AAMC Practice Tests

[Odie]

I really have to ask this:

 

I did all the kaplan full length, and now I am doing AAMC. I found that Kaplan was sometimes too hard, and that AAMC is easier to understand. My scores are similar in both b/c of Kaplan's bell.

 

Are the AAMC practice tests indicative of the level of difficulty one should expect on the actual ones?

[CanadaMD2008]

The AAMC practice tests are indicative of the level of difficulty of the actual test. I wrote the MCAT CBT last year and it was pretty much the same as the AAMC practice tests. I havent done the Kaplan tests but I did the Princeton Review practice tests and they were much harder than the actual MCAT. The only thing I found was that the Verbal section seemed to have passages that were a bit longer than what was in the AAMC Practice Tests. Hope that helps.

[OneDay]

I agree with the above. I just wrote the MCAT last week, and found the AAMC tests were a much better indicator of the real test. The Kaplan tests, I found the science was way too difficult, and the passages seemed too complicated. The real MCAT had a lot more concept based questions and less calculations (but the passages are still pretty hard to understand). The Kaplan VR, I found too easy, and the EK VR 101, was an amazing help.