Hey guys! Just another typical breakdown here after reading these religiously for the past couple months. My scores were: 22 bio/ 21 gchem/ 26 orgo/ 21 RC/ 20 QR/ 23 PAT.
I'm currently a rising junior with a 3.9 GPA. I studied roughly 2.5 months 6-8hrs 6 days a week. At the beginning I stuck to the schedule provided by bootcamp for review then following the review period it really varied day to day depending on what I felt I was weak on.
Materials:
The basics; bootcamp, destroyer & math destroyer, cliffs bio, feralis, chads videos, and Mike's videos.
Actual exam:
Bio: like everyone says, some super easy questions, then some super random that I would've never expected. I was kinda expecting to do better, but I think nerves really got to me at the beginning of the test. Feralis was absolutely the most needed material for this section. Aside from feralis, I would recommend exposing yourself to as many questions as possible (all bootcamp questions, all destroyer questions, 07 and 09 exams). I have a pretty strong background being a bio major, and I felt this really helped. For the topics I was just learning, I feel repetition helped me the most so I made a tonnn of notecards on various topics. Also, I really regret not utilizing ankis cards.
Chem:
If you utilize destroyer, bootcamp, and chads videos correctly, you will be more than ready for this section. I only went through destroyer once and I regret it, especially for this section. I feel if I went through it more than once I would've scored a lot better because I feel it would've definitely helped with the timing for this section. The questions were really on par with bootcamp, but again the wording on some questions was really odd.
Orgo: I found this section suprisingly easy. I finished it in probably 15 min. For this section destroyer and bootcamp questions are crucial, but I also loved Mike's videos for orgo. I went through the main concepts about a week before my test and felt this helped tremendously.
RC: bootcamp literally saved me for this section. Reading a bunch of different breakdowns it seemed that a common theme was that people would get like 2 articles that were kinda shorter and lighter reading, then one that was a little heavier. NOPPEEE all three I got were 17-20 paragraphs with dense scientific material. Most of the questions were in order though and I only received one tone question so I can't really complain.
QR: Man was I stressed studying for this section. This was easily my worst subject given I had a pretty weak math background. If you have a weak math background, don't stress!! A good score is possible. You have to be strategic in this section. I really focused on getting through the doable questions first, then got through the more time consuming questions (~5 questions) once I finished. Also, no trig!! On the actual test I probably got 10-15 QC questions, no joke. I was super glad though because I found them a lot easier than the ones on bootcamp, actually pretty on par with the ones destroyer provided. Also, the explanations on bootcamp were crucial.
PAT: bootcamp is the bomb for this section. I would def recommend starting early and being consistent with practice. I thought everything on the actual was on par w bootcamp or easier, with the exception of keyholes and angle ranking. There were probably 3 keyholes where I literally guessed after looking at them for 20 seconds for the sake of time. There were also probably 3 angle questions where I marked and looked at twice because the angles were so similar.
It's was a rough couple of months but completely worth it, any suggestions on non NY states that are out of state friendly?
I'm currently a rising junior with a 3.9 GPA. I studied roughly 2.5 months 6-8hrs 6 days a week. At the beginning I stuck to the schedule provided by bootcamp for review then following the review period it really varied day to day depending on what I felt I was weak on.
Materials:
The basics; bootcamp, destroyer & math destroyer, cliffs bio, feralis, chads videos, and Mike's videos.
Actual exam:
Bio: like everyone says, some super easy questions, then some super random that I would've never expected. I was kinda expecting to do better, but I think nerves really got to me at the beginning of the test. Feralis was absolutely the most needed material for this section. Aside from feralis, I would recommend exposing yourself to as many questions as possible (all bootcamp questions, all destroyer questions, 07 and 09 exams). I have a pretty strong background being a bio major, and I felt this really helped. For the topics I was just learning, I feel repetition helped me the most so I made a tonnn of notecards on various topics. Also, I really regret not utilizing ankis cards.
Chem:
If you utilize destroyer, bootcamp, and chads videos correctly, you will be more than ready for this section. I only went through destroyer once and I regret it, especially for this section. I feel if I went through it more than once I would've scored a lot better because I feel it would've definitely helped with the timing for this section. The questions were really on par with bootcamp, but again the wording on some questions was really odd.
Orgo: I found this section suprisingly easy. I finished it in probably 15 min. For this section destroyer and bootcamp questions are crucial, but I also loved Mike's videos for orgo. I went through the main concepts about a week before my test and felt this helped tremendously.
RC: bootcamp literally saved me for this section. Reading a bunch of different breakdowns it seemed that a common theme was that people would get like 2 articles that were kinda shorter and lighter reading, then one that was a little heavier. NOPPEEE all three I got were 17-20 paragraphs with dense scientific material. Most of the questions were in order though and I only received one tone question so I can't really complain.
QR: Man was I stressed studying for this section. This was easily my worst subject given I had a pretty weak math background. If you have a weak math background, don't stress!! A good score is possible. You have to be strategic in this section. I really focused on getting through the doable questions first, then got through the more time consuming questions (~5 questions) once I finished. Also, no trig!! On the actual test I probably got 10-15 QC questions, no joke. I was super glad though because I found them a lot easier than the ones on bootcamp, actually pretty on par with the ones destroyer provided. Also, the explanations on bootcamp were crucial.
PAT: bootcamp is the bomb for this section. I would def recommend starting early and being consistent with practice. I thought everything on the actual was on par w bootcamp or easier, with the exception of keyholes and angle ranking. There were probably 3 keyholes where I literally guessed after looking at them for 20 seconds for the sake of time. There were also probably 3 angle questions where I marked and looked at twice because the angles were so similar.
It's was a rough couple of months but completely worth it, any suggestions on non NY states that are out of state friendly?
You will be a competitive applicant.
