Sue if you don’t like an MCAT question

The headline implies that someone merely disagreed with a question on the test. This version of the MCAT had a verbal passage followed by questions from a completely unrelated passage. Students at some testing centers were told to ignore the passage while some were not told there was a mistake. Are you saying you wouldn’t have a problem if this happened to you?

well said mike. if they simply disqualify that question everyone is on equal ground. besides, if he says he spent his entire time on that one question, i seriously doubt he’s in the right field. anyone thinking on that day woudl simply read the question and decide it made no sense or they didn’t have the knowledge to know what they were asking and simply mark an arbitrary answer and move on. he wasn’t the only non-informed test taker that day. as it is standardized equal numbers of people would get it wrong and it would not even matter. Skipping a question is just as good as getting a wrong answer am I correct?

Questions with high rates of failure–statistically higher than would be expected–are usually flagged and sometimes excluded. If it was excluded for everyone, then there is no harm done. It is also true that some questions are placed on tests as experiments, to determine the correct answer rate and possibly for future use but not for the purpose of scoring.