Washington, D.C., February 15, 2001--The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT®) program, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), announces the on-line availability of a new site for medical school applicants at www.aamc.org/mcat. The site is designed as a community site for students who are using the Internet to prepare for the AAMC's MCAT, a standardized, multiple-choice examination designed to assist medical school admission committees in predicting which of their applicants will be able to surmount the many challenges of medical education. Each year over 55,000 people take this exam.

"The MCAT site is an exciting new way for prospective medical students to gain valuable information about the test," said AAMC President Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. "The portal also represents the AAMC's continuing effort to provide students information about medical education in a user-friendly way."

The site provides access to on-line registration for upcoming MCAT administrations (tests are held in April and August) and the ability to purchase official MCAT publications, the newest of which is MCAT Practice Test V, the first MCAT Practice Test to be available electronically. The electronic version of Practice Test V offers capabilities beyond the traditional paper format, for the same cost as the paper version ($40 for either, $60 for both.) Automated scoring and diagnostic feedback can help students more efficiently determine areas of weakness in order to conduct a more focused review in needed areas. This practice test can be customized, allowing selection of examination items by content area, type of question, or item difficulty level and allows students to review, at any time, their performance on all the variations of the test that they have completed. In addition, users can enter paper and pencil answer keys from the paper format of MCAT Practice Test V and receive on-line scoring and diagnostic feedback.

The AAMC's MCAT practice Web site was built by Internet Testing Systems, a Baltimore-based software development company.

The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals, including 74 Veterans Administration medical centers; 91 academic and professional societies representing nearly 88,000 faculty members; and the nation's 67,000 medical students and 102,000 residents. The AAMC Newsroom has additional information about the AAMC and U.S. medical schools and teaching hospitals.

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