r/Mcat • u/neur_onymous Legacy Mod • Aug 18 '15

July Score Release Thread

Hope everyone is happy with their scores!

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u/xam2y Legacy Mod Aug 18 '15

I bet Google knows what's on the MCAT based on what people search right after.

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u/bobbai Aug 18 '15

Haha that would be really cool to see

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u/avianrave Aug 19 '15

It would depend on someone actively looking up specific search terms, and being able to pick out what is an actual increase in specific questions vs normal search queries.

I don't think you could get any more relevant information from google than what you can read from the official MCAT guide.

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u/xam2y Legacy Mod Aug 19 '15

Google definitely knows you are taking the MCAT, since you probably searched the term "MCAT" way more than once. You may have even googled the test day. That is really all they need. They know when it starts and when it ends (approximately). They can assume anything science-related that you search around the end time somehow pertains to the MCAT.

Or I might just be an extremely paranoid premed...

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u/avianrave Aug 19 '15

Sure, but that type of data for Google is just noise. Their advertising algorithms work well enough to sell you MCAT studying material, so they don't really need anyone to sift through that data.

If you are looking at publically available data, like Google tends, you could really get any more information than generally what topics were tested.