aamc 9 scores and thoughts

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jessiel8 said:
I just took aamc 9

PS: 13
VR: 7 WTF!!!
BS: 11

Hopefully others had trouble with the verbal section?!?
Any other thoughts on the test?
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Just wondering, did people find it easier then 8?
 
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Actually 9R is easier than 8R

Physical Sciences 10
Verbal 10
Biological Sciences 9

I wonder how this will compare up to the real thing! I tried to find the thread to see how these practice ones will compare up to the real thing and I cannot find it. Can anyone help?
 
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There's another thread about AAMC 9 around here and this is the AAMC practice test thread:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=270916

I think 3-4 people have taken it. Personally, I thought the verbal was slightly harder than on 8, but the sciences were slightly easier. Overall I would say they were pretty similar except 8 had much more Gchem.

For me:
8: 11,11,12
9: 12,9,12
 
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I thought the PS and VR were easier on 9 than 8, but that may be just because I ate more Wheaties before taking 9 (reduced number of dumb mistakes on PS and ate a Clif bar before the VR).

8: PS, VR, BS: 10,8,12
9: PS, VR, BS: 12,10,11

I got really sleepy during BS on 9. Need to find a better lunch, I guess. Also, I think I got psyched out because the writing assignment on 9 was all messed up. The 1st writing assignment didn't match the statement (statement was about business profit, but instructions were about politicians), and the 2nd writing statement was the same one from #8. Did anyone else notice that?
 
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I thought bio was harder on 9...i felt like i was doing another verbal. The physics was way easier for me than test 8...i struggled with test aamc 8's physics.
 
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i really thought 9 and 8 were about the same. I thought 9's verbal was a bit tough, PS maybe slightly easier.
However, I think the discrepancies lie in the test taker rather than the test. AAMC does pretty dang good at keeping a consistant test (not that i am on the enemy's side!)
 
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MDinTraining26 said:
Actually 9R is easier than 8R

Physical Sciences 10
Verbal 10
Biological Sciences 9

I wonder how this will compare up to the real thing! I tried to find the thread to see how these practice ones will compare up to the real thing and I cannot find it. Can anyone help?
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Lemme tell you. nothing quite compares to the real thing. The AAMC exams are a piece of cake relative to the real deal. However, your scores should not deviate from the diagnostics too much.
 
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docolive said:
Lemme tell you. nothing quite compares to the real thing. The AAMC exams are a piece of cake relative to the real deal. However, your scores should not deviate from the diagnostics too much.
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I disagree, I think the real deal (at least last april) is comparable to the newer aamcs (7,8) in difficulty. Perhaps what makes it difficult is that its nerve wracking?
 
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Teerawit said:
Great, I look forward to taking it soon 😎 How does it compare to AAMC 7?
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I think AAMC 9 was pretty comparable to 7 - I scored very similarly at least.

I haven't finished 8 yet - have done PS, but not VR and BS - but so far it seems more difficult than 7 and 9!
 
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I found two of the passages on the 9 VR to be so boring, I just couldn't figure out what the heck they were talking about. The one about the paintings was probably the most confusing passage I've ever seen, and of course you get like 8 quesetions on that passage.

I thought the BS and PS were comperable to the rest of the tests I've taken, the VR was also close with exception of the two passages I couldn't hardly make myself read. 😴
 
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ilovehedgehogs said:
I disagree, I think the real deal (at least last april) is comparable to the newer aamcs (7,8) in difficulty. Perhaps what makes it difficult is that its nerve wracking?
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yes, maybe so. But these tests do not compare to the august administration.
 
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I thought the verbal section on 9 had the most boring and convoluted reading passages I have ever read, and I have read hundreds.
 
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I'm so glad that other people thought that the verbal on 9 was boring... especially that painting one. I nearly fell asleep! It probably didn't help that I only got 3 hours of sleep the night before.
 
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😱 I totally agree with what a few others have said about VR on test 9. What the hell were some of the passages talking about? I found my mind wandering and had to reread some parts. Which was probably why I ran out of time so bubbled all Bs for the last passage.

For those of you who are scoring 30+, are you timing yourselves during the practices? I find it amazing that anyone could finish some of the sections in time especially VR and PS. I always have at least 1 passage left on each. Any advice?
 
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jessiel8 said:
I just took aamc 9
Hopefully others had trouble with the verbal section?!?
Any other thoughts on the test?
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Verbal is just a crapshoot. I got 14 on AAMC 9 verbal - which is way the hell more than any other test I've done.
 
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For those of you who are scoring 30+, are you timing yourselves during the practices? I find it amazing that anyone could finish some of the sections in time especially VR and PS. I always have at least 1 passage left on each. Any advice?
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My advice is to work faster. No seriously. Examine what it is you're spending the most time on. Reading the passage, reading/thinking about the question, or going back to the passage. EK says if you're not finishing the VR and you are going back to the passage then quit going back. Take several VR sections and get comfortable with how much time you'll have to do stuff like go back to the passage. Have some sort of method for keeping track of time. There's different ways of doing this, but it let's you adjust your pace mid test.

VR is the only section I can't score consistantly on. I'll get a 12 and then 3 days later score an 8. For me it's all about being able to focus on something you absolutely don't care about.

Good luck
 
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i found 9 way easier than 7... i still have to take 8 tomorrow... got a 14, 12, 13... and on 7 did a 13, 10, 13... made some stupid mistakes. i dont know if i should feel like the harder ones are more accurate or the easier ones... either way i guess anything could happen on test day... and NO i am NOT complaining... 🙂 im very satisfied with my scores 🙂
 
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I don't think I can really rank difficulty of all these AAMC tests. I leave every test thinking I did ok, and yet my scores can be higher or lower than expected. I happened to have scored much better on 9 than on 7 and 8, but I personally couldn't tell a difference.
 
