Guest juicyprunes Posted April 4, 2004 Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 Hi, I recently wrote on online version of the MCAT (http://www.e-mcat.com) and received raw scores of 56/77 and 57/77 on the Physical and Biological sciences sections. The website correlated those scores to a score of 9 for both. Is this fairly accurate? Does it mean that I would have to get around 90 - 95% to get a score of 12 or 13. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kirsteen Posted April 4, 2004 Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 Hi there juicyprunes, The scaled MCAT scores (those reported out of 15) will vary not by raw score, but by test group for each exam form. That is, the scaled scores are determined by ranking your scores relative to those of your fellow exam-takers. Thus, if an exam is particularly difficult (as gauged by relatively low raw scores for the whole group of exam-writers) then the raw scores may be lower than, say, 57, but the scaled scores may be higher than 9. Generally, though, to achieve a 12 or 13 on any section, you do need to be in the top percentiles of the whole exam-taking group. However, the raw scores required to be in the top percentiles for each MCAT section may vary within each exam. For example, a 12 on the BS section may equate to 69/77, but a 12 on the PS section may equate to a 64/77 on the same exam. Cheers, Kirsteen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cptn med Posted April 4, 2004 Report Share Posted April 4, 2004 Are there often a lot of people who do really poorly on the exams? Or, does it count more according to the others who write at the same time? Just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jerika81 Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 You are compared to the people who wrote the same exam as you. There always has to be someone who wrote the same exam as you and scored lower (in terms of raw score) than anyone else writing that exam- that person would get a 1 out of 15. However, that person may not have done poorly- if they got 65/70 but everyone else writing the exam got 66 or higher, they'd still have the lowest score and get a 1. Realistically though, the exams are not that easy, and so you probably have to do pretty poorly to be on the lower end of the scale. Hope that answers your question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cptn med Posted April 7, 2004 Report Share Posted April 7, 2004 Much thanks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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