University Daily Kansan, April 25, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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KU students prepare for MCAT challenge
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
Some students will be taking a test so involved and difficult that answering 60 percent of the questions correctly is considered more than half.
That's the challenge prospective medical students will face for 10½ hours Saturday when they take the UMG admission Test in Wescue Hall.
"I'm not going to去摔 until the MCAT is over." Scott Porter. Wellington injury, said yesterday. "It's (shaving) not important any more. I shower and brush my teeth and that's about it."
Porter said he had been sifting through physics and chemistry notes to find the $20\%$ value.
"I've been falling asleep on my books," he said.
The test, which is one of several determinants for entrance into medical school, is not something a student can study for in a few weeks or months, said Mike Pautler, St. Louis, Mo., junior.
"THE TEST IS like a cumulative final over your freshman and sophomore years in college," he said.
Students are missing classes to study for the test, which "determines the rest of your life." he said. Some have gone home to study for the week.
The test consists of five sections, and each section has a time limit. Science knowledge, science problems, two skill analysis subsections and a new essay section compose the test.
Some students said they didn't approve of the new essay section, but professors wanted to include it because they thought medical students were having trouble communicating verbally, said Barbara a chairman of the health sciences committee and a medical student adviser.
The essay scores will not count in determining entrance to medical school this year, she said, but will for students who take the test next year.
SHE SAID THE essay was important because medical students needed to know how to communicate with patients in their third and fourth years of medical school and had to research papers and patient reports.
"I'm not throat thrilled about it," said Paultier, who plans to study medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. "It's just an indicator of how you organize your thoughts quickly—an English 101-type essay."
Both the science knowledge section and the science problem section of the test ask questions from basic studies of chemistry, biology and physics.
ON THE RECORD
The skills analysis section of the test contains a reading and a quantitative subsection. In the quantitative subsection, the student must read a graph, table or chart and know how to about the information provided.
Shown a total score of 250 out of 400 points was good.
Officials at the University of Kansas Medical Center said an average score of 9.5 on all sections of a test constituted an acceptable score.
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TWO ALUMINUM 10-FOOT extension ladders, valued together at $469 were stolen between April 17 and 10:20 a.m. Tuesday from a house in the 1500 block of Westbrook street.
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