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• Nov 8, 2004

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Honestly, MCAT day was a complete blur for me. I would cover all my bases for you because everything is fair game on the MCAT. I noticed with my MCAT they tied in so many different concepts, especially on the physical sciences. Sorry if this isn't too helpful.

 

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I felt like I totally wasted my time memorizing all the hormones. I don't think there was even one hormone question on the August exam, and if there was . . . it was only one, and I should have studied other "concepts" more thoroughly. The biology portion of the test was extremelly heavy in interpreting data. I don't know that there's any one concept that would definitely be on the test, or not on the test. You need the basic science information, then you have to be able to interpret information from the passage that will include some information you already know, and a ton of information that you have to extrapolate from the passage. It's really hard to study for. I think if you find yourself memorizing alot, and not understand concepts so much, then you're headed down the wrong path. You need to understand concepts of all the areas included in any MCAT study guide. Obviously there will be a certain amount of memorizing, but make sure you fully understand the concept behind what you're memorizing.

 

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• Nov 8, 2004

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I took Kaplan's review course online, and the review they offerred for physical sciences was great. I thought that they didn't prepare me that well for bio however. There was a lot more interpretation of data than testing of raw knowledge in the bio section. For the most part, you need to treat bio like a reasoning section, just like the verbal section.

 

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• Nov 8, 2004

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Practice verbal.
Take a full year physiology course for bio...(you'd be crazy if you didn't!)
Forget organic, and focus on physiology...

 

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• Nov 9, 2004

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Physics questions seemed to be mostly about electromagnestism and wave theory. I only remember a very few questions on Newtonian mechanics. I didn't study for VR, but wish I had ,at least, practiced for timing issues.

 

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• Nov 13, 2004

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I took a prep course that said we didn't need to memorize the 20 amino acids. So, I didn't. Then, on the real MCAT was a discrete question that required you to know the properties of certain amino acids. I wouldn't memorize the exact structures, but I would make sure you know which amino acids have polar, nonpolar, acidic or basic side chains.

 

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• Nov 13, 2004

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verbal

 

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• Nov 13, 2004

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trypto82 said:

verbal

Click to expand...

How did you guys time yourself?

huseyin

 

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• Nov 13, 2004

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I've noticed on a different thread many students recommended physiology.
I didn't feel this way about my MCAT (I didn't take physiology, but I did take neurobiology), but I had 3 passages that fell under the realm of neurobiology.
I'm guessing that different MCAT test administrations would favor different biology disciplines. So, how do they really standardize that?
I have zero experience in stats, but I was just thinking that if I had a different form of the test that emphasized physiology questions that maybe I would not have scored a 12 in that section so how do they scale this stuff accurately?
Is it accurate?

 

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• Nov 13, 2004

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practice verbal......all others it won't matter how much you study .. you will see some very difficult questions nevertheless......and most questions do not require any in-depth outside knowledge......if you pay attention in classes, and review heavily your basic material...you should be good with sciences......

verbal is a different ball game.....so practice.....starting now and do as many passages you can get your hands on......MCAT, LSAT, GRE......SAT anywhere just keep doing passages

 

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• Nov 14, 2004

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amino acids. I didn't take biochem until after the MCAT and knowing amino acids would have raised my score a point or two easily. I missed whole sections because I had no idea how they interacted.

 

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• Nov 14, 2004

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Make sure you have electromagnatism and electrochemistry down. You will definitely definitely have something from one of those areas even though you won't necessarily have all.

I sort of wished I had redone physiology but I was always getting good bio scores so I felt like it would be a waste of time to push my bio score into the 14-15 level when I still needed to get verbal into the 10s and for me physical sciences just needs more maintenance than other sciences.

 

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