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Hello,
I completed a Kaplan course in January and was planning to take the exam for the first time at the end of January. Due to some anxieties, I postponed the exam after taking my 2nd Kaplan full length and scoring a 28. Since then, I have taken the next 3 kaplan exams scoring 36 on each. Each section hovered around 12.
Several weeks ago, I started taking the AAMC exams. I have taken 7,8, and 3 in that ordrer. AAMC#7 scored a 36-PS: 10, VR: 15, and BS 11. AAMC 8 scored a 31- PS 10, VR 10, BS 11. AAMC#3 scored a 29-PS 10, VR 10, BS 9. Obviously I'm pretty disappointed by how my Kaplan exams have been converting. Clearly my 15 on verbal on test 8 was a fluke so my AAMC exams have been sitting at around 30 but I really hate to see them decline.
I'm planning to take and review each AAMC exam, practice 3 verbal passages daily from EK101/kaplan, practice 30 discrete BS/PS questions from the AAMC official guide and Kaplan, and read each BS/PS chapter from kaplan again (although I've been reviewing the material off and on since I postponed the exam).
Please provide any suggestions for additional study techniques and whether or not you think it's possible to raise my practice exam scores by test day. I'm hesitant to postpone the exam again since I feel like I've used up important AAMC exam materials, but I am not comfortable taking the exam with a predicted score under 30.
Thanks for any help!
I completed a Kaplan course in January and was planning to take the exam for the first time at the end of January. Due to some anxieties, I postponed the exam after taking my 2nd Kaplan full length and scoring a 28. Since then, I have taken the next 3 kaplan exams scoring 36 on each. Each section hovered around 12.
Several weeks ago, I started taking the AAMC exams. I have taken 7,8, and 3 in that ordrer. AAMC#7 scored a 36-PS: 10, VR: 15, and BS 11. AAMC 8 scored a 31- PS 10, VR 10, BS 11. AAMC#3 scored a 29-PS 10, VR 10, BS 9. Obviously I'm pretty disappointed by how my Kaplan exams have been converting. Clearly my 15 on verbal on test 8 was a fluke so my AAMC exams have been sitting at around 30 but I really hate to see them decline.
I'm planning to take and review each AAMC exam, practice 3 verbal passages daily from EK101/kaplan, practice 30 discrete BS/PS questions from the AAMC official guide and Kaplan, and read each BS/PS chapter from kaplan again (although I've been reviewing the material off and on since I postponed the exam).
Please provide any suggestions for additional study techniques and whether or not you think it's possible to raise my practice exam scores by test day. I'm hesitant to postpone the exam again since I feel like I've used up important AAMC exam materials, but I am not comfortable taking the exam with a predicted score under 30.
Thanks for any help!