Word: mcats
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...students who took the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) this weekend at a test center where faulty exams were administered will be allowed to retake the important test this August, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported yesterday...
...Association of American Medical Colleges, which sponsors the MCAT, said about 30 test centers gave out the flawed test, which featured questions about black holes following a reading comprehension passage on nutrition, according to the Chronicle...
Medical researchers who passed the MCAT 30 years ago have documented this disorder as the "This Paper Sucks" Syndrome. Whenever an undergraduate finds him- or herself faced with a paper assigned for a class, he or she will eventually sit down, do a little research or a bit of critical thinking, and hammer it out. (This syndrome does not apply to those who plagiarize their academic work; for them, self-worth is a far more serious problem.) Sometimes the student is inspired by the topic to do a good job; other times, whether because of a lack of interest...
...suffer from the syndrome might find it genuinely impossible to distinguish whether we are really any good or not at what we do. Unless someone else hands over the good grade or the pay-raise or the thumbs up, we cannot honestly evaluate ourselves. After years of MCAT-like experiences, that ability is now, as the saying goes, out of our hands...
...June, MCAT scores will be back in the hands of those who took the test last weekend. When they open the envelope from the test agency, these students will hopefully remember that they are just as good at what they do now as they were before they found out their scores. Not everyone who took the MCAT this past Saturday will be accepted to Harvard Medical School. Some might even decide that medicine is not for them. But if we are brave enough to claim that these tests don't matter, we must be brave enough to make that claim...