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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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