June 15th Test Takers! What did you think?

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so what did everyone think about today's test? i thought bio was difficult, verbal was alright, and ps was a little heavy on the physics, which i don't like. i also thought it was harder than all the practice aamcs.
 
what did you guys think??

i feel like i got raped..it was terrible absolutely terrible...

physical sciences i ran out of time and that has never happ to me in the practice exams! i thought the verbal was ok bc the passages were interesting reads...and bio i don't feel i did as well on as i normally do..just feeling BLAH and completely not confident!!! this sucks. officially.
 
well i had trouble with the PS, but that is always my toughest section. it seemed like it was almost all physics to me, hardly ANY gen. chem. i actually thought bio was way easier than most of the practice tests i took, but maye i just got lucky, and the stuff on there was material i knew well. verbal was also pretty easy, with one or two tricky passages. overall, not as awful as i figured it would be.
 
i thought the BS was DIFFICULT. it was harder than ANY of the practice tests. anyone share the same feeling?
 
so what did everyone think about today's test? i thought bio was difficult, verbal was alright, and ps was a little heavy on the physics, which i don't like. i also thought it was harder than all the practice aamcs.

I thought the first few passages of PS were difficult - physics is my weakest point, so I didn't appreciate that emphasis.

I thought the first two verbal passages were the hardest...probably 2nd one was the hardest overall.

I though BS was fairly easy, though I did not appreciate that there were so many questions on one biology topic (don't know if I'm allowed to mention what that topic was). Orgo is my strength, so the first two passages were a breeze.

I'm crossing my fingers that I won't have to retake. Do any of you feel like you didn't do well enough to reach your target score, if you had one?
 
Hey guys, I have a question that's been stressing me out for the past few hours... I may not have clicked the save button for my writing sample after my final additions. Do you think this is going to be an issue?

Overall I thought the test was okay, but because PS threw me a little, I think I may have not been as "in the zone" for verbal as I should have.
 
I thought that ps was ok, though my test center got loud outside (connected to a sylvan learning center) which was really distracting during that section. Verbal was really long...I also thought the first two were hard, but the rest would not have been so bad if I hadn't felt rushed. The BS section was also pretty difficult. I used up all of my time on all three. I have no idea how I did...I just hope I don't have to take it again!
 
PS: Some stuff on translational motion, little bit of redox, little bit of acid-base chem, circuits. Saw nothing on fluids, no capacitors, no magnetism... Overall, I thought I should have been a little more prepared for the amount of calculations. I ran out of time and had to guess on a few and I hate doing that. I already thought back and know I made one or two mistakes for sure.

VR: Only 1 really convoluted passage that I thought deserved a second look over. Fairly straightforward. Probably my strongest section overall, so take that for what you will. AAMC seems to love passages about relationship of humans and nature. Saw something about Descarte and his view on forces, saw something on bird songs, saw passage on American economy...one passage on nature of emotions was what really had me stuck.

WS: Blah

BS: Fairly straightforward again. BS I consider my second strongest section. Saw lots of stuff about plasmids, bacteria, little bit about hormones (ADH, Aldosterone), tiny tiny bit of genetics (really easy at that), passage on the sweat glands of goats, passage on cillia and protein transport...

Overall...again, VR and BS I thought were very fair. PS I thought was very fair as well.

What I wish I had done: Prepared for the amount of calculations in PS. If you read through every single passage of PS, you would not finish on time.

Now the waiting game. :laugh:
 
glad it's over .. pm section here .. this exam was definitely comparable in difficulty to AAMC practice exams .. surprised?

PS - no excessive calculations, just like the practice exams; conceptually rooted, rote-based .. I think I goofed this section up, especially the first passage (I forgot what it was about, but I think I had some trouble).


VR - who am I kidding? I always get 6-7 on this section, and I seriously doubt I will luck out this time. This VR section was comparable to the practice exams, and I believe that my 6-7 scores on the AAMC practice exams are what I got here. I can't take this wait any more. Anyone who took the exam today is lucky, for because of my dismal VR performance, the AAMC will feel great giving you guys the high scores you deserve. I was driving today and realized I completely screwed up a VR question in my classic style of using outside reasoning to solve a problem. And the outside reasoning was both bizarre and unjustified. I think that was one of the "easy" questions too.

WS - who cares.

BS - same old, same old. Someone needs to call the animal rights foundations and tell them the AAMC has thoroughly abused a small supply of goats (those of you who took today's BS section know exactly what I'm talking about).