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I got a 12 on the PS and on AAMC 7,8 I got 9s. I am wondering is this mere luck that it was all stuff I knew or was 9 just really easy. I hope that it isn't too good to be true, cuz I have been doing the examkrackers so maybe thats helping? Any thoughts on the PS section?
 
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socaltrojan said:
I got a 12 on the PS and on AAMC 7,8 I got 9s. I am wondering is this mere luck that it was all stuff I knew or was 9 just really easy. I hope that it isn't too good to be true, cuz I have been doing the examkrackers so maybe thats helping? Any thoughts on the PS section?
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I didnt think PS was that much easier, so maybe the EK practicing is helping 🙂 . I mean it's easier than 8 (which had the hardest PS of all AAMC's), but it's comparable and in fact slightly harder than say, 7.

Verbal was slightly harder than 8, and bio was on par. Overall I got 14p, 12v, 14b which was almost identical to my score on 8 (14, 12, 13).
 
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I thought the verbal on 9 was pretty hard too. I'd been averaging about a 12 on Kaplan's VR, and I got a 10 on AAMC 9. I also thought the PS was really easy, finished with almost half an hour to spare and got a 12, but that might also be because I've been taking Kaplan's tests, and their PS sections are hellish.
 
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jessiel8 said:
I just took aamc 9

PS: 13
VR: 7 WTF!!!
BS: 11

Hopefully others had trouble with the verbal section?!?
Any other thoughts on the test?
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I thought the verbal was pretty tough on 9 -- tougher than 8, for sure, probably about the same as 7. I FELT that the PS was a little tougher on 9, but I actually did better (raw score) and the same (scaled score) on 9 as 8, so, all and all, I guess they were about the same.

I thought the BS was a little easier on 9 than 8, but both were actually very similar. They both had the two "MCAT favorite" passages -- one on kidney function and one on bone resorbtion. I always wondered why MCAT was so obsessed with bone resorbtion.....

I'm hoping for a verbal like 8 on the real thing, and don't forget -- one of the passages might be a test passage too. I usually tank one of the passages -- hopefully that's the one I tank on Sat.!

Good Luck All,

Jota
 
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I'm hoping for a verbal like 8 on the real thing, and don't forget -- one of the passages might be a test passage too. I usually tank one of the passages -- hopefully that's the one I tank on Sat.!

Sorry for my ignorance, but what are "test passages"- I thought they were a myth?
 
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tennisguy896 said:
I'm hoping for a verbal like 8 on the real thing, and don't forget -- one of the passages might be a test passage too. I usually tank one of the passages -- hopefully that's the one I tank on Sat.!

Sorry for my ignorance, but what are "test passages"- I thought they were a myth?
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http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/about/faqs.htm#questions
 
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tennisguy896 said:
Wow- never knew that! But those are only "test questions" right, not whole passages? So how many graded questions are there in each section then? Are there only one or two test questions or more? Thanks!
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Yeah, but in VR, there are no independent questions. I think it would be highly unlikely that they would keep the passages the same from test to test and just tweak the questions, but, of course it's possible.

As far as how many -- no one knows...
 
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PS 11, VR 9 BS 10

I wasn't really worried about the verbal this whole time, but now I'm realizing that if I do any worse, it could really bring me down. I felt that the first half of the verbal passages were interesting and the second half were pretty much unbearable. And even after I read through the answers, there are some passages where I still don't know what 'the author's main point" is, or any point for that matter.

The bio was harder than I anticipated having read these posts, and I thought I did terribly, but I'm okay with a ten. The PS had some really simple questions, but there were a few that stood out in my mind that seemed to come from nowhere.
 
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I don't know if I just got unlucky with the subject matter, but the PS on 9 made me feel dumber than any other practice test I've taken. I thought it was really unfair.
 
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Scratch that. Just looked at what I got wrong. Definitely just burned out. That's it for passages for me. Need rest and basic equation review.
 
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i'm happy with my score on 9 (31 - 11 PS, 9 VR, 11 BS). i would like to bring up the VR to match the other sections for a rounded out score, but i think it totally depends on what i see on saturday. i've had 11s, 10s, and 9s in verbal, and it totally depends on the passages. i haven't yet decided if i want to do another EK VR test before saturday. i think it might just throw me off. plus, i'd rather focus on reviewing past exams and reviewing basic equations.

good luck everyone!
 
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I'm stuck on a 30. For the past four AAMC tests (5,7,8,9) , all I can get are 10/10/10!!! Why? I really want to beat this score, but I'm stuck! Any suggestions as to what I can do within a week???
 
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I got 15PS 11 VR 15BS on CBT-9, and 14PS 13VR 14BS on CBT-8

Overall I think the verbal on 9 was harder than 8, but everything else was easier
 
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I actually liked the verbal more on 9 than 8, but I think that's because I tried a new focusing strategy. I found PS and BS easier on 8, and VR easier on 9. In my opinion, though, it's all about what areas are your strongest. For example, molecular and Mendelian genetics are by far my strongest points in BS, but they were barely even tested an AAMC 9's BS. Had there been a passage in genetics I probably would have scored at least a point higher.

AAMC 8-CBT: 10/10/10 = 30
AAMC 9-CBT: 10/11/9 = 30


30 either way, but I was much closer to a higher score on CBT 8 than 9 (one question away in each section).
 
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