Difficulty of AAMC exams?

[mdm2fly]

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A request to all of you out there who have taken all the AAMC practice exams:
If you were to rate the difficulty of all the exams from 1-8, from 3R to 10-CBT, how would you rate them?
I'm trying to determine at what time I should take each exam (so that I can take an easy one when I'm burnt out/want to boost my confidence). More importantly, I'm trying to determine how my non-AAMC practice exams compare to the real thing.
To those of you who are retaking the MCAT, which AAMC exams would you say are the closest in difficulty/easiness to the real thing?
Any input would be appreciated GREATLY.
Two more weeks of studying (and hopefully no more than that)!!!!

 

[Anastasis]

There has been tons of discussion about this in the past and I think the answer varies from person to person.

My personal opinion:
3r is the easiest.
4r is the hardest.
The ones most like the real thing were 7, 8, & 9. (No 10 when I took it so I can't speak to that one).

 

[Misfit!]

A request to all of you out there who have taken all the AAMC practice exams:
If you were to rate the difficulty of all the exams from 1-8, from 3R to 10-CBT, how would you rate them?
I'm trying to determine at what time I should take each exam (so that I can take an easy one when I'm burnt out/want to boost my confidence). More importantly, I'm trying to determine how my non-AAMC practice exams compare to the real thing.
To those of you who are retaking the MCAT, which AAMC exams would you say are the closest in difficulty/easiness to the real thing?
Any input would be appreciated GREATLY.
Two more weeks of studying (and hopefully no more than that)!!!!

In my opinion, degree of difficulty in ascending order:

3, 6, 5, 9, 7, 4/8 ...can't rate 10 cause I never took it

the newer ones are supposed to be closest to the real thing. From my experience, my August form was unlike anything I had ever taken (and not in a good way - the PS was insane). But format wise, it was closest to 7 and 9 in that the science sections were more passage-based, and bio was very much like verbal.

 

[DrBowtie]

There has been tons of discussion about this in the past and I think the answer varies from person to person.

My personal opinion:
3r is the easiest.
4r is the hardest.
The ones most like the real thing were 7, 8, & 9. (No 10 when I took it so I can't speak to that one).

Ditto!

 

[Anastasis]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=259708
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=308089

Some older threads - hope those help 🙂

 

[estairella]

Personally, in order of decreasing difficulty

4, 5-6, 7-8-9, 3

Dashes represent equivalent difficulties.

 

[Dr. Josh]

Where can I get these tests?

 

[mdm2fly]

Thanks so much!!

I have tests 8,9 in paper format. How different are they from the CBT exams, question-wise? Anyone done both?

You can find these tests on www.e-mcat.com