AAMC 9 vs 8

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I got a 33 on AAMC 8 (12PS, 10V, 11BS) and a 34 on AAMC 9 (12PS, 10V, 12BS). I think they were the same level of difficulty.
 
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I didn't really ever notice a jump in difficulty until AAMC 10, and even then it was slight. AAMC 11 had a bigger jump though, although it too wasn't terribly big.

Have you reviewed your test yet? A drop that big means you encountered several weaknesses (or that your previous 37 was a fluke).
 
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OCDOCDOCD said:
I didn't really ever notice a jump in difficulty until AAMC 10, and even then it was slight. AAMC 11 had a bigger jump though, although it too wasn't terribly big.

Have you reviewed your test yet? A drop that big means you encountered several weaknesses (or that your previous 37 was a fluke).
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When you say jump in difficulty, are you referring to AAMC 10 and 11 having more experimental bio passages that require you to interpret information from graphs/tables/etc?
 
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I found them all to be equally difficult. The first test I took was AAMC 11, the last one (yesterday) was AAMC 8. Got a 30N on the AAMC 11 and a 33Q on the AAMC 8. Evem AAMC 10 I pulled off another 30.

As said before, it's all relative.
 
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osprey099 said:
When you say jump in difficulty, are you referring to AAMC 10 and 11 having more experimental bio passages that require you to interpret information from graphs/tables/etc?
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No, just the difficulty of the questions in general seemed to be noticeably harder in those last two tests, although it wasn't a shocking increase in difficulty, just more of a "huh, this isn't as easy as the others" feeling.

While AAMC 11 probably had the most experimental bio, I noticed plenty of the same kind of questions in AAMC 7 and up so I don't know why people say that those questions are only found in AAMC 11.
 
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I got pretty much the same scores on AAMC 8 and 9. I felt that the BS section on 9 was harder, especially the evolution stuff. Usually I finish BS with 10-15 minutes remaining. I was running out of time on 9
 
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SwedishMD2B said:
I got pretty much the same scores on AAMC 8 and 9. I felt that the BS section on 9 was harder, especially the evolution stuff. Usually I finish BS with 10-15 minutes remaining. I was running out of time on 9
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evolution? I got my TPR bio book and I dont recall reading anything on evolution in that...
 
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csx said:
evolution? I got my TPR bio book and I dont recall reading anything on evolution in that...
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Yeah its in there. And if you are using EK Bio book it doesn't cover it enough (or at all really). You will need to use TPR or TBR and read that chapter to cover it.

It's in there, I just read it.
 
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SwedishMD2B said:
Yeah its in there. And if you are using EK Bio book it doesn't cover it enough (or at all really). You will need to use TPR or TBR and read that chapter to cover it.

It's in there, I just read it.
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What chapter??? The most I remember is a paragraph detailing analogous/homologous structures :/

EDIT: nvm..i found it. right where there analogous/homologous stuff is lol. Very short section...I skipped the tables..I feel like they wouldnt test on that.
 
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csx said:
What chapter??? The most I remember is a paragraph detailing analogous/homologous structures :/

EDIT: nvm..i found it. right where there analogous/homologous stuff is lol. Very short section...I skipped the tables..I feel like they wouldnt test on that.
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So far I have seen a few questions on that stuff on each AAMC I took.

However, what was on AAMC 9 was not in that chapter so...
 
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SwedishMD2B said:
So far I have seen a few questions on that stuff on each AAMC I took.

However, what was on AAMC 9 was not in that chapter so...
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You've seen stuff asking about say..chordata which required you to know presence of notochord, hollow dorsal nerve cord, phyangeal gill slits, etc? Just for verification, we are both talking about the stuff found in the tables in the short evolution section, not the paragraphs, correct?
 
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csx said:
You've seen stuff asking about say..chordata which required you to know presence of notochord, hollow dorsal nerve cord, phyangeal gill slits, etc? Just for verification, we are both talking about the stuff found in the tables in the short evolution section, not the paragraphs, correct?
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Yeah but also like different kinds of evolution like convergent divergent, homologous, analogous, speciation, etc.
If you haven't taken the exam I don't want to tell you specifically what the question was.
 
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SwedishMD2B said:
Yeah but also like different kinds of evolution like convergent divergent, homologous, analogous, speciation, etc.
If you haven't taken the exam I don't want to tell you specifically what the question was.
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gotchya. but you saw this on virtually all the exams you took? just for clarification purposes.
 
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SwedishMD2B said:
I got pretty much the same scores on AAMC 8 and 9. I felt that the BS section on 9 was harder, especially the evolution stuff. Usually I finish BS with 10-15 minutes remaining. I was running out of time on 9
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I found the BS on 8 to be extremely easy compared to aamc 5 and 7. I got a 13 on 8, but a 10 on aamc 5 and 7. Do scores fluctuate like this for anyone else?
 
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