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this might be stupid...but what about the restriction fragment cutting with the chart given? how did you determine which figure was correct?
I feel like all of the endless months of studying came down to a crappy test that only tested 5% of my total knowledge, and under a huge time constraint. I am so disappointed. I bought books, videos, note cards, practice exams, and I went through ALL of it, and still walked out feeling like an idiot, even though I know more information than 90% of the people walking out on the street. This test is incredibly innaccurate in the determination of a student's intelligence and probabilities of succeeding academically! 😡
Oh right ... yea - so if you have an plasmid & you want to cut it, the first restriction site makes a long chain. Then the second restriction site cuts the first piece into two fragments and then you just count down from the 0 marker to the shortest fragment & that's the kB value you assign restriction site.
For example, if you have a plasmid length & you have three restriction sites: A, B & C & you add enzyme that chops up the DNA into two pieces each time:
(A & B) fragment length = (4, 6)
(A & C) fragment length = (2, 8)
To figure out B: Then you assign A = 0kB, then count the shortest fragment to B which is 4: therefore, B is @ 4kB
Similarly, assign A = 0kB, count the shortest fragment to C (which is 2): therefore, C is @ 2kB
That was probably gibberish to everybody else - hope it helps @least a bit - I got an N on writing last time (can't expect a lot from me there 😉)
Yea, are there experimental passages in each section? Are they not included in our score?
I'm praying to all the gods in heaven and all sorts of foreign deities that I got a 30 or better. I'm seriously worried about PS though. I could see that one being like an 8. Ouch!
Nothing left to do at this point than relax, pray, and ask my pre-med advisor if I should sign up to retake it before I get my scores back or not. Heh.
Did anyone have that annoying passage on "Poetry and looking back at the past works,etc?"
Oh one more thing - pray - before the test, during the test, and after the test...lol.
It's really nice to come home to this group and be reassured that we all feel the same way and can empathize with each other.
Today sucked. I think the hardest thing for me is to know that I studied so hard, I devoted my life to this test for the last several months, I breathed the MCAT..... and I walked out today thinking gee, I probably did as well as I would have if I had studied for 2 weeks and guessed on half of them 🙁
Someone told me that all I can do is my best, and that I should go to sleep tonight happy because I know that there was nothing that I did NOT do. I worked hard and went in there and took it, and whatever happens happens, at least I know how much effort I put in. (Lovely advice... but I want medical schools to know too!!! heehee)
Anyway... I couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about the questions in the PS that I didn't get to go back to 😛 (I have astranauts and BaCl and muscular something or other and freud floating in my head).
And what was up with that, it took me so long to analyze and comprehend the passages I finished every section down to the wire. Usually I have about 10 mins left on PS and about 20 left on BS. And where was organic???? That made me sad. I'll stop now 🙂
Well yay it's over. I hope all of you enjoy the rest of your summer.
But I have all this stuff in my head!!!!!!! I wonder if I should take it again? Nothing I have studied was tested.... I feel... like a ripe peach that just got dropped in the mud!! 😛
Correct. I have already deleted several posts and warned/infracted people who made them. Any further posting of specific MCAT questions or answers will result in a 1 week PH. Please don't make us do that to you.hey guys I don't think we can discuss this specifically?
Advice: Don't hold any key for too long, and read the messages that pop-up on your screen before clicking anything!!
Could anyone please tell me how can I register to take another test? when I go to register it shows I am already registered for July 24th. I don't know what to do. I really want to retake the test. Please help...
Could anyone please tell me how can I register to take another test? when I go to register it shows I am already registered for July 24th. I don't know what to do. I really want to retake the test. Please help...
i feel like im doomed with physics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙁 🙁 🙁 😡 😡 😡
any past experiences where u performed poorly on a section but in the end it turned out ok?
I agree with most of you
PS: definately the hardest section. It was a huge "WAKEUP, THIS IS REALLY THE MCAT" so not only was i thrown off by the rediculous passages/questions, i still hadn't fully gotten my composure
VR: Really had to pee, dont remember much. I just remember that it wouldn't end no matter how fast I went. I ended up only having 6 min's for the last passage after going faster than I've ever gone on any AAMC practice tests. Some of the questions were tricky, but thats expected
BS: Not too bad. I hate how every1 is complaining about how there wasnt enough physio and way too much molecular genetics. If you expect to not be a bio major cuz its too hard, and then take on an econ, humanities, or writing major cuz its easier for you, then you have to expect that this section could possibly end up biting u in the ass. For me, I'm a bio major, and so I thought this section was a breeze. But as always, verbal is hard for me since they put 4 HUMANITIES PASSAGES ON IT! In the end, they screw u somewhere, but they'll help u somewhere. They want the well-rounded candidate, so if ur not a bio major, and you didn't do well on bio, suck it up. You prolly made up for it somewhere else. And that'll be reflected in ur composite score. Anyways, molecular gentics basically make up 90% of physio anyways, so if you really think u know ur physio well, you'd know ur molecular genetics cold too.
overall, hardest test ive ever taken in my life. I'm projecting an 11/9/12...we'll see in a month though..![]()
This is a real question, is it too late to void the exam?
I mean, I feel like I totally wasted my time studying for it. I would have gotten the same score with ZERO prep work.
Seriously, what was the point of wasting my time studying for that test?
I studied my tail off for that test, and I was still forced to guess on a lot of questions. I had to actually make blind guesses on several questions.
That PS section was seriously hard. I mean really, really hard. On my AAMC's, I usually got ALL of the stand alones correct. On this thing, I got several stand alones right, but there wasn't one passage that I was comfortable with. That damn 57Fe passage sucked. That astronaut in the pool sucked too.
VR I smoked rather easily. I feel that I pulled at least a 10 on that one.
BS kicked my butt. Before that section, I was like, "All right, you got pwnd on the PS, but you are about to make your money back with this section."
Then I got served again.
any reason why they couldnt just give us our scores for everything besides the essays now? then we could make our decisions about retaking sooner ...