MCAT Basics

The Medical College Admission Test is a seven-and-a-half-hour, computer-based exam. It is scored from 472 to 528, and it is the single largest piece of standardised evidence in a medical school application.

It comes in four sections. Three of them test science content and how you reason with it; the fourth tests reading alone.

What the map is for

The MCAT is a mile wide and an inch deep. Almost nothing on it is conceptually hard in isolation - the difficulty is the sheer surface area, and how easy it is to study a list of topics without ever seeing how they fit together.

This map is that picture. Every subject is an extension of the one beneath it: psychology rests on biology, biology on chemistry, chemistry on physics. Click any label to read about that piece.