SAT and MCAT

bluedevilmike
Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:40:38 +0000

Tests generally have some relationship between them, but the MCAT is quite different from other tests – the relationship between the SAT and the LSAT, for example, is much closer and I’d expect the statistical relationship to be much closer as well. (LSAT = SAT/20.3+100.3 is very rarely off by more than five points.)

The MCAT presupposes quite a bit of science knowledge and after that depends almost entirely on critical reading skills. The SAT includes math, grammar, and vocabulary. So you see that the overlap’s not that strong.