This sounds complicated to me but for those of you who have
yet to take the MCAT I thought the explanation below might help you if you run
into a problem when you take your MCAT—This is not a problem for the DAT
because there is not as much information being seen at once as the passages are
much smaller. Mrs. Wood-Hill
I talked with our IT people and indeed it is true that all
17 inch monitors set on the same resolution should have the same view. However,
it depends on the monitors’ original setting when you go in and over ride
the optimal resolution for that monitor. We have 17 inch monitors here on
campus my desktop monitor is a 17 inch flat screen. Our IT people set all our
monitors at the best resolution 1280 X1024 and 32 bit color. If I open my e-mail
inbox so I have the buttons at the top and the message lines underneath with
the folders boxes on the left and drag it so it fills the entire screen I see
42 message lines and 4 about 4 columns the way I have it set up. Now if I
change my monitor resolution to 1024 X 768 all the type and icons get bigger
but the type is fuzzier, I still see the same number of columns across but I
only have 29 message lines. I have to scroll down to get the last 13
messages which is about 1/3 of the original messages lines. If I change to 16
bit color it blows things up a little more. If I go down one more resolution
level to 800 by 600 I only get 20 lines on the inbox to the bottom of the page.
Is it possible that the resolution override is not working
correctly? I have to tell the monitor to accept the new settings or in 12
seconds it defaults to my old settings. Who boots the computer for the MCAT? If
the staff is not going around and accepting the new settings it defaults to the
old ones changing the view on the page. Is it possible that some of
the older monitors won’t take the higher resolution 32 bit color so they
default to the lower setting essentially cutting off the viewing page so that
you would have to scroll down to see the lines that are in view at the lower
resolutions? I am doing this on a Windows XP pro platform I don’t know
what happens if you go to Windows XP or an earlier version of Windows. Likewise
I don’t know what happens with
My students who had the miserable test experience in the two
I played with a Microsoft word document. The same thing
happens with PDF files as the resolution goes down the view gets smaller
because the type gets bigger but the page size stays the same you just see more
or less of it.