EDIT: today is 1/27/2008 .. my score was 10PS, 8VR, 11BS, and I got a T on the writing sample
 
I feel like a little truck ran over me....again and again and again....was it just me or did the rest of you find that either the questions in PS and BS were stupidly easy or mindblowingly difficult..no moderation:S plus the passages were soooo wordy and wtf was up with all the microbio in the BS section...plus that stupid bird passage OMG I didnt even understand it until there were only 10 sec left, and I usually have a good 10min to look over verbal. Overall I am very very disappointed 🙁
 
PS: Yeah, there was some stuff with capicators that I wasn't sure of. The one about a sled/car on a hill was fine. I wasn't sure about the water problem in the pipe (archimedes/wide radius). I thought the first half of the test was straightforward, but the second half was a bit more tricky.

VS: Most of the passages were pretty decent/interesting. I guessed almost entirely on one passage about how one dude critized another due about particles colliding or somehting.

WS: Nobody cares. Not even medical schools. Why do we have this section again?

BS: Man, I gotta say, I took the April 15th test, and BS was a b*tch. In general I thought the BS today was easy. Maybe cuase I worked in a microbiology lab and finished the passage about plasmids in 60 seconds. Other sections were pretty easy for the most point too.
 
harder than CBT 5 and 10 i took...

PS: it was definetly more physics oriented, which i hate. it was so screwed up, everytime i came up to a gchem passage or question, i felt i breezed through em, but everytime i came up to physics question, mind went blank...

VR: first 2 passages were frekkin killer. it took me like 20 min on just those 2 passages. the rest of em were fair, and i felt somewhat confident on em (although verbal is my weakest section so chances are i did normal on those, yet those 2 first passages will severely screw me over). after i finished all passages, i had like 10 min left and went back to the second passage, got a good glance over it, and ended up changing like almost every answer. the first passage i didn't have time to go over again. so chances are, that one's a total loss

WR: horrible. damn topics were sucky, and what's worst of all, i had COMPLETELY forgot to click save on ANY of the first essay... i pray to god that whatever i typed worked... if not... im goin in with a zero for the first essay...

BS: was harder than CBT 5 and 10, the ones i took. yes, it was microbio intensive, but i had 20 min left over to go over all of it. hopefully i get something decent from it, cause my VR will be low and my PS will be low... ;_;


and worst than all of that, i heard the other day that there tends to be less of a curve on these summer MCATs cause people have more time to study for em. that, plus everything above and im frekkin screwed...
 
this exam had its tricks, its silly wording, and those MCAT thinking questions galore. Also, someone needs to call the animal rights foundations (those of you who took today's BS section know what I'm talking about).

Yes, I totally agree. It was the first passage on my bio section and I was both appalled and confunded: appalled by the experiment and cofused because I couldn't see any relation to how it would benefit us. 😕

Thanks to that PETA-loathable first bio passage, I was thrown off for the rest of the section (yeah...I get distracted easily). :meanie: I thought BIO was harder than most other practice tests I took and my range on BIO is usually between 11-14. There were two questions that I had NO IDEA.

VERBAL - am I the only one who think that it was difficult? All of the passages are SO LONG! 👎 I just kept reading, and reading, and reading! They just don't end! The passage/questions themselves aren't too convoluted, but the whole I-have-to-rush-now-because-I-still-have-4-passages-left-and-only-29-minutes-left made me feel very unconfident in all of my answers.:barf:


PHYSICAL - all the chem passages were stuffed in the beginning and gave me the illusion of an easy section UNTIL the last 3 passages, which are all physics. The questions aren't too bad but I ran out of time and rushed through 18 questions and blindly (literally) guessed on 3 questions. :cry: I was so upset after this section that I never recovered for the rest of the sections.

WRITING - reasonable prompts. Though I couldn't think of any examples. And I normally do great on writing (R and higher). I guess I was still thinking about my physical sciences. Sigh. 😳

OVERALL - beware people. You may think you're prepared; but no matter how knowledgeable you are, there is nothing like testing pressure. Even the most prepared succumb under this pressure. Unfortunately, the only way to combat this is to take the test more often (and who wants to do that?)
 
I thought the physics was kinda hard. I had to literally guess on like 4 of em blindly. Usually I got an 11-12 on the physics on the AAMC's and thought this one blew em away in terms of difficulty (hopes for nice curve). I'm an engineer and thought physic was my best section.

