How much sleep did you get?

[TRAMK]

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I got none 😕

 

[kidthor]

I got about 6 hours or so despite going to be around 10... between not being able to sleep and continually waking up, I didn't get the 8.5 I wanted!

 

[kaybam20]

I got about 6 hours or so despite going to be around 10... between not being able to sleep and continually waking up, I didn't get the 8.5 I wanted!

Throughout MCAT week , i cud not sleep due to anxiety and Nervousness. (NO exaggerration).

 

[WestTexasRambler]

I got about 6 hours or so despite going to be around 10... between not being able to sleep and continually waking up, I didn't get the 8.5 I wanted!

5 hours 2 nights before
5 hours the night before

Overall, I know my score suffered quite a bit because of fatigue. Nothing could replicate the experience the night before, there is no simulation for that.

 

[CptCrunch]

Roughly 8 hours. Went to bed around 10:15 PM and got up at around 6:20 AM.

 

[DF38]

About 8 hours the night before, plus about 2 hours worth of naps on Friday. Thankfully, anxiety has never really affected my ability to sleep.

 

[strontium90]

Lucky people who were able to sleep well. I got about four...stressed out the whole week prior.

 

[PBandJ]

i probably got 7 hours of good sleep...i kept waking up and/or having dreams that i couldn't fall asleep. it was so strange.

 

[j-med]

5 hours 2 nights before
5 hours the night before

Overall, I know my score suffered quite a bit because of fatigue. Nothing could replicate the experience the night before, there is no simulation for that.

same here..

compensated mine with coffee tho' 👍


well, a moderate amount is good

 

[leesh]

Went to bed around 11, but never really felt I had a DEEP sleep. It felt as though I were half awake the whole night through, and yet I knew I was technically asleep. A slight disturbance would have woken me. Weird experience. But to answer the question, probably about 7 ish hours.

 

[oxeye]

I got about 8 hours .... minus waking up 3 or 4 times to feed the baby.

 

[tennisguy896]

I got about 8 hours .... minus waking up 3 or 4 times to feed the baby.

I had the worst night. My dorm's heat is freakin out, so even though it was mid-sixties that night, our heat was on full-blast. I was soo hot I slept in my boxers, on the cool concrete floor, next to the open window. It sucked- got 4 hrs. of sleep and now my back is killing me.

 

[ieatpaste37]

went to bed at 1230 am....woke up at 730 am.....so 7 hours

 

[shantster]

I was passed out in bed around 9:30. I went out to a nice Italian dinner with my parents and some of their friends that Friday night and so I was full and had a glass of wine to relax me. I was also pretty tired since I'd been getting up at 5:30 the entire week since I needed to get up at that time on Saturday. I woke up once during the night at 3:45 and started freaking out thinking that I had to go already, but I couldn't figure out why my alarm didn't go off. Overall, I think I got about 7.5 which was pretty good.

 

[Orthodoc40]

About 4 hours...I kept waking up and reliving the nightmare of that biology section, and wanting to scream, hit something, cry...

OH you're talking about BEFORE the test!! HAHA.... (Yes, I knew that...)
About 7 hrs.

 

[leesh]

Orthodoc, it'll be all right, i'm sure you did fine. Yeah, that bio section was pretty challenging...

 

[PleaseMiami]

ONE HOUR!!! IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!! I had 3 cups of coffee(I NEVER drink coffee!!) and i think i'm still wired! Running on 5 hours of sleep in the past 62 hours

 

[strontium90]

ONE HOUR!!! IT WAS HORRIBLE!!!! I had 3 cups of coffee(I NEVER drink coffee!!) and i think i'm still wired! Running on 5 hours of sleep in the past 62 hours

For those among us that have trouble sleeping... has anyone tried anything effective? I was thinking of ambien but did not want to introduce an unknown and be in a daze during the test, better to be wired on caffiene with the lack of sleep.

