How is the Gold Standard (1-15) graded Scale determined?

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As has been your experience, and the experience of many other students who have posted their AAMC and GS scores in other threads above, students tend to score higher on the AAMC exams after taking GS practice exams. The scaled scores on the Gold Standard (GS) exams are, similar to the origin of such scores on the real MCAT, based on bell curves created after thousands of students have completed GS practice exams.

Why the difference in scales? Somewhere between 40 000 and 60 000 students will take the real AAMC MCAT each year. Though thousands of students will take GS exams every year, it is clearly a smaller sample of a bigger sample. Either skewed sampling of brighter students have, thusfar, been attracted to the this website or students who have been prepared with GS prep materials were able to do relatively well on the subsequent exams (likely some combination of the preceding).

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