🔬 MCAT score planning
MCAT Score Calculator
Estimate your total MCAT score, compare it with current AAMC percentile ranks, and gauge the gap to your target in a few quick steps.
The MCAT total is the sum of the four section scores. The reverse path below shows the section average needed to hit your target total.
| Section | Questions | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical/Physical | 59 | 95m | 10 passages + 15 discrete |
| CARS | 53 | 90m | 9 passage sets |
| Biology/Biochem | 59 | 95m | 10 passages + 15 discrete |
| Psych/Soc | 59 | 95m | 10 passages + 15 discrete |
| Total score | Percentile | Total score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| 500 | 49th | 510 | 79th |
| 505 | 65th | 515 | 91st |
| 520 | 97th | 525 | 100th |
| 472 | <1st | 528 | 100th |
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The percentile anchors above reflect the current AAMC percentile table in effect May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2026.
The Medical College Admission Test, or MCAT, is a computer based standard exam. It helps for enter medical schools in United States and Canada. The test measures the skill of future medical student and doctor.
The whole MCAT score ranges between 472 and 528. The average mark matches 500, because it is centered on a bell curve. The MCAT gives percentiles for show, as you projected compared with other people.
MCAT Scores: What They Mean
For instance, a 10 percent rank shows to surpass 90 percent of students.
These marks for the four parts of the MCAT you count scale of 118 until 132. The final score comes from the amount of those sections. Maximum of 528 comes from 132 each section.
Even so perfect mark does not need everything correctly answer. The exam adapts to the trouble to really estimate knowledge. Two different sets of 30 right answers can give different scores.
If some miss in ten questions, but all of them are easy, you however can reach 132. More points you get for answer hard questions well.
You think good MCAT mark in 511 or more, without a score below of 127. 511 from 528 is the average for students in medical schools during the 2021 cycle. For MD programs in United States during 2022 (2023), it was 511, 512. The average MCAT mark for the 2022-23 AMCAS cycle reached 501.3.
In the 2023, 2024 cycle, students in MD schools had average 512, the 83rd percentile. 504 match to 59th percentile. Under 508 risk the application.
490 are 17th percentile. 472 form the bottom of the scale with under 1 percentile.
For MCAT score of attempts of 1991 or sooner, write to the MCAT Program by means of email to [email protected]. Marks you give between 11:00 and 11:30 EST. The AAMC sends a tweet when they are out via the @AAMC MCAT account.