 

[Sunnyy]

i've tried ambien a few times before, it doesn't seem to have any affect on me whatsoever.

i got about 3 and a half hours of sleep. my head was hurting by the end of the day 😍

 

[Dafertilizer]

4.5 Hours here, Went to bed around 1:30 & woke up at 6:00, I was running around all night getting everything ready for the girl who was watching my two sons, I wanted everything to go smoothly while I wasn't there, just in case I was not able to call home to check on them during the ~10 hours I was testing.

 

[Mr. Tee]

Around 7 hours of actual sleeping time.

 

[NontradICUdoc]

I got almost no good sleep. In addition to my nervousness, I injured my should earlier in the week and was unable to sleep on my belly, which is how I sleep. I kept waking up and drinking water in the middle of the night and peeing as well.

I left the MCAT with a brain fog.

 

[Anastasis]

7 hours with some waking up along the way.

Now last night, more like 4. WTF?

 

[Orthodoc40]

For those among us that have trouble sleeping... has anyone tried anything effective? I was thinking of ambien but did not want to introduce an unknown and be in a daze during the test, better to be wired on caffiene with the lack of sleep.

Benadryl!

 

[totalcommand]

i was really intense about it.

for about a week before i was going to bed at 10 and getting up around 5:30am just like i'd do on the saturday.

then friday morning i went on a 5:30am run for a couple miles - that definitely made me dead tired around 9:00pm or so for me to sleep. and my bed is a little too comfy. i fell asleep immediately. 🙂

 

[totalcommand]

For those among us that have trouble sleeping... has anyone tried anything effective? I was thinking of ambien but did not want to introduce an unknown and be in a daze during the test, better to be wired on caffiene with the lack of sleep.

A shock of exercise (doing more than you normally would) during the day. It'll knock you out at night.

 

[SeanTaylor #21]

A solid 7+ hours. It took me roughly 15 mins to fall asleep. Last August was a different story. Couldn't fall asleep for over 2 hours 🙁

👍 😉 😍

 

[Pemberley]

For those among us that have trouble sleeping... has anyone tried anything effective? I was thinking of ambien but did not want to introduce an unknown and be in a daze during the test, better to be wired on caffiene with the lack of sleep.

Definitely test-run anything you try before the day of.

I used Tylenol PM at ~7:45 the night before, slept like a rock for ~9 hours -- it really helped. Then a doppio espresso macciatto at Starbucks on the way (doesn't have test-obstructing effects on the bladder, as filtered coffee does) and a Sobe Adrenaline rush each before the verbal and biology sections.

Does that make me chemically dependent? 😛

-Pemberley

 

[alex_shimp]

Definitely test-run anything you try before the day of.

I used Tylenol PM at ~7:45 the night before, slept like a rock for ~9 hours -- it really helped. Then a doppio espresso macciatto at Starbucks on the way (doesn't have test-obstructing effects on the bladder, as filtered coffee does) and a Sobe Adrenaline rush each before the verbal and biology sections.

Does that make me chemically dependent? 😛

-Pemberley

Got a good 6 - 7 hrs, kept waking up in the middle..... had a nice breakfast and went to tackle the beast... 🙂

 

[zimmie256]

Definitely test-run anything you try before the day of.

I used Tylenol PM at ~7:45 the night before, slept like a rock for ~9 hours -- it really helped. Then a doppio espresso macciatto at Starbucks on the way (doesn't have test-obstructing effects on the bladder, as filtered coffee does) and a Sobe Adrenaline rush each before the verbal and biology sections.

Does that make me chemically dependent? 😛

-Pemberley

Probably, but whatever works! I wish I'd done the same...

 

[shantster]

For those among us that have trouble sleeping... has anyone tried anything effective? I was thinking of ambien but did not want to introduce an unknown and be in a daze during the test, better to be wired on caffiene with the lack of sleep.

Get up early the week before the test. The night before I had a big meal (fetticine alfredo! 🙂) and a glass of wine so that when I got back home I just watched an episode of Scrubs and crashed at 9:30.

I also don't ever do the meds thing to make me go to sleep since I'll still be feeling it the next day.

