June 15th

[swifteagle43]

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Oh my god....it is comming!

RUN!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[quintessence]

All of the practice MCATs have been updated to CBT's, i.e. less questions etc.

I have all the old R's on file, and I'm using them to practice from.

How different are they? Am I harming myself by only studying from the R's, which are longer, on the assumption thatb they're even more taxing than the real thing?

I've actually only taken 3R, and I did good on it, but from what I hear over here, that's the easiest of the lot.

So- CBT vs. R?

Just PMed you🙂

 

[quintessence]

Thanks for the tip. Just wondering what makes you feel that the Kaplan FL's are so far from the real thing? I will say having taking 3 of them my scores have been all over the map when compared to the AAMC tests(which I suppose is an indication in and of itself) but part of me needs that 33 on Kaplan FL #6 to be legit 😳

Then again my other Kaplan tests might as well be flushed down the drain, anyways thanks for the advice, I think that is probably the best course of action although I do need to finish the KP's for the high score gurantee( which is far less important than an actual high score).

I'm retaking the MCAT, but when I took it the first time, I read through all of the SDN and premed101 mcat forums to see which materials were recommended as prep. I had access to all of the EK, Kaplan and PR stuff through friends etc, but didn't have time to take a prep-course then or now. I think there is a general consensus that the Kaplan FLs are all over the place and honestly, mock exams are so draining that I just don't think it is worth doing them unless they are coming straight from AAMC!

 

[SaLeeNS7TT]

I guess for me, I've done most of my review through the EK prep books (tend to like them better overall...) but have done all the Kaplan reading at least once, and I'm going over them again (quickly) to see if they offer any further insight. I'm fairly confident on my knowledge of content, and I've taken Kaplan FL 1-3, AAMC 3 & 4, and my scores have been pretty stable ~35 on my last 3 tests. I've done a lot of the Kaplan material online, but not all of it, and I think it's best at this point to concentrate on AAMC stuff. This means that I dont really want to take the time to do Kaplan FL 4-5, and the rest of the required section quizzes and whatnot. However, if I were to retake, I think using the Kaplan material as further means of practice would be extremely valuable, especially since it cost me $2000...

I find Kaplan overall to have been extremely helpful--I had a good teacher, the review books were good to supplement EK, all the review problems, Kaplan & AAMC FL's, etc.


P.S. I wasted all of last night watching the Cavs vs. Pistons game and just wasted the last hour watching the Democratic debate. Why can't I motivate myself????🙁

Ah, ok haha you'll probably be just fine! Yea, I find EK to work better in areas vs kaplan, esp verbal (I bought the audio osmosis). I think the only method I use from kaplan is to do discretes first and then I just work the passages backwards haha.

If you decide to take kaplan again w/o the higher score guarantee, it's only $500. Still money but definitely better than 3x as much.

 

[starlight04]

is anyone else here abnormally nervous about this test??

i mean, i've taken a lot of tests in my life, from high school, to PSAT, SAT, SAT II, ACT, to midterms and final exams in undergrad worth a lot of my grade. sure, i'm a little scared beforehand, but not anywhere near the extent of how worked up i am over this stupid MCAT. I feel like this is a life or death situation even though i KNOW its not. I keep telling myself the worst thing that can happen is to retake or take a year off, but my emotions do not match what my brain's logic. 😱

Eeeeks. AAMC 5 time. Wish me luck.

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

is anyone else here abnormally nervous about this test??

i mean, i've taken a lot of tests in my life, from high school, to PSAT, SAT, SAT II, ACT, to midterms and final exams in undergrad worth a lot of my grade. sure, i'm a little scared beforehand, but not anywhere near the extent of how worked up i am over this stupid MCAT. I feel like this is a life or death situation even though i KNOW its not. I keep telling myself the worst thing that can happen is to retake or take a year off, but my emotions do not match what my brain's logic. 😱

Eeeeks. AAMC 5 time. Wish me luck.

