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Hi, so I did the MCAT free practice exam #3. My results?

PS: 8
VR: 2
BS: 6

total: 16

I booked my exam for August 2. I'm behind on schedule for BS and PS (day 27/59), but I've been keeping up with schedule for the verbal. (sn2d 3 month MCAT schedule)

I'm panicking! What should I do?? Is this normal? Especially the verbal, seems so extremely low.
 
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timedodyssey said:
Hi, so I did the MCAT free practice exam #3. My results?

PS: 8
VR: 2
BS: 6

total: 16

I booked my exam for August 2. I'm behind on schedule for BS and PS (day 25/7), but I've been keeping up with schedule for the verbal.

I'm panicking! What should I do?? Is this normal? Especially the verbal, seems so extremely low.
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You need many many months of content review/prep to get to where you need to be. Is English your native language? You could probably put C during the whole test and get better than a 2. Delay and apply next cycle.

My first score without prep was a 24 for a reference. There are many that score a few points higher than I did. Read like you've never read before (pump out countless VR passages from EK 101 and read journals ad nauseum).
 
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English is not my native language.

I definitely won't be applying this cycle. But should I delay my test until September?

How should I prepare for the verbal? I've been doing about 6 passages a day.
 
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timedodyssey said:
English is not my native language.

I definitely won't be applying this cycle. But should I delay my test until September?

How should I prepare for the verbal? I've been doing about 6 passages a day.
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I might even take it early next year since you are not taking it for this cycle. Initial take can be in January and then have April as a possible retake month. Use this fall to own all PS and BS subjects. Read and then reread all TBR chapters. Work as many problems as possible. Do EK 101 verbal, TPR Verbal, read the WSJ/Economist etc. Take all AAMCs and then take in Jan 2014.
 
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One thing to keep I'm mind, make sure you don't run out of the verbal material. This is very important.
 
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ericd8 said:
This literally just happened to me taking AAMC practice 9.. still scored a 12 on verbal though, after guessing on an entire humanities passage.
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Haha that's awesome. Good job. What I meant though was to not run out of practice passages too early before your test 😉
 
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hmmm if you arent applying till next cycle I would hold off on the test, maybe even until next winter or spring. This is a really important test that you dont want to have to take again and also if you have the time i think it's better to study more than rush yourself. I got a 23 on my first diagnostic as a reference point as well but ended up with a much better score so dont get discouraged!
 
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postbacpremed87 said:
You need many many months of content review/prep to get to where you need to be. Is English your native language? You could probably put C during the whole test and get better than a 2. Delay and apply next cycle.

My first score without prep was a 24 for a reference. There are many that score a few points higher than I did. Read like you've never read before (pump out countless VR passages from EK 101 and read journals ad nauseum).
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Try it... I guarantee that you'll get a 1.
 
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OP please wait till next spring. Verbal is not the easiest to raise, although not at all impossible. Save EK 101 and AAMC VR self-assessment till closer to your exam.
 
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timedodyssey said:
English is not my native language.

I definitely won't be applying this cycle. But should I delay my test until September?

How should I prepare for the verbal? I've been doing about 6 passages a day.
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You need to not take the test this year.

You also need to step back and reassess your verbal preparation and STOP using up practice material until you have a better strategy. Look around here for the threads where people talk about how they got their verbal scores up.

Getting a 2 says you have essentially no understanding of what the MCAT questions are asking. Before you do anything else go back through what you've already done and make sure you understanding why the correct answer is not what you chose.
 
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You need to learn English as the AAMC wants to test you. (Not an insult, because the AAMC does not decide how much English you know, yet you need to score high.) Quit taking verbal passages; you'll be wasting precious material.

Hold off and read to understand in every day life like a mofo who has never done it before. Treat it like sex: devour everything in sight. Every day.
 
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inycepoo said:
You need to learn English as the AAMC wants to test you. (Not an insult, because the AAMC does not decide how much English you know, yet you need to score high.) Quit taking verbal passages; you'll be wasting precious material.

Hold off and read to understand in every day life like a mofo who has never done it before. Treat it like sex: devour everything in sight. Every day.
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Hey, so my first AAMC practice test was 5 PS/9 VR/7 BS. This was prior to my starting to study.

My practice average was a 34 prior to taking the exam today. It took literally hundreds upon hundreds of hours of work to get to that average. I'm a re-taker as well and started studying last year so I had a base already.

It sounds like you have a ton of motivation and that should get you over the hurdle of taking the exam as a non-native English speaker. Still though, give yourself time to succeed! There's no reason to shoot yourself in the foot by rushing things, as I learned the hard way. Instead of taking the MCAT this summer, spend the extra time and just start reading everything you can in English. Read news sources like the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic and Nature News for science passages. Read lots of popular non-fiction as well because this trains your brain really well to glean information from passages the way the MCAT wants you to as well. Good luck!
 
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inycepoo said:
You need to learn English as the AAMC wants to test you. (Not an insult, because the AAMC does not decide how much English you know, yet you need to score high.) Quit taking verbal passages; you'll be wasting precious material.

Hold off and read to understand in every day life like a mofo who has never done it before. Treat it like sex: devour everything in sight. Every day.
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Some folks were sweating out yesterday.......This is SDN and we are talking about MCAT.

Damn, how can we top the comment like that......😕

:laugh:🤣🤣🤣😱😀
 
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