 

[hmm...]

wanted 9, but only got 7. i lay in my bed wide awake for 2 hrs staring at the ceiling

 

[WhiteHatDoc]

5 hours 2 nights before
5 hours the night before

Overall, I know my score suffered quite a bit because of fatigue. Nothing could replicate the experience the night before, there is no simulation for that.

ditto. cept during friday I gave a poster session for my research and i thought being extra tired that day would make me fall asleep easily, but boy was I wrong!

 

[docolive]

2 hrs. not kidding, the same amt. I got in August.

 

[TRAMK]

2 hrs. not kidding, the same amt. I got in August.

Did your August 2005 score suffer from your two hours of sleep or was it pretty close to your pratice test scores?

 

[ClockworkDoc]

My silly girl friend and I fought before the test. She kept me up all night crying. Lucky me! 😀

 

[Pipacus]

My silly girl friend and I fought before the test. She kept me up all night crying. Lucky me! 😀

Sounds like your "girlfriend" was trying to sabotage you. Could this not have waited till later? what a bitch!

 

[Neuro27]

I kinda of planned and got little sleep on Thursday night, maybe about 3-4 hours, forcing myself to get up really early on Friday morning.

On Friday night, I actually fell asleep pretty soon after I went to bed and slept like a baby for about 8 hours and got up feeling good and energized.

 

[CubanDoc]

b/c of the test anxiety my sleep kept moving later and later during the whole month. at the end ended up going to bed around 2am didn't fall asleep till around 3am
i probably counted more sheeps than hours i studied for the test 🙁
bottom line just 3 hours.
after the test i had like 15hr 🙂

 

[Arsenic]

b/c of the test anxiety my sleep kept moving later and later during the whole month. at the end ended up going to bed around 2am didn't fall asleep till around 3am
i probably counted more sheeps than hours i studied for the test 🙁
bottom line just 3 hours.
after the test i had like 15hr 🙂

hey cubandoc! i'm in south florida too. did you take the exam at UM? are you an undergrad there?

 

[Dr. Geoff]

i slept for 17 hours before the exam.... i think most people should sleep at least 15+ hrs before... u need ur rest

 

[Ebete]

Went to bed at 11p next to my 103.7 feverish toddler and sang to her till about 1:30A. My husband took over, I went to the couch and finally slept from 3A-6A...I was exhausted but my mind just could not stop!!!

 

[KittycooMD]

The last two weeks leading up to the MCAT, I couldn't sleep AT ALL! I was a ball of nerves. The Thursday before the exam I went to bed at 1 and forced myself to wake up at 7 AM even though I probably slept about 5 hours total.
The night before the test I got in bed at 10 and got a back massage with lavender oil from the sweet BF. Kitty (see my avatar!) curled up next to me and wow I was OUT. Probably slept about 7.5 or 8 hours before the exam. VENTI AMERICANO from Starbucks before the exam and I was set 👍

 

[CubanDoc]

hey cubandoc! i'm in south florida too. did you take the exam at UM? are you an undergrad there?

i took the test in miami dade college downtown, but i'm an undergrad in FAU
drive 50 miles to and from school 👎

 

[docolive]

Did your August 2005 score suffer from your two hours of sleep or was it pretty close to your pratice test scores?

hehe, funny you should ask. My August score was miserable but mainly because my lack of sleep caused me to freak out when I took the ps section. I was the one with the BRUTAL ps section, so it was very hard to handle since I was not prepared for being shocked. I am sure you have heard that a lack of sleep makes it more difficult to handle very stressful situations.

On the other hand, this time I was so stressed I could not sleep again. At 2am I told myself, if I get an awful PS section, I am voiding the test--luckily, I was blessed to have a decent ps...regardless of potential errors (like calculating ion concentration)---it was just like a practice exam. I truly felt ready for this test and was not intimidated by it. By the time bio came, I was forcing myself to focus, but luckily the writing sample helped get me going. I think ADRENALIN will keep anyone in line---we will see with my score.