Humanities Major Unite

[Freakingzooming]

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Hey I'm a philo major and I've been doing pretty decently on my verbal... about 11s so far.


the bad news is I've been getting 7s and 8s on my bio and physics sections. What I want to know is how I could improve on the science the most? Should I be reading Kaplan material on bio and physic stuff or should I be doing questions more?

It seems for verbal I have limited improvement but I think I can improve a lot more for the sciences.

 

[dr kevin40]

humanities majors = artsy fartsy losers

 

[DW]

Originally posted by dr kevin40
humanities majors = artsy fartsy losers

ahhh...... there's the drkevin40 stuff thats been missing on sdn

 

[Biodude]

I've looked at Princeton Review's statistics, and I've talked to some pre-meds that have taken the MCAT. Humanities majors actually score consistently higher on the MCAT than science majors. Very strange 😱

Just thought that I'd mention that.

 

[Gleevec]

That is because almost every bio major takes the MCAT, while only the most qualified humanities majors (who have fulfilled the prereqs) take the MCAT.

Thus, you have a distorted subsection of the humanities major population taking the MCAT.

 

[samenewme]

Originally posted by Freakingzooming
Hey I'm a philo major and I've been doing pretty decently on my verbal... about 11s so far.


the bad news is I've been getting 7s and 8s on my bio and physics sections. What I want to know is how I could improve on the science the most? Should I be reading Kaplan material on bio and physic stuff or should I be doing questions more?

It seems for verbal I have limited improvement but I think I can improve a lot more for the sciences.

Well, I'd suggest you use those analytical skills (not kidding at all) and figure out WHY you're getting 7s and 8s. Look over the questions that you missed. Did you misunderstand the question, or make a strategic error, or have some other test-taking skills problem? If that's the case, then re-reading test-taking strategies (perhaps with an additional book from a second publisher) and taking practice tests would help.

Or were you missing some key concepts in the underlying sciences? Then you would want to review the sciences, either with the books you've been using, or with new and different review books. Figuring out WHY you're getting 7s and 8s should help you figure out the best way to pull them up. I hope this helps.

This is not the voice of MCAT experience, by the way. I'm just starting on my premed journey. It's just my liberal arts loser reasoning I'm using here. 😉

 

[dr kevin40]

a loser w/ a humanities diploma and a higher score is still a loser.

a sci major w/ a high score however, now that's a non-losre if there ever be one 🙂