Has anyone tried doing any passages on the AAMC section bank that was recently released? If so, how hard do you feel the passages are?
I'm doing it now...my test is on Aug 25th, which is terribly close...
And yes i do felt those section bank questions were incredibly hard. I only did C/P and they really made me feel like killing myself. It's not only they are harder, but much more confusing. There was a question asking "they use "A" to change xxxxx, the use of "A" is xxxx?" I was wrecked by that question. I thought by "A", all they mean is site A, but it's actually indicating alanine. I was like WTFFFFF after I read the solution.
Gonna do B/B and P/S soon...or maybe just BB since Jack said it's a good practice.
Oh god I'm dying.
Lol are you a biology major? Bio major tends to get killed in C/PTook the real exam today and found it to be much harder than the section banks. I'd still do all of them because it's a very good idea of the knowledge base you need to do well on them, but I found that they were super biochem based (something I'm very good at), while the real exam, and it may have just been my luck, was very much lacking in biochem.
Took the real exam today and found it to be much harder than the section banks. I'd still do all of them because it's a very good idea of the knowledge base you need to do well on them, but I found that they were super biochem based (something I'm very good at), while the real exam, and it may have just been my luck, was very much lacking in biochem.
I'm doing it now...my test is on Aug 25th, which is terribly close...
And yes i do felt those section bank questions were incredibly hard. I only did C/P and they really made me feel like killing myself. It's not only they are harder, but much more confusing. There was a question asking "they use "A" to change xxxxx, the use of "A" is xxxx?" I was wrecked by that question. I thought by "A", all they mean is site A, but it's actually indicating alanine. I was like WTFFFFF after I read the solution.
Gonna do B/B and P/S soon...or maybe just BB since Jack said it's a good practice.
Oh god I'm dying.
Omg same! I'm taking the exam this Thursday and the c/p of the section bank was ridiculous.. I really hope it isnt like that.
I am a life sciences major and I've had to take some physics/chemistry courses in my degree. C/P wasn't too bad in my practice. I got 85% on the unscored and 129 on the scored, as well as a 81% on the SB C/P.Lol are you a biology major? Bio major tends to get killed in C/P
Can you elaborate on why it was harder than the SB? Did you think the questions were harder (the content was more difficult/low-yield) or that the actual passages were harder to understand (the passages were more complicated/the graphs were difficult to analyze)?
lol no way the actual exam is more difficult than sb
They are clearly harder than the current MCAT(from my experience). The section bank appears to be what the MCAT long term is trending towards. However, it will take a while for this to happen; you cant suddenly ramp up the difficulty of the MCAT significantly over night. You have to figure out how you want to do it, get enough data points to generate a valid curve etc. The FL released last month is much more representative of what you'll see on test day and is frankly alot easier. Just to make a further point, that FL released last month recycled several old passages from old AAMC FL's. The MCAT itself hasnt changed nearly as much as people think; the majority of passages on old AAMC FL's are still valid for this current test. All in all, it'll be a very gradual change for the MCAT and honestly the MCAT now really isnt much different than the old MCAT. Yes, some material is different, but the skills tested and the way they are tested are identical.