I'm kind of freaked out about it, I was getting 7-8 in PS and hoping to bring that up a couple of points before the real thing to a 9 or 10, now I'm worried if I'll be able to do that or not. I ran out of time on that section and had to guess on the last 10 or so questions, so obviously I need to pace myself better on PS (this isn't the first time that's happened, although I don't think I've ever had to guess on so many before). I'm glad to hear that others found the PS on 5R difficult also, makes me feel like less of a ******. As far as VR goes, this has always been my best section, but I disliked it on both 4R and 5R for different reasons. On 4R, I thought the scale was a little tough--I only missed 5 questions, which earned me a 12, while missing 6 questions in that section on 3R was a 13. On 5R, I would agree with others that there were some very ambigous answer choices. BS seemed comparable on both tests to me. 
Just when I thought I was improving on verbal (I was getting 9s on EK101), the aamc IV verbal gave me a whoopping 6!! That section is really getting on my nervous.
I'd happily trade a point or two from verbal to get better PS scores--then I'd have a nice, balanced 30, 10's or so in each section--the holy grail of med school admissions (along with a 3.5 GPA, of course ). Good luck to everyone trying desperately to bring up their worst section before the MCAT hits us all upside the head on the 16th!
Originally posted by Columbia22
I think 4R is a bit harder than the others...also maybe the reason why EK and TPR dont administer this exam, as opposed to 5R and 6R (I mean, whats the harm in adding another AAMC exam to the course schedule??) Anywho, im pissed at my 4R scores, 10PS, 9BS, 9VR. I usually score 10-11 on the BS section, and i thought it was a lil trickier than what ive seen...verbal was one of the most challenging ive seeny by AMCAS..anyone got any other thoughts? Can i still score over a 30 next week????
)....i say this in the light that i think you can get lucky or not so lucky on your strenghts and weaknesses....i tend to be very very good with gen chem questions but just above average on physics section...but if anything when i got those 13's i honestly would say i didnt know 2 of those questions and the other 5 i would be miss were cause of stupid ass mistakes or reading the question stem wrong....as for preparing, i have been taking kaplan this whole summer and the ps section is 3947497439 times harder and i would score aroudn 11 on those....i think doing harder problems has made me think these aamc ps sections are jokes comapred to the kaplan.... ib et that has been a big help but other than that i really dont have any tips except practice practice practice i started out with a 21 on my princeton diag and im up too 32-34 on my practice tests....i wanna say i have taking 18 full lenghts and my scores have gradually but consistently gone higher and higher....post a reply if you have any other questions i doubt my dissertation helpedOriginally posted by PhatGtDmB
i seem to think the ps section is the most subjective out of the science sections (definitly not including vr