I have been having seizure like tremors while trying to fal asleep, and no i'm not kidding, I stay up for like hours just stressed out, when logically i know i'll do fine, and even if i don't big deal, there are other options, but I really can't sleep lately and my whole body feels like there's major lactic acid buildup in all my muslces even though i haven't really been excersizing or anything....

 

[starlight04]

AAMC 5 (supposed to be another easy one...)

PS: 13
VR: 10
BS: 12
Overall: 35...again.

Can't seem to break a 35 on the AAMC CBTs. PS was very calculation heavy (but not hard...just lots of numbers). And in both VR and BS, I was basically murdered on one passage each...

I was hoping to break 35, since my PS jumped from 10-11-13, but my verbal has been dropping 12-11-10..., and my BS 13-13-12. Booo. BOOO.

Guess I've hit my peak? Just hope to maintain it on 6/15. I just wanted to get a little higher so I would feel better psychologically. haha.

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

AAMC 5 (supposed to be another easy one...)

PS: 13
VR: 10
BS: 12
Overall: 35...again.

Can't seem to break a 35 on the AAMC CBTs. PS was very calculation heavy (but not hard...just lots of numbers). And in both VR and BS, I was basically murdered on one passage each...

I was hoping to break 35, since my PS jumped from 10-11-13, but my verbal has been dropping 12-11-10..., and my BS 13-13-12. Booo. BOOO.

Guess I've hit my peak? Just hope to maintain it on 6/15. I just wanted to get a little higher so I would feel better psychologically. haha.

I just finished half of AAMC 5,
PS=will do tonight
VR=10
BS=9

Which passage killed? On BS I thought it was really short one about viroids or something, seemed easy but i missed all except one! 😕

On verbal I think it was that government one.

 

[starlight04]

I just finished half of AAMC 5,
PS=will do tonight
VR=10
BS=9

Which passage killed? On BS I thought it was really short one about viroids or something, seemed easy but i missed all except one! 😕

On verbal I think it was that government one.

Haha different passages for me. I think i missed 4-5 questions on the Picasso passage in VR. And I missed most of the questions on that stupid arthropods passage in BS. I couldn't figure out what a coelum had to do with anything and got all the systems messed up. I think besides that psg, I only missed like 3 other questions total. 😕😕

Good luck with the PS. I thought it was fairly straightforward--just be careful with your calculations! Stupid calculation errors definitely cost me a few questions.

 

[KnuxNole]

10 More Days of studying left!!!

I did AAMC 8 and got a 30 on it! I'm SOOO happy! I'm gonna use that confidence to push to the end!
I took 9 and 10 previously, and 9 was the easiest of the 3 while 10 was the hardest.

Thankfully, for the BS on 8, my upper-level courses helped me(especially on the last passage with microfilaments that I learned in the last unit of Cell Bio last semester).

Now i'm just gonna keep doing a verbal passage per day and REVIEW A LOT especially physio(my weak spot), and keep practicing passages till I barf.

to you all 😀

 

[AWhitehair]

10 More Days of studying left!!!

I did AAMC 8 and got a 30 on it! I'm SOOO happy! I'm gonna use that confidence to push to the end!
I took 9 and 10 previously, and 9 was the easiest of the 3 while 10 was the hardest.

Thankfully, for the BS on 8, my upper-level courses helped me(especially on the last passage with microfilaments that I learned in the last unit of Cell Bio last semester).

Now i'm just gonna keep doing a verbal passage per day and REVIEW A LOT especially physio(my weak spot), and keep practicing passages till I barf.

to you all 😀

Good job! I am in the middle of AAMC 8 now...I hope I do well on this one because it is too close to the exam to get my confidence down. 😎

 

[acurax]

Getting close

My practice scores have been okay so far... hopefully they won't drop off on the later AAMC's (7-10).

AAMC 3 (30)
PS 11
VR 8 😱
BS 11

AAMC 4 (29)
PS 11
VR 9
BS 9 😕

AAMC 5 (33)
PS 12
VR 11
BS 10

AAMC 6 (32)
PS 10 - One Q away from an 11...realized an easy mistake during the break too.
VR 11
BS 11

I'll be taking AAMC 7 tomorrow, and 8 on Thursday then will probably do 9/10 on Sunday/Monday, respectively.

