Hi Supafield, I thought your previous scores are good and Good luck with taking the exam!!! Where are you in terms of your review, and how are you preparing for the exam this time?
the Ontario and Canadian med school application system is a strange beast. Depending on what region you are from in a certain province you may have different requirements on an MCAT score to be truly competitive.
I also have a weak cGPA.... however I have done 2 undergraduate degrees and have a 3.9 on the 2nd undergrad. There are a few schools that will look only at my last few years of GPA but they tend to have the strictest and highest MCAT cutoffs..... So I'm stuck rewriting what otherwise would be a great score most places.
My prep has changed dramatically for this run at the MCAT, both times before I took roughly 2.5 months and crawled through content review before really cracking down on problem work and writing 4-5 AAMC practice tests each time.
I was happy with my 32S up until a couple weeks ago, but then my fiancee landed a good full time job in the city we're currently in which puts extra importance on getting the cutoffs to get an interview at the school here.
Only figuring this out in late July and then heading to Europe directly after.... it's left me to prepare in roughly 1 month and 10 days..... So I've really sped up the content review portion and will have completed PS review in 10 days (PS has always been far and away my stronger science).... I will take longer with BS and Orgo as I need an 11 in the section and out of content review will have roughly 12-15 days to devote to problem work and writing AAMC 6 and 9 which are the only two I didn't write last July and therefore the only two I don't remember well.
So it's quite condensed and not nearly the same as what I did to get the 31 and 32 however, with both of those tests, when I took my first AAMC practice tests I received 30 and 32 respectively. So almost a month prior to writing the real thing I've been able to write nearly equal scores on practices.
I'm also in the unique position where if I get a 12 M on this MCAT, I can still use my 32S at most of the schools I'm applying to.... which is a lot less pressure on test day, which may provide me more benefit than anything else I could do as attempt 1 and 2 involved a stressful day one way or another. (A Biology Section designed by Satan in 2006, and a 2 hour start delay on the morning of July 18th 2008 that made catching my 6 p.m. flight to Stockholm later that day a big question mark.) Haha I really feel if I went into this test 75% as prepared but without the stress that I needlessly put on myself for the last attempt I'll do the same if not better and fingers crossed for that 11 in bio.
So there's my long convoluted explanation to your simple straight forward question.
Best of luck.