Word: mcats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Education in April 1978 put out a review outline in each of the eight subjects for nationwide distribution. Just like a Barron's College Outline, only you read it vertically. No one can say just how far the Americanization of Chinese education will go. Maybe they'll institute MCAT's to screen out incompetent barefoot doctors. One thing will never be the same though--they can never lure Mr. Test over to Peking to proctor the exams. Not for all the tea in China...
...added that to measure interpersonal skills, the test, which will be included in the present Medical College Admission Test (MCAT), will have each applicant interview a patient, and will rate the candidates on ability to communicate as well as the quality of the questions asked...
...medicine, law and business. And for the makers of the standardized tests required of all college and grad school applicants, the year has been a real stinker. Errors in translating raw test scores into the composite scores sent to school admissions offices marred both the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) this year, while alterations in the content of the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) seriously skewed the results and forced some law schools to reevaluate students whom they had admitted before learning of the shift...
...American College Testing program (ACT), the organization that administers the MCAT, wrote to medical schools in May to inform them that ACT had made an "equating error" in scoring the April MCATs, and that approximately 90 per cent of the students tested received scores that were slightly low. Apparently, ACT's error will not affect the admissions process. According to Charles Sentress, coordinator of public affairs for ACT, medical schools should receive corrected test scores some time this week. Since most students who took the April MCATs are applying for admission to the class that matriculates...
...April, 1977, the national mean on each of the six sections of the MCAT was eight on a scale of one to 15, Leape said, adding that the scores are "scaled" and the mean is meant to be eight...