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Where the rest of my September 18th homies at ? I just started Sn2ed's 4 month schedule (customized with some extra Kaplan material).
Lol, a substantially exerting run. Just so I'm tired enough to fall asleep that night.What's a fat run?
Lol, a substantially exerting run. Just so I'm tired enough to fall asleep that night.
Also, I would highly recommend wikipremed.com for lenses/optics/all physics topics. I felt like their treatment of it really helped solidify the concepts for me.
look up freelancetutor on youtube. he was great. TBR's way of presenting things was a bit too "memorize and hope you don't forget" which I don't like. I like learning the concepts thoroughly.Yeah basically the lens maker and the set of rules... i had a double lens problem that killed me on a GS test.
Awesome looking it up now, anything else that sticks out in your mind as particularly good? I didnt go through this website much unfortunately..
Lol, a substantially exerting run. Just so I'm tired enough to fall asleep that night.
Also, I would highly recommend wikipremed.com for lenses/optics/all physics topics. I felt like their treatment of it really helped solidify the concepts for me.
I am re-writing (wrote for the first time 2 years ago and scored 9/6/10 S).
Here are my practice scores so far
AAMC 3 9/6/8
AAMC 9 11/9/9
AAMC 8 10/8/9
AAMC 7 10/XX/12 - have not done VR yet
AAMC 6 10/XX/11- have not done VR yet
AAMC 5 11/9/11
AAMC 4 11/6/12
I am really freaking out with the VR. I have been practicing, reviewing over my mistakes. I find that some passage I am doing well and there are just some passages that I didn't understand. What should I do? How can I improve? I am starting to doubt if I will be able to score (10+).
Any words of advice or motivation, please??
For verbal take the main idea. So if the passage is about physician inmate relationship use that idea to answer the questions and make inferences. Also you need to be SUPER focused.. I recommend reading the words out loud (like you're talking to yourself), reading EACH answer choice carefully, and going with your gut feeling. If you do not know a questions mark your best guess and move on. Looking at AAMC9 and 5 would be a good idea to see HOW your thought process worked out because a 9 is pretty good and very do able for this thurs!
You can do it.. Verbal is actually a great score booster once you get the hang of it
For verbal take the main idea. So if the passage is about physician inmate relationship use that idea to answer the questions and make inferences. Also you need to be SUPER focused.. I recommend reading the words out loud (like you're talking to yourself), reading EACH answer choice carefully, and going with your gut feeling. If you do not know a questions mark your best guess and move on. Looking at AAMC9 and 5 would be a good idea to see HOW your thought process worked out because a 9 is pretty good and very do able for this thurs!
You can do it.. Verbal is actually a great score booster once you get the hang of it
I think this depends on every person. For me, I could not take the day off I had to keep myself in the zone. I didnt do hardcore studying but spent some time brushing up on certain concepts. And thank god i did because one of the concepts i touched up on was on my exam 9/12. However, i dont know what i got yet so i cant say if it worked for me.How important do you guys think it is to take the day off day before MCAT? I don't think I'll be done with my last 1/3 of BR by then unfortunately
How important do you guys think it is to take the day off day before MCAT? I don't think I'll be done with my last 1/3 of BR by then unfortunately
Lurker here, and I'd agree. I just can't take the day off. For some reason, it throws my whole pattern off. I did that the first time I took the MCAT listening to everyone else and on the test day, I had a HORRIBLY hard time focusing. I was still in my "play" mode from the day before so I plan on just reviewing my notes, especially those Physics formulas. I might read through some Bio chapters I didn't understand the first time around but not really worried about it. I like to think of it this way: you wouldn't take the day off before your comprehensive final so why would you take the day off for the MCAT? For me, being in the "study" mode is the key. I've already told myself I'm going to relax big time after my test so I just want to stay in my game mode. To each their own, though.I think this depends on every person. For me, I could not take the day off I had to keep myself in the zone. I didnt do hardcore studying but spent some time brushing up on certain concepts. And thank god i did because one of the concepts i touched up on was on my exam 9/12. However, i dont know what i got yet so i cant say if it worked for me.
