1.5 months before test..please help

[Ari1584]

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so i am re-taking on april 17, and i have yet to start my practice exams. im thinking i might take one tomorrow. the problem i am having is with confidence. I have been studying since november, and have been using TBR. I have done pretty much all of the passages, read all chapters, gone over all my wrong answers for quite some time...and now im scared to death to take my first practice exam. I scored a 25 on my last mcat and really need to get over a 30 this time around. I wanted to go back and re-do all my practice problems...but as i started to today, i am still getting things wrong and i seriously feel like i forgot everything. Its like as soon as i thoroughly learn one subject, the previous one i learned escapes my mind (or at least i think it does). I just feel like all this work i have been doing for these past months was a waste of time, and my scores won't get any better. has anyone felt like this?? just in need of some encouragement i guess.

 

[w0lf137]

That happened to me often. I forgot previously learned material quickly. I got over that by doing a study guide. I went over the material again very quickly, jotting down notes on what is important. I went over those notes wehn I needed to. I suggest you do as many problems as you can from the chapters you are reading. You will forget less that way. You will also get this reflex on how to do the problems, without even thinking. Just keep practicing but don't do the same mistakes over and over again. If you don't understand the subject, reread the chapter again.

Just because you will score below a 30 on a practice test doesn't mean its the end of the world. I scored below 30 on like 8 of the Princeton tests. It was dissapointing. I know. I just went out after taking those tests. I didn't want to think about them any more. After a while I started getting over 30. Maybe I just got used to the tests or whatever. I don't know. I was also discouraged going to the Princeton class and seeing that every1 was scoring above 30 (assuming they weren't lying). Now I wonder why did they postpone their test date if they were doing so well.

Your previous work wasn't a waste of time. You need as much practice under your belt as you can. If you think about it, you are in a better place now compared to when you first started studying. You know how the test looks like and alot of the material on it. Just keep practicing until you are comfortable with all the subjects on the test. If you are not comfortable, you will miss alot of questions and it shouldn't be a surprize if you get below a 30.