3 weeks enough to improve sciences?

[anisidi1985]

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I'm about 3 weeks from my test date and my lowest scores are in the science sections based on the AAMC practice tests (averaging around an 8/9 for both of them). My verbal is quite strong, I'm getting 11's so I'm not worried about that. Is 3 weeks enough to improve my science scores to the double digits? I need at least a 10 in physics and a 12 in bio. I would really appreciate any advice/feedback.

My schedule for then next 3 weeks is a 3 day rotation that consists of: full length (day 1), review physical sciences of full length + lots of practice in physical sciences (day 2), review biological sciences of full length + lots of practice problems in biological sciences (day 3). Will this be enough? Have people improved 5 pts in the last few weeks specifically in the sciences? Thank you so much in advance!

 

[Atny]

My advice is to do as many problem as possible from sample exams out there. How can you get an 11 in verbal? It is very hard for me to get a 8 or 9 in verbal.

 

[anisidi1985]

Thanks - yeah that's my plan. I pretty much summarize the main idea in my head following reading the passage, and use the EK method. I really try to understand what the author's point of view is, what do they support/not support. There are other key little things that I find also help, like if the question says "what assumption does the author make when..." - if it's an assumption, or inference, that means its NOT stated in the passage and you have to figure it out so a wrong answer choice might be something that is stated directly in the passage (for example). That helped me a lot. Doing verbal everyday was bringing down my score so i do it every other day. I also read leisurely quite a bit, and do that every night for at least a half hour.

 

[AmishExpressWay]

If your sciences are so low I'd assume it's due to a lack of deep understanding of science topics. So I'd reccomend the following:

1) Do science practice passages
2) Do deep content review on the topics you mess up on
3) ????
4) Become Doctor

Also, very nice verbal scores!

 

[anisidi1985]

Thank you! really appreciate it - it's actually nice feeling like i'm good at SOMETHING lol.