Each section on the MCAT receives its own score. Verbal
Reasoning, Biological Sciences, and Physical Sciences are each
scored on a scale ranging from 1 to 15, with 15 as the highest.
Your Writing Sample essays will be scored alphabetically on a
scale ranging from J to T, with T as the highest. The number of
multiple-choice questions that you answer correctly in each
section is your "raw score." Your raw score will then be
converted to yield the "scaled score," falling somewhere in that
1-15 range. Medical schools will receive these scaled scores as
your MCAT scores. In addition to your scaled scores, your score
report will reflect the national mean score for each section,
standard deviations, national scoring profiles for each section,
and your percentile ranking.
What's a good score?
There's no such thing as a "good score." Much depends on the
strength of the rest of your application and on where you want to
go to school. For each MCAT administration, the average scaled
score for each Verbal Reasoning, Physical Sciences, and
Biological Sciences section is approximately 8. The average
scaled score for the writing sample is "N." You will need scores
of at least 10-11's to be considered competitive by most U.S.
medical schools. And if you're aiming for the top, your goals
should be 12's and above.
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