VR: Just like practice tests for the most part. I thought the questions were not that bad but the passages were very long. I didn't finish 3 questions but am fairly sure i got the rest of em right.

BIO: I was confused because this is normally my worse. On the AAMC's i usually got 10-11 with the ocassional 9. But I finished this with like 10 minutes to spare. FOund some dumb mistakes and literally think I aced this.

So yea, my worse section ends up being my best and my best ended up being my worse.
 
PS- I usually have time to spare but this time around I didn't have as much time as usual. The passages were pretty straight forward. Definitely harder than the AAMCs I took.

VS- Started off so so. Got worse as the time went on. Last passage on birds was WTF all the way for me. Worst section on this test, I'd say...

WS- Ha-Ha! My topics were lol-worthy.

BS- That passage on Cilia was awful. End of story. I spent 20 minutes on it and still don't know if I got everything right. I'm a bio major and I know my bio relatively well, but this passage had it in for me. Some other tricky stuff here and there.


General thoughts...eh. Not sure what to think other than that I felt a lot better after having taken my AAMC exams than I did after this.
 
there was a save button for writing?!?! -______-

neays, overall yeah time was tight for some reason. i talked a few ppl afterwards in my center and they all said physics was way too "mathematical"...
 
In all my practice I never once had trouble with BS, but today's BS was, for lack of a better word BS! HAHA, but seriously I did think it was much harder than any of the practice tests. Also PS was chucked full of concept/reasoning problems very few calculations, my score will tell whether or not that was a good thing.

One quick question, does everyone on a given day take the same test?

And for the record, this will officially be the longest month of my life
 
damn that was hard.

Bio- was the hardest I've ever taken. sonic the hedgehog?? are they freakin serious?

verbal- who knows

PS-pretty tough but its soo hard to tell how things will end up.

This was the first test that I've taken that I have no idea how I will end up. It could be anything within a 10 point range. Talk about a longggg month coming up....
 
Ok. If I had 5 minutes extra on the PS and VR I would have felt A LOT more confident coming out of it...

PS- I thought it was easy, but there were a lot more calculations than I expected that took up much of my time. I had the topics about the tugboat-thingamajig connected to two thingies behind it and the hubble telescope thing. Everything was easy, but when I finished the fifth section I noticed I had <10 min left! The last two sections are going to kill me.

VR- probably the easiest, but for some reason I could not understand anything about the genetics passage and circadian (sp?) ryhthms...

WS- yeah...I BS'd a lot of the second one about arts, but I just followed the prompt and answered it.

BS- hmmm, I scored a 15 on aamc10, but felt this was waaaaay harder for some reason. Some kidney stuff, passage about leukocytes, and some rna editing...finished with 15 minutes and pondered over the ochem...i loved how the first two were ochem 🙄

My advice for future testees...PRACTICE ON YOUR TIMING MORE THAN ANYTHING. I felt like this was a test of how well you could read a passage about random crap and pic out pertinent info and answer questions without hesitation.
 
WR: horrible. damn topics were sucky, and what's worst of all, i had COMPLETELY forgot to click save on ANY of the first essay... i pray to god that whatever i typed worked... if not... im goin in with a zero for the first essay...

Crap, you mean to tell me that if you don't hit save, it won't save ur work when you're done? I never hit save on any of them and just let the clock run! :scared:
 
Ok. If I had 5 minutes extra on the PS and VR I would have felt A LOT more confident coming out of it...

PS- I thought it was easy, but there were a lot more calculations than I expected that took up much of my time. I had the topics about the tugboat-thingamajig connected to two thingies behind it and the hubble telescope thing. Everything was easy, but when I finished the fifth section I noticed I had <10 min left! The last two sections are going to kill me.

VR- probably the easiest, but for some reason I could not understand anything about the genetics passage and circadian (sp?) ryhthms...

WS- yeah...I BS'd a lot of the second one about arts, but I just followed the prompt and answered it.

