Cheeeaaaaa, I am doneeee. Just took it today, and I'm done with the beastttt (I hope at least). Tell me what you guys think:
PAT: 22 (97.2%) 🙂
QR: 25 (97.4%) 😀
RC: 19 (53.5%) 👎
Bio: 20 (85.5%) 🙂
GC: 18 (59.1%) 👎
OC: 19 (71.7%) 😎
TS: 19 (73.6%) 😎
AA: 20 (84.0%) 🙂
I hope this is good enough to get me into one of the Cali schools. I'll make a pre-dent profile in a bit so you guys can comment more.
Test:
Bio: Felt pretty easy for the most part, but there were about 4-5 questions that I guessed on, hence my score. It felt easier than Topscore, in the sense that there weren't any crazy taxonomy questions, but the harder questions on the actual test were harder... just not so many of em.
G Chem: Felt really hard, I felt like I had spent too much time on the hard problems in Destroyer and didn't spend enough time on the basics. I'm usually pretty good with this section so I'm sort of surprised at my score. I did feel like it was tough because I got nervous and started forgetting some simple concepts. Overall, disappointed with my score but its ok.
O Chem: Had spent too much time on the G Chem questions, so I was rushing since I had a bunch marked from the previous sciences. Pretty basic, but I think I just made some stupid careless mistakes like I always do.
PAT: Piece of cake, I honestly thought I didn't miss more than 2-3 questions outside of the angles. Angles were HARD!!! I usually spent about 5 minutes on CDP with angles, but the real thing felt harder. I think its because on the real test, they have the angles in 4 boxes and it makes it harder to tell the difference. But I finished a few minutes early and took a 5 minute break before my 15 minute break lol!
RC: No FRAP, no Piano, but I had some eff'ed up ass last passage. I was doing pretty good on the first 2 passages until I got to the last one, and it seriously had like 10 inference/substitute this word/author's tone/thesis type questions. I ran out of time and blindly had to guess on the last 5 questions without even reading. So my advice, don't stick to the 20 min a passage strategy and move as fast as you can, if you can.
QR: I'm pretty good with math, but honestly, it was way easier than I thought it'd be. I was unsure about 2-3 questions which I had marked, and went back over those with like 10 minutes left. I think those are probably the ones I still missed though, but oh well, I'm not complaining.
Overall: I honestly thought I was screwing up so bad in the test, esp after the messed up G Chem section. Midway through the sciences I was already mentally preparing myself for a retake, lol. But it ended up being quite ok in the end.
What I used:
Bio: AP Cliffs, MCAT Hyperlearning, and Destroyer. Went through AP Cliffs and wrote down pretty much word for word, esp the topics I wasn't sure about. Then just memorized my notes, and worked through Destroyer twice. I think all 3 sources helped pretty evenly, and I'm a biochem major so its not so bad. I was doing the worst in bio in Topscore, but it was mainly because of the stupid taxonomy questions in Topscore and some careless mistakes.
G Chem: Kaplan BB, MCAT Hyperlearning, and Destroyer. I went through the 2 review books, took notes a while back. Then recently, went through Destroyer twice, understood most of the questions pretty well in Destroyer so I felt pretty good about this section. But I don't think I paid attention to the minor concepts as much (which were right there in my notes), so I was just that much slower in the test and spent too much time second guessing myself. So my advice, go through Destroyer because it will definitely help with the hard questions. But MAKE SURE you remember to go through the larger concepts and some minor details that don't deal with calculations. I wish I spent more time on that, because I was doing much better in Topscore in G Chem.
O Chem: Kaplan BB, MCAT Hyperlearning, and Destroyer again. Went through it the same way as G Chem. Kaplan BB lays it down pretty well, and Destroyer puts you over the top. I think I was just depressed from G Chem and was pressed for time so I didn't do as well as I could've because again I did better in Topscore in this section. The Roadmaps in Destroyer are awesome, and make sure to review those because it just makes those 3-4 reaction questions reallll easy.
PAT: CDP, did about 6 tests, I started around 17-18 for the first 3 tests or so. Then all of a sudden it started clicking and I think I averaged a 21-22 on tests 4-6 where I stopped because I wanted to spend more time reviewing the sciences. Again, everything was pretty much same at the same difficulty level as CDP, but angles were definitely harder for me. TFE, Keyholes, Patterns were a bit easier. Rest of em were about the same.
RC: Just did 2 Topscore tests.
QR: Went through the Destroyer briefly, and bought the 10 test CDM package but only did about 3 of them. Did most of this like yesterday, lol.
Practice Tests:
Only used Topscore, did just the sciences in all 3 of them. Pretty much in the range of 18-19s with a couple random 20's, but I felt it was mainly due to careless mistakes and thought I'd be able to take care of that when it came to the real thing, but I guess I didn't see that much of a jump in the TS score. I did go through the wrong answers, and wrote down the explanations if I saw something new. Overall, Topscore was harder for Bio (just because of the random questions), G Chem was about the same, O chem felt a bit easier on the real thing.
TS 1: 18
TS 2: 19
TS 3: 19
I studied lightly over winter break, I'd say about 5-6 hours a day for 3 weeks. Then I had to take a break because something came up and started back up hardcore around end of February. With school going it was a bit hard to study in the month of March, but I averaged another 6-7 hours a day. This last week I've hard spring break so I studied about 9-10 hours the days leading up to the test.
