MCAT leaving you unfulfulled?

[superso]

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Anyone else experience this sinking feeling after taking an mcat practice test? You feel youve just gotten 30 wrong per section, worst, hardest mcat you EVER took! Then you check the scores and did way better than you had ever done before. For example, I took a princeton verbal workbook verbal section test a few days ago and i thought i had about 4 killer passages, maybe a score of 7 or 8. I wanted to just give up halfway through it was so bad. Then I graded it just so I could see the bad score and push myself to study harder...and i had the highest verbal score I had ever gotten! Figured it was a fluke. Today I took aamc 5r with princeton and again..' man, i thought this was supposed to be easier, if this is what the real thing is like, im screwed...I end up 5 points higher than my last one! Is this normal or am I just getting lucky on these questions? The third princeton test I took, i thought i killed it, turned out i had a muuuch worse score than I thought. Did anyone else have this feeling? 😕

 

[ambrosia]

I always thought I did awful, especially on the real one, b/c its just so hard to tell. And yea, I always missed kind of a lot of questions, but you can miss like 12 and still get a score above 10. So...I think that what you're going through is normal. And trust me, the feeling will be even worse when you take the real exam. But, the good news is, most people (myself included) end up getting approximately thier highest diagnostic score on the actual exam.
Good luck 🙂

 

[leechy]

I always thought I did awful, especially on the real one, b/c its just so hard to tell. And yea, I always missed kind of a lot of questions, but you can miss like 12 and still get a score above 10. So...I think that what you're going through is normal. And trust me, the feeling will be even worse when you take the real exam. But, the good news is, most people (myself included) end up getting approximately thier highest diagnostic score on the actual exam.
Good luck 🙂

i agree with this 👍

 

[superso]

Thats reassuring..but im still freaking out

 

[velo]

The test never started to "feel easier" to me...its just that the more I practiced the more my score improved. So your experience sounds normal to me, you're improving without feeling as though the test is any easier to take.

 

[stoic]

I agree that as long as your score is improving, you're doing great. I know a lot of people for whom practice test were poor indicators of actual test performance (myself included). Just do your best and it will work out!

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

The MCAT is overrated, overhyped, and over-stressed-about, so I think it leaves everyone unfulfilled.