Do what you need to do, dont listen to other peoples advice.
got 33 on AAMC 10: 12/8/13
what is going on with verbal :/ I tried a new technique of reading faster because I found myself running out of time, but now it seems like reading slower might work better for me even if i dont finish, but I always run out of time. To the people consistently getting 10+ on verbal. Please give me some tips. I don't know why EK 101 and TPRH is not translating i was getting 10/11 consistently on that.
Also got 28 2 days ago on AAMC 9, and had a freakout. I have like 80 pages of bio notes typed up, and got through 60 of them yesterday and bio shot up from 9 to 13 today...definitely finishing the last 20 pages tonight...I also pretty much wasted AAMC 4 & 9 by taking my "power naps" between sections, and pausing the test during a section when it got noisy around me. Finally decided to suck it up and wear earplugs and it made for a 5 point jump, I am so happy I just want a 30 at this point...
How I wish this were the case for me...
Verbal is a huge liability for me.
I can tellTwo days left! having a hard time falling asleep at night and eating lol
Same here lol. Last night I wasted a bunch of time reading the August 15th thread because I couldn't sleep. They get their scores today apparently so I'm curious how they did compared to their average AAMC, but I've promised myself I'd stop looking. No need to potentially freak myself out before the exam lol especially if it's out of my hands at this point. AHHHH 2 more days! We got it peoples, we've worked hard!!Two days left! having a hard time falling at night an eating lol
tl;dr version of all official threads:
1) Real test is so much harder....omg!
2) OMG I hate waiting....did I void?
3) Phew....my scores somehow are around my average!
What's the farthest distance errrrybody is traveling for this exam??
also can I just confess that I am excited about the burger place RIGHT NEXT DOOR to my center.. dinner will be amazing thurs.
Okay with this thread dying down, I wanted to end with the final statistics. This is for future test takers of the old mcat and is intended to be informational. Please take this with a grain of salt though, as this is an observational study (possibly badly done too since I'm not a social scientist and not a person who usually does observational studies). This is not a true experiment. Nothing was manipulated and data was collected only from posters of this thread. Nobody privately messaged me, so all the data is right here for others to reproduce.
Quoted below are posts that talked about the statistics. Then after that are the final outcomes.
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Grey background bars: Expected score distribution for a population of 107 people. Based on AAMC published data of all 2013 test takers.
Blue bars: Predicted Scores
Red bars: AAMC average scores (rounded, e.g. 29.5 = 30, 35.3 = 35)
Gold bars: Actual exam scores from August 7th, 2014 - 8am and 2pm exam times
8am:
Total People: 30
AAMC Average 33.0, st. dev 3.2 (21 responses, 70% response rate)
Predicted 31.3 st. dev 3.4 (20 responses, 67% response rate)
Actual 32.5 st. dev 3.9 (20 responses, 67% response rate)
2pm:
Total people: 77
AAMC Average 31.3, st. dev 3.8 (40 responses, 52% response rate)
Predicted 29.4 st. dev 4.0 (40 responses, 52% response rate)
Actual 31.9 st. dev 4.8 (47 responses, 61% response rate)
Both Times:
Total people: 107
AAMC Average 31.9 , st. dev 3.7 (61 responses, 57% response rate)
Predicted 30.0, st. dev 3.9 (60 responses, 56% response rate)
Actual 32.1, st. dev 4.5 (67 responses, 63% response rate)
I kept track of people who joined the conversation after scores were released and old posters who have been a part of this thread before scores were released. I found no significant difference between the groups. So, people who appear out of nowhere on this thread once scores are released do not necessarily have insane scores (35+). There is a fair share of new posters who have lower scores too to balance out. We just tend to remember those 41s and 42s who come out of nowhere and not the 25s or 26s who add their posts into the thread.
