<p>My issue is that I have literally forgotten everything from my freshman courses of bio and chem. Can taking a commercial prep course (I'm seriously considering Kaplan) give you an indepth review of those courses?</p>
<p>It won't be an indepth coverage, but a review of the key concepts you need to know. Anything that does not regularly turn up on the MCAT is not covered so it is very focused...and you'd be surprised how much you remember when youre going over this stuff.</p>
<p>Computerized MCAT Questions:</p>
<p>I remember askin this on another thread, but don't recall it being answered:</p>
<p>1) How would one go about effectively applying the process of elimination (POE) on the computerized MCAT if all options are on the screen?!?</p>
<p>2) OR Does the computerized MCAT only involve marking answer choices on the screen, and reading questions from the MCAT booklet?</p>
<p>3) Switchin the MCATs to being administered on the computer is indeed a revolutionary change; therefore, even though the content would be almost identical to the PBT, what changes, and when do you think Kaplan, Princeton Review etc. would implement to better gear students to takin this CBT?</p>
<p>1) I believe that the test is going to have a number of different options for highlighting question stems. I'm 100% sure that there will be ways to mark answer choices as well as questions (so you know which questions you skipped).</p>
<p>2) Everything is on the computer - you will be provided with scratch paper.</p>
<p>3) I don't know about TPR, but Kaplan has a lot of experience with CBT's for the DAT, OAT, and other exams. A lot of the strategies that have been developed for those tests will be used for the MCAT class.</p>
<p>I found the kaplan PS section to be very difficult. Do you guys agree? There was a post on this earlier, I just wanted to hear what you thought.</p>
<p>And did anyone take the free MCAT CBT test?? The physical sci was really hard on that, at least I thought so.</p>
<p>im still in high school so this may seem ignorant...but i have like 3 years until i have to worry about MCATs (i still got SATs on my back)</p>
<p>what is the maximum score on the MCAT?? and what is a "good" score???</p>
<p>Max 45. Max anyone ever achieves around 43. Good score: 30 or above.</p>
<p>A 30 is approximately the average among students who are eventually admitted to medical school.</p>
<p>so the writing score does not count towards the overall??</p>
<p>just math, bio science, and the "verbal" section add up to 45?</p>
<p>The writing score is reported as a letter but is weighted very lightly. I think the avg. is a N.</p>
<p>I've heard rumors that the new CBT omits Writing entirely?</p>
<p>And :mad: to it not being important. (You're right, of course. I just wish it wasn't the case.)</p>
<p>Nope, still two essays to write. Still two graders, though the rumor is that one of the grades will be from a computer program, and will be weighted equally as the human grader.</p>
<p>... graded by a computer program? I can't decide whether that's an insanely awesome program or a really dumb idea...</p>
<p>how the hell does a computer grade an essay. that must require some ****ing complicated programming cause that's almost AI.</p>
<p>Well, or just very low standards.</p>
<p>I'm going to be a freshman in college next year, and my major will be in the humanities department (I'm thinking English or journalism), but I want to go to med-school. What classes should I take and when to get me ready for the MCAT?</p>
<p>Thanks for the link</p>
<p>If Im graduating Spring '09 when do I take the MCAT? Im so confused as to when students take it.</p>
<p>I graduated in May '06 and took the MCAT August '04. Normal time would have been April '05. New MCAT has many more testing days.</p>