Most Important Subsection on MCAT

[brettlee01]

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Apart from the writing section, which subsection is the most important for med school admissions. I am assuming BS > VR > PS??

Btw, the writing comment was expressed with tongue firmly in cheek.

 

[bambam02]

Vr=bs=ps

 

[ridethecliche]

Vr=bs=ps

Incorrect.

 

[liveoak]

whichever one you are best at is the most important.

fight for yourself.

 

[sc4s2cg]

^Whichever you are weakest is the most important.

Weak = fix!
Strong = review!

 

[liveoak]

^Whichever you are weakest is the most important.

Weak = fix!
Strong = review!

i know dude, but whichever you score best at, that BECOMES the most important section.

why? because you did best at it! 😍

 

[cysky]

I heard that BS = VR > PS.

I guess you really want to have a balanced score, meaning no subsection should be below a 9.

 

[Skiprok]

Our Princeton Review tutor said they're all important, obviously, but if it comes down to the wire admissions officers often care slightly more about VR than BS. She said many considered VR a slightly better measure of intelligence and ability to pick concepts up quickly (since you can't really memorize anything to prepare). Now to be fair, she was our Verbal tutor so obviously could have been biased, although the other science tutors backed her statement up.

 

[DrTroll]

Our Princeton Review tutor said they're all important, obviously, but if it comes down to the wire admissions officers often care slightly more about VR than BS. She said many considered VR a slightly better measure of intelligence and ability to pick concepts up quickly (since you can't really memorize anything to prepare). Now to be fair, she was our Verbal tutor so obviously could have been biased, although the other science tutors backed her statement up.

Maybe they are just trying to get into her pants.

Kidding aside, I heard BS score best correlates with performance in medical school and step 1 result.

 

[FattySlug]

U of Miami said they look very carefully at VR score. Don't know about the other schools.

 

[Sitagliptin]

U of Miami said they look very carefully at VR score. Don't know about the other schools.

My adviser said once that BS was the most important of the three.

That said, don't study based on that.