Is there a pattern with MCAT exams?

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June 1st test C/P was supposedly all organic, and the June 2nd was physics heavy with calculations. The same happened for June 29th (organic heavy) vs June 30th (physics heavy). Do you guys think there is a pattern here? I am taking it on July 20th and worried that will mean I will get all organic vs. the July 21st exam. This might be silly, but I'm honestly suspicious about whether AAMC follows such a pattern on consecutive days.

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You will drive yourself crazy trying to speculate how your exam will turn out. The best thing you can do is be prepared for both. I know that such a generic response, but I did the same thing. I neurotically checked SDN and Reddit threads to see what was on other people's exams. Really the only pattern I gathered AT ALL was which section(s) would be hard. The test date before me had "easy" c/p and b/b, but hard p/s and CARS. I anticipated having the opposite, and I actually did. In terms of content, I vaguely remember 3 physics passages, a couple organic, a 3-4 gen chem, and 1-2 biochem passages. Discretes were all over the place. Had one of the hardest organic discretes I've ever seen, though. I just laughed, picked a random choice, and moved on. I guess it worked out well because I got a 129 on c/p. I remember 0 pseudodiscretes, though. The questions in the passages were all related to the passage. Good luck with your exam!
 
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