For those that took the CBT MCAT already- compare real vs aamc's.

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I've been taking some AAMC's and I guess I have been doing OK ~29 (and rising).
But I noticed a lot of the questions were pretty rediculous ex. in BS there was a question:
The most effective method for increasing the amount of water lost through the skin in a certain period is:
a-inhibiting kidney function
b-decreasing salt consumption
c-increasing water consumption
d-rasing environmental temperature (a 2nd grader would know this)

Even the PS and VR sections had a few (unbelievably) easy questions and as a whole, I didn't find the tests to be that difficult. I just keep making stupid mistakes all the time.

They say the AAMC tests are good predictors to your real score, but does that mean that the real test is the same difficulty? A couple of my friends that took the MCAT in April bombed despite getting high scores on the AAMC. I just wanted to know how everyone else saw the new CBT tests and if you were suprised by your result.

 

[12thandSouth]

I took the April 12th and found the difficulty to be the same, roughly, as the AAMC practice tests, and my score was in the midrange of my last few practice test scores.

Some of my friends took the April 16th test and said it was harder than the AAMC tests, but in the end they did well, getting scores that coincided with their practice scores.

 

[rchappidi]

I took the Apr 16th test and I agree I though the Bio was a b*tch. I'm a bio major and got a score lower than any of my practice exams. (I'm not sure if i got fatigued, but it seemed that most others said it was very hard) But at the same time verbal was a bit easier for the same exam. Still my score was on the lower end of my practice exam results.

 

[michigator04]

I just took the MCAT yesterday and I felt like the difficulty was roughly the same as the AAMC's that I took (3, 8, 9, 10). Hopefully my score will be similar. There will be a few easy questions like the one you brought up, but it seemed like for every easy one there was one that was out of the blue and not on a topic that I studied.