A nationally standardized test generally required or strongly recommended by nearly all medical schools in the United States as part of their admission process. The results of the test are evaluated along with other evidence of student ability to handle medical school course work by admissions committees. The test, administered by the Psychological Corporation, is designed to provide objective measures of academic ability and achievement through tests of verbal ability, (quantitative ability, science knowledge and general information. It cannot and does not claim to measure motivation, the nature or sincerity of interest in the study of medicine, or the personal characteristics that are of basic importance in the practitioner or teacher of medicine.