Treatment of the writing assignment is coherent with some focus. An adequate control of language is evident. Writing shows clarity of thought with some evidence of depth or complexity. Treatment of the rhetorical assignment is generally focused and coherent. A strong control of language is evident.
Writing shows clarity, depth, and complexity of thought.
Treatment of the writing assignment is focused and coherent. A facility with language is evident. In the 2000 MCATs, questions in the Verbal Reasoning section were based on nine passages with an emphasis on humanities and social science topics such as Gothic literature, freedom of speech, symbolism and religion, methane and environmental oxygen, energetics of hopping kangaroos, and the use of pageantry in the 19th century. These passages were, by design, moderately difficult to read and interpret, and they required skill in the critical evaluation of information. Questions in the Physical Sciences section were approximately evenly divided between chemistry and physics in the 2000 exams.