I'm finally getting more consistent in verbal. The last 4 VR sections I've done have been 11's (2 AAMC and 2 EK 101). Practicing this just about every day by doing 3-6 passages a day from EK 101.

 

[Phoenix.]

Knuxnole: I'm right there with you. SO freaking happy as well. Just took CBT 8 and got a 30 too! Funny, but I heard 8 was a lot harder than 6, and yet I got the same exact score and breakdown as I got last week when I took 6:

PS 10, VR 11, BS 9

I'll be ECSTATIC if that's what I get on the real thing. I don't know why my PS scores finally jumped from an 8 to a 10, but I'm not complaining! The only thing I really can't figure out is my BS score. I've been studying almost purely bio for the past 2-3 weeks, and yet my score has gone DOWN! My bio scores, in order, are: 8, 10, 11, 9, 9, 9. Looks like I'm consistently getting 9s now. Urgh. And bio is my best subject, and I really feel I understand the material. No idea what to do about that.

As for VR, I'm almost running out of time now, but I'm getting consistent about getting 11s. I just hope I can keep PS up around a 9 or 10 on AAMC 9 and 10, and somehow improve bio. I've mainly been doing EK 1001 bio questions. Any suggestions?

Think I'll take 10 next, around Friday, and then 9. Certainly don't want to end on a hard practice.... Luck to the rest of you!

 

[quintessence]

starting 5 tonight...the more I review, the more I realize how much I don't know :S

 

[Phoenix.]

I'm starting to feel like the MCAT is complete luck. Mainly, because there's such variation in content and difficulty of sections between administrations, but also because how you feel you're doing on a practice MCAT seems to be completely unrepresentative. I was SURE that I did really well on the PS section of CBT 7, and I got an 8! I just took CBT 8 and felt like there was NO WAY I was going to get about a 7 or 8 in PS, and I got a 10! I guess the moral of the story is not to let it affect you during the real test. Even if I feel like I've just bombed the PS section on the real MCAT I'll try to ignore the feeling and not let it get me down for the other sections.

 

[starlight04]

I'm starting to feel like the MCAT is complete luck. Mainly, because there's such variation in content and difficulty of sections between administrations, but also because how you feel you're doing on a practice MCAT seems to be completely unrepresentative. I was SURE that I did really well on the PS section of CBT 7, and I got an 8! I just took CBT 8 and felt like there was NO WAY I was going to get about a 7 or 8 in PS, and I got a 10! I guess the moral of the story is not to let it affect you during the real test. Even if I feel like I've just bombed the PS section on the real MCAT I'll try to ignore the feeling and not let it get me down for the other sections.

agreed. scores tend to hover in a 3 pt range per section, but depending on your luck, mood, and state of mind, scores can vary drastically.

what do you guys think about the fact that AAMC supposedly "stole" 2 old Kaplan passages for the 5/31 exam?

 

[quintessence]

just finished AAMC 5...

PS-13
VR -14
BS-12

needless to say I was shocked...I found this test to be extremely difficult (lol I also started at like 9pm...) and guessed through many passages...hope that I guess as well on the real thing!

I don't think that AAMC stole Kaplan passages...Kaplan probably stole and modified them from a past administration, and when AAMC reused the passages the Kaplan kids were familiar with them!

 

[AWhitehair]

Knuxnole: I'm right there with you. SO freaking happy as well. Just took CBT 8 and got a 30 too! Funny, but I heard 8 was a lot harder than 6, and yet I got the same exact score and breakdown as I got last week when I took 6:

PS 10, VR 11, BS 9

I'll be ECSTATIC if that's what I get on the real thing. I don't know why my PS scores finally jumped from an 8 to a 10, but I'm not complaining! The only thing I really can't figure out is my BS score. I've been studying almost purely bio for the past 2-3 weeks, and yet my score has gone DOWN! My bio scores, in order, are: 8, 10, 11, 9, 9, 9. Looks like I'm consistently getting 9s now. Urgh. And bio is my best subject, and I really feel I understand the material. No idea what to do about that.

