Acknowledgments: The author would like to thank the following AAMC personnel for reviewing earlier drafts of this Last Page: Karen Mitchell and Cynthia Searcy. Author contact: mkroopnick@aamc.org In the spring of 2015, potential physicians will take the MCAT2015 exam, the newest version of the MCAT exam. The MR5 Committee (the advisory committee for the MCAT2015 exam) redesigned the exam to test the academic competencies* that tomorrow’s physicians will need to know to succeed in medical school. The design is based on survey responses from over 2,700 medical school and baccalaureate faculty members and feedback from expert panelists and participants in over 90 outreach events. The MCAT2015 exam will, like the current exam (the MCAT1991 exam, introduced in 1991), test concepts in the natural sciences, as well as skills in critical analysis and reasoning. Unlike the MCAT1991 exam, the MCAT2015 exam will also cover concepts from the behavioral and social sciences. The table below highlights the features the MCAT2015 exam shares with the MCAT1991 exam, as well as its new features.
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