Also important, I noted nine individuals who either have been a part of this thread pretty diligently and all of a sudden disappeared once scores were posted or individuals who have noted in their posts that they scored pretty low and understandably don't feel comfortable posting their scores. So the actual score average might be a little lower, and this might come into play for the analysis of the next paragraph. If all those people scored 10 points below their average, then yeah, we might have a problem. But I've seen quite a few people (not necessarily in this thread) scoring averages of 25s, expect a 30+, but actually got a 25. Thankfully those people posted their scores and made me realize those individuals exist too. So keep in mind, a person might not say their score because THEY feel it's below their expectation, even if it might be a good score or their score is to be expected. Therefore, I believe the actual averages will not significantly change due to the nine individuals. Some might have relatively good scores (30+), but were below their expectations
I compared AAMC averages with Actual scores from people who gave BOTH scores, not just one or the other. Overall there was no difference. 2pm's actual score was 0.7 points above their AAMC average and 8am was exactly the same. So no difference. It can be inferred that you will score your AAMC average. Trust your average! In fact, 14 people out of 55 people (25%) who gave me both scores scored the EXACT same AAMC average (after rounding the aamc average). That's quite a significant number of people. Fortunately, I scored 3 points above my average However, my last two AAMC practice exams I took were a 39 and 37 (AAMC 9 and 8 respectively), and the average of those two was my actual score. I am so lucky. Thank you all who supported me
Now in contrast, the mean difference between the AAMC average (not rounded) and Actual score was +0.47 (st. dev 2.34). The mean absolute difference was 1.88 (st. dev 1.45). So if I am interpreting this right, even though on average people pretty much score their exact AAMC average (as suggested by the previous paragraph), if you look at the absolute difference, it suggests otherwise. People tend to score about +/- 1.88 from their average. However, we predicted that people tend to score +/- 2 from their AAMC average, which isn't bad, and the data supports that!
In one sentence: Most likely, you will score your AAMC average, BUT on average, you will score +/- 1.88 from your AAMC average. Hope that makes sense.
Think of a bell curve centered around your average. The peak of the curve is your mode, which is your average. You are most likely to score your mode/average and you are most likely to stay within 2 points of your average. However, don't fret if you score +/- 3 or 4. Keep in mind it is a possibility, but a little less likely (the standard deviation of the absolute difference is 1.45, 1.88+1.45 = +/- 3.33)
Also note 8am was not necessarily easier than 2pm. Look at the AAMC averages from both times and compare to their respective actual scores. They are about the same. More people might have done slightly worse in 2pm than 8am, but those people were slightly worse exam takers to begin with.
Furthermore, we had about a 60% response rate of posters who posted at least one message saying they took this exam. This is good news! We were expecting like around 30% and not even close to 60% at best.
Finally, SDN exam takers are indeed above average. We have a mean, median, and mode of 32! Great Job!!! Proud of y'all, even those who might not have gotten what they wished for
Hope this is very informative! Peace out. Back to being a lurker, that is if I am ever on here again.
tl;dr version of all official threads:
1) Real test is so much harder....omg!
2) OMG I hate waiting....did I void?
3) Phew....my scores somehow are around my average!
Do you guys feel like reviewing actual bio facts helped a lot for Bio? My conception was that it was mostly attributed to understanding what was going on in the passage
Wait, on the same test or a new test?got a 9 on AAMC 9 for Bio, read 40 pages of my bio notes that same night and got 13 the next day. for me review helps, im reviewing all my notes the day before, especially on weak topics.
Might have to revise 3) with a bunch of people getting below AAMC averages on 8/15
my aamc average was around 29...made a 31 (11-11-9) on aamc 11 two days before my 7/24 test. ended up with a 25 (11-6-8) on the real thing. Not meant to scare people, im attributing it to a fluke on test day because i was averaging 9s on aamc verbal.
Hoping to do better on Thursday though!
If TBRBio got like 7 points below AAMC avg....mere mortals (like I) are going to be in huge trouble.
I scored 7 points below my average on the 7/12 MCAT too :'(
So here I am...
Oh gosh
Maybe we need a new formula:
Real MCAT = AAMC Avg - 7
would it be beneficial to spend tomorrow studying and reviewing?
would it be beneficial to spend tomorrow studying and reviewing?
So who are the people that are re-taking the exam for fall 2015 MD/DO cycle?