As for VR, I'm almost running out of time now, but I'm getting consistent about getting 11s. I just hope I can keep PS up around a 9 or 10 on AAMC 9 and 10, and somehow improve bio. I've mainly been doing EK 1001 bio questions. Any suggestions?

Think I'll take 10 next, around Friday, and then 9. Certainly don't want to end on a hard practice.... Luck to the rest of you!

The BS on 8 had a lot more orgo than usual...not my strong point, so I didn't do as well on that section compared to the rest of the test. Did you guys think the VR was easier than normal. I had been getting 6-8 on the Kaplan tests and this is the first aamc I have done in a long time and I got a 9. I'm not sure if I can attribute that too an easier than norm VR section or the fact that Kaplan VR sucks.

 

[AWhitehair]

agreed. scores tend to hover in a 3 pt range per section, but depending on your luck, mood, and state of mind, scores can vary drastically.

what do you guys think about the fact that AAMC supposedly "stole" 2 old Kaplan passages for the 5/31 exam?

Please don't start that convo in here...there is a WHOLE thread about that topic started by Christian15(?).... 🙄

 

[Phoenix.]

The BS on 8 had a lot more orgo than usual...not my strong point, so I didn't do as well on that section compared to the rest of the test. Did you guys think the VR was easier than normal. I had been getting 6-8 on the Kaplan tests and this is the first aamc I have done in a long time and I got a 9. I'm not sure if I can attribute that too an easier than norm VR section or the fact that Kaplan VR sucks.

I actually thought that the BS section of CBT 7 had more orgo than 8. But I got a 9 on both, so perhaps that's the real reason that my 10 and 11 on previous BS tests have turned into 9s on recent BS sections. Must be the orgo! Let's just hope that we get an orgo-light version like the May 31st MCAT-takers got. My friend took it on April 7th and said it was VERY orgo heavy. He was usually getting 12s on BS on practice AAMC MCATs and got a 9 on the real thing - he ascribes it purely to orgo.

I thought that VR was pretty much like the other VR sections of the AAMC MCATs. The only one I thought was brutal was CBT 5 (the only test I dropped below a 10 on), and mainly just because of one silly passage (Picasso). But then again, my problem is that one messy Humanities passage they tend to throw in.

I think that if you got a 9 on VR on CBT 8, you're definitely improving. From what I've heard, most people think the PS and VR on 8 were pretty hard.

 

[AWhitehair]

I actually thought that the BS section of CBT 7 had more orgo than 8. But I got a 9 on both, so perhaps that's the real reason that my 10 and 11 on previous BS tests have turned into 9s on recent BS sections. Must be the orgo! Let's just hope that we get an orgo-light version like the May 31st MCAT-takers got. My friend took it on April 7th and said it was VERY orgo heavy. He was usually getting 12s on BS on practice AAMC MCATs and got a 9 on the real thing - he ascribes it purely to orgo.

I thought that VR was pretty much like the other VR sections of the AAMC MCATs. The only one I thought was brutal was CBT 5 (the only test I dropped below a 10 on), and mainly just because of one silly passage (Picasso). But then again, my problem is that one messy Humanities passage they tend to throw in.

I think that if you got a 9 on VR on CBT 8, you're definitely improving. From what I've heard, most people think the PS and VR on 8 were pretty hard.

Well that definitely makes me feel better. Thanks. 🙂

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

just finished AAMC 5...

PS-13
VR -14
BS-12

needless to say I was shocked...I found this test to be extremely difficult (lol I also started at like 9pm...) and guessed through many passages...hope that I guess as well on the real thing!

I don't think that AAMC stole Kaplan passages...Kaplan probably stole and modified them from a past administration, and when AAMC reused the passages the Kaplan kids were familiar with them!

14?? MY GOD. Are you a troll?

