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[Sabrina_K]

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🙁 What's worse, not getting in this cycle or never getting in? You can raise your MCAT significantly in a year, not so much in a month.

I'm hoping a tutor will shorten the amount of time needed to improve significantly right?

 

[Kochanie]

I'm hoping a tutor will shorten the amount of time needed to improve significantly right?

Regardless, you're going to improve less significantly in a month versus 8+.

 

[CLE216]

Make sure you're practicing the passages under timed conditions. Most people can get most of the questions right if they take 2x as much time as they will have on the real test.

 

[WildZoo]

Make sure you're practicing the passages under timed conditions. Most people can get most of the questions right if they take 2x as much time as they will have on the real test.

This is what I was going to suggest. Practice tests are not very useful unless you are mimicking the actual testing environment. Give yourself the allotted time you would have on the actual test, and get rid of all distractions while you are simulating taking the test. Otherwise your performance on the practice tests will not be an accurate representation of how you would do on the real thing.

 

[gtbROX]

Either you don't have the competency required to pursue medicine or you didn't study efficiently. If your idea of studying is reading your MCAT book to learn the content or memorize, then that's probably why you did badly.

Hours don't matter.

1 hour of studying for me could be only 15 minutes of studying for another person. It also differs depending on how you study. I used to see many people at libraries with facebook open passively skimming through the textbooks. I also know of people that studied for MCAT simply by trying to memorize facts.

People might disagree with me, but I firmly believe that taking timed practice tests/drills is more important than content review. And when you take practice tests, you can better assess what you need review in, and your review becomes more pointed and efficient (not just aimlessly reading through a review book). In fact, if you actually spent 6 months studying 6 hours a day, you already have enough content review and you should forego the review and just practice until your next MCAT.

When you practice, you also need to review every question and every answer choice until you fully understand why the correct answer choice was correct and why the other answer choices were wrong.

If you truly studied the way I just mentioned and got that score, I would recommend a different field for you. I don't mean to be harsh, but I would not go into a professional school that is expensive and then end up realizing that I don't have the competency to graduate.

 

[jbuc1081]

I improved my verbal score from a 3 to a 9 in one month, so it's not impossible. Really, it depends on what kind of time you have to invest because I spent 5 hours a day reading completely bs articles from New York Times and art magazines. I would time myself reading the article (say, 3.5 minutes) and then I would write a short summary of what I read to see if it made any sense. Over time, what I started to write was very concise and summarized everything perfectly. Typically, I was reading 500-600 words in that 3.5 minutes, too. The problem will become that you have to study for the other two sections in conjunction with the verbal, and nothing constructive can come from double digit hours of studying in a single day.

 

[candbgirl]

It isn't just her verbal score that is the problem. True her verbal score is 4 but the other 2 scores are 6. She has a very long road a head of her to gain >9 points in a few weeks. OP is only focused on starting school next fall. Her tunnel vision could cause catastrophic harm to her long range career goals and she just doesn't see it.

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[DoctorofDelight]

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I don't think Stannis would go back on his word. He doesn't bend.

 

[Kochanie]

It isn't just her verbal score that is the problem. True her verbal score is 4 but the other 2 scores are 6. She has a very long road a head of her to gain >9 points in a few weeks. OP is only focused on starting school next fall. Her tunnel vision could cause catastrophic harm to her long range career goals and she just doesn't see it.

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Some people are stubborn. You can't change their mind no matter how many reasonable things you say. :/ I know, I'm one of them.