Association of American Medical Colleges · Medical school admission in the US and Canada
The MCAT
The long one: six and a quarter hours of content, about seven and a half in the chair.
The shape of it
MCAT, section by section.
| Section | Time | Questions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems | 95 min | 59 | |
| Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills | 90 min | 53 | No outside knowledge — everything is in the passage. |
| Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems | 95 min | 59 | |
| Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior | 95 min | 59 |
The ledger
Every claim, and where it came from.
Open a row to read the wording that supports it and the page it was read from. Each statement was read off Association of American Medical Colleges’s own pages on 8 September 2026 and is quoted beside the value.
Total content time6 hours 15 minutesconfirmed
AAMC "What's on the MCAT Exam?": "Total content time" — "6 hours and 15 minutes".
https://students-residents.aamc.org/whats-mcat-exam/publication-chapters/whats-mcat-exam read 8 September 2026
Total seated timeAbout 7 hours 30 minutesconfirmed
Content, plus breaks and the administrative parts.
AAMC "What's on the MCAT Exam?": Total "seated" time — "About 7 hours and 30 minutes".
https://students-residents.aamc.org/whats-mcat-exam/publication-chapters/whats-mcat-exam read 8 September 2026
Chemical and Physical Foundations95 minutes · 59 questionsconfirmed
AAMC section table: Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems — 59 questions, 95 minutes.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/whats-mcat-exam/publication-chapters/whats-mcat-exam read 8 September 2026
Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills90 minutes · 53 questionsconfirmed
The only section that tests no science content.
AAMC section table: Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills — 53 questions, 90 minutes.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/whats-mcat-exam/publication-chapters/whats-mcat-exam read 8 September 2026
Biological and Biochemical Foundations95 minutes · 59 questionsconfirmed
AAMC section table: Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems — 59 questions, 95 minutes.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/whats-mcat-exam/publication-chapters/whats-mcat-exam read 8 September 2026
Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations95 minutes · 59 questionsconfirmed
AAMC section table: Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior — 59 questions, 95 minutes.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/whats-mcat-exam/publication-chapters/whats-mcat-exam read 8 September 2026
Section score118–132, midpoint 125confirmed
AAMC score scale: "Each of the four sections...is scored from a low of 118 to a high of 132, with a midpoint of 125."
https://students-residents.aamc.org/mcat-scores/mcat-exam-score-scale read 8 September 2026
Total score472–528, midpoint 500confirmed
The four sections added together.
AAMC score scale: "The total score ranges from 472 to 528. The midpoint is 500."
https://students-residents.aamc.org/mcat-scores/mcat-exam-score-scale read 8 September 2026
Scores releasedBy 5 p.m. ET on the scheduled dateconfirmed
Each exam date has its own release date on AAMC's calendar.
AAMC US MCAT calendar: "Scores are released by 5:00 p.m. ET on the scheduled score release date," with a release date listed against every exam date.
https://students-residents.aamc.org/register-mcat-exam/us-mcat-calendar-scheduling-deadlines-and-score-release-dates-0 read 8 September 2026
The calendar
When you can sit it.
The calendar in this file has run out. Its last sitting was 12 September 2026. Registration for the January–September 2027 test dates opens 20–22 October 2026, per the Association of American Medical Colleges calendar page as read 8 September 2026. The AAMC’s calendar page answered with a browser check on 28 September 2026 and could not be read; this site will not try to get past one. The MCAT dates in this file are the reading of 8 September 2026.
Practice
From the people who write it.
AAMC's own practice exams and question packs, some free. Official practice for the MCAT.
This page reproduces no testing body’s questions. Official practice is the only material written by the people who write the real test, and every test here has some free.
Method
Where every figure comes from.
The sources
106 statements about 9 tests, each read off the testing body’s own page or PDF and quoted beside the value: College Board, ACT, Law School Admission Council, ETS, Graduate Management Admission Council and Association of American Medical Colleges — 38 official pages in all. The format statements were read on 8 September 2026 (the SAT’s added ones on 9 and 28 September 2026); the calendars were re-read on 28 September 2026. SAT score ranges for 700 colleges are the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard, public-domain federal data, fetched 8 September 2026: 700 of the 1,037 schools that report an SAT average, complete down to an average of 1,102.
Fetched and computed
Nothing is fetched from a testing body when a page loads: the readings are two files on labs.llc, tests.json and colleges.json. What is computed, on labs.llc, at the moment you load the page: every countdown and registration state (in the body’s own time zone — Eastern, Central for the ACT), the study plan, the finder’s gauges and the arithmetic in the SAT page’s dealt openings.
The limits
These are readings, not a live feed: confirm a deadline on the body’s own site before you rely on it. Calendars end — SAT 5 Jun 2027, ACT 10 Jul 2027 and LSAT 12 Jun 2027 in these files, and the MCAT’s has already run out, which its page says. GMAC’s mba.com and the AAMC’s calendar sit behind browser checks this site will not try to get past; where that cost a reading, the page says so. The Scorecard figures are the latest cohort the Department had published, which trails the current admissions year.
What you type
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