I thought I did super good in the verbal for AAMC5, and I got a 10, I was pretty pissed, I felt I understood each passage, so I thought I'd get maybe a 12. What's your strategy? How do you read the passage and eliminate answers? In order or.. what?

 

[quintessence]

14?? MY GOD. Are you a troll?

I thought I did super good in the verbal for AAMC5, and I got a 10, I was pretty pissed, I felt I understood each passage, so I thought I'd get maybe a 12. What's your strategy? How do you read the passage and eliminate answers? In order or.. what?

lol VR has always been my strongest section...the best advice I can give you is to forget everything that PR and Kaplan teach you about this section, and read over the EK advice.

I do the passages in order (really, flipping through ANY section of the mcat is just a waste of time:S) and I read through each passage carefully just once, as if I were reading a novel. By the end of the passage, before I move onto the questions, I tell myself what the main point of the passage was, and who it could be written by (journalist, poet, lawyer etc)....then I move onto the questions and I answer then like EK suggested; read the question, and from the question stem I try to figure out what the answer could be. I've never read a passage more then once, or gone back to it....rather than worrying about the stupid details of the passages, I find that if I get the main point down, I can answer all of the questions w/o looking back. Most importantly, I follow my gut and try not to overthink about the answers!

 

[BeatrixKiddo]

lol VR has always been my strongest section...the best advice I can give you is to forget everything that PR and Kaplan teach you about this section, and read over the EK advice.

I do the passages in order (really, flipping through ANY section of the mcat is just a waste of time:S) and I read through each passage carefully just once, as if I were reading a novel. By the end of the passage, before I move onto the questions, I tell myself what the main point of the passage was, and who it could be written by (journalist, poet, lawyer etc)....then I move onto the questions and I answer then like EK suggested; read the question, and from the question stem I try to figure out what the answer could be. I've never read a passage more then once, or gone back to it....rather than worrying about the stupid details of the passages, I find that if I get the main point down, I can answer all of the questions w/o looking back. Most importantly, I follow my gut and try not to overthink about the answers!

Hm, great plan, I will try that for next time.

 

[artaxerxes]

does anyone know how well kaplan full length scores and aamc cbt practice scores translate? I've been hearing from the May31 group that the actual test is quite different, which has me worried.

so far for kaplan full length I have 29, 39, 39
aamc CBT3 12, 10, 13 PS/VR/BS
aamc CBT4 15, 12, 12, got blindsided by some orgo questions in the BS, I worried that the AAMC practices are easier than the real thing

 

[quintessence]

does anyone know how well kaplan full length scores and aamc cbt practice scores translate? I've been hearing from the May31 group that the actual test is quite different, which has me worried.

so far for kaplan full length I have 29, 39, 39
aamc CBT3 12, 10, 13 PS/VR/BS
aamc CBT4 15, 12, 12, got blindsided by some orgo questions in the BS, I worried that the AAMC practices are easier than the real thing

good job with that 15 on AAMC4...that's the hardest practice exam of the series =) As I mentioned before, the Kaplan exams aren't anything like the actual test. As you have probably noticed yourself, the difficulty of each AAMC exams varies depending on the content and how comfortable you are with it....but these exams are a very good predictor of how you will do on the real test (most people get plus or minus two of their practice avg score).

 

[eltor07]

holy crap artaxerxes. If I were you, I'd stop worrying. You will be fine on the real MCAT. Those scores are awesome. The highest I ever gotten on a Kaplan was a 37 and you got 39 twice? I'm taking the MCAT the 15th, too, but I should be more worried than you right now. If you keep doing that well consistently on the aamcs then you'll be fine.

 

[starlight04]

Wow, you people get some amazing scores. I would just quit worrying and sleep until test day if I were you!

Spent all dayyy today getting paperwork, ID, parking, etc for my summer job from 7AM-4PM, and now I am EXHAUSTED. the worst part is that I have to go BACK on Thursday. Way to ruin my last minute MCAT plans!!

