Case Terminal & Prep

The MCAT Wing

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The MCAT, taught as the test is built: its content model, its instruments, its timed sections.

Sections
4
Questions in all
230
Section scale
118 to 132
Total scale
472 to 528
Lessons standing
24
Stages standing
5 of 6

The stages

Stage 0

Entry and Diagnosis

2 Lessons20 Minutes

Stage 1

Content Foundations

16 Lessons195 Minutes

Stage 2

Passage Method

2 Lessons24 Minutes

Stage 3

Skill Concentration

4 Lessons47 Minutes

Stage 4

Timed Sections

Standing

Mapped

Stage 5: Full Examination Simulation

The instruments

Instrument

Passage Mapping Instrument

2 Exercises

Instrument

Figure and Equation Instrument

2 Exercises

Instrument · Exhibit

Pacing Ledger

8 Min per science set10 Min per CARS passage

The deep task: the timed section

Form

Biological and Biochemical Foundations

59 Questions10 Passages95 Minutes

Form

Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills

53 Questions9 Passages90 Minutes

Stage 0

The diagnostic

59 Questions95 Minutes

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Function

The tutor who questions

Function

The examiner's counterpart

Function

The conductor's debrief

Function

The keeper of the matrix

Scoring, stated plainly

How a sitting's score is read

A sitting reports the number correct, always. The AAMC converts a number correct to the section scale by equating for each test form and publishes no fixed conversion table. Each form in this wing therefore carries its own conversion table, fixed when the form was authored and displayed with every result it produces. That table is the product's estimate for that form. It is not an AAMC conversion, and no percentile is read against a single section: the AAMC's percentile summary speaks of total scores.

Total 500
48th percentile
Total 508
74th percentile
Total 512
84th percentile
Total 515
91th percentile
Total 520
97th percentile
Total 522
99th percentile

Percentile anchors for total scores: AAMC, Summary of MCAT Total and Section Scores, effective May 1, 2026 to April 30, 2027.