Easiest Section to Improve

[jspier1]

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Just wondering what everyone thinks is the easiest section to raise. I personally think BS is easiest, then VR, and lastly PS.

 

[rjns11]

Ps

 

[Enoko]

Depends on where you are, pointwise. For example anyone can "improve" up to a 8 or 9 in Verbal in about 2 hours after reading the EK guide to verbal. So if you are scoring 6's across the board its easiest to improve in Verbal and get that up to a 9 or 10. However improving your Verbal score from a 10 up to a 14 is, in all practical purposes, an impossible thing to do unless you are just born a Verbal God.

If you are already getting 9's across the board, PS is pretty easy to improve from to a 11 or 12. It is mostly just concepts and formulas. I mean really, I could summarize the entire swath of physics knowledge covered by the MCAT in about 10 pages of notes. Compared to the massive amount of knowledge demanded from BS, the PS section is pretty easy to improve a 12 or so, its nothing that 3 weeks of time and a good review book can't fix.

Now lets say you are getting 11s in each section. Here is where BS is the easiest to improve. BS is easiest to improve for perfectionists because there is a set, finite amount of stuff that can be tested. If you really studied you could easily get to the point where you would know the answer to every single question that could be asked. It's just a lot of memorizing, but getting a 15 in BS seems feasible if you have the time. Getting a 15 in PS is harder because you can't really study for it once you get to a certain point. The really hard PS questions are just intuitive and working on with new formulas that are shown to you. That is harder to study for if you are aiming for the teens.


So yea. Verbal is easiest to improve to a 10, PS is easiest to get from a 10 to a 12/13 and BS is easiest to get from low teens to a 15 👍

 

[gatewasani]

From personal experience,

I think verbal is probably the easiest to improve (given, you're not scoring very high)

then P.S. b.c u can get better at doing mental math, rounding, finding answers in passages. etc...

and for me B.S. is by far the hardest to improve because there is so much weird bio stuff that they expect you to know.

thats just what I personally think

 

[plzNOCarribbean]

I think PS is the easiest to improve. Then verbal, especially if you are doing terrible at first. But by far, PS is easiest because once you know ALL of the equations they expect you to know, and have an understanding of the relationship between the equations and can see trends, you will improve significantly in the PS.

 

[loua0731]

IMO, BS. It's mostly memorizing!

 

[Silverfalcon]

Depends on where you are, pointwise. For example anyone can "improve" up to a 8 or 9 in Verbal in about 2 hours after reading the EK guide to verbal. So if you are scoring 6's across the board its easiest to improve in Verbal and get that up to a 9 or 10.

I have no idea in the world how you came up with such a blunt assertion. You don't simply improve on Verbal by "reading about 2 hours" of ANYTHING. Honestly, you don't - unless you never took a Verbal before and just tried out a different strategy and it just worked by sheer luck.

I strongly think that Verbal is the most difficult section to improve because unlike sciences section, it's not content-based. You can't "prep" as in memorize equations or solve problems to suddenly step further into the Verbal. This section is difficult to improve - and unless you have been an avid reader, you don't simply improve by changing a strategy. You don't - and if you don't believe me, read through thousands of posts (there have been so much honestly) on how to reach 10 in Verbal.

 

[MightyMoose]

Ps

Hands down.


OP, if you look on AAMC's website you can see MCAT retake scores and the section with the largest improvement is PS. It's just learning the concepts and formulas.

 

[jspier1]

bump

 

[MLT2MT2DO]

Whatever you're scoring the lowest in...