How to score high in sciences?

[basophilic]

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By high, I mean perfect or near-perfect. I know perfect (equiv of 15) requires luck, but what's the key to scoring near-perfect (equiv of 13-14s) consistently? I know in general this involves thorough content knowledge and ample passage practice. But anyone (especially those who scored 13-15 consistently in practices and real MCAT) mind elaborating what this means concretely? Like knowing every AAMC outline topic comprehensively (i.e. textbook level knowledge?), how much passage practice (i.e. 1000+?), reading journals, etc. Also, I'm aware reviewing passages is most important; does this mean keeping spreadsheet of content errors, test-taking errors - I'd especially like to hear reviewing passage strategies from the 13-15 scorers (do you answer the questions, highlight/mark questions you are uncertain on while doing the passage, then review marked and incorrect ones?). Also, what were your percent correct in TBR, AAMC SA, TPRH, EK, and/or Kaplan science passages?

 

[basophilic]

Did everyone who scored that high use extremely high-volume deliberate practice (i.e. 1200+ passages) like LostInStudy and mterp45?
LostInStudy's thread: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/lostinstudys-lis-official-advice-thread.733260/
mterp45: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=526316

 

[basophilic]

anyone?

 

[mcatjelly]

There is no secret method. If you put in the time to do solid content review, actually thoroughly understand every bullet point on the AAMC outline, do a large number of practice passages and review every solution, take a decent number of FLs and review those as well, then it's likely you'll consistently score highly. I would spend less time on trying to find the Golden Study Plan and more time actually studying. And I don't mean that in a snarky way.

 

[basophilic]

There is no secret method. If you put in the time to do solid content review, actually thoroughly understand every bullet point on the AAMC outline, do a large number of practice passages and review every solution, take a decent number of FLs and review those as well, then it's likely you'll consistently score highly. I would spend less time on trying to find the Golden Study Plan and more time actually studying. And I don't mean that in a snarky way.

I totally agree. just wanted to have a concrete idea and to avoid getting complacent. e.g. with regards to reviewing passages, it's easy to identify and fix content-based errors but harder to do so with test-taking strategy based errors