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my rear is still swore from the rape I recieved during the verbal section.
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premyo2002 said:my rear is still swore from the rape I recieved during the verbal section.
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premyo2002 said:Did you have FH??? Verbal was murder
I actually thought the BS section was easy-despite the power outage delay
CanIMakeIt said:I think blz had the same form and he rocked PS and BS
Nuel said:blz,
how many chem and physics passages did you get.
On form DK I had:
5.5 physics and 3.5 chem. The passage on ionization crap was linked with physics some how. Overall PS raped me--too many calculations that had be battling with time--I could solve those problems only if I got like some extra 5 minutes.
I have devised a strategy for August--never do the passages in the order presented. I know this is contrary to EK's philosphy.
blz said:Most calculation based problems can be answered without any calculations at all. Your goal is to discover how. What I have noticed is that the passage helps with this tremendously. Many times a graph, figure, or a line from the text already did the calculations for you or offer enough insight to not have to do calculations at all (or a very minimal amount). Also look at the answer choices, they usually offer a lot of info as well. Another thing that helped me get quicker at calculations is to practice my rounding. If I took a practice exam and I saw I took time on a calculation, I first checked the passage, question stem, and answer choices to see if I could have done it quicker without the work and then if they couldln't help, I redid the problem paying close attention to ways I could have minimized the work. stay confident and you'll do great.
blz said:I had form FK. Dont know if they were the same. Either way, verbal rocked me pretty badly.
here's what FK looked like:
PS - collision with car/truck, optics of eye, combustion reaction, some Cr3+/6+ passage, some Ti passage, some passage on measuring thermocompressibility constant or some crap,
VR- private club/law...a fast food passage, Plato and Aristotle, meteors and stars, Meaning of order, the discovery of New testament or something like that, and some other weird crap.
BS- passage on the nitrogen compounds in the urine of birds, sx1/dsx/tra crap in drisophila, orgo with some terpene furan junk, passage about B/T/and NK immune cells, passage on Cystic Fibrosis,
CanIMakeIt said:Thats what my FH form looked like except that I don't remember the passage about drisophila on BS ..... PS and VR were exactly same
qinnu said:I had FH too.
Verbal is hard. Plato and Aristotle threw me totally into the cloud. The last passage about star, I thought I understood it. Yet the questions lost me again.
le docteur said:I had FG and it sounds identical to all the other F's mentioned on this thread. Did you guys understand the B/T cell immunity passage with the nude rats? It totally threw me off!! The other bio passages were difficult as well I thought.
I was happy about the Plato passage, but other than that VR was a nightmare...
blz said:Oh by the way, what enzymes cause apoptosis? I put caspases through process of elimination because I was pretty sure the other 3 were wrong.
blz said:Oh by the way, what enzymes cause apoptosis? I put caspases through process of elimination because I was pretty sure the other 3 were wrong.
farleyisgod said:What were the other choices on this one?? I can't remember what I put.
For VR, I thought the difficulty was consistent with AAMC 7 with the exception of the last passage about stars... like someone up there said, the passage was straightforward enough, but what the hell were those questions?? And it didn't help that I had 5 minutes to answer the bastards when I usually finish the verbal sections with about 10 minutes to spare.
Physical Sciences was kinda weird. Usually I have a good idea if I did well or not before checking my answers, but a lot of the questions on the real deal were strange... they had more of a Biological Sciences type of feel to them, if that makes any sense. As for BS... ugh. It's my weak section, anyway, but I found myself relying on blind faith for a lot of those questions. Like I've repeated so many times to so many of my friends: I guess we'll find out in June.
Remember -- A good friend will come and bail you out of jail... BUT,a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun"
blz said:I believe the question was like:
What enzymes are responsibile for Programmed cell death?
A) Apoptosis
B) proteases
C) caspases
D) ubiquitins
For the corpus luteum one I put the egg would not be able to implant into the uterine lining (because it would not have been developed). Who knows, I always hated the female menstrual cycle.
Nuel said:I didn't have this, but I would say C. But that is a tough one. Was it standalone?
blz said:I believe the question was like:
What enzymes are responsibile for Programmed cell death?
A) Apoptosis
B) proteases
C) caspases
D) ubiquitins
For the corpus luteum one I put the egg would not be able to implant into the uterine lining (because it would not have been developed). Who knows, I always hated the female menstrual cycle.
premyo2002 said:OK, so this is what I did,
originally saw "programmed cell death" and circled apoptosis without reading the other choices. Then I saw "enzymes" and realized that A) was an attractor for people not reading the WHOLE question-like myself. Then, I realized that ubiquitins and proteases are used together in digesting/killing proteins. So I filled in caspases. Perfect question for POE
jdovez said:Man, that test was something else. I was scoring low mid 30s to high mid 30s on all my practice tests with my strongest being PS and a consistent verbal, but I got wrecked on the real thing. I think I know of at least like 5 PS questions I got wrong already and those are out of the like 6 that I can remember!!!
Does anyone remember what section a question on the polarity of a solvent would be on? Is that BS or PS? Also, what would a point charge do when brought near a metal ball???? Oh and for the life of me I couldnt figure out the pH of acetic acid question.....I know HOW you are supposed to do it, but I cant get it to work out at all....was I missing something from the passage??? I want to block this out, but I keep having questions pop back into my head....it blows (as did the girl next to me during the VR who did not stop underlining for the full 85 minutes, I think she even underlined the question choices!!!!
Frustration is a horrendous thing.
Oh yeah, does anyone remember what a non functioning corpus luteum would cause? The wording was so ambiguous that I really thought 2 choices were potentially right for different reasons depending on the intention of the wording and not the actual wording... any thoughts?
blz said:Yea it was a independent question. I've noticed that the MCAT has gotten a lot more detail based in their independent questions and are throwing out info not in any review book.