Does it Worth to spend time on TPR Full Length Book?

[huseyin]

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Hey Guys:

I was plaaning to take one of that practice tests today. I normally score pretty good in sciences. However, it seems like these practice tests are significantly harder? What do you guys think? Does it woth the time?

 

[tmarsh]

The PS and Bio sections are harder but still offer good practice which you can never get enough of. The verbal sections are fairly accurate as to the difficulty of the MCAT verbal. Doing the tests and thouroughly reviewing missed answers will only increase your score. Make sure to do all the homework as well and you wont dissappoint on test day. Good luck 👍

 

[huseyin]

The PS and Bio sections are harder but still offer good practice which you can never get enough of. The verbal sections are fairly accurate as to the difficulty of the MCAT verbal. Doing the tests and thouroughly reviewing missed answers will only increase your score. Make sure to do all the homework as well and you wont dissappoint on test day. Good luck 👍

thanks a lot. You addressed a very good point. I was thinking that their verbal section was hard however it seems like KAplan ones are too easy. I keep getting 10-11 in the Kaplan ones. On the other hand, the verbal part of Practice A-D really really hurt me last night.🙁

 

[jintonic5]

phew i thought i was going crazy! i took a TPR full length and got my @$$ kicked! glad to know that it's not just me.

 

[Shredder]

just took 3R after getting used to TPR material. conclusion: aamc is a joke compared to princeton, im very optimistic now. if you start doing pretty well on TPR tests you may literally laugh at some of the aamc questions as you finish well under time. this applies to all sections. unlike TPR verbal, you can actually understand all of the verbal passages fairly well and not as if they were written in another language. my total score rose over 5 points and now im just waiting to get the real deal over with. see if you can use someones e-mcat account if you need a confidence booster, and its better practice using the real ones anyway.

 

[frankrizzo18]

Shredder, I am back to call you a dummy again. You were stressing over earning a 34 on TPR tests? Then you took AAMC 3R and you earned five point higher, 39. Sounds like you have been upgraded from dummy to complete idiot and liar!! I would recommend not getting overwhelmed by Shredder's testimonies!! He clearly does not tell the truth!!

just took 3R after getting used to TPR material. conclusion: aamc is a joke compared to princeton, im very optimistic now. if you start doing pretty well on TPR tests you may literally laugh at some of the aamc questions as you finish well under time. this applies to all sections. unlike TPR verbal, you can actually understand all of the verbal passages fairly well and not as if they were written in another language. my total score rose over 5 points and now im just waiting to get the real deal over with. see if you can use someones e-mcat account if you need a confidence booster, and its better practice using the real ones anyway.

 

[mddre]

just took 3R after getting used to TPR material. conclusion: aamc is a joke compared to princeton, im very optimistic now. if you start doing pretty well on TPR tests you may literally laugh at some of the aamc questions as you finish well under time. this applies to all sections. unlike TPR verbal, you can actually understand all of the verbal passages fairly well and not as if they were written in another language. my total score rose over 5 points and now im just waiting to get the real deal over with. see if you can use someones e-mcat account if you need a confidence booster, and its better practice using the real ones anyway.

That AAMC III test is ten years old. MCAT has changed a lot over the past ten years. Spend your time wisely and take more recent MCAT's, so you wont' have a false sense of confidence.

 

[Shredder]

That AAMC III test is ten years old. MCAT has changed a lot over the past ten years. Spend your time wisely and take more recent MCAT's, so you wont' have a false sense of confidence.

agreed, could've been a fluke, can't get complacent, continuing to study and taking 4R today. ive always thought standardized tests get harder over the years simply due to human evolution. or maybe better teaching techniques and technology, but maybe partially because of evolving humans, just like record breaking in sports. however, the aamc site does state

"The current offerings of MCAT Practice Tests were administered as "live" forms in the mid 1990's through 2000. The dates they were administered, however, is really not important. Each test is representative of the current MCAT, updated with the 2003 changes and revised scoring tables. Because they are all authentic MCATs, they are all good examples of MCATs."

of course there may be some sales involved in this. frankrizzo, i dont see who is lying about anything. i decided to cite a differential to avoid sounding flamboyant, but i actually did even better after correcting two careless errors (took it online, nonstop, and hurriedly, so i figured it was justified enough). the point was that the level of difficulty was glaringly easier than tpr tests, but ill have to see the other aamc tests.

hey, is sdn getting overloaded and going a lot slower, or is it just my computer? i know there is a lot of match traffic of late.

