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Here is my experience. Scored AAMC taken 6 days before April 1.
125/124/127/127 -503 (taken in a distracting environment)
Real thing:
128/123/130/126 -507 (nice testing conditions) my verbal on the Sample was 81% on CARS, taken in early March and EK 4&3 approx 65-70% CARS. I was shocked at both the 124 and the 123.
I felt the verbal on the real thing was easy, but my score was low! I felt c/p was hard, I did well. You just never know. Scores and perceptions of how hard it was don't correlate. I feel like I could have pulled a 127 on CARS after I walked out. Shocked at 123. My timing was down perfect.
125/124/127/127 -503 (taken in a distracting environment)
Real thing:
128/123/130/126 -507 (nice testing conditions) my verbal on the Sample was 81% on CARS, taken in early March and EK 4&3 approx 65-70% CARS. I was shocked at both the 124 and the 123.
I felt the verbal on the real thing was easy, but my score was low! I felt c/p was hard, I did well. You just never know. Scores and perceptions of how hard it was don't correlate. I feel like I could have pulled a 127 on CARS after I walked out. Shocked at 123. My timing was down perfect.
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Practice taken 1 week before:
512 || 128/130/128/126
Real test:
516 || 127/130/129/130
I thought it was fairly similar difficulty. There was more content in the CP section that I just didn't know. I thought the social science section had a bit more "critical thinking" than the practice, so wouldn't be surprised if people's CARS and social science sections correlate loosely. That made that section seem easier to me.
512 || 128/130/128/126
Real test:
516 || 127/130/129/130
I thought it was fairly similar difficulty. There was more content in the CP section that I just didn't know. I thought the social science section had a bit more "critical thinking" than the practice, so wouldn't be surprised if people's CARS and social science sections correlate loosely. That made that section seem easier to me.
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I was very pleasantly surprised with my score. I had only started studying from late January, and only during odd hours before or after work so I really wasn't expecting to do so well. But I scored a 515 (129 Chem/Physical, 128 CARS, 128 Bio/Biochem, and 130 Psych/Soc) on the AAMC practice exam taken just a few days before the exam (that was the only practice exam that I had the chance to take.. that's how short I was on time). Then on the actual exam I even more surprisingly did very well and scored a 521 (131 Chem/Physical, 130 CARS, 129 Bio/Biochem, and 131 Psych/Soc).
Personally felt the practice exam was a little more difficult (more vague wordings in answer choices, etc.) than the real one.
Personally felt the practice exam was a little more difficult (more vague wordings in answer choices, etc.) than the real one.
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73% overall on practice FL
502 on scored FL
508 on the real deal.
502 on scored FL
508 on the real deal.