BS- hmmm, I scored a 15 on aamc10, but felt this was waaaaay harder for some reason. Some kidney stuff, passage about leukocytes, and some rna editing...finished with 15 minutes and pondered over the ochem...i loved how the first two were ochem 🙄

My advice for future testees...PRACTICE ON YOUR TIMING MORE THAN ANYTHING. I felt like this was a test of how well you could read a passage about random crap and pic out pertinent info and answer questions without hesitation.

me and you had the exact same test i think. i had all of that stuff you mentioned. did you also think the first 2 passages in PS were hard physics ones? i thought the first 2 passages in VR were also horrible...

the first 2 in BR, the ochem ones, they were decent - except for some of those reagent questions. how the hell am i supposed to know any of those reagents they mentioned...
 
me and you had the exact same test i think. i had all of that stuff you mentioned. did you also think the first 2 passages in PS were hard physics ones? i thought the first 2 passages in VR were also horrible...

the first 2 in BR, the ochem ones, they were decent - except for some of those reagent questions. how the hell am i supposed to know any of those reagents they mentioned...

I had your exam as well. I agree with everything you said. The ochem had a few difficult questions (it could have been way worse) but the biology questions were definitely hard. It's mainly because most of the questions were based off of information from the passage, or at least that's how I felt. I didn't think the discretes for bio were as easy as the practice tests. They were definitely not give-aways. Some were okay, but others were not easy. I spent the most time on the microbio passages since I haven't taken microbio and I was having a pretty rough time with those. I thought the passage about pregnancy was okay and the leukocytes passage was again pretty difficult. I did like how there were quite a few questions about kidneys! The genetics questions they threw in there were easy. I wish there was an entire passage on genetics. sigh 😳

Physical sciences was okay, although I would have felt more confident if there were more gen chem questions. Again, not as easy as CBT 9 and 10. However, I did like how there were more mathematical questions. I prefer those to strictly passage based questions.

The first two passages in verbal kind of threw me off, but then as I got to the third passage or so, the passages were interesting to read. I just wish I did better on the first two passages. Also, I ended up spending a little more time on the second to last passage...I forgot which one that was.
 
The best question on the test... the BS discreet about capillary beds. Not that it was easy (I found it to be a trick question of sorts...)
Anyone else think so?
 
That was definitely one of the harder MCATs I've taken (felt more like a Kaplan exam).

PS: I messed up on the student-teacher molarity question (calcuulation based). Also had a passage about a roller coaster (which was okay). What the heck was that discrete about the water fountain??? All in all, much more difficult than the AAMC tests.

VR:Not too bad. I felt rushed because the passages were long, and I lost focus somewhere in the middle, and at the end. Had passages about the decline in American productivity affecting the economy (the path to recovery being investment or something), a passage using a pre-camera device to do art, something about matter, had to do with Liebnitz (thought this was a hard passage :-?), the last passage was a bird-song passage (also an awful passage).

WS: Who cares? But, I had one that was about a strong leader, and the other was about learning about cultures. Not bad at all, they were actually interesting.

BS: Ugh. The worst BS I've taken. The sonic the hedgehog problem was awful. I think I messed up the goat sweating problem (my first passage), the ochem (only two passages thankfully) was not bad, pretty straightforward, could have been a lot worse. Had a kidney passage that was okay. The discretes were really not giveaways, most of them.

Don't trust the AAMC tests. They are a lot easier than the real thing (except for the VR).
 
the first 2 in BR, the ochem ones, they were decent - except for some of those reagent questions. how the hell am i supposed to know any of those reagents they mentioned...

I had that test.

Yeah, they seemed to really expect us to know IUPAC names in and out this time. I was annoyed because the very first question wasn't even discussed in the passage! I've never seen the rxn discussed in the first passage before (looked vaguely reminiscent of Wolf-Kishner - the whole adding adding across a carbonyl by a diazo), so when they asked how to make the starting reagent without ever referring to it, that was tricky.
 
I had the same form as you did, student but i can't recall the sonic the hedgehog passage. I sure hope i didn't skip one by accident....
 
okay, I hope I am not the only one that got raped on the physics. I answered a quickestion wrong. walking out of the test. realized the answer came back in. yelled at the first asian kid i saw, no offense...we all know you take the MCAt...smart mofus...anyway-yeah indian people too. I screamed "****, i ****e dup a question!" - **** ...

verbal was weird..."vigerous flight pattern of birds"...like i give a ****- WHY COULDN"T THEY TEST ME ON THE "JUGS OF JORDAN!!!" I KNEW THAT ANSWER: IT WAS IMAGINARY! JORDAN IS STUPID! Oh well anyway- i think did well...**** KAPLAN PASSAGE MAPPING! ANYONE REAL DOES IT IN 1 FLOW..atleast with 3 adderall!!! HAHAHAHAHHA! That **** works! ADD gone. MY mom had these $100 mini bottle visine like drops. Turned the contrast upto 80 on my monitor and made it extra wide and talll. ****ING CREMED THE VERBAL SECTION!

