5R Physical science section not any good

[meanderson]

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I'm pretty good at the physical sciences section. By pretty good I mean I think I have a chance at an 11 or so. This afternoon I took the physical science section with 5R and got 75/77 right. Should have been 76/77 but I inexpicably bubbled in one answer wrong on my answer sheet that I circled right on my test.

I would be excited, but then I looked back at the test and realized I didn't have a single challenging passage. Well, there were 2-3 passages that were hard to decipher and break down, but the questions that followed were over very simple concepts that didn't require being able to decipher the passage.

Taking this test was just a waste of my time and didn't help me at all. There are so many problem areas I have, and taking a fluff test isn't going to solve them.

 

[solid snake]

??????? 🙄

 

[blz]

Ahh thanks for the heads up. I'm off to go burn my copy of AAMC 5R right away.

 

[mecute]

I second that. I'm gonna use my copy as toilet paper. Thanks for your definitive all-encompassing statement.

 

[indo]

Jeeze...if he is THAT smart I might as well not take the exam.

 

[Columbia22]

personally, i prefer the 5W version, it is a bit more challenging

 

[meanderson]

The point is that 5RP is a lot easier than other sections. I DO NOT average anywhere near my score on 5r, and some friends I know who took it got 10+ more right on that section in 5R than they usually do. It's not important whether I scored a 12+ or an 8; What's important is that I don't feel it is a good indicator and I'm just expressing that.....

 

[thackl]

What I remeber about 5r was that it had 80%+ chem. Being an engineer, I hated it. However, I do remember lots of TPR natural sciences students making big jumps on 5r that weren't repeated on 6r.

 

[meanderson]

5R is close to about 55% chem, not near 80%+ chem.

passage 1- chem
passage 2- physics
passage 3- chem
passage 4- chem
passage 5- chem
passage 6- physics
passage 7- chem
passage 8- physics
passage 9- chem
passage 10- physics
passage 11- physics

6/11 passages are chem. 5/11 are physics.

This was balanced somewhat on the free response: 9 Physics, 6 Chem.

Adding up the total number of questions would result in 37 physics questions and 40 chemistry questions. I don't know how you get the 80% figure.

In assigning subject status, I'm going by Kaplan and EK review books. Perhaps TPR includes half-lifes and nuclear decay to be chemistry rather than physics. This would alter the % of each.

You can't include every single passage type in a test. 5-6 passages per subject just won't allow it. There was no optics in 5r, but there was a passage on current, resistance, and voltage. Sucks if you hate V = IR type stuff but is great if you hate lens and mirrors. There wasn't any electrochemistry in the chem section. There are about 15 different main passage types in each subject and only 5 or 6 passages, so you just never know.

 

[thackl]

I'm probably remembering a diff test. One of the TPR administered tests had a lot of chem (maybe not 80%, but a lot). I thought it was 5r. My bad........