So my overall advice, put in the time, there's no way around it. If you do, this test is pretty doable. Good luck everyone!
PAT: 22 (97.2%) 🙂
QR: 25 (97.4%) 😀
RC: 19 (53.5%) 👎
Bio: 20 (85.5%) 🙂
GC: 18 (59.1%) 👎
OC: 19 (71.7%) 😎
TS: 19 (73.6%) 😎
AA: 20 (84.0%) 🙂
I hope this is good enough to get me into one of the Cali schools. I'll make a pre-dent profile in a bit so you guys can comment more.
Test:
Bio: Felt pretty easy for the most part, but there were about 4-5 questions that I guessed on, hence my score. It felt easier than Topscore, in the sense that there weren't any crazy taxonomy questions, but the harder questions on the actual test were harder... just not so many of em.
G Chem: Felt really hard, I felt like I had spent too much time on the hard problems in Destroyer and didn't spend enough time on the basics. I'm usually pretty good with this section so I'm sort of surprised at my score. I did feel like it was tough because I got nervous and started forgetting some simple concepts. Overall, disappointed with my score but its ok.
O Chem: Had spent too much time on the G Chem questions, so I was rushing since I had a bunch marked from the previous sciences. Pretty basic, but I think I just made some stupid careless mistakes like I always do.
PAT: Piece of cake, I honestly thought I didn't miss more than 2-3 questions outside of the angles. Angles were HARD!!! I usually spent about 5 minutes on CDP with angles, but the real thing felt harder. I think its because on the real test, they have the angles in 4 boxes and it makes it harder to tell the difference. But I finished a few minutes early and took a 5 minute break before my 15 minute break lol!
RC: No FRAP, no Piano, but I had some eff'ed up ass last passage. I was doing pretty good on the first 2 passages until I got to the last one, and it seriously had like 10 inference/substitute this word/author's tone/thesis type questions. I ran out of time and blindly had to guess on the last 5 questions without even reading. So my advice, don't stick to the 20 min a passage strategy and move as fast as you can, if you can.
QR: I'm pretty good with math, but honestly, it was way easier than I thought it'd be. I was unsure about 2-3 questions which I had marked, and went back over those with like 10 minutes left. I think those are probably the ones I still missed though, but oh well, I'm not complaining.
Overall: I honestly thought I was screwing up so bad in the test, esp after the messed up G Chem section. Midway through the sciences I was already mentally preparing myself for a retake, lol. But it ended up being quite ok in the end.
What I used:
Bio: AP Cliffs, MCAT Hyperlearning, and Destroyer. Went through AP Cliffs and wrote down pretty much word for word, esp the topics I wasn't sure about. Then just memorized my notes, and worked through Destroyer twice. I think all 3 sources helped pretty evenly, and I'm a biochem major so its not so bad. I was doing the worst in bio in Topscore, but it was mainly because of the stupid taxonomy questions in Topscore and some careless mistakes.
G Chem: Kaplan BB, MCAT Hyperlearning, and Destroyer. I went through the 2 review books, took notes a while back. Then recently, went through Destroyer twice, understood most of the questions pretty well in Destroyer so I felt pretty good about this section. But I don't think I paid attention to the minor concepts as much (which were right there in my notes), so I was just that much slower in the test and spent too much time second guessing myself. So my advice, go through Destroyer because it will definitely help with the hard questions. But MAKE SURE you remember to go through the larger concepts and some minor details that don't deal with calculations. I wish I spent more time on that, because I was doing much better in Topscore in G Chem.
O Chem: Kaplan BB, MCAT Hyperlearning, and Destroyer again. Went through it the same way as G Chem. Kaplan BB lays it down pretty well, and Destroyer puts you over the top. I think I was just depressed from G Chem and was pressed for time so I didn't do as well as I could've because again I did better in Topscore in this section. The Roadmaps in Destroyer are awesome, and make sure to review those because it just makes those 3-4 reaction questions reallll easy.
PAT: CDP, did about 6 tests, I started around 17-18 for the first 3 tests or so. Then all of a sudden it started clicking and I think I averaged a 21-22 on tests 4-6 where I stopped because I wanted to spend more time reviewing the sciences. Again, everything was pretty much same at the same difficulty level as CDP, but angles were definitely harder for me. TFE, Keyholes, Patterns were a bit easier. Rest of em were about the same.
RC: Just did 2 Topscore tests.
QR: Went through the Destroyer briefly, and bought the 10 test CDM package but only did about 3 of them. Did most of this like yesterday, lol.
Practice Tests:
Only used Topscore, did just the sciences in all 3 of them. Pretty much in the range of 18-19s with a couple random 20's, but I felt it was mainly due to careless mistakes and thought I'd be able to take care of that when it came to the real thing, but I guess I didn't see that much of a jump in the TS score. I did go through the wrong answers, and wrote down the explanations if I saw something new. Overall, Topscore was harder for Bio (just because of the random questions), G Chem was about the same, O chem felt a bit easier on the real thing.
TS 1: 18
TS 2: 19
TS 3: 19
I studied lightly over winter break, I'd say about 5-6 hours a day for 3 weeks. Then I had to take a break because something came up and started back up hardcore around end of February. With school going it was a bit hard to study in the month of March, but I averaged another 6-7 hours a day. This last week I've hard spring break so I studied about 9-10 hours the days leading up to the test.
So my overall advice, put in the time, there's no way around it. If you do, this test is pretty doable. Good luck everyone!
