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Hi guys,
I need some serious advice from you guys as I am stuck in quite the pickle.
I just started my junior year of college for some back up info on myself. I studied ALL summer long for the MCAT and I was signed up for the test on September 12th. I knew taking it this early would be a struggle but I was seriously determined to push myself to the next level and get through it. I planned to take the MCAT by self studying biochem as that was the only class I had not taken that is tested on the MCAT. I started taking practice tests around July, started off pretty low at 490 on my first but one but that quickly shot up as soon as I realized what the MCAT was all about. I started to plateau however at about 503ish. My target score is at least a 508-510. The catch is that I was scoring fairly well on everything but I completed neglected verbal and its coming back to haunt me. I haven't been able to get above a 123 even once. My averages have come out to 127/123/127/126. Nothing too great, I just focused so much on the sciences. My biochem is not the strongest either. I have a good foundation now but I think it's no where near where it should be at for the MCAT.
My ideology was that I study for the mcat all summer, if I do bad, I can retake in the winter but my confliction is that I don't want a low score attached to my name. I know the chances of me getting that target score are very slim due to my low verbal and okay psych score.
My question to all of you is:
What advice do you have for me? Am I making the right decision? I feel conflicted but I just am not at the confidence level I think I should be at.
I think that if I make it a goal to practice verbal all semester long and just kill biochem (which I am enrolled in this semester) I will be at a MUCH better position come January. I'm still signed up for the september 12th test but I just stopped studying completely Wednesday night when I realized I wouldnt be able to lift my verbal to the level I wanted to be at and did not want to sacrifice my GPA as the semester started. It would be a good idea to go in to my test, just take it, get a feel for my anxiety and the testing environment, and then void it right?
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!
I don't see this summer as wasted time because I've come to realize how brutal this test is. No way would I have been able to manage doing all of this and take the test by January if I started after the semester ended. My biggest objective is to truly apply EARLY this coming May.
I need some serious advice from you guys as I am stuck in quite the pickle.
I just started my junior year of college for some back up info on myself. I studied ALL summer long for the MCAT and I was signed up for the test on September 12th. I knew taking it this early would be a struggle but I was seriously determined to push myself to the next level and get through it. I planned to take the MCAT by self studying biochem as that was the only class I had not taken that is tested on the MCAT. I started taking practice tests around July, started off pretty low at 490 on my first but one but that quickly shot up as soon as I realized what the MCAT was all about. I started to plateau however at about 503ish. My target score is at least a 508-510. The catch is that I was scoring fairly well on everything but I completed neglected verbal and its coming back to haunt me. I haven't been able to get above a 123 even once. My averages have come out to 127/123/127/126. Nothing too great, I just focused so much on the sciences. My biochem is not the strongest either. I have a good foundation now but I think it's no where near where it should be at for the MCAT.
My ideology was that I study for the mcat all summer, if I do bad, I can retake in the winter but my confliction is that I don't want a low score attached to my name. I know the chances of me getting that target score are very slim due to my low verbal and okay psych score.
My question to all of you is:
What advice do you have for me? Am I making the right decision? I feel conflicted but I just am not at the confidence level I think I should be at.
I think that if I make it a goal to practice verbal all semester long and just kill biochem (which I am enrolled in this semester) I will be at a MUCH better position come January. I'm still signed up for the september 12th test but I just stopped studying completely Wednesday night when I realized I wouldnt be able to lift my verbal to the level I wanted to be at and did not want to sacrifice my GPA as the semester started. It would be a good idea to go in to my test, just take it, get a feel for my anxiety and the testing environment, and then void it right?
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!!!
I don't see this summer as wasted time because I've come to realize how brutal this test is. No way would I have been able to manage doing all of this and take the test by January if I started after the semester ended. My biggest objective is to truly apply EARLY this coming May.