Your Score Report
Your score report will include the same information schools will receive about your performance on the PREview exam:
- A total score ranging from 1 to 9.
- A percentile rank.
- Confidence band (see below for more information).
Your score reflects your understanding of effective and ineffective professional behaviors. Your knowledge of the professional competencies serves as a foundation for further learning and developing in these areas during medical school. Medical schools may use PREview scores, combined with other elements of the application, to identify applicants who demonstrate these professional competencies. Use this step-by-step guide for finding your score report online.
View sample score reports for scored and voided exams.
Reporting Your Score to Medical Schools
2026 AMCAS® Application Cycle
Reporting your score to AMCAS® program participating medical schools. When you elect to have your exam scored on exam day, your score will be automatically available to the AMCAS application (after you have initiated your application) on the designated score release date for your testing window. If you take the PREview exam after submitting your AMCAS application, your score will be automatically uploaded to the AMCAS application when it is available on the published score release date.
All scores from any PREview exams you have taken and elected to score will be in your AMCAS application, including any in 2020 and 2021 when the exam was previously called the AAMC SJT exam. No information about exams you have voided will be available in AMCAS.
Reporting your score to a school not participating in the AMCAS program. If you need to release a current PREview score report to a PREview participating school not participating in the AMCAS program please submit a Request to Release AAMC PREview Score form to askpreview@aamc.org. We release scores within 10 business days of receiving the request.
Once you submit your request, you may not cancel your request or withdraw your score from the school.
Beginning in June 2025, you may release your scores to schools not participating in AMCAS through the PREview Score Reporting System. More information will be available by May 2025. (Note: these dates are subject to change.)
Your score report will include all PREview exams that you have taken since 2020, and will be updated each time you take the exam so that it reflects all exams taken and scored. It will not include any exams you voided.
How Exams Are Scored
The AAMC collaborated with subject matter experts to develop the scoring key for the PREview exam (i.e., the key effectiveness rating for each response). The group of subject matter experts included admissions officers, faculty, student affairs representatives, and others who work closely with medical students and understand the expectations and responsibilities of medical students.
Your PREview exam score is based on the extent to which the effectiveness ratings of your responses (items) align with medical educators’ consensus ratings. Full credit is awarded for an item if your rating matches the medical educators’ consensus rating. Half credit is awarded if your rating is one rating away from the medical educators’ consensus rating but still on the same side of the scale (i.e., Effective/Very Effective responses or Ineffective/Very Ineffective responses).
For example, if an item is keyed “Effective” and you rate it “Very Effective,” you receive half credit. If you rate the same item “Ineffective,” you do not receive credit as the item key is on the opposite side of the scale.
Higher scores suggest that your ratings align more closely with medical educators' consensus ratings, whereas lower scores suggest your ratings align less closely with medical educators' consensus ratings.
Why Your Raw Score is Converted to a Scaled Score
Every test form of the AAMC PREview exam measures your understanding of effective pre-professional behaviors. However, each form is different in the specific items it presents. While care is taken to ensure each form is about equivalent in difficulty, one form may be slightly more or less difficult than another.
The conversion of raw scores to scaled scores, through a process called equating, compensates for small variations in difficulty between sets of items. This conversion minimizes variability in the meaning of test scores across different forms, a score of 6, for example, has the same meaning regardless of when you take the exam and regardless of which form you receive.
Understanding Your Percentile Rank
A confidence band will be reported along with each total score. Confidence bands show the accuracy of your total score. Scores can be affected by many factors. Confidence bands mark the ranges in which your true score likely lies. Confidence bands help signal the lack of precision of test scores and are intended to discourage distinctions between examinees with similar scores.
The percentile ranking table is based on the examinees’ performance on the PREview exam during a two-year time frame. In May of each year, the PREview percentile ranking table is updated using data from the most recent two testing years. Your percentile rank tells you the percentage of examinees who received the same or lower scores. When your score is originally published, your percentile ranking is based on the percentile ranking table in effect at that time but may change when the percentile table is updated. Therefore, while your score does not change over time, your percentile ranking may.
- Download the 2024 Percentile Ranks.
- Download the 2023 Percentile Ranks.
- Download the 2022 Percentile Ranks.
- Download the 2021 Percentile Ranks.
- Download the 2020 Percentile Ranks.
Viewing Your Score Report
Scores will be released according to your testing window, and release dates can be found in the AAMC PREview Testing Calendar. When your score is available, we will send you an email with instructions on how to access your score report. Your score report will include your total score, confidence band, percentile rank table, and any applicable notes. If you have an AMCAS application, this score will automatically upload to your AMCAS application. AAMC staff will not provide scores over the phone.
If you have chosen to void your exam, the exam will count as an attempt and will not be scored, but you will still be sent an email. Voided exams will not show up on your AMCAS application.