AAMC 11 wtff?!?!

[km1865]

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I just took AAMC 11 and got a devastating 28 on it and my AAMC average is a 32 on the dot. MY EXAM IS IN ABOUT A WEEK on 8/23.. The horrendously low breakdown for AAMC11 was: PS 11, VR 7 ?!?! , BS 10

I average around a 33 for Kaplan FL's as well (i've taken 7 of them with 30 being the lowest and one 40 being the highest most in the 32-33 range)

WHAT SHOULD I DO? I know the real exam will be even harder than AAMC 11 and I also know that the AAMC practice exams arent really representative in terms of difficulty... I've been consistent with my studying for 3 months and I have not really been as upset with my scores until today..

PS is usually my highest score (in the 12-13 range) followed by BS (11-12) and VR is consistently 9-11.. idk what happened on this one.. should I seriously consider voiding or just take this score to be an outlier?

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[macsta]

I just took AAMC 11 and got a devastating 28 on it and my AAMC average is a 32 on the dot. MY EXAM IS IN ABOUT A WEEK on 8/23.. The horrendously low breakdown for AAMC11 was: PS 11, VR 7 ?!?! , BS 10

I average around a 33 for Kaplan FL's as well (i've taken 7 of them with 30 being the lowest and one 40 being the highest most in the 32-33 range)

WHAT SHOULD I DO? I know the real exam will be even harder than AAMC 11 and I also know that the AAMC practice exams arent really representative in terms of difficulty... I've been consistent with my studying for 3 months and I have not really been as upset with my scores until today..

PS is usually my highest score (in the 12-13 range) followed by BS (11-12) and VR is consistently 9-11.. idk what happened on this one.. should I seriously consider voiding or just take this score to be an outlier?

😕😕

There are so many of the freakout posts recently...

Dude, it is one test. Your averages matter more than a single test. There could have been a passage that didn't "speak" to you. Just keep studying...I'm sure you will do fine.

 

[SephirothXR]

Sometimes I wonder why I keep coming on this website when my MCAT is so near to keep seeing comments like "my average was a 33 and I got a 28 on this practice test" or "my aamc average was a 35 and I got a 29 on the real deal". It's not really good for everyone else's confidence to be seeing those things :/.

Anyways, that was probably an outlier, you did well in the sciences and that's probably how you'll do on the real test (maybe better, again, a few bad passages can come, it's sometimes about luck). The verbal, well, it's always kind of either way, I wouldn't worry too much about it

 

[sweetness34]

Just keep on studying, work hard, and hope for the best! anything can happen, and you do better on the actual test. 🙂

 

[fallingwater]

That was a pretty hard exam. I hated that stupid pareiasaur passage.

 

[fneverforget]

Dude thats what happened to me. I have been averaging 32s on my AAMC and I scored a 27 on AAMC 11 (PS: 10/ V: 7/ BS: 10). I normally score 10-13s on my AAMC verbals. Anyway did you take AAMC 10? How did you do? I took AAMC 10 after taking AAMC 11 and I made a 31 (which is the same as my other AAMC averages) (PS: 10/V: 10/BS: 11). The reason I screwed up AAMC 11 was because of complacency and burnout. Won't let that happen on Aug 18th, MY TEST DATE.

 

[km1865]

oh wow, 13's on verbals I wish I had that skill. Anyhow, after reviewing it I figured out its not the content i'm weak on its just the convoluted question stems that I trip up on, sometimes (and this was especially true for AAMC 11's BS) I had NO idea what the question was asking for some questions. I got half the questions in that ebola passage wrong. Its really the graph/table analysis that seems to get me on these exams rather than the content... VR honestly I think is a hit or miss at this point in the game im praying to get an 11 (or 12 if im really really lucky) on my actual exam.

I haven't done AAMC10 yet but hopefully It wont be so low. 11 was definitely a confidence killer. Thanks guys, and good luck on your exam

 

[paul411]

its just the convoluted question stems that I trip up on, sometimes (and this was especially true for AAMC 11's BS) I had NO idea what the question was asking for some questions. I got half the questions in that ebola passage wrong. Its really the graph/table analysis that seems to get me on these exams rather than the content...

Be aware that these kind of passage-based complicated questions seem to be the trend on the real MCAT.

 

[coyotelime]

Make sure you review 11 heavily, my test with very similar to 11. Also be prepared for lots of normally high-yield topics to be nonexistent and longer verbal passages.

 

[inquiry101]

dont worry too much about it, just review over your mistakes. I ended up getting an 8 PS on aamc 11 a wk before my test. I looked through all of my mistakes and studied...ended up with a PS 12 on the real thing. just keeping working hard and try to dissect aamc 11 in terms of how questions are asked and wat type of mindset to take on