thank you so much for your help guys! Very generous of you. I will surely begin with the AAMC practice tests and ask if I need further help from you.
thanks!!!!!!
Okay, here's my input from what you've said:
1) Step away from the AAMC tests immediately. Those are the absolute last thing you do when you study.
2) Breathe (seriously). You're letting how you've preformed previously ruin your mojo. You said it yourself: you're frustrated enough to quit. Just take a minute (or hour or day or week) to shake that off. Get in the mindset that you can and will do better. Nothing can happen until you do that.
3) Cruise over to the stickied threads on 30+ MCAT scores and the 3-4 month plans. See what other successful people were doing. Honestly compare that to how you prepared. Take notes.
4) Devise a strategy, day by day, for how to restudy. Begin with content. Reinforce with passages. Do more passages. Review those passages, right, wrong, or guess, ruthlessly until you know you'll never fall into the same logic trap again. The MCAT is as much content as it is learning the strategy of the game. If you have content down, you need to practice your game play (passages), not the tactics (studying). Content --> Passages --> AAMC tests.
5) Breathe some more. Relax. Allow flexibility in your schedule. If you aren't getting something, take an extra day or two.
6) Sign up when,
and only when, you are ready. That means when you've finished 80% of your plan and the practice tests and passages are going well, not because you have a deadline set in your head.
7) Have I mentioned breathing yet? It's important.
If you managed a 3.44 at a top school, you aren't stupid. You just need to learn to take this test, just as you'll have to learn to take the USMLE and just as you completed the SAT. The most intelligent person in the world won't do well if they keep hitting the "I can't get passed this" brick wall. So find your 'zen' place and get cracking.
