Hello fellow May 12ers! I didn't see a thread for our test day and considering we are 5 weeks away, I decided to make one! I hope everyone's preparation is going well!
really really really? OMG I'm so happy! I was super worried about timing!! PS and BS was okay for me but verbal was a scramble, as usual though!You got the same score as me! And other than 6, that was definitely the hardest time-wise
Oh no! I just realized I posted the wrong test =(, I took it was aamc 10, not 11! Still happy though!really really really? OMG I'm so happy! I was super worried about timing!! PS and BS was okay for me but verbal was a scramble, as usual though!
Hey! Now you got the same score as me! I felt the same way about verbal. Congrats. Here's to a repeat on Saturday.Oh no! I just realized I posted the wrong test =(, I took it was aamc 10, not 11! Still happy though!
Hey! Now you got the same score as me! I felt the same way about verbal. Congrats. Here's to a repeat on Saturday.
Honestly, as long as I get above a 31 I'll be extatic!
Oh, and for after the test, I'm going to a wine tasting and then to a party for a friend of mine who just became a US citizen.
Congrats to you too!! Yes, please let us do as well on test day!!Hey! Now you got the same score as me! I felt the same way about verbal. Congrats. Here's to a repeat on Saturday.
Honestly, as long as I get above a 31 I'll be extatic!
Oh, and for after the test, I'm going to a wine tasting and then to a party for a friend of mine who just became a US citizen.
BTW we got the same break down too!Hey! Now you got the same score as me! I felt the same way about verbal. Congrats. Here's to a repeat on Saturday.
Honestly, as long as I get above a 31 I'll be extatic!
Oh, and for after the test, I'm going to a wine tasting and then to a party for a friend of mine who just became a US citizen.
I'm surprised you are even worried about this section. Have you gotten anything below a 13?? Seriously though, I was looking for the same thing but haven't found anything online. For me though, this is a legit concern, haha.Anyone have a good resource for some last minute math practice?
Heard physics has been more calculations based than previous years and I think doing a set of problems with logarithms, unusual fraction estimates, pKa <--> Ka and such could be a high yield hour
Just a a friendly warning... if you have not been practicing AAMCs or other timed exams with caffeine, I urge you to be careful. Other people that did this on the real thing, for the most part, said they didn't like it and it made them feel jittery.
That includes coffee, energy drinks, tea and yes... soda
I think I am officially done studying. I feel so ridiculously unprepared. Like can't remember basic trig unprepared. Like yesterday I realized I forgot that guanine pairs with cytosine and not adenine unprepared.
Enginr, if there is a PS problem that you seem to think is remotely difficult, I bet 99.9% of us will get it wrong. The EK1001 books have some pretty crazy calculation questions if you have them laying around. I sort of gave up on mine and have been using Kaplan instead. I think most of their topical and section tests are calculation heavy compared to the AAMC ones. I really hope our PS section will be more conceptual based, my math skills aren't so great and calculations always slow me down.
Because I've been dressing like a frump lady all month, once the MCAT is over I'm going shopping and having a girl day. Oh yea and studying the effects of EtOH consumption on ADH. Plus I had my parents hold onto my credit card so I would stop online shopping when I was supposed to be studying sooo I can get that back too! Life will be great!
I think my emotions r runing via simple harmonic motion with the ocasional freq change. One min i'm fine the next i'm spazin, not really but just ready to get it over with. AHHHhhh
I think we took the same exam.. same feelingsPhysical: Thought this section was pretty tough. Simple concepts presented in different ways.
Verbal: Tough. Even the easier to read passages had tough questions where I was stuck picking between two choices.
Bio: I would say Orgo heavy, at least 2 passages worth and quite a few discretes. Bio passages were not typical physio or genetic based, very experimental! Thought Bio was very tough. Especially Bio discretes, usually I answer those with ease but felt these were pretty tough.
Definitely killed the WS!
I'm assuming we got different tests
PS: Absolutely ridiculously killer, heavy questions in 2 passages that were mentioned as very very minor topics in my materials, while it felt 90% of the high yield topics were not mentioned. Seriously feel cheated by this section, just hoping for a generous curve.
VR: Thought it was reasonable and this is usually the scariest section for me. I'm assuming the people above who said it was difficult got a different set of passages.
BS: Thought it was ok. 1 question asked about something I had never heard before. I just looked up a different question that I got wrong...sucks. I need to stop doing this to myself
AAMC averages were in the mid 30s. I am hoping for a 33, but that PS section has me doubting it will happen. I usually finish AAMCs with 20 minutes left and enough time to go over my my whole exam. I finished the PS with about 5 mins left and 5 blank questions, and ended up guessing 3 of them. Lots of other questions marked I never got to look at. I'm a retaker too so it sucks. I wanted to void this so badly but the VR and BS gave me just enough hope of pulling a respectable score. It absolutely eats away at me to spend soooo much time preparing for this exam, just to have a curveball thrown at me on test day. If I had more time I would just keep rescheduling exams and voiding until I felt comfortable with a test.
**** the MCAT. Absolutely useless ****ing test. Now I have to get an app together while I wake up every morning for the next month with a headache thinking about this test.
PS: Most of it were fairly straightforward questions with only a handful of tricky, yet still solvable questions when given an extra minute. That first passage threw me for a loop when I first saw it but it turned out to be very basic concept recall. Random math manipulations were always my biggest weakness, so I hope I didn't trip up on too many questions, although all my answers for those certainly looked right. But, I COMPLETELY agree about the one passage which, if anything, was de-emphasized in all of my review material. Luckily, I had a vague idea of what was going on because I remember audibly going "What the hell is this?" a month or so ago when I encountered it during the one and only practice passage that ever brought it up. At the end of the day, that passage was also fairly simple - I just had no idea what it was even asking, at first.
VR: Lucked out in getting a whole slew of passages I actually enjoyed reading and learning about. For me, there was really only one completely esoteric passage topic that I forced myself to slog through. Usually, there's three or four. Finished with around 5 minutes left, which never happens. Fairly confident in all of my answers minus maybe one or two.
BS: Was doing swimmingly well, 25 minutes or so minutes left going into the second to last passage, and, oh boy. Luckily, the final passage and last set of discretes were all really straightforward, because I definitely only had 5 or so minutes left to answer them after spending the majority of my time on the previous passage. Made one or two stupid mistakes that I instantly realized the second I walked out of the room. One of them was, regrettably, one of those "30 seconds left oh man which of the two choices is it?!" under pressure changes... sigh. Hopefully, I read those last 10 or so questions right and didn't mark any silly answers on them. Definitely could have used even another minute or two on that, but everything before that passage wasn't too bad, especially considering the "new" direction the MCAT is obviously going with their BS.