Writing- meh!!!

BS: KIllllllllllllllled IT! WIll be pissed if i get more than 2 wrong.... MORE THAN 2!! i swear!!

if YOU GOT CAJONES PUT UP URE PREDICTED SCORE(YOU CAN TOO STARLIGHT):

PS: 12 Verbal 11 BS:13-14
 
I think they were messing aroud with everyone, joking about the test. Yeah...especially with the sonic the hedgehog. I think it was to make us wonder if we are reliving a nightmare to taking a test. THE MATRIX IS REAL!
 
it was especially funny becuase you can see the falling object diagram in the fountain- if that is ure question. DUDE! THEY JUST MADE THE DIAGRAM 3D! DUH!
 
hmm, this is freaking me out. i had the exact same questions and passages as you but i don't remember any sonic the hedgehog question or passage. -__-;

Lol, it seems as though most people don't remember the sonic the hedgehog part of the passage. It was the one about cilia and kinesin/dyenin etc. SSH )sonic the hedgehog) was one of the proteins.

Sigh. A long 30 days ahead.
 
I think I had the same form as you, Student1184.

I personally thought that water fountain question was complete crap. I don't remember the options but I looked at the question and was like...wtf.

The last passage about the index of refraction etc threw me off because it required a lot of calculations when I was running out of time...I felt like this CBT was completely - "How fast can you read and calculate!?"

The verbal, I thought, was a *****. It was so hard to concentrate, because the passages were so detailed. The birds one came flying (hah) at me when I was running out of time...and I was like wtf?

I thought BS was alright - although the very first question with the goats completely and totally threw me off....(the graphs one).
OChem was pretty generic...the only tough stuff I thought that they threw in there that seemed like it almost came out of NOWHERE was that cilia passage. They really made this BS completely passage-based instead of knowledge-based like practice tests.

Eh, i think that a lot of people had this general reaction though - which makes me feel as if the curve has to be more generous than the practice tests.





Generally speaking though - does the curve apply broadly to all versions of the MCAT on the test day? Or do they differ it from version to version?
 
Crap, you mean to tell me that if you don't hit save, it won't save ur work when you're done? I never hit save on any of them and just let the clock run! :scared:


Actually It does save automatically.
 
I think I had the same form as you, Student1184.

I personally thought that water fountain question was complete crap. I don't remember the options but I looked at the question and was like...wtf.

The last passage about the index of refraction etc threw me off because it required a lot of calculations when I was running out of time...I felt like this CBT was completely - "How fast can you read and calculate!?"

The verbal, I thought, was a *****. It was so hard to concentrate, because the passages were so detailed. The birds one came flying (hah) at me when I was running out of time...and I was like wtf?

I thought BS was alright - although the very first question with the goats completely and totally threw me off....(the graphs one).
OChem was pretty generic...the only tough stuff I thought that they threw in there that seemed like it almost came out of NOWHERE was that cilia passage. They really made this BS completely passage-based instead of knowledge-based like practice tests.

Eh, i think that a lot of people had this general reaction though - which makes me feel as if the curve has to be more generous than the practice tests.





Generally speaking though - does the curve apply broadly to all versions of the MCAT on the test day? Or do they differ it from version to version?

I am going to go out on a limb and say the last one was the toughest on the verbal. SUCKED BALLS!!
 
I was shocked with the length of the passages. I was already struggling with improving my timing on the PS section. This test really threw me and I actually ended up not getting one marked in time, even as a guess! Darn!
 
Man I don't want to go through this torture again. I wish I score at least a 30.

The PS section had some pretty easy straightforward questions and then some extremely difficult ones probably because I had not studied the topic well enough.
The verbal has always been my strongest section. I usually score from 11-13. Today, I felt as if a truck hit me. The wording of some of the passages and the questions really made me sweat. I couldn't believe that I had performed so bad in VS. My WS section suffered because of it.
The BS was probably the easiest for me. I had taken animal physiology and Organic chem which ended in May. Both those courses made the MCAT look like a piece of cake. But at the end of the exam I was very stressed. And BS was too good to be true so I am sure I made some mistakes.

Overall, I am not sure how it really went in terms of score. I had taken time off work to prepare for it and don't know if I will be able to take it again.
 
