What is MCATs test?

Question

I am a nurse. But I really want to become a doctor. My friend told me to take the MCATs test and have a try. Is it the test full of questions related to medicine.

Answer 1

No its a test full of what you have learned in you prerequisites and it gives the medical schools an inside look about you.

Answer 2

The Medical College Admissions Test covers biology and organic chemistry (Biological Sciences), chemistry and physics (Physical Sciences) and Verbal Reasoning (a passage-based section that tests reading comprehension and understanding).  It also includes two essays.  Any questions about medicine are purely peripheral (they might ask a question in biology that has to do with a disease, for example, but not because they want to know what medicine to treat a patient with).  You can read more about the MCAT here:  http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/about/...

To apply to medical school, you need an undergraduate degree and to have covered the pre-requisites (the subjects mentioned above, along with a year of English and usually a year of college-level math).  You also do need to take the MCAT, but you shouldn't do that until you have already taken the coursework.

Good luck!