<p>hi all, im a high school senior and want to go to med school after college
i couldnt study SAT nor the ACT that much b/c i didnt know about it when i first came to the U.S.
now that i have 4 years to take the MCAT, i would like to get some advice where i can start studying..
thnx..</p>
<p>btw, with which book should i start studying? princeton review ?</p>
<p>You should start studying after you've taken most if not all of your premed prereq's. There's no need to start studying as a HS senior. I studied for 3 months (did not even pick up a MCAT prep book until 3 months before taking the test).</p>
<p>what did u get (its out of 45 right? )</p>
<p>The MCAT is theoretically out of 45, but the highest score in the country is a 42 or occasionally a 43.</p>
<p>Mean: 24
Mean for students who apply to medical school: 27
Mean for students admitted to medical school: 30
Top-ranked medical school (research)'s mean: 35</p>
<p>So if he tells you what he got - and it's usually considered a rude question - then just bear in mind that that's the standard you're working with. It's not really "out of 45", or at least that's not the best way to think about it.</p>
<p>I did good enough. Higher than any of these numbers (which I agree with):</p>
<p>Mean: 24
Mean for students who apply to medical school: 27
Mean for students admitted to medical school: 30
Top-ranked medical school (research)'s mean: 35</p>
<p>The point is, the amount of information you are tested on is extremely limited. This is not a test you need to prepare 3 years for. Do well in your introductory science courses and, most importantly, retain what you learn. If you do that, you should have no trouble studying for the MCAT when the time comes.</p>
<p>nobody scored a 45 ?
damn is it that hard</p>
<p>There are usually about 39,000 test takers each year, if I remember correctly. Less than 80 of them will get a 40 or higher.</p>
<p>80? hmm...</p>
<p>A 40 is roughly 99.5 percentile so half a person out of every 100 test takers score a 40 or higher. Applied to 39,000 test takers, that's roughly 200 people.</p>
<p>For 2004 (the year I took it), a 40 was a 99.8, which was why I used the numbers I did. Clearly they've changed - my fault.</p>