How to improve?

[captainuzair]

I been doing practice exams for past one month and i have been reviewing exams and answers. It almost takes me one week to review one exam. But the problem is I'm getting constantly 19 on all the exams. How should i improve my score?... i been doing TBR + kaplan passages but its not helping me increase my score

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[Happy_Puppy5000]

1. Did you actually did content review before you started doing the practice exams?

2. Are you running out of time?

3. When you review your practice exams, do you understand what you got wrong? Could you do similar questions if you see them in the future?

It seems there is weakness in your knowledge base.

 

[eleveneleven]

Definitely sounds like you've done insufficient content review. At this point, I would recommend that you stop doing practice tests (these should be done after doing content review to the best of your ability, otherwise you'r wasting them) and make sure you have sufficiently reviewed every topic. And regardless of whether or not you have, yet, if you are consistently scoring 19's, then you're content review was inadequate and needs to be supplemented.

 

[JLeBling]

To build a good house you need a strong foundation. The MCAT is like a house. Content knowledge is the foundation of the MCAT. Everything builds on the content knowledge. Without it your house is just a piece of crap that will collapse under the slightest pressure.

Dig the foundation deep!!

 

[mathwhiz09]

Definitely sounds like you've done insufficient content review. At this point, I would recommend that you stop doing practice tests (these should be done after doing content review to the best of your ability, otherwise you'r wasting them) and make sure you have sufficiently reviewed every topic. And regardless of whether or not you have, yet, if you are consistently scoring 19's, then you're content review was inadequate and needs to be supplemented.

This! I'd start with the content review books from any of the top MCAT prep teams, which basically act as "text books" filled with content:

Exam Krackers: http://www.amazon.com/Examkrackers-...8499/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361472284&sr=8-1
Princeton Review: http://www.amazon.com/Biology-Revie...=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361472362&sr=1-2 (this is just the Biology Review book, but they have 5 separate ones for each subject, which you can purchase separately on Amazon or there are a bunch on eBay)
Berkeley Review: http://www.amazon.com/Berkeley-Revi...=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361472320&sr=1-1

After you've thoroughly reviewed those books, you'll want to move on to multiple choice style questions and then practice tests. When you only work with practice tests from the start, you're not going to cover everything quite like you would in the content review books.