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For a complete review of content of the new MCAT exam, please visit www.aamc.org/mcat2015exam
This interactive tool presents in video, text, and downloadable PDF format, the content on the four sections of the exam, with details about the Foundational Concepts, Content Categories, as well as the four Scientific Inquiry and Reasoning Skills. There are also sample questions with answers and explanations in video format. Test developers explain sample questions and walk students through answers.
-AAMC PreMed Services Team
This interactive tool presents in video, text, and downloadable PDF format, the content on the four sections of the exam, with details about the Foundational Concepts, Content Categories, as well as the four Scientific Inquiry and Reasoning Skills. There are also sample questions with answers and explanations in video format. Test developers explain sample questions and walk students through answers.
-AAMC PreMed Services Team
When AAMC evaluates (or tests out) the CARS section (on students), I hope they watch for patterns where a specific type of non-science majors pick the same "wrong" answer. For example, if essentially ALL music majors pick the same "wrong" answer in a passage about Beethoven, one might assume that their expertise in that field is causing a reasonable alternative perspective about which answer choice is correct*.
*This is NOT necessarily based on "outside knowledge." An example would be that the music majors know the meaning of words or references in the passage that most other students are NOT aware of. And knowing those definitions in depth could cause a different interpretation (ex. polyphony, Baroque, program symphony).
I think this problem is sometimes overlooked because the vast majority of MCAT-takers are science majors. I think this would be easy to accomplish by checking to see if those who picked the same wrong answer have something in common relevant to the question asked. (Specifically, checking to see that the questions work correctly on people from the same field as the passage, I believe is important. Ex. That the finance people are not all picking the same wrong answer on a passage about finance; that the forestry majors are not all picking the same wrong answer on a passage about the forest, etc. while everyone else is doing fine on that passage...)
To be fair, I want to mention that I've primarily found this problem on non-AAMC test prep material like EK, but it's been abundant.
*This is NOT necessarily based on "outside knowledge." An example would be that the music majors know the meaning of words or references in the passage that most other students are NOT aware of. And knowing those definitions in depth could cause a different interpretation (ex. polyphony, Baroque, program symphony).
I think this problem is sometimes overlooked because the vast majority of MCAT-takers are science majors. I think this would be easy to accomplish by checking to see if those who picked the same wrong answer have something in common relevant to the question asked. (Specifically, checking to see that the questions work correctly on people from the same field as the passage, I believe is important. Ex. That the finance people are not all picking the same wrong answer on a passage about finance; that the forestry majors are not all picking the same wrong answer on a passage about the forest, etc. while everyone else is doing fine on that passage...)
To be fair, I want to mention that I've primarily found this problem on non-AAMC test prep material like EK, but it's been abundant.
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