PercentileRanksforMCATTotalandSectionScores

forExamsAdministeredfromJanuary2012throughSeptember2014
N=287,494

Percent

MCATTotalScore

10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
MCATTotalScore

MCATTotal
Score
45
44
43
42
41
40
39
38
37
36
35
34
33
32
31
30
29
28
27
26
25
24
23
22
21
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3

Percentile
Rank
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
99
98
97
96
94
91
88
83
79
73
67
61
55
49
43
37
32
27
23
19
15
12
10
8
6
5
3
2
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0

MCATTotalScore
Mean
=25.2
Std.Deviation =6.4
Notes.
Thesetablesincludeexamresultsforall
examineesnotjustthosewhohave
applied(orareplanningtoapply)to
medicalschool.Theyalsoinclude
multipleexamresultsforexamineeswho
tooktheMCATexammorethanonce
duringthetestingyears,butexclude
examresultsforadministrationsinwhich
examineesoptedtovoidtheirexam
scores.
Thecolumnlabeled"PercentileRank"
provide,forexamsadministeredfrom
January2012to September 2014,the
percentageofexamresultsthatwere
equaltoorlessthaneachscorepoint.1
Forexample, 79percentofMCATTotal
scoreswereequaltoorlessthan30
acrossallexamsadministeredfrom
January2012toSeptember2014.
1Priorversionsofthesetables(pre2012),

aswellascurrentscorereportingsystems
maintainedbyAMCASreportthe
"PercentileRankRange"inthesecolumns
ratherthanasinglepercentilerank.The
percentilerankcolumnsinthecurrent
tablescorrespondtotheupperboundof
thepercentilerankrangesprovidedin
theseotherversions.Thelowerboundsin
theseotherversionsessentiallyserveto
providecontinuityacrossscorepoints.

PhysicalSciences(PS)
24
22
20

Percent

18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
PSSectionScore

PSSection
Score
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Percentile
Rank
100
100
97
95
89
79
67
55
40
23
11
5
2
0
0

PSSectionScore
Mean
=8.3
Std.Deviation =2.5

VRSection
Score
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Percentile
Rank
100
100
100
98
95
84
67
52
37
27
15
10
4
2
1

VRSectionScore
Mean
=8.1
Std.Deviation =2.5

BSSection
Score
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

Percentile
Rank
100
99
98
95
88
76
56
41
25
18
10
6
3
1
1

BSSectionScore
Mean
=8.8
Std.Deviation =2.5

VerbalReasoning(VR)
24
22
20

Percent

18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
VRSectionScore

BiologicalSciences(BS)
24
22
20
18
Percent

16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
BSSectionScore