How to stop being discouraged after getting wrong answers?

[BurntFlower]

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So after getting 60% right in some Bio passages in the EK Bio 1001 book, I feel rather dumb and kind of discouraged (but of course I will still continue). Does anyone feel like that? If so, how do you deal with those feelings?

 

[iceman132]

I usually weep in the corner for a couple of hours and go to a support group for women.

But seriously, just MAN UP.

 

[Pisiform]

Hmm just learn from mistakes and move on ... Ek 1001 bio when I did I was getting around 75-80/113 correct. Right now, I am doing pretty well in BS section - 11+ and I know I will improve more in few days. Sciences can easily be improved ... I cry during verbal sometimes lol but hey I will live

 

[BKN89]

It happens. Learn from your mistakes, make a small note of it somewhere if it was a fact you didn't know, and move on. It does really feel crappy though.

 

[MedPR]

Understand why you got them wrong. Makes me feel better eveyrtime.

 

[BurntFlower]

I usually weep in the corner for a couple of hours and go to a support group for women.

But seriously, just MAN UP.

Seeing as I'm a woman, that's pretty much impossible. 🙄

Hmm just learn from mistakes and move on ... Ek 1001 bio when I did I was getting around 75-80/113 correct. Right now, I am doing pretty well in BS section - 11+ and I know I will improve more in few days. Sciences can easily be improved ... I cry during verbal sometimes lol but hey I will live

Ironically, verbal is my best section by far, but doing 'meh' on the sciences. 11+ is pretty damn awesome. Thank you!

It happens. Learn from your mistakes, make a small note of it somewhere if it was a fact you didn't know, and move on. It does really feel crappy though.

Yeah, I make notes of every answer I get wrong.

 

[DocGodfather]

Best advice is to learn from your mistakes, and keep the learning repetitive with those mistakes until you have a firm grasp. I would just move on to another problem in the past, or just completely stop studying/homework. You're motivation to keep going is the ultimate goal you want to reach, which in your case is medicine.

 

[BKN89]

Ironically, verbal is my best section by far, but doing 'meh' on the sciences. 11+ is pretty damn awesome. Thank you!

Ooh you are very much like me then! My verbal has always been great, my sciences not so great. Something I have discovered as a stronger verbal person: on the practice AAMCs, my wrong answers on Bio and Physical Sciences are more often due to misreading or misinterpreting of some critical detail than forgetting content.

If this happens, to you, try and apply some of your verbal techniques to your science passages (some Bio passages are practically verbal passages anyway). For example, I eliminate answers or make assumptions to quickly sometimes, and I end up ruling out answers in verbal before I really consider them. I found that I also do this in bio sometimes, so I started thinking about bio in "verbal" terms if that makes sense...I asked myself: What is the passage telling me? Why did they give me these details? Did I make a shaky/faulty extrapolation or inference when I should have just stuck with what the passage gave me?

It might not be the same for you, but I found that this helped me eliminate careless mistakes in my PS and BS more often because the MCAT tests critical thinking almost more than content knowledge sometimes.

 

[iceman132]

Seeing as I'm a woman, that's pretty much impossible. 🙄


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[happymedium]

Just did the first bio section in TBR. Got 57/98 correct. And I'm a bio major. I'm REALLY hoping TBR is a lot harder than the real MCAT

 

[MedPR]

I got 1/7 last night on a TBR Bio passage. I think it was passage 4.1. Owned lol.

My scores on average are as lowest in TBR Bio. My highest is EK Bio, followed by TBR Chem, TBR Ochem, then TBR Physics. I've been getting scaled 12-14 on EK 30 minute exams, but like 7-9 on TBR Bio. Typically 11-12 on TBR Chem/Ochem and about 10 on TBR Physics.

 

[411309]

If i cried everytime I got owned then there would be a lake full of tears in my room because of TBR bio passages, lol

 

[study pray love]

If i cried everytime I got owned then there would be a lake full of tears in my room because of TBR bio passages, lol

LMAOOOOOOO i totally second that assertion!

i think you gotta just look at it from the perspective that you are on the track to getting there.
if you weren't studyign then you'd have a reason to cry. As long as you are doing your best, and learning from mistakes (no matter how many there are) take pride in it and move forward 🙂

 

[study pray love]

 

[StephanieZ]

I used to just get frustrated and ignore questions I got wrong, but obviously that does no good. What helped me feel less depressed about it is when I decided to start thinking of the ones I get wrong as my most valuable learning opportunities. I changed my thinking from

"I can't get anything right, I feel so dumb." to

"I got this wrong because there is something I didn't know. By figuring out why I got it wrong and why the correct answer is right, I am one step closer to mastering what I need to know for the test/that is one less mistake I will make on the actual test."

And I started to look forward to correcting my mistakes, because in my mind, every mistake I learned from put me one step closer, if that makes sense.

Good luck!