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I recently took the AAMC Exam 6R (administered from EK). Well needless to say that I got a 7 on the physical section, plus I was pissed that they offered no explanatory answers at the back of the book.(and I missed the EK review of tte exam).
SO last night I broke out my old chemistry and physics notebooks, both GREAT books. And as I went over the Physical section to see why I got hte answers wrong, I flipped to the corresponding chapters in the textbook to HELP find the right answers to the problem...and GUESS WHAT?
SOME OF THE CHEMISTRY PROBLEMS CAME OUT OF THE BOOK (don't get excited...not all but some..like 4 or 5). If they didn't come out the book, there was something very similar IN the book....especially chemistry.
And they weren't HARD questions in the textbook, they were usually those easy questions that follows each topic (not the "hard back of the book" questions).
I did the same for physics even though I didn't find the same questions posted in the text. But I got help with the formula stuff.
But the point is that I used this method when I took the last mcat (going back to the basic textbook stuff which is REALLY what the mcat tests you on not advance stuff) and it really helped me out a lot. (wish I had a plan like that for verbal though).
Anyway now I am siked and I will go over my other wrong physical answers from other exams using my textbook which helps break things down.
When I was done and I looked at the entire physical section, there were like only SEVEN questions I couldn't really answer.
So if I COULD have answered all questions right except for SEVEN, man I could have gotten a 12 (with 70 right). The physical is NOT that hard...just open up your old textbooks.
I used physics- Cutnell and Johnson (good one)
Chemistry- General Chem by Petruccia and Harwood.
I haven't used this method for the biological section yet as it's hard to find a bio book that has all the info, but it works with Orgo somewhat.
SO last night I broke out my old chemistry and physics notebooks, both GREAT books. And as I went over the Physical section to see why I got hte answers wrong, I flipped to the corresponding chapters in the textbook to HELP find the right answers to the problem...and GUESS WHAT?
SOME OF THE CHEMISTRY PROBLEMS CAME OUT OF THE BOOK (don't get excited...not all but some..like 4 or 5). If they didn't come out the book, there was something very similar IN the book....especially chemistry.
And they weren't HARD questions in the textbook, they were usually those easy questions that follows each topic (not the "hard back of the book" questions).
I did the same for physics even though I didn't find the same questions posted in the text. But I got help with the formula stuff.
But the point is that I used this method when I took the last mcat (going back to the basic textbook stuff which is REALLY what the mcat tests you on not advance stuff) and it really helped me out a lot. (wish I had a plan like that for verbal though).
Anyway now I am siked and I will go over my other wrong physical answers from other exams using my textbook which helps break things down.
When I was done and I looked at the entire physical section, there were like only SEVEN questions I couldn't really answer.
So if I COULD have answered all questions right except for SEVEN, man I could have gotten a 12 (