F*uk Verbal!!

[mosfet]

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Dude,
What was UP with that verbal? If there is any reason why won't get into med school, its gonna be the verbal score. The passages weren't as hard.....but they were long and the questions were whacked.

 

[anurac]

Verbal is supposed to be my strong suit....guess is wasn't today....oh how it kicked my sorry ass....
Form EK sucked ass. Anyone else feel the same?

 

[MUN2005]

I agree 100%. I was getting 9s and 10s on verbal...apparantly until today. Brutal.

 

[maygirl]

I feel your pain....Everyone keeps telling me, "Don't worry, there's a curve."....but for some reason, I don't think I'll be scoring anything above a 8.

 

[Columbia22]

Count me in, my ass is still sore

 

[Selisa]

oh holy crap.... what the hell was that????! i'll be lucky if i get an 8...and i'll be on my knees, thanking whatever freak of nature if i get a 9...

 

[Columbia22]

id milk a cow with my mouth if i got a 9

 

[mosfet]

Did you guys get to finish all the passages. I just christmas treed the last 10 questions....I hope the last pssage is experimental. I had form CK.

 

[enamine]

I agree. I have never seen a verbal section so difficult. Verbal is the section I was LEAST worried about going into the test. I'm usually really good at verbal, but half the time I didn't have a clue what they were talking about and all the answers seemed equally correct.

 

[MUN2005]

Originally posted by Columbia22
id milk a cow with my mouth if i got a 9

Haha...I'm with ya there. Let's keep in touch and see what happens

 

[cad_15]

This exam was....................................they do not want anybody to get into medschool this year.
What the H....was this exam?

 

[Deepak_nc]

no ****
form bg
verbal was hard as ****...
i kicked ps's ass..
bio kinda threw me for a spin....
lots of orgo and some crazy gene expression questions

 

[sgilani]

as if verbal on my test wasn't hard enuf (form AK) some a$$hole pulled the fire alarm (anyone else here take it at queens college) as a prank and it went off smack in the middle of verbal... sounds, blinking lights for 5+ mins. and that was followed by police and fire engine sirens.
if i ever find that jerk he's gonna milk f-in cows with his mouth for the rest of his life.

 

[Columbia22]

ya, i was at queens college also, lol, damn bastards...im def reporting that just for the hell of it

 

[wgu]

humanities passages were hard, I wish they left it till the end. Did people get two poetry passages in a row?

 

[Columbia22]

I didnt even understand the passage about the Heartland, what the frick?????

 

[sgilani]

dude heartland passage was such a lost cause.
yeah my suggestion to everyone at queens college is report to freaking aamc b/c our proctor reported it, so we have someone backing us up. who knows if it'll do anything but it can't hurt to try.

 

[Columbia22]

hopefully they can give us an extra 4 pts on the verbal, making the average score a 7

 

[medboy]

Heartland!?! So that was the subject...I kept misreading it has "You suck and you're verbal score will suck and you suck more... you idiot"

 

[uthopeful]

Verbal Sucked!!!!

I had form EM, did anyone else have this form, what did you think of verabl?

There seemed a lot of questions where two answers seemed right (much more than the normal).

I am praying for an 8, I was getting 10's on my last few practice tests, but there is no way in hell I will get a 10.

 

[Rippey]

Originally posted by Columbia22
I didnt even understand the passage about the Heartland, what the frick?????

Same here... totally confused the hell out of me.

VR rapes me every time *sigh*

 

[anhoi]

omg...the verbal was so difficult...i've been getting pretty high verbal scores but this one...was different....form BS

 

[chikantikka]

damn, there better be a curve for this mofo...

i def took verbal up the A$$

... im just hoping that the passage with ten questions were all B's 😛

 

[ScoobySnack]

Fu*k Vrebal!

 

[rager1]

Oh yeah, Verbal was hard. Really Hard.

Verbal has always been my strongest section and I've been averaging pretty high on my practice tests in this section. But after this test, I can totally see myself getting screwed into the lower 1 digits.

