AAMC Self Assessments

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I tried to look through the forums for a page that nicely discusses these in depth and what the best way to take them would be, but really could not find much. For those of you who have access to them or are taking them, how are they set up? I heard that in each section the questions go from easy to hard , is this true? If so, how did you all decide to approach this test. Take a couple of passages each day from each section? Or complete the section as a whole? Did you time yourself? Did you mix some easy passages with hard ones for a single setting? In summary, I am just trying to find the most productive way of approaching them. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[tttgo]

I took these awhile ago, so I don't remember exactly. I don't remember there being an order of difficulty. There's a suggested time for each subject (like 1.5hrs). There's also suggested breaks when you're taking them. I did mine in half hour chunks or so spreading each subject over 2 days.I did everything in order.

 

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I took these awhile ago, so I don't remember exactly. I don't remember there being an order of difficulty. There's a suggested time for each subject (like 1.5hrs). There's also suggested breaks when you're taking them. I did mine in half hour chunks or so spreading each subject over 2 days.I did everything in order.

oohhh ok thanks. So when you start it tells you have much time you should be taking on each thing and tells you when you should take a break?

 

[Chalupa Batman]

I did them in hour blocks. this worked out pretty well because an hour gave me enough time to get through about 50 questions which is similar to the actual MCAT.
I went in order and it took about 2-2.5 hours to complete them.

It says to compete them within 3 hours and also take some breaks along the way.

 

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I did them in hour blocks. this worked out pretty well because an hour gave me enough time to get through about 50 questions which is similar to the actual MCAT.
I went in order and it took about 2-2.5 hours to complete them.

It says to compete them within 3 hours and also take some breaks along the way.

did you notice a trend where the questions get harder at the end? specially in the VR section?

 

[Shams al Deen]

The Verbal SA definitely gets significantly harder at the end. The first few passages are all rated "easy" while the last few are all rated hard. The middle passages are a mix. So I just did them out of order in 3 sessions of 60 mins.

 

[Chalupa Batman]

Yes they got difficult near the end, I think they all follow that trend.

 

[AA|FCB|DOC]

The Verbal SA definitely gets significantly harder at the end. The first few passages are all rated "easy" while the last few are all rated hard. The middle passages are a mix. So I just did them out of order in 3 sessions of 60 mins.

Yea I guess ill have to do that too for verbal. Are you doing that for the ther sections too or no? How are you tackling those ones?

 

[Shams al Deen]

Yea I guess ill have to do that too for verbal. Are you doing that for the ther sections too or no? How are you tackling those ones?

There's really no trend for the other subjects that I noticed, so I didn't skip around. I just did 1 subject a day in basically 1 hour sessions. It took me around 3 hours total for each test.

Btw physics was definitely the hardest, the average was in the 50s so they must've taken more hard questions than they did for the other subjects.

 

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yea i bet, i feel like physics is inherently the hardest subject on the test anyway (not counting verbal reasoning)

 

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89% on ochem
99% on Chem
87% on Bio

My scores so far. Found some of the bio one pretty challenging. Is an 87% supposed to equate to like a 12?

 

[moto_za]

Verbal was really hard for me and it killed my confidence.

 

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Verbal was really hard for me and it killed my confidence.

shoot, im about to start on that one right now. Im trying to gauge what a good score is and how these would translate to section scores.