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Medical School: What's a 99.9% MCAT score?

The MCAT includes a maximum score of 45, generated from 3 individual scores in Physical Sciences, Verbal Reasoning, and Life Sciences. There used to be a essay that has been graded on a letter scale, but that has been eliminated and there are plans to restructure the test in 2015 so this may all chance soon. Each sections is curved separately, and is dependent upon the difficulty of your particular version (multiple versions have been sat in a time to decrease cheating risk). The curve might be thought of as 'exponential' with a score of '30' often considered the cutoff for "great" that many people try to clear whenever they take prep courses. That would be quite a nice even balance of three 10s, and having a more lopsided score is generally not as good, although a few points difference is nothing to worry about a 12-6-12 would likely have issues getting into a medical school unless there is something explaining the massive droop in verbal scores. Th...

What are some ways to study abstract reasoning?

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Abstract or Non-verbal Reasoning is very important and very interesting. To resolve these questions quick and efficiently some tips would be: Observation Skills: To fix these questions observation skills and concentration is quite important. Elimination of options: Keep your eyes on options and eliminate options. In each round you will be able to eliminate at least one option. New Element: If a few new components are appearing and a few old disappearing. Then concentration on these, attempt to understand pattern. In many question you'll be able to solve whole question with the support of this method. Quantity of elements: If quantity of components are increasing or decreasing then concentrate on this and you can fix the question. Rotation of element: If any component is rotating [down/ down/ left/ right. .] Then try to comprehend pattern of rotation. Movements of components: If most or all of components are moving then find the design. There are two ap...