Help with MCAT studying!

[mangotango27]

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Hi,

I've been studying for the past month or so with content but am scoring HORRIBLY. I just took the AAMC 3 and scored an 18; 6, 8, and 4. The past month I've done examkracker (only content review) and neglected to do any passages. How can I raise my score? Clearly my content review is not going as well as I thought too, so how can I improve that as well?? I have another 2.5 months to the exam, volunteer 10+ hours a week and am taking a full load of classes.

Thanks for any help and input!!!

 

[Zaids37]

What I found was most helpful was when I would do content review for a certain topic and then find practice problems to do relating to that topic. Content review will help you understand the material and practicing problems will help you apply it. Seems like you just need more practice problems though! You still have a lot of time. I got an 18 on AAMC 3 too and I'm scoring high 20s right now so I'm sure you can improve too 🙂

 

[texan2414]

Problem is painfully obvious - lack of practice passages.
That being said you have a lot of time to improve - make sure your content is solid and then do lots of practice passages. I assume you have TBR or TPR materials.

 

[mangotango27]

I'll try that out and see how it goes. I think I just need to dedicate more time to studying and obviously do more practice passages. Good luck hope you score 30+ on exam day!!

 

[mangotango27]

I have TBR, TPR, and examkrackers. Do you recommend doing actual full length exams on study days (M,W,F) or using the practice passages from those? I have the Kaplan, TBR, and GS full lengths.

 

[techfan]

You probably shouldn't be wasting AAMC tests for content review. You only have like 8 of them. Like many others on this board I like TBR passages, so I'd just do those. Have you looked at the 90 day study schedule or anything? Or the thread on why diagnostics are worthless? The MCAT is a critical thinking test, so not doing passages and learning how to use the given information properly will really hurt.