT is scored?

I've read some posts here that have lead me to believe that a single question or two, depending on the curve, can be the difference between a point or two on a section of the exam. Is this true?

I was lead to believe that all questions were considered equal among peers, i.e. it's the rough percentage within a section, when curved with your peers on that particular test day, that decide a score.

Looking for some guidance on this. I've only take one AAMC practice exam with a week to go, but I considered the score adequate enough to produce some confidence. This could be quite different if the scores were that volatile. I plan on taking two more practice exams before my test date.

 

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The tests are scaled according to how AAMC believes the difficulty of the questions are (as evidenced by how many people got them right when they were experimental questions). So a harder exam has a more generous curve, and an easy exam has a harsher curve. No one aside from the folks at AAMC knows what the real MCAT scales look like. On practice AAMC exams the difference between the upper score ranges (13+) is often a single question. In the lower ranges (12 and below) the scale is broader with 2-4 questions separating points. The common belief on SDN is that the real MCAT has a more generous scale than the AAMC practice exams.