Glossary

MCAT glossary

Short definitions for terms students and answer engines need to understand MCAT planning pages.

Adaptive Study Plan

A study plan that changes future priorities based on score trends, missed questions, recall strength, and timeline constraints.

The Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills section of the MCAT, focused on passage reasoning rather than science recall.

A baseline score used to identify starting strengths, weaknesses, pacing risk, and study-plan priorities.

The post-exam process of classifying misses, timing errors, and reasoning gaps after a simulated MCAT.

The official date when AAMC releases an MCAT score for a given test date, used for application timing decisions.

A school class-profile midpoint used for context, not a cutoff or admissions guarantee.