ahhhh thank you guys so much for the positive feedback. its tough on this site to feel good because most of the scores posted are by people who destroy the exam; not saying that in a negative way at all, most of those scores are wicked impressive and those kids should be proud as hell, its just difficult to set a norm to that lol.
so i only did kaplan, nothing else because i just didn't have the time and i really liked my kaplan course. i seriously did every single thing on that kaplan course; every workshop, every quiz, every exam...everything i could. i did the practice sections 3+ times to review information. i really, really, really suggest doing the PAT section tests and practice things multiple times to get the swing of things and to train your eyes. I loved PAT, I've always thought it was a lot of fun, but if you do those PAT practice things over and over you'll find patterns and know how to really rank those angles because the real angle ranking is not kind. With regards to my other scores on the midterm and 3 other tests, midterm I wasn't happy with, it was ok. I did better on the 1st test, went up in a few sections and down in a few on the 2nd test, found the 3rd test to be the hardest and did the same as the 1st and got really frustrated and then did decent on the final. My final were my highest scores of all the three (minus i got a 25 on the 1st in PAT) and then I went up in most things on the real thing. QR is MUCH easier on the real thing when compared to Kaplan, which was a breath of fresh air; i finished the section 12 minutes early. I'm a fast test taker but I finished the sections of the real exam 5-7 minutes faster than the Kaplan test.
I know people kick the poo out of Kaplan on this site and I know its expensive and that part of it sucks, but I really loved the Kaplan system, it kept me motivated, taught me things I never really understood before and have an excellent system of teaching you the information in specific order so that you really learn them and they all gel together in the end. I highly recommend Kaplan if you need a schedule to keep you in line and are willing to do all the work the course offers. My scores aren't amazing but I definitely couldn't have scored this high without kaplan; genchem and ochem finally made sense lol. anywho good luck to everyone, there is freedom after the test. All I did the day after was watch swamp people, khloe and lamar, parks and rec and fight club and basically kill a wheel of brie. never cared less about being a p.o.s.