Ditto on the heartland passage. What the hell was with those questions?

I had Malthus, Justice, Acid Rain, Americans frustrated with Politics: Conservative vs. Liberals, heartland, rap music, and 3 others that I can't remember right now.

Rager1

 

[Mccarey]

I just hated the fact that they gave the most questions to the most difficult passages. So if you didn't understand the killer passage, you would have to kiss 10questions goodbye and guess. Hope there were lots of Bs in that passage

 

[FenderB2004]

VERBAL SUCKED....man i was just guessing on that thoreau passage...i spent so much time trying to understand it, and then i coudln't even understand the questions, so i just guessed...holllyyyy crap, i swear reading the questions took longer than reading the passage

 

[StanSteel]

Yes verbal was freakin hard.

The passage about Justice OMG WTF ???

 

[wgu]

Originally posted by Mccarey
I just hated the fact that they gave the most questions to the most difficult passages. So if you didn't understand the killer passage, you would have to kiss 10questions goodbye and guess. Hope there were lots of Bs in that passage

Hard, long, and in consecutive order. It was like they were trying to break down your morale with a swift blow

 

[fonzy]

Guys, if it was so tough and majority of the test takers have not fared well, the scores will be scaled accordingly. It is all relative.
So.....🙂

 

[peterockduke]

Both of my friends thought it was pretty tough ...
I really didn't think it was all that bad... There were 5-10 questions I was 50/50 on, but otherwise I thought I did OK.

I had form AG. As always, I thought the passages were fairly doable, but the questions were worded poorly. There was quite a bit of humanities, and if I understand the passage I usually get ~80%+ correct. I swear my version didn't have ONE real science passage... which sucks because I think I've missed 3 total science questions on aamc's 3r-6r.

The heartland passage wasn't the worst thing in the world, you just had to get through what the guy was emphasizing. I had to read a lot of similar bull**** in high school World History. It was NOT easy, but it was doable. It may have been the hardest passge however.

I liked the threshold theory essay - very doable. My roommate is a nut for alternative medicine and pesticides = evil so it basically just repeated all of his propaganda.

Malthus /cruelty/Christianity essay was really pushing the realms of organizatoin, but the quesitons were cool.


The article on cultural misappropriation was ****ing KICKASS! I took a class on black intellectual history, and I seriously had to read ~100 pages on the co-opting of innercity art forms.


I ave. an 11 on verbal and if I had to guess I would say I got an 11-12. A 12 would really be nice for this chem major. I just skimmed the oral tradition passage and I had to rush the first 2 questions, I know I had it to 50/50 at least. I literally had to fill in the last bubble 4 seconds after the proctor said "STOP, PENCILS DOWN!" Doesn't it feel good just to be done?

 

[Jon Davis]

VERBAL WAS TOUGHER THAN ANYTHING I"VE PRACTICED WITH!!!! What the hell?!?!?!?! I was cruisin through the first passage about Rap, and then I hit the questions, WTF???? Then I fell behind about 3 mins, wow, that hurts. So basically I found myself reading/skimming passages and going off the feel of the paragraph in question to answer the questions. Not the way I wanted it but, it was the best I could do. I'm praying for a 9. If I get a 9, I'm doing cartwheels up and down my block, NUDE! Well, I'm kind of comforted by the fact that the upper level students/more serious students (us at SDN) had trouble with it, so I suppose that we MAY have done better than the average Joe. Well, I hope everyone gets the score they want in VR. Id hate to do it again just because of VR! If I have to in April, Im gonna study like mad and just DESTROY IT next time. I pledge this in front of all of you here today! And the power situation, boy did we have a crazy time at the test center! Thats another story that I will share with you later.
Have a good one, Jon D.

 

[Jamaican MD]

I was disappointed that I was getting 11s in verbal when I did like 15 practice exams. . .I'd be lucky to get a 9 on the real thing!

It was ridiculously hard yesterday!

 

[rmp]

Hi guys!