Here's my take on today's MCAT:

PS:

Overall difficulty, 5 being average and 10 being hardest possible: 6
Physics: A bit more difficult than expected. I would agree with many of you that there were about 4-5 that were quite tricky, and the question format seemed unlike any others on the AAMC PTs.
Gen Chem: About what I expected from AAMC PTs 7-10.

VR:
Overall difficulty: 7.5
Definitely didn't have enough time. It looks like many of you felt rushed, and I couldn't agree more. Passages seemed longer than on AAMC PTs 7-10 and the questions more vague. Though, VR tends to be my weak spot in general.

WS:
Prompts were manageable.

BS:
Overall difficulty: 6.5
Biology:
Reasonable, though many (at least 5 questions) were quite tricky. There were about 1-2 that I had to make educated guesses on.

Organic:
Very much in line with what I expected from practice tests.

Testing Experience:
Folks at Thomson Prometric in Raleigh, NC, are really nice and make sure you are comfortable.
 
Looks like I had the same test as kstreet and student1184. Although, no sonic the hedgehog (eh?).

PS: The first half was pretty easy chemistry stuff. I was thinking, "hey, this isn't so bad, I'm going to do MUCH better than I usually do in PS - maybe I'll even get an 11 or 12!" (I always got either an 8 or 10 on PS in practice tests). Then the second half was mostly physics, but were REALLY rough physics passages. I don't feel that I could have prepared better for it - it was just nasty. I spoke to a bunch of people at my testing center, and they all had the same impression, so I'm hoping there will be a decent curve for PS. The calculations weren't as bad as I had feared (I HATE math), but the physics was more difficult than I expected. And some odd wave-aspect questions that I thought were odd and/or applied to areas of physics other than waves. The roller coaster question about velocity seemed like something I should have been able to calculate, but I simply couldn't get it to work. So odd. I'd say that question annoyed me more than any other question in that section, simply because I felt like I *should* have been able to do it, but couldn't figure out how. Oh, and I swear, there was a chem question about the empirical formula/relationship between two elements that I'm positive was a discrete from a recent practice test I took (CBT 8?). That was a nice surprise. Altogether, I finished with about 5 minutes to spare. I felt pretty destroyed after PS.

VR: I thought it was pretty representative of the CBTs, but the passages definitely were longer than on the CBTs. I only ever ran out of time on two practices, but because of that I made sure I booked it and kept at a good clip. I finished with about 7 minutes to spare, and spent about 5 of them puzzling over the robot number of devices question. Eh? So annoying. The song birds were irritating, but overall it could have been worse. I also had the productivity/economics passage, the art/camera obscura passage, and the Descartes passage. Nothing like that nasty Picasso passage from CBT 5 that I feared. Oh, and of course, everyone around me was pounding on their keyboards during my VR section. That sucked. Even the headphones couldn't drown that out. Meh.

WS: Never practiced this, and didn't feel I need to. The prompts were easy, and luckily did not make me have to "create" a politician to talk about. That was my only concern on this section. I hope they don't dock me too much for only having four paragraphs per essay. Did they want the standard five? If so, so be it. I don't like rules. Also, I only spent 15 minutes per essay. I so just wanted to get out of there. I had to wait an hour just for them to seat me at the testing center, so I was pretty impatient to be done with it by then.

BS: I'm a bit scared that this section seemed easier than any of the CBTs. I figure that will mean that there won't be much of a curve. The orgo wasn't as bad as some of the orgo in some of the more recent CBTs. I think I had three orgo passages. I remember a passage about ways to distinguish ketones from aldehydes experimentally, a Grignard reaction, and the differences between various purification methods. However, there was an HNMR proton question that I swear they screwed up. There was simply no "CDCl3" anywhere in the passage, but they referred to it in the question. I spent a few minutes puzzling about that one. I wrote that up in my "survey," so maybe they'll look into it. I also had the goats, plasmids, calcium regulation, ADH/aldosterone regulation, etc. Lots of physiology and hormones, I thought. But hey, that's fine by me. I was happy we didn't get any tough molecular bio or complex genetics. Come to think of it, I don't think there was a single question on glycolysis, krebs, etc. The question that I hated the most (and totally screwed up) was a Hardy-Weinberg theorem discrete. I knew the formula, but just couldn't get it to work. And I guessed what the answer probably would be, but of course changed my answer to a wrong answer. Argh. I swore I'd go with my gut, but forgot to do so on the last question of the test. And, as with my practices, I finished BS with about 15 minutes to spare.

