<p>Hi! Just out of curiosity, I took a practice MCAT test online. I have NO medical experience, whatsoever, I just started my junior year of high school, and I got 10/10 on almost all sections. (The test I took was solely vocabulary though.)</p>
<p>These were some of the words:</p>
<p>dehydration
bromine
oxyhemoglobin
combustion
electronegativity
absolute zero
heartburn
glucosamine
anhydride</p>
<p>Is that truly how easy the vocabulary on the test is? I've covered most of that material between 9th grade physics and 10th grade biology! There must be some mistake, right?</p>
<p>Somehow I must've missed the vocab section of the MCAT when I took it ;)</p>
<p>Lol which website was this?</p>
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<p>I know!!! I was laughing as I was taking it... I know that there are two science sections (biology and physics???), one that's like "reading comprehension," and then the two essay questions. When I came across "navel" as one of the "vocabulary words," I decided that enough was enough and exited the site immediately. LOL</p>
<p>Yeah, that doesn't look remotely like an MCAT.</p>
<p>The MCAT has four sections, and while vocab would be required for each of them, none of them are vocabulary sections as such. You have biological sciences (bio and ochem), physical sciences (physics and genchem), verbal (reading comprehension) and two writing samples.</p>
<p>The MCAT is a test of critical thinking not vocabulary. Norcalguy was being facetious. I promise you that you are not nearly as smart as you think you are. </p>
<p>BDM I disagree with your characterization of VR as simply reading comp. How's school so far?</p>
<p>School has been intense. Rumor has it they front-loaded histology to motivate us to come to class, and that it gets a little bit easier from here (only to get considerably harder second year). It's astonishing how many little things we have to juggle, too - HIPAA training, shadowing doctors, moving schedules, etc. etc.</p>
<p>And in the strictest sense, VR was just... reading a passage and then answering questions on it. (Were there some misc. questions that I've since forgotten about?)</p>
<p>I get what you're saying. I tend to say that comprehension is understanding what you read, reasoning is understanding it and then applying it (the reason they ask those "the author's position would be helped most if which of the following were true" questions.</p>
<p>As for school, I hear ya. Our M1's are in the middle of preparing for their Head and Neck anatomy exam which is in a week and a half...they're all freaking out already. My class has our first exam on Saturday. And of course preceptor visits and stuff like that...speaking of, I need to get in to see my preceptor here pretty soon.</p>
<p>god ivyleague, you are a junior in high school. How about buying a copy of "10 Real SATs" and working through that insteads?</p>