I'm just accepting that I won't know everything in psych/soc and trying to reason answers based on wording of the question/passage/logic. I think a lot of people are getting tripped up and caught off guard because they expect that they should know everything, but from everyone I've talked to, I just don't think that is going to happen. Typically terms I don't know I can at least reason down to two choices, and making an educated guess on that and not freaking out because I'm caught off guard seems to work so far.
Definitely. TPR scores seem to be pretty deflated. Don't let the score get you down too much until you take the AAMC test, then actually give value to your score.
I did the Section Bank over the past 2 days with 3 different starts (one for each section). My brain feels like it's been ran over by a train! I really feel like the review of this is going to be the best practice of all, so I hope the rumors are true!
You and me both buddy. How do you feel about taking the scored FL? I'm pretty nervous.
I'm nervous too. Feels like once I do that, that's that and everything is done. I still need to do the section banks first, which I know will kick my butt. I think that is all I'm going to do before the test. Originally wanted to get another FL in, but I think it is better to not push things and stress myself out.
When is your test date? I understand your anxiety. I'm trying to decide if I should take it this weekend (and postpone if my score isn't what i want) or to just stick with my test date and take it closer to it (June 18th).
It's June 2nd.
I'd go ahead and take it, then. Sounds like you're right in the window of the ideal time to take it! Especially since Kaplan scores are really deflated, and I wouldn't want to have my confidence shot so soon before taking the real thing.
I got almost the exact same score as you on the EKFL1. Haven't taken the AAMC FL yet, but did take NSFL1 and got a 512 on it. Unscored AAMC FL for me was roughly around 508 I think with conversion. I do think you'll be able to get up to 510 by test day (I'm hoping the same thing haha). I've just been drilling chem/phys question banks, reviewing biochem (I used EK for all studying and thought their Biochem was really weak and most of my missed questions in the B/B section were biochem), and casually reviewing psych/soc on off days. FYI EKFl2 C/P was EXTREMELY difficult and killed my confidence. AAMC and NS C/P were much easier IMO so keep that in mind and don't get too down on yourself if you don't do great on that section.
Yea I think I'll go ahead and take it now. Thanks!
I am still trying to finish the QPs. I still have about 40 questions more to go. So far I feel they are easy. Will let you know more when I am done with them.
I'm going through these questions and I learn a very random fact each time or remember something.
Need some advice. All last week I barely got above 500 (last tuesday was my first time getting a 501 on AAMC FL. Otherwise EK, Kaplan, and TPR prior to Tuesday have been around 498).
3 days ago, i took NS FL1 and I got a 503. Today I took NS FL2 and I got a 507.
Do you guys think it's possible I can get at least a 510 on actual MCAT? (My exam is June 2nd.)
Literally my boost of confidence came last night when I was finally able to get CARS questions right. Today was first time I saw a score above 124 (127). I'm testing on June 2nd, in 9 days. I decided to do a practice test every other day. I took the AAMC one last tuesday and I'm thinking about retaking that next tuesday as my final practice one to see did i learn anything. Otherwise, Thursday is NS3 and Saturday/Sunday is NS4.
Yeah I've done the unscored + the scored (the unscored was close to a 494 on that sunday. then i took the scored on that tuesday). I've done the section banks for C/P and BB. Tomorrow I'm gonna do Psych and just review all the notes I've been writing for all these tests. Yesterday I did the official guide and I did bad on all 4 (except for CARS where i got 22/30) but I think it was because I did it close to 11 PM and I had been up since 6.
I signed up for the free NS FL1 so it was literally a no brainer to take it since it's free haha. Just costs you your time which is good practice for the real thing anyways. I did think it had a similar feel except less data analysis than the real aamc materials. Passages were really long though (first time I've legit run out of time on a couple sections) so that was a good lesson for me on pacing. Definitely worth taking if only for stamina and endurance purposes. Also a couple of questions on the NS test mirrored some I've seen on aamc materials so I do think they're a pretty good representation.
It's killer. AAMC C/P scored practice was a 128. Did the section bank at 48%. Felt like I needed a dictionary to define some of the terms and then tea leaves to predict an answer.
. I made some stupid mistakes for sure.
I used EK as well and feel that they were deficient in the Psych/Socio section after doing the section banks. There were at least 5 terms that I flat out didn't know that should have been easy points.
Honestly I thought NS was a little harder than the AAMC. and some people I've talked to from the May 20th exam said that C/P on the NS is a good representative, especially because AAMC treated it like biochem in the practice exams. Now, I'm seeing a LOT more physics and gen chem in C/P.
I feel like Biochem was much more of an emphasis than I realized, which is my mistake because every single person that posts in the 509+ forum says "Memorize amino acids, structures, abbreviations, etc". I literally LOL'ed when I saw 4 strings of 15+ amino acids and they asked which peptide would elute in a anionic column with the least amount of NaCl. That and the resistor question can NOT be answered in less than 90 seconds.
If tea leaves help, then I'm shaking those things all over the place on test day. I was about the same percentages on section banks. I'm kind of surprised at how terrible their explanations are. They focus so much on telling you what part of the outline that the question is covered under and then say "B is correct because it is the definition of X".
you'll end up taking both eventually, so just go with whichever one you already have. it took a couple hours to get my email for the free NS test so if you haven't done that yet, then do it soon.
