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I thought EK said no angular momentum on the MCAT?!?!?!?
haha YES! I thought the same thing. In any case, I thought the question just required a little manipulation and the formula was practically given.
just got back.
PS- Mostly chem, and few physics topics (id say mostly optics and fluidics). Not bad. I usually have trouble with this section, but id say it went fairly well. It was the only time i actually finished with usable time to spare and check over probs.
VR- fair. some interesting passages, some dull and tricky. Id say it was of average difficulty, not too hard, not too easy either. they say if you leave VR feeling really good, you probably fell for all of the traps.
BS- Woah! VERY passage based, testing little knowledge about BS. A lot of molecular genetics, which was cool, but the questions were all pretty tough and required good understanding of the passages and diagrams. I had almost no orgo. I think one passage and a question.
This BS section really took me by surprise.
PS: Absolute anal bombardment...i feel like I got nuked on the first passage and it was downhill thereafter.....angular momentum...wtf...
VR: hard as usual...sigh...passages more interesting than some
BS: As expected, very experiment based, not a lot of outside knowledge but still some are needed....felt like some were very either way depending on what the test makers were thinking...
essays: had a little fun with this one, and just spoke out of my butt
me too, i was pissed, crazy ass potentials and speeding electrons and ****..damn i think i got screwed with a harder form then. i love optics and fluids but instead got angular momentum, hard atomic and nuclear stuff, and i cant even remember what.
pretty much no electricity/magnetism or gen chem which i also like 🙁
Okay, I thought the test was a lot harder than the practice exams I took....but also:
WTF....if I checked the "mark" box on the bottom of the page, did that just count that answer as incorrect?
Here's what I did (I thought I read the tutorial correctly, but maybe I didn't):
After each page of the PS section I clicked on the "mark" button on the bottom of the screen before clicking "next". Stupid me, I thought that this meant my answers were solidifyed. Instead, did it count all of those last questions on each page wrong? I'm really confused...the last thing I need is to have missed 7 or so answers on an already difficult section. ARGH!!
Oh yeah, and WTF is the sin of 800pi.
wow...premed86 and turtle...just think that if we would have showed up to the testing site a few minutes earlier or later and we would have gotten their PS!!! (in all seriousness, good luck to all!)
Hello: I took the afternoon section and just got back. My reactions:
Physical - extremely physics-heavy. way too much focus on electromagnetism and atomic physics. And, the biggest shock, angular motion, as mentioned upthread! I love physics, but this was really tough for me. There were several very difficult calculations, and 2 I just could not think for, at all. It seemed, though, that the easy questions were really easy and the hard questions were really hard - not much in between: I dunno how that's gonna affect the curve.
Verbal: Straightforward. Passages slightly longer but, on the whole, infinitely more interesting than anything I had for practice. But, the questions for the very easy questions were particularly tricky. I enjoyed these, but that says nothing about my score (obviously). In practice, the ones I thought were inscrutable I did best on, so go figure.
Writing: Straightforward: no one cares about this score (within reason) so it's forgettable. I find all their writing samples to be incredibly similar and interchangeable.
Biological: One orgo passage out of 7 and like 3 discretes. The chem major in me died a little today. All questions were uber-passage based. And almost every passage seemed to be based on experiments (I scrolled down to see the source for all the passages, and most were recently published papers in major journals.) The passages seemed inscrutable at first, and so I would quickly zoom through the questions for any latent discrete ones, and in almost every passage, none were to be found. But, after reading the passages and reasoning through them the questions were passable. However, at first glance they seemed very tough. Also? there was like no neuro, endocrine, CV/respiration. curious, no?
Overall: a very biased exam that, in all honest opinion, did Not cover everything. To my mind the MCAT is one of the most un-standardized tests because its emphasis is not evenly distributed (when you have passages in your questions, you are easily limiting your scope of topics covered, especially with the newer, shortened version). For that reason I find the exam to be very unfair (yeah yeah, that's an old argument. sorry). I don't mean that the questions are unreasonable, but it's just that if you got questions on what you knew you were fine but if not you got screwed. and because the scope is small you got royally screwed. I just wish it was not so limited (see, an AP exam is much more balanced so it's a better, in my opinion, standardized test.)
hope that helps future takers. lesson: dont put all your eggs in one basket. or maybe, do: if your basket gets chosen you win the jackpot.