BTW--I was only asking about AAMC "stealing" Kaplan passages on May 31, because I was wondering what everyone's take was on it in a non-hostile environment haha. I think its RIDICULOUS that people are making a huge deal out of it. I mean, if you do enough practice problems, there are bound to similar/same questions on the actual MCAT. There are only so many ways you can ask a question, which is why it helps to do LOTS of problems. I am just too tired to argue with them about it 🙄

 

[MystA RavE]

I took AAMC CBT 6 and the verbal raped my score completely. I was doing relatively fine on the other exams. I hate when the topics are literature and history.

 

[artaxerxes]

quick question,

Has anyone encountered questions regard selenoids and toroids, gauss's law, transesterfication, or hoffman's rearrangement/degredation in their practice tests?

and are Alkyne/Alkene and aromatics definately not going to be on the test?

what were the strangest orgo/phys questions you've encountered yet?

 

[eltor07]

Wow solenoids and gauss' law... I had completely forgotten about those topics. I don't think they will be tested. Neither Kaplan nor EK have them in their review books and I haven't see any on the practice aamc exams.

 

[eltor07]

Where did you hear about them not using alkene/alkynes?

 

[artaxerxes]

I was looking over the MCAT topic list, didn't see alkene, and another poster mentioned no armomatic stuff except for roles in acidity and bascity. But with kaplan devoting two chapters to the topics, I'm not sure.

I saw selenoid, toroid, gauss law and some other weird stuff on the MCAT topic list. BUt haven't seen any of those questions yet.

 

[eltor07]

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure then. They'd probably have them in a reaction, but not specifically tested. Anyone who know someone who has taken it know if there is any alkene/alkyne? That would be awesome if they aren't including aromatics. That's the only part of orgo that I've had trouble with.

 

[corbis11]

i've noticed most of the free standing ochem is easy. Most of the passage based q's deal with lab type q's

 

[starlight04]

I took AAMC CBT 6 and the verbal raped my score completely. I was doing relatively fine on the other exams. I hate when the topics are literature and history.

Yeah...I decided just to do the verbal section from CBT 6 tonight. Who knew they could cram in so many topics in government, history, literature, and economics (aka all the topics that most science majors FEAR). Definitely threw me for a loop. I marked 1/3 of the questions as guesses .... but somehow got an 11 😕

Where did you hear about them not using alkene/alkynes?

It says in the EK orgo book that they took alkenes and alkynes off the topic list for the MCAT. They also mentioned in the benzene section that nothing would be tested about ortho/meta/para directors and stuff since that was also recently eliminated. SO I guess if EK says it, it is probably true???

OH...and for Gauss' law stuff and solenoids, etc...I have yet to see any of that in a single prep book or question, so I highly doubt they would test it. It seems a little...err...complicated...for the simple MCAT concepts they love. Heck, we didnt even cover Gauss' law in my calc-based physics class for some weird reason.

 

[eltor07]

I wish they didn't reduce the number of orgo questions... I love orgo, but I also love bio so I guess it's not so bad.

 

[quintessence]

what time is everyone writing on the 15th? I'm at 1:30.....

 

[artaxerxes]

8am,

 

[KnuxNole]

8 as well

 

[Ofelia]

I was looking over the MCAT topic list, didn't see alkene, and another poster mentioned no armomatic stuff except for roles in acidity and bascity. But with kaplan devoting two chapters to the topics, I'm not sure.

I saw selenoid, toroid, gauss law and some other weird stuff on the MCAT topic list. BUt haven't seen any of those questions yet.

Hey artaxerxes! I was wondering where you saw the MCAT topic list? Was it from AAMC or one of the test prep companies? I heard that they changed the topics covered on the MCAT, but I'm not sure where to find the site that lists the updated topics.

 

[HristosKaran]

Test here also begins at 1:30...so there are two test times on the 15th?

 

[starlight04]

Two test times: 8AM and 1:30PM

I am taking the 1:30 PM test. I wonder if the two tests will overlap at all regarding the questions...hmm.

