May 2014 MCATers United
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Yea trust me i did that last summer and it didn't work at all for me at all. So this time around, i will focus on doing content and doing as many practice passages as i can together otherwise i'm not drilling it into my head as much as i should. Plus you get used to mcat style questions quick. So i'm most likely taking mine sometime june, if i do well enough on my practice tests, i might push it up to may 31 st but wanted to join this thread for motivation guys. I hope that's ok. Right now i started physics over again but just didn't understand it well enough so i ordered nova physics to supplement it with tbr plus i have wikipremed flashcards. So right now i'm doing Gen chem. Just finished the equilibrium chapter.
you are going to be ahead of us, I will start taking them early march 🙂 let us know how the FLs go!
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How's studying going everyone? i haven't done anything these 2 days (busy with my research stuff) but ill start tomorrow again... I haven't touched verbal for 3 days 🙁
I will finish chapter 5 orgo TBR and try to start chapter 6 (I'm already weeks behind my schedule!!!!)
I will finish chapter 5 orgo TBR and try to start chapter 6 (I'm already weeks behind my schedule!!!!)
Is anyone else here reading TBR Orgo?
I hate orgo man
I hate orgo man
Are you using TBR? which passages?
don't get discouraged bud, we still have several months! Remember that it's supposed to be hard! its supposed to make you feel ****, don't get discouraged!!
That's something you don't hear everyday, lol.
keep it up! I thought I would be finished with orgo by now but im still on chapter 5... I will start TBR physic and gchem in around 7 days ... I also look forward to those... I feel more confident doing physics and gchem than orgo.....
I'm jumping on it hahahaha. Orgo isn't too bad. Physics and VR ;(
Don't get me started on VR!
I haven't done any verbal over the past 3 days... will do 4 passages tomorrow and see how it goes 😀 ...... EK test #4 here I come
Is anyone else doing EK101 right now?
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I'm doing ek101. So do you do all passages in one test or you do 2 per day! My avg is like 66% a passage 🙁Don't get me started on VR!
I haven't done any verbal over the past 3 days... will do 4 passages tomorrow and see how it goes 😀 ...... EK test #4 here I come
Is anyone else doing EK101 right now?
I do 3-4 passages a day and when done with a test add them up and see my score....
which # are you on? I finished EK the first 3.
%66 translates to an 8 !
That's bad right? I'm on the first passage of the first test. Ek 101 and 2 passbe on tpr hyper active.
youve done only 1 passage so far? lol
I will start TPR once I'm done with EK
I personally would take 8 and run and never look back lol
Oh no I've done like 6 of them so far. 3 diagnostic passages and that and then 4 from TPR. Really? What's your avg?
That's pretty good. It depends on the day. Sometimes it's a 70% sometimes it's a 30% 🙁
That's cool do a couple and then add them up!
lol I'm getting 7s .. its probably best not to listen to my advice lool
lol obviously i don't have a method otherwise I would be scoring 9s and 10s lol
I think I'm just getting stupider and stupider each day. Do you take notes whilst reading?
Well I've just been doing orgo and yes for orgo I do take notes so I can just study my notes instead of referring back.... not sure if I would do the same for physics and gchem ... definitely not bio
what is your logic for that? Just wonderin'
How about this...sorry to step in here. I have been here before. Here goes a little method that i keep on testing out...so you guys can play lab rat for me.
Take whatever you guys are doing...passages:
Do them the first time and score them only...don't review.
Do them the second time and score them only...don't review the answers (but this time around check and see if your thinking has changed from your 1st round answers)
Do them the third time and score them only...don't review the answers again. (this time...you will see a trend; possibly you might resort to the same answers or change em for whatever reason).
Do them the forth time and score them with a review of the given correct answers. ***As you review the answers...be keen to taking note of question stems and what not...pick out how a question is framed and how the correct answer is justified*** Soon you will pick up on how the testers always seem to frame the same style of questions for different passages.
Tell us all if it works.
P.S: You should be working your way up from the 7s to 8s to definite 9s. This by the way is not coming from the fact that you have seen the problem before, but whether you are getting in tuned with the question stems.
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Does it work for you? so when you do more than once, I assumed that you only answer the questions, but dont reread the entire passage right?`
It worked for me...i saw an upward trend. ( It cud get you a little big headed: once you figure it out...its like scoring less than 10s on FLs just sucks)
2. No, i reread the passage even though by this time my memory has it locked in...(so i know what is coming)...but i still re-read it just in case i missed something before.
Oh that is good! so basically you do it four time and re read the passage each and every single time. You only look at the answers on the fourth time. cool
YES!
&&---remember...your gonna run out of VR passages anyway, so use em as much as you can to change those outcomes.---&&
In on this...been hitting NOVA Physics hard then on to my TBR books. How do %'s correct break down on VR relative to score...I'm using passages from the TPR In-Class Compendium right now just to start on VR and have been doing 3-5/day I'm in the 79-92% range on them when I add up 7 at a time...seems to depend immensely on if I take them while really concentrating or not.
as @ChemNerd07 said, this ****z is voodoo...lol
AAMC? what? am i missing something?
Aamc has practice MCATs you can buy.
but those are timed arent they?
I'm pretty sure you can do tutor mode where it isn't timed. Unless that was the Kaplan FLs. I know you can break AAMC into sections and take each section individually. I did that for a bit right before my exam.
Verbal is voodoo. I've gotten 4 6 7 8 3 5 in that order. It's never been consistent.
you can but that would be a huge waste of money ... AAMC PDFs are out there somewhere, the whole point of purchasing them is to get the test day feel lol
you can buy AAMC Self Assessment, those are not timed...
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hello so I am also thinking about doing may 8 mcat. do you think studying from now until then is good enough time? I just finished going through 2nd TBR gen chem book and I am only taking 10 credits this semester. I haven't looked at my prereqs since 2011 or 2012.
I'm on the same boat as you. Registered for May8th, haven't started anything except Orgo (currently doing chapter 5) + verbal. I haven't started Gchem or Physics... and I'm pretty much self studying 100% ... I don't remember anything from pre-reqs...
I hope that's enough time.
What score are you guys aiming for?
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anything that is >30 then I am ok hahaha. you? how is orgo and VR? get much done today?
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