 

[Shredder]

4R was significantly harder than 3R. Anybody know how the rest compare?

 

[gujuDoc]

4R was significantly harder than 3R. Anybody know how the rest compare?

I took all 5 aamc tests, and will say that 3R is the easiest one which is probably why it is the ONLY FREE test offered by aamc.

Anyhow, I believe that test 4R and test 7 were more representative of the level of difficulty of the real test. Test 7 was an actual MCAT, not revised test like 3R, 4R, 5R, and 6R.

It is also the most recent practice test released by the aamc. Its level of difficulty was harder than the real MCAT I took in August 2004, and its verbal was by far the hardest Verbal from any practice test I have taken. That is taking into account that I have not done tests A-D.

Tests A-D are much harder from what I hear than other tests. I will be taking them soon as well as 4941, 4951 and 4961.

Anyhow, hope that helps you. If you are averaging 34's and above right now, after having taken 3 or 4 practice tests, and 39 on 3R, then I'm sure you'll be getting a 35 or above on the real deal. Take test 4R and 7 and those should give you a real indicator of where you stand for real test day in my opinion.

Also, in my opinion in terms of level of difficulty, the aamc tests rank from easiest to highest as follows:

3r easiest
5r/6r slightly harder than 3r. Involves a bit of math.
4r slightly harder than 5r/6r
7 hardest


Hope that helps.

 

[Shredder]

thanks yeah that does help. so thats what R stands for. yeah a-d are supposed to be notoriously difficult--they only scale up to 12 per section, i dont know whats the deal with that. 3r easiest and free, that makes sense, i guess they want to encourage a bunch of hopeful, borderline, and broke premeds to spend money on the seemingly easy mcat. 35 no problem, 40 wouldve been pretty sweet for show and admissions but ill just have to see 7 in a few weeks. evolution of tests must keep pace with the students, its the only conclusion.

something im learning but stubbornly resisting on verbal--dont think, just look for the answer in the passage somewhere. it appears to be quite the opposite of testing critical thinking skills for the most part, more like suppression of them. its happened to me time after time upon checking answers. can anyone confirm this?

 

[gujuDoc]

thanks yeah that does help. so thats what R stands for. yeah a-d are supposed to be notoriously difficult--they only scale up to 12 per section, i dont know whats the deal with that. 3r easiest and free, that makes sense, i guess they want to encourage a bunch of hopeful, borderline, and broke premeds to spend money on the seemingly easy mcat. 35 no problem, 40 wouldve been pretty sweet for show and admissions but ill just have to see 7 in a few weeks. evolution of tests must keep pace with the students, its the only conclusion.

something im learning but stubbornly resisting on verbal--dont think, just look for the answer in the passage somewhere. it appears to be quite the opposite of testing critical thinking skills for the most part, more like suppression of them. its happened to me time after time upon checking answers. can anyone confirm this?

Funny you should say what you did about verbal. A friend of mine got a 34 on the MCAT this past summer and said to another friend, that that is exactly what she did. She skimmed the passage and then looked at the questions and found them in the passage rather than using the critical analysis that people say to use. I guess whatever works best.

I believe the R means that they were old tests that were revised. Until a few years ago, the verbal section was slightly longer by 5 questions. Not sure about the other sections. But minor changes were made to the tests so they revised it to make it closer to the current format of the test. That is what my understanding is. If you did in the early 20's on your first tpr diag, then I think it is possible to go up by 14 or more points. Generally, it has been a consistent record over the past 3 years that those whom have avg 23 or 24 on the first diag have ended up with 34-37 range after studying and on the real thing. By the way I agree with your theory about the evolution of the MCAT testing.