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The Daily OrangeMCAT to be significantly shorter, completely computerized in 2007
By John Ray
Posted: 10/18/06, 1:03 AM EST Section: News
"We did a survey, and in that survey it netted out that over 80 percent of students haven't taken an exam on computer," he said. "This means not only taking the longest exam you'll take in your life, but also taking it in the computer format."
Mustafa recommends students begin preparing for this new format well in advance, and recommends taking preview tests available on the Kaplan Test Prep Web site at kaptest.com.
Plans for updating the test have been in the works since the Association of American Medical Colleges began experimenting with a computerized format as early as 2002, when it began offering the MCAT via computer to international students, Mustafa said.
The AAMC has been piloting the new test in small facilities nationally and internationally, Mustafa said. It ran a large-scale test Aug. 16, 2006 where approximately 3,000 people took the test on computer, just to make sure everything was going to be OK when it moved it to computer in 2007.
The MCAT test has been in use since 1928 and has been updated many times throughout its history to accommodate for emergent research. This, however, will be the first time that it appears in computerized format in the United States for consequential testing.
Mustafa recommends students begin preparing for this new format well in advance, and recommends taking preview tests available on the Kaplan Test Prep Web site at kaptest.com.
Plans for updating the test have been in the works since the Association of American Medical Colleges began experimenting with a computerized format as early as 2002, when it began offering the MCAT via computer to international students, Mustafa said.
The AAMC has been piloting the new test in small facilities nationally and internationally, Mustafa said. It ran a large-scale test Aug. 16, 2006 where approximately 3,000 people took the test on computer, just to make sure everything was going to be OK when it moved it to computer in 2007.
The MCAT test has been in use since 1928 and has been updated many times throughout its history to accommodate for emergent research. This, however, will be the first time that it appears in computerized format in the United States for consequential testing.
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