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Hello everyone!
With less than ideal trend of my recent practice FL results, I am pushing my Sept MCAT to Jan 2017. During the upcoming fall quarter, I realistically have ~13 hours/week for 10 weeks and 4 full weeks for studying before the January test.
I took TPR Ultimate course over the summer and my only form of content review has been TPR class lectures and reviewing practice passages (supplemented by Khan Academy and Anki; didn't even touch the TPR books). It kind of worked for me as C/P and B/B sections have been the most reliably improving sections (TPR FL 1 C/P: 123 & B/B: 124 to AAMC Scored C/P: 127 & B/B 128).
However, now that I'm kind of starting over, I am wondering if I should give prep company books a chance to see if that will help me. If yes, which ones? I have all the TPR and EK books (from friend), but I'm willing to seek out for TBR or whatever that would serve best for re-takers/"postpone-ers." Or is just practice & review method still golden at this point?
CARS had been consistently improving for me as well, but AAMC Scored CARS recently destroyed the trend, so I'm just not sure what to do. I'm thinking I should just tackle it by doing 1-3 passages per day, and maybe even following Testing Solution's 90 day guide. I've been honing both my critical reading skills and timing, but neither is really there yet. Is there any recommended way to tackle CARS for retakers/postponers?
My goal is 512+ and here is chronological list of my FL results:
Total C/P CARS BB PS
TPR 1 491 123 122 124 122
TPR 2 494 122 123 124 125
TPR 3 495 123 123 124 125
TPR 4 502 125 125 124 128
TPR 5 500 125 125 124 126
AAMC Sample 505 126 128 124 127 ("converted")
NS 1 508 127 126 126 129
NS 4 502 126 124 125 127
NS 2 504 126 126 126 126
AAMC Scored 502 127 123 128 124
With less than ideal trend of my recent practice FL results, I am pushing my Sept MCAT to Jan 2017. During the upcoming fall quarter, I realistically have ~13 hours/week for 10 weeks and 4 full weeks for studying before the January test.
I took TPR Ultimate course over the summer and my only form of content review has been TPR class lectures and reviewing practice passages (supplemented by Khan Academy and Anki; didn't even touch the TPR books). It kind of worked for me as C/P and B/B sections have been the most reliably improving sections (TPR FL 1 C/P: 123 & B/B: 124 to AAMC Scored C/P: 127 & B/B 128).
However, now that I'm kind of starting over, I am wondering if I should give prep company books a chance to see if that will help me. If yes, which ones? I have all the TPR and EK books (from friend), but I'm willing to seek out for TBR or whatever that would serve best for re-takers/"postpone-ers." Or is just practice & review method still golden at this point?
CARS had been consistently improving for me as well, but AAMC Scored CARS recently destroyed the trend, so I'm just not sure what to do. I'm thinking I should just tackle it by doing 1-3 passages per day, and maybe even following Testing Solution's 90 day guide. I've been honing both my critical reading skills and timing, but neither is really there yet. Is there any recommended way to tackle CARS for retakers/postponers?
My goal is 512+ and here is chronological list of my FL results:
Total C/P CARS BB PS
TPR 1 491 123 122 124 122
TPR 2 494 122 123 124 125
TPR 3 495 123 123 124 125
TPR 4 502 125 125 124 128
TPR 5 500 125 125 124 126
AAMC Sample 505 126 128 124 127 ("converted")
NS 1 508 127 126 126 129
NS 4 502 126 124 125 127
NS 2 504 126 126 126 126
AAMC Scored 502 127 123 128 124