That passage about the Heartland was ridiculous!!! What in the world was it talking about!!! I definately wasted too much time on that passage! I'm with the previous poster I almost willing to milk a cow with my mouth for a 9 on verbal 🙂

But I have faith in the man upstairs that he will bless me.

 

[el cheapo]

Originally posted by peterockduke
Doesn't it feel good just to be done?

No

I'm not gonna feel good until I get my score.
And that's no guarantee, either.

 

[Nakhrewali]

I agree el cheapo--I thought I'd be completely relieved after the test but I'm super anxious and worried now. Right when they called time for Bio, my head began THROBBING... I had a headache until I got to the wedding reception I had to be at and chugged a nice glass of white wine... ahhhh alcohol will keep me sane until I get that ****n score. I had a dream last night that I got a 1, 1, 1. Now is that possible?

 

[onlyme]

1,1,1 - Is it possible? I think so.

I also had a dream about my Mcat score, however, I dreamed that I did much better than I had anticipated. I hope that's a sign!!!!! 😀

 

[farleyisgod]

I was driving to the test center, and I swear all of the speed limit signs were either 35 or 40 mph, so I thought, "Maybe this is a good omen."

And then I pulled in and the sign said, "20 mph, Strictly Enforced."

🙁

 

[Dr. Don]

hello people, I agree with the op of this thread...f-ck VERBAL!!! I have been rejected to med school because of my verbal score!!!! Everything else is fine.... quite depressing to be honest with you. I was wondering if all of you actually finished the verbal section? meaning did you all read all nine passages and answered all the questions with at least some understanding of the damn thing!!!? I actually finished 7 passages with a good understanding of them (I think, I hope). Read passage 8, answered half of the questions, then had to bubble in b for the rest and all of passage 9 (didn't even read it 🙁 ) due to lack of time, so how was the verbal experience for all of you? take care and best of luck to everyone!!!

 

[ashkan33]

i hear you on that. i feel that if i don't get into medschool it will be solely cuz of verbal. last time i took it, i didn't finish(~8 passages). i made a point to finish this time, however. my accuracy sucks d!ck so with me it's one of those things where i have to give myself as many chances as possible. understanding the passages.....? well, i understand as much as i can. there are just certain things i will never get. Example: what the fu&k was the author's opinion in the disctring voting passage? i needed it for several of the questions and i just could not find it. anyways....good luck.

 

[mosfet]

Originally posted by Dr. Don
hello people, I agree with the op of this thread...f-ck VERBAL!!! I have been rejected to med school because of my verbal score!!!! Everything else is fine.... quite depressing to be honest with you. I was wondering if all of you actually finished the verbal section? meaning did you all read all nine passages and answered all the questions with at least some understanding of the damn thing!!!? I actually finished 7 passages with a good understanding of them (I think, I hope). Read passage 8, answered half of the questions, then had to bubble in b for the rest and all of passage 9 (didn't even read it 🙁 ) due to lack of time, so how was the verbal experience for all of you? take care and best of luck to everyone!!!

I did the same thing. Finished only 7.5 passages, put C's for the last 10 questions or so. I hope one of the last two passages in experimental 'cause I think I did decent on the first 7 even though they were hard. I will be happy with an 8-9. But do you guys think that an 8 is going to hurt me very much considering English is not my first language.

 

[biffbuddy]

hey
I can't remember if I had that social justice passage that everyone was talking about
what was it about?
I think either im blanking cause it was soo hard or I just didnt' have it!

 

[rmp]

Originally posted by rmp
Hi guys!

That passage about the Heartland was ridiculous!!! What in the world was it talking about!!! I definately wasted too much time on that passage! I'm with the previous poster I almost willing to milk a cow with my mouth for a 9 on verbal 🙂

But I have faith in the man upstairs that he will bless me.

Well I guess I'll have to milk a cow with my mouth because I made a 10 despite the ridiculous heartland passage. But on a more serious note I have to give thanks to THE MAN upstairs because I definitely didn't do it by myself.

 

[ajc]

Amen