Help! I'm stuck!

[dawfu88]

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I'm taking the MCAT in two weeks. I've taken four full lengths over the past month and scored the following:

Kaplan 1 - 32 - 11, 11, 10
Kaplan 2 - 30 - 10, 10, 10
Kaplan 3 - 32 - 10, 10, 12
AAMC 3 - 28 - 10, 10, 8


Basically I'm averaging around a 10 on every section, and I can't seem to get any improvement. The 8 on AAMC BS i'm not worried about, it was heavy on endocrine and renal system, easily my two worst bio subjects. VR I'm convinced will not change between now and the 18th. I've been hitting PS hard the last week, but am not just not seeing improvement. I feel like I'm just a couple questions away on each section from moving up into the 11-ish range, but i just can never seen to put it together. Any ideas?

 

[SN2ed]

How's your post-test analysis? What does it tell you?

Here's my blurb about post-test analysis which may be helpful:

If your tests are fluctuating, it is due to the different topics on the various tests. In other words, you have some glaring weaknesses that when targeted, nail you, badly. You have to find out what those weaknesses are because they are evident by your scores. Do NOT dismiss any wrong answer as a "stupid mistake." You made that error for a reason. Go over your tests again.

Some things to keep in mind when reviewing:

1. Why did you get the question wrong? Why did you get the question right?
2. What question types get you?
3. How is your mindset when facing a particular passage?
4. Are you stressed for time?
5. Where are your mistakes happening the most? Are they front loaded? Are they at the end? All over?
6. What was your thought process for both the questions you got right and the ones you got wrong?
7. For verbal, what was the author's mindset and main idea?
8. Did you eliminate all of the answer choices you could from first glance?
ex. You know an answer should be a positive number so you cross out all of the negative number answer choices.
9. What content areas are you weak in?
10. How can you improve so you don't make the same mistake again?

 

[dawfu88]

My problem really isn't that my tests are fluctuating though. I've gotten a 32, 30, 32, and a 28 (with a range of only 10 - 11 on PS and VR). My problem is though that despite all of the studying I've done in the past month or so, I'm not seeing any improvement in my test scores.

I do notice that i make a lot of "stupid mistakes," things like simple math errors, and i have been making an effort to eliminate those when i take tests now (and i have seen the number of them decrease on the last two tests I took, but again i've seen no improvement in scores). That's an interesting take though, that there are no "stupid mistakes," i may have to go back and re-access why i missed those questions.