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Hey everyone. I think my situation is interesting at least in terms of how I've gone about studying and preparing for this test. I did all my content review and Anki last summer. It was going great, until I stopped doing my Anki cards in the fall due to a tough semester (I pulled through!). In December, I went through half of UWorld, did all my Anki overdue cards, and took my first FL #1, which I got a 516 on. I had scheduled my MCAT for January, and I decided to move it back to March to do all of the Fls. During this time, I kept doing my Anki and finished UWorld. But late February I took FL2 and got a 512, which shocked me as I thought I was preparing well. I then took Fl3 and Fl4 before my exam in March and got 515 on both of them.
I took the March MCAT on the 25th. During the whole test, I was plagued with thoughts about how I wasn't good enough for my goal score, a 518. I didn't feel good at all, and I wasted a lot of time during the test focused on these thoughts. I kept thinking over and over that I wasn't ready. In the end, I decided to void the exam, and I am torn because I feel that I might have done well on it. I just felt I wasn't in the right space mentally, and I want to do the test when I'm in the right headspace. But now I have gone through all the FLs, all section bank (~78% in all three subjects), and I don't know what to do. I feel that what ended up happening was that not doing my Anki cards in the fall made me forget quite a bit of material. I want to quickly restart my Anki deck and run through all the Kaplan material + P/S doc once again, with fresh cards. I want to do Blueprint FLs as well for new material and run through all of UWorld once again.
I want to do well on this test, and I feel that I have it in me. How can I make sure that I am ready mentally for when I take this test? I also think I will take it in June, and plan to study for it for three more months. Please leave any suggestions that you may have for me.