Just took AAMC CBT 6, which had a different feeling to it than 3-5

PS: 13
VR: 11
BS: 12
Overall: 36

The PS on this one was laughably easy (an entire passage on the periodic table!!). Normally, I am weak in PS, but I only missed 4 Q's (1 Q away from 14, 2 Q's away from a 15...), two of which were stupid.

On the contrary, I thought the verbal was challenging, and the bio was really tough. I counted about ~20 orgo questions compared to the usual 12ish. Threw me off...

Time to review orgoooo....

 

[AWhitehair]

Two test times: 8AM and 1:30PM

I am taking the 1:30 PM test. I wonder if the two tests will overlap at all regarding the questions...hmm.

Just took AAMC CBT 6, which had a different feeling to it than 3-5

PS: 13
VR: 11
BS: 12
Overall: 36

The PS on this one was laughably easy (an entire passage on the periodic table!!). Normally, I am weak in PS, but I only missed 4 Q's (1 Q away from 14, 2 Q's away from a 15...), two of which were stupid.

On the contrary, I thought the verbal was challenging, and the bio was really tough. I counted about ~20 orgo questions compared to the usual 12ish. Threw me off...

Time to review orgoooo....

Yeah right...that would be nice...I gotta buddy in the 8:30 section. 😛

 

[artaxerxes]

Hey artaxerxes! I was wondering where you saw the MCAT topic list? Was it from AAMC or one of the test prep companies? I heard that they changed the topics covered on the MCAT, but I'm not sure where to find the site that lists the updated topics.

It was the pdf from AAMC's website, under the student section for MCAT prep.

The aamc doc was copyrighted in 2003, which makes me wonder why kaplan hadn't updated their books made it 2006.

took aamc CBT10 this morning at 2-5am before bed,

PS-14-one wrong
VB-11-heard this VB is a lot like the real MCAT?
BS-13-with 3 reading mistakes, getting sleepy

scores seem to be stablizing....

 

[Phoenix.]

Taking it at 1:30 pm CST. All that stress at 8am in the morning would give me a stomach ache!

 

[eltor07]

Ok. Please artaxerxes, you're killing me with those scores. You are more than ready for the MCAT.

I seem to keep making the most ridiculous mistakes on the PS and BS sections. Anyone else having the same problem? I mean I miss 5 questions that I know I should have had.... I don't know what to do.

 

[majik1213]

can i just say .. who are you people!? You guys do SO well on VR!!! I get like 8 and 9 on VR and it's just awful. but on PS .. i mean c'mon! that section is a gimme! (i get 12-13 consistent on aamc practice) ... i mean the section is so straightforward .. i love bio too it's so easy always i always get a 10 it's just like a love tap when ur nearing the end of the exam it's so chill ahhhh

 

[eltor07]

can i just say .. who are you people!? You guys do SO well on VR!!! I get like 8 and 9 on VR and it's just awful. but on PS .. i mean c'mon! that section is a gimme! (i get 12-13 consistent on aamc practice) ... i mean the section is so straightforward .. i love bio too it's so easy always i always get a 10 it's just like a love tap when ur nearing the end of the exam it's so chill ahhhh

Each person has their strengths and weaknesses. I, too, am getting like 8-9 in verbal. Some people are better at verbal than phys so it's not straight forward for them.

 

[artaxerxes]

I have to agree with PS for the practice anyways being fairly easy, but getting above a 13 is still luck orientated.
BS is a little harder because I think the concepts are more spread out (for example the kaplan BS book is 100 pages longer than the PS)
For me verbal is the hardest to improve because it forces me to predict what the test maker is thinking without a consistent guideline.

 

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sigh. just took aamc 7, and didnt do so great compared to the other ones.. anyone else feel like so much rests on luck? I mean, I feel like I know everything and if I go back and review, I'll get bored because I'll feel like I know all of it. But on the test, questions just get.. ambiguous or weird sometimes, and you're pressed for time, and.. argh.

I hate how sometimes you're 1 question away from getting 1 point higher on the section and it brings down your composite.