What PREview Measures
AAMC PREview is built around professional judgment. The AAMC describes the exam as measuring relational skills and personal accountability. Relational skills include communication, collaboration, empathy, compassion, teamwork, and relationship building. Personal accountability includes ethical responsibility, reliability, resilience, adaptability, reflection, and continuous improvement.
The exam does not ask you to write essays. Instead, you read scenario sets and rate possible responses using four choices: Very Ineffective, Ineffective, Effective, and Very Effective. Your job is to decide whether each response actually handles the professional problem in front of you.
That format is simple on the surface, but the judgment can be subtle. Two responses may both sound respectful, while only one gathers the necessary facts, protects the people involved, uses the right level of accountability, and follows through appropriately. PREview rewards that distinction.
PREview also does not replace the MCAT. It complements academic metrics such as MCAT and GPA by giving participating schools another data point related to professional readiness.