The majority of students report receiving higher scores on official AAMC practice MCAT material. As they are generally based on content, the questions asked on the exam might be more detail-oriented and lower-yield, as they do not test reasoning or critical thinking as the official exam will. Many students claim that Kaplan practice exams are not representative of the official MCAT exam. The general trend for Kaplan practice exams is that they are based heavily on content and may present as much more difficult than the real MCAT. The only thing that is guaranteed to be representative of the real MCAT exam is a practice exam from the company responsible for designing the real test-the AAMC. This means that companies must create their own scoring algorithm, and all scores, even representative ones, must be taken with a grain of salt. One thing to keep in mind for all third-party practice exams is that official scoring for the MCAT is done with an unknown AAMC algorithm. What this means is that if you have a very high score (515+) on your practice exam, it may correlate poorly to your score on a real MCAT, as there are fewer students on the real test with such scores and therefore less data to base predictions on. In addition, with third-party exams, the closer to each extreme you score (i.e., a very low or very high score), the less predictive power your practice exam score holds. For official AAMC exams, each of the 4 available FL practice exams will have its own score interpretation, which should be taken into account when considering how representative they are. For third-party exams, there are multiple different companies, and each company’s exam comes with its own score caveats. In general, there are two types of practice exams: third-party practice exams and official AAMC practice exams. We will aim to answer all these questions in the blog post!īut before we get into actually interpreting exams and their scores, we need to be aware of the different types of exams available to students. Which FL AAMC exam is most representative? Are Kaplan practice tests accurate? How closely do these scores even correlate with the real MCAT? All very important questions which will help you set a target score for your practice tests. So, you’ve taken a few MCAT practice exams, and you feel like you have an idea of where you stand, but as you’ve gone through the exams and your score reports you’ve probably had some questions regarding how closely they represent your actual preparedness for the exams. Types of MCAT Practice Scores and What to Expect
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