Ok, now is the tough part - waiting for July 18th. I'm going to hope that I got at least a 9 on PS. I'm going to guess I got an 11-12 on VR, and an 11 on BS (unless it was so easy that there was NO curve, in which case I got a 10). So, I figure I got between a 30 and a 32, which is what I predicted going into the test. Just crossing my fingers I didn't bomb the PS section and get a 7 or 8 on it.

Congrats to everyone on finishing and getting this over with. Now we can actually enjoy some of the summer festivities. And try our best to forget about this fiasco until July 18th.

Oh, one last thing. Cracked me up that the proctor at the end said to each of us as we signed out, "See you in a few years for Step 1!"
 
Verbal was really long...I also thought the first two were hard, but the rest would not have been so bad if I hadn't felt rushed. I just hope I don't have to take it again!

That's exactly how I felt. The first 2/3 passages were very lengthy causing me to pick up the pace considerably during the rest.

PS- usually I have trouble on certain math problems on the practice tests but I tore it up on the MCAT! Comparable to practice tests difficulty.

VR- IMO I thought it was the hardest of the 3, just too lengthy (definitely longer than the aamc practice test) and some of the questions were a bit challenging. I never had timing problems on the practice tests but found myself rushing through this. At least it got progressively easier.

WS- screw the arts!

BS- not bad. Comparable to practice tests difficulty.

Overall the test wasn't bad, very comparable to aamc CBT's.

(directly after the MCAT) Lady bartender serves me a tall glass of miller light draft. Comes back a minute later -- should've seen the look on her face when she saw it all gone. :laugh: Told her I just took the MCAT and the convo went on from there.

Drank LOTS of alcohol last night, all my friends were buying me drinks left and right to celebrate me returning from hibernation. And look...I'm even up at 5/6 am as I trained myself to! lol

Congrats on everyone surviving...we did it! I'll be in cancun checking my scores! 😎
 
I took the test as well and I am awake at 7 am due to the drunkin "I need a glass of water now" state..but..

PS - I thought the Gen Chem was dirt cheap and a lot of the questions were super easy, but I had trouble on a lot of the physics and guest on 3-4 questions as well as most of you did. All of the discretes were easy which made me feel good.

Verbal - I was really in the zone and felt confident of my answers, but you never know with verbal.....overall none of the passages were insanely hard, but 2 fairly difficult ones. The passage I saved for last ended up being easy b/c only the first paragraph was hard to understand which is why I saved it for the end...so that was a nice suprise lol.

Writing - I felt like I wrote one good (travel) and one bad (good leader) essay lol.

BS - Overall I felt it wasn't bad, just so fatigued by the end I was to lazy to really go over my answers with 10 minutes left on the clock. The orgo was pretty straight forward. Some of the discretes were tricky and the Ricket's passage blew my mind. Spent 15 minutes on it and still not 100% sure of my answers at the end...

Does anyone else feel like they somehow might have missed a "hidden" passage or question on the CBT somehow lol? I know I didn't b/c I checked the review screen, but I still can't shake the idea that somehow I missed some "hidden" questions lol. Unfortunately I don't think the curve is going to be with us because this MCAT was moderate by MCAT standards. I guess we will see in 30 days!
 
I took the test as well and I am awake at 7 am due to the drunkin "I need a glass of water now" state..but..

haha, i thought i was the only one! guess a lot of us hit the bars pretty hard last night! :laugh: i am so glad it's all over, and hopefully, i won't have to retest...feels good to relax and enjoy my summer!
 
okay maybe i missed questions b/the pasages everyone is mentioning sound unfamiliar.

I really felt like the BS was the hardest I've seen. It started off with 2 decent orgo passages, and then the BIO was ridiculous. From the nematode/hermaphrodite passage, to the AcoB (??) RNA editing passage, to the pregnancy/blood pressure one. the discretes werent easy either. damn. damn. damn. does this form sound famiar??
 
there are 2 i know i got wrong on BS, and it's driving me crazy. not to say that i didn't get, more, i just know about those two. i felt like there was some really obscure material on there.

i'm really disappointed... i'm applying MSTP so i need killer scores, and my practice was all 37+ and i'm just not sure if i did that well. just didnt' feel that good walking out.

sigh.
 
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