Exam Kracker 30 min exam Scores

[fnc54]

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I'm in week 4 of the exam krackers home study plan, and I am having problems with the 30 min exams. I am not really seeing the improvement they say to look for in the books-- I've been consistently getting 13-14 out of 21 on the cars section exams, I've been getting consistent score in biology (3-5 wrong) and on chemistry I did fairly well on the first few but just got 16/23 on lecture 4.

Does anyone have recommendations at this point? My MCAT is April 22nd. Should I try a course instead of reading through the books, or should I just continue with exam krackers?

 

[partypantss]

I'm in week 4 of the exam krackers home study plan, and I am having problems with the 30 min exams. I am not really seeing the improvement they say to look for in the books-- I've been consistently getting 13-14 out of 21 on the cars section exams, I've been getting consistent score in biology (3-5 wrong) and on chemistry I did fairly well on the first few but just got 16/23 on lecture 4.

Does anyone have recommendations at this point? My MCAT is April 22nd. Should I try a course instead of reading through the books, or should I just continue with exam krackers?

Try to figure out where you're going wrong in CARS. Sounds like you're doing fine in the other sections so far.

 

[droidz]

the EK questions are usually the harder ones you'd encounter; as they said themselves it's pointless to give you really easy questions for prep. Obviously it's better to get as high as possible, but I was getting anywhere from 13-19 / 23 for my sciences (unsure about CARS; didn't have time to practice) and ended with a 520. The better gauge would be the official full length practice; people seem to score within 2-3 points of what they get on that one. I personally got 518 when i took it the day before my real exam. good luck 🙂

 

[fnc54]

Try to figure out where you're going wrong in CARS. Sounds like you're doing fine in the other sections so far.

Do you have any tips for CARS? EK stresses main point, which sounds great as I work through the book examples, but so far it's been a struggle getting those tips to work for me under exam conditions (time).

Thanks and Congrats on your acceptances!

 

[partypantss]

Do you have any tips for CARS? EK stresses main point, which sounds great as I work through the book examples, but so far it's been a struggle getting those tips to work for me under exam conditions (time).

Thanks and Congrats on your acceptances!

Biggest things for me were to like you said focus on the main point, big picture stuff. Move quickly, don't get bogged down on the meaning of a word or a hard to understand sentence. Just keep trying to get a good picture of what the main message is and what sort of person the writer is. The most important thing is to practice with MCAT style CARS questions. Learning how to effectively eliminate answers and fine tuning your "instincts" for the right answer will make all the difference.

Frankly, if I'm 100% honest, idk just how much those strategies actually improved my scores though. Possibly by 1 or 2 points, or not, hard to say. I always did pretty well on CARS during practice and ended up with a 129 on the real thing. As many say, CARS can be the most difficult score to improve, it would take a lot of time since it really tests your ability to critically analyse a text and logically think through answer choices. You won't really know just where you stand until you take the full lengths though.

EDIT: also, it is VERY important then when you do official AAMC practice CARS passages, afterword go back and read through every question, every answer and think through it all. Understand why you were wrong and why the right answer is right. Same with questions you got right, make sure you understand why you were right following their logic. This will be the most time consuming part but will be HUGE for helping you reason through the questions.

 

[begoood95]

Do you have any tips for CARS? EK stresses main point, which sounds great as I work through the book examples, but so far it's been a struggle getting those tips to work for me under exam conditions (time).

Thanks and Congrats on your acceptances!

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