I appreciate your response. I was trying to avoid saying my score because I'm so ashamed of it but VR was my lowest. BS was my highest, 9. I admit I made a mistake by only sticking with TPR and briefly skimming EK. I will work on using EK Verbal and TBR. I personally do like it, it's more like a story whereas the other books are really straight up. I also admit I knew TOO much about the content. For example, I knew every single cell involved in every process. Maybe I went too in depth and didn't practice enough.
I took the exam with the intention of voiding it. BUT when I was taking the exam I felt really, really good. The whole time I was upset because I knew I could do it, but I just hadn't prepared the right way. For example if I had spent more time working on answering the questions in a timely manner, I wouldn't have had to skip 1+ passage in each section. I should have voided it knowing what my AAMC scores were but I felt a little glimmer of hope on actual test day. Well, now look what happened
Don't worry. We are all in this together. Just your next attempt, treat it as your last attempt, so you don't have to deal with this monster again, and believe me, its only a "monster". You know? It literally does test basic content, just in a different way.
I personally only like EK for the purposes of reviewing content the last 2 weeks of content review, 2 chapters a day, 28 chapters = thats 14 days. But I personally think EK BIO and Verbal is good for that reason, the rest Physics/Chem/Orgo are just ok.....nothing to write home about.
Get past the details, its great you know them, it will help on the discretes, but MCAT is really a thinking exam, focus a lot more on graph interoperation, and experimental result findings. You have the knowledge no doubt, I know if you went to repeat your pre-reqs, you'd probably pump out a 4.0. But this is why you see a lot of people with 3.5+ GPAs do so poorly on the MCAT, because they think by memorizing material they'll do ok. Its all a thinking exam, its a maze, its to see how you think when you are presented with complex material. Your job is to simplify it.
Same thing with verbal, they'll give you a lot oF BS answers that may seem write, but only one is the more correct one. Real life example? Patient comes into the ER, presents with low grade fever, headaches, lower extremity swelling (2+ pitting edema), angia pectoris, patient also says he can't sleep at night, gets night sweats, chills, vomiting, etc etc.
Your job as a physician? Prioritize the symptoms, and "ignore for now" some of the extraneous information, thats the skill they want to see and you need to develop.
So till Dec 6th. I would recommend this.
Idk how fast you read, but you def. need to do the TBR books, if anything do the passages, do them in phases, note your weaknesses, if your getting less than 60-70% you need to THEN go to EK 1001 for those chapters if you haven't. Also, flashcards are ok good, they help you keep the facts in check, but only do them once every 3-4 days. Please do go through all the TPR Hyperlearning science book problems, they're good (aim for a 70%+ on those). Only after you've done all this, then proceed to AAMC exams. If you really want to test yourself, see if you can do Kaplan 45. Its probably the hardest exam questions you'll face. Lastly, do go through AAMC Mcat question lot they sell online its 200+ questions. Its good practice.
I do not know of your intentions, but I assume you want to get into DO school given its very late for MD now, so anything above a 26+ will make you competitive, aim for 8 in verbal at least. You'll be good. Don't worry, the first step to success starts with failure.
Keep it up.