2 point jump in 6 days.. HELP

[dray5150]

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I need advice on knocking my score 1-2 points and I'm taking the test Fri. I have access to pretty much all the prep books until then. Should I go down with TBR, EK,???

I took AAMC 9 yesterday and made a 26. (9, 9, 8) and have AAMC 10 to go. My average AAMC score is 27 and Kaplan 28. I have all the time in the world between now and Fri. What should I do?????

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[TooMuchResearch]

I need advice on knocking my score 1-2 points and I'm taking the test Fri. I have access to pretty much all the prep books until then. Should I go down with TBR, EK,???

I took AAMC 9 yesterday and made a 26. (9, 9, 8) and have AAMC 10 to go. My average AAMC score is 27 and Kaplan 28. I have all the time in the world between now and Fri. What should I do?????

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First, stay off SDN. Review your exams and determine what you are doing wrong. Do you get questions wrong because you don't know the material? Because you misread questions? Because you figure out the right answer but mark the wrong one? If many of your mistakes are test taking errors, you might be able to eliminate them if you work at it. As for content, if there are topics you are consistently getting wrong on your practice exams, I would suggest reviewing that material.

 

[dray5150]

So you suggest just going back through all my AAMCs and analyze what type of errors I'm making. THanks I will do that. Maybe looking all my wrong answers in retrospect will help me realize what I'm missing.

Thanks man.

 

[WashMe]

EK all the way. figure out your weakest points first, then really hammer those. then, try to get more solid on the stuff you are already pretty comfortable with. if you read more carefully (passage and questions) you will probably pick up a few more points even with the knowledge you have.

 

[BlueElmo]

2 points can also be luck. I never hit anything but one score in all of my AAMC exams. I took the real one, and bingo, it was two points higher.

 

[dray5150]

Thanks for the encouragment guys. I'm really trying to pin point my weaknesses. I'm starting to see there some small gaps in my content review. I'm missing like 3-4 questions on content and about 2-3 are careless.

Im going to try and do the whole EK BIO 1001 again between now and Thurs... take a TBR FL, do my last 2 EK VERBAL TEST and end with AAMC 10 on Wed.

Hopefully I can get that jump I need.

 

[BlueElmo]

Thanks for the encouragment guys. I'm really trying to pin point my weaknesses. I'm starting to see there some small gaps in my content review. I'm missing like 3-4 questions on content and about 2-3 are careless.

Im going to try and do the whole EK BIO 1001 again between now and Thurs... take a TBR FL, do my last 2 EK VERBAL TEST and end with AAMC 10 on Wed.
Hopefully I can get that jump I need.

I don't recommend doing this much in such a short span of time.

 

[dray5150]

Yeah I think your right. Its just that my bio scores is begining to be erratic. The last AAMC (#9) I took Fri I made and 8. Im usually nailing 9-10 range. And just today I took my last TBR FL #6 and made 10, 10, 7

I was a bio major so I'm not sure whats going on with these last few days.

 

[emno]

if there are only two days left, I would not start some new book. I feel that you should take enough rest also.

 

[m015094]

I'm in a similar situation. I'm retaking on Friday (30th). I scored 9,9,9 Q on try one on 22 Aug 2008.

I'm taking AAMC #7 tonight. I will then spend time reviewing the test. I figure a good 5-6 hours total for that (I don't do the writing because I think it's pointless). I will write down any concept that I come across that I don't know or I'm really rusty on.

I'll then spend tomorrow reviewing these concept using EK. I also acquired the Kaplan subject tests which are only about 30 minutes long. I can use those to measure whether or not I know the subject area. I will also use tomorrow to go through the AAMC tests I have already taken (3,8,9,10).

I don't think 2 points is unreasonable in a short time. The way I look at it is that a single point is equal to roughly 2-4 questions, based off the curve. Targeting constant problem areas can nip that in the bud. I used to get all the optics problems wrong. I finally was fed up with it, so I studied the hell out of them. I now dominate that area.

Again, write down your problem areas. For me right now - it's reproduction hormones, electric fields/magnetism, and organic chemistry in chemeral.