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Let me clarify what I am asking, I am basically asking: how do you know when your MCAT score is at a maximum, meaning, your practice exams and such are not really budging outside of a small range, and there is nothing you can really significantly do to improve your score?
Is there even a maximum? I am sure everybody has some point where they reach a peak, everyone I have spoken to has at least. I do not know my maximum or if I've even reached it, since I literally hit 28 on my practice exams the day before my actual MCAT, and then got a 28 on the real thing. Its possible I just coincidentally hit my max the day before and my schedule retake is pointless.
That being said, I came in (and still have) a very weak science foundation. I did poorly in a lot of my undergrad courses. So, to give an example, while studying for the MCAT this summer, I literally learned for the first time what a titration was. I really did not know what it was, even in gen chem, I just kind of worked around it and knew how to sort of do problems related to it, but I did not understand it conceptually at all. I was like, "Oh, that makes a lot of sense now. I wish I knew that in gen. chem..." I had (and have?) huge holes in my science foundation. Honestly, I knew more physics and general chemistry during my MCAT than I did while taking those courses.
Edit: Let me reword the question, when should you stop studying and settle for the score range that you're managing, because you likely cannot improve past that?
Is there even a maximum? I am sure everybody has some point where they reach a peak, everyone I have spoken to has at least. I do not know my maximum or if I've even reached it, since I literally hit 28 on my practice exams the day before my actual MCAT, and then got a 28 on the real thing. Its possible I just coincidentally hit my max the day before and my schedule retake is pointless.
That being said, I came in (and still have) a very weak science foundation. I did poorly in a lot of my undergrad courses. So, to give an example, while studying for the MCAT this summer, I literally learned for the first time what a titration was. I really did not know what it was, even in gen chem, I just kind of worked around it and knew how to sort of do problems related to it, but I did not understand it conceptually at all. I was like, "Oh, that makes a lot of sense now. I wish I knew that in gen. chem..." I had (and have?) huge holes in my science foundation. Honestly, I knew more physics and general chemistry during my MCAT than I did while taking those courses.
Edit: Let me reword the question, when should you stop studying and settle for the score range that you're managing, because you likely cannot improve past that?
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