So, last weekend I took my first FL test (#3) to see how I would do, and was utterly dismayed at my score.. 6 PS, 8 BS, 7 VR (21).
Well, I spent the past few days looking over the test, and couldn't help but notice a LOT of my incorrect answers were stupidly right in the information and glossed over by me, or easily reasoned. Only a handful of questions (particularly in the PS) were questions that I simply just didn't know how to do. Another killer on the first one was that I kept reading the clock incorrectly (the timer counts down for each individual section, but shows the remaining # of questions for the entire test.. I interpreted that as the # of remaining questions for the section I was on), which caused me to rush through two sections.
Well, curiosity got the best of me and I took FL #4. I didn't get a spectacular score, but with almost no studying (4 days of light studying, I suppose) along with going over the previous test, I jumped to a 9 PS, 10 BS, 10 VR ( 29).
The only reasons that make sense to me are:
1) I had no idea how to "take" the MCAT, and that alone jumped me up 8(!!) points - seems unlikely
2) #4 was much, much easier than #3 (seems more likely, but 8 points?)
If #1 is the answer, then this begs the question - should I just do FL tests for my studying, or is there a point to actually cramming this random knowledge to increase my score? Keep in mind that a 29 isn't very satisfactory to me since my GPA is somewhat low and I'd like a more stand-out score to help offset that as best I can, but I'm very pleased if I am in fact in the ~29 range right now.
Well, I spent the past few days looking over the test, and couldn't help but notice a LOT of my incorrect answers were stupidly right in the information and glossed over by me, or easily reasoned. Only a handful of questions (particularly in the PS) were questions that I simply just didn't know how to do. Another killer on the first one was that I kept reading the clock incorrectly (the timer counts down for each individual section, but shows the remaining # of questions for the entire test.. I interpreted that as the # of remaining questions for the section I was on), which caused me to rush through two sections.
Well, curiosity got the best of me and I took FL #4. I didn't get a spectacular score, but with almost no studying (4 days of light studying, I suppose) along with going over the previous test, I jumped to a 9 PS, 10 BS, 10 VR ( 29).
The only reasons that make sense to me are:
1) I had no idea how to "take" the MCAT, and that alone jumped me up 8(!!) points - seems unlikely
2) #4 was much, much easier than #3 (seems more likely, but 8 points?)
If #1 is the answer, then this begs the question - should I just do FL tests for my studying, or is there a point to actually cramming this random knowledge to increase my score? Keep in mind that a 29 isn't very satisfactory to me since my GPA is somewhat low and I'd like a more stand-out score to help offset that as best I can, but I'm very pleased if I am in fact in the ~29 range right now.
