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The Performance Component
00:00 The next topic I want to talk about is the one that almost all pre-med students have a pretty good notion of to begin with. 00:06 And that's what I call the performance component. 00:09 How have you performed along the way? Well one measure of that performance of course is your grade point. 00:15 And the grade point average is something that pre-medical students so often obsessed with. 00:21 They are some of the most common things as, "Oh my god! I going to make an A minus." "Am I not going to make it in a medical school?" "I'll always be too bad for medical school," etc, etc. 00:31 And grades are important. 00:33 There's not question that grades are important. 00:35 But what's more important along the way... 00:38 I know people get tired hearing this, what's more important along the way is learning. 00:44 Grade are a measure of your learning. 00:46 But they are not the absolute measure of your learning. 00:49 The more you're obsessed with grades, the less will you do of your learning. 00:53 Now I've seen this happen in so many cases. 00:57 That's why schools don't use grade point is the only way to measure getting into medical school. 01:02 If they did, everybody could take the easiest possible major. 01:06 Get a 4.0 point and they would land up in medical school. 01:09 But the schools know that. 01:12 They know that there are grade chasers who see that is the route to medical school and it doesn't work. 01:18 That's why the schools have the MCAT. 01:20 The MCAT exame is the grade leveller as it were. 01:23 And that's because there's no way for a school to compare a student with a 3.8 gpa Biology at Harvard with a student that has a 3.45 in Biochemistry at Oregon State University. 01:35 The GPA's just don't match up. 01:37 You can't tell. 01:38 And so you can't say that a 3.8 is better than a 3.5. 01:41 because it varies from school to discipline to circumstance. 01:44 So the MCAT becomes the grade leveller. 01:47 And the MCAT in a lot of ways is what the schools see as a measure of your learning. 01:53 And in my experience, your learning will help you to improve on the MCAT. 01:59 If you want to be obsessed with something, during your schooling that's the thing to be obsessed with. 02:04 The more you learn, the better you will do on the MCAT. 02:07 It's not the absolute. 02:08 The MCAT is not a perfect exam. 02:09 But the MCAT is a very good measure of what you've learned along the way. 02:14 And it provides the medical schools a comparative between the disciplines the schools and the experiences that the students bring. 02:21 So remember in performance that your aim is learning. 02:25 I'm sure you've heard that. 02:27 I want to emphasize that point to you.
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The lecture The Performance Component by Kevin Ahern, PhD is from the course How to Get into Medical School.
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Kevin Ahern, PhD
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