Predicting MCAT Examination Scores

Acceptable performance on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) is necessary for acceptance into medical school; therefore, students planning a career in medicine and their advisors would benefit by having information useful in predicting performance on this examination. The present study examined the ialidity of the ACT Assessment as such a predictor, using as subjects 197 undergraduate students at a large midwestern university who applied to the medical school during a five year period. The results indicated th t the ACT composite score was strongly related to MCAT performance, __though the predictability was enhanced by inclusion of information on the student's grade point average in science subjects: multiple R's runged from.57 for predicting MCAT reading to.62 for biology. Used appropriately, these results will be beneficial to undergraduate students, pre-medical advisors, and others in determining the need for remedial coursework and deciding when to take the MCAT examination. (Author/PN) **********************A********************* *-*********************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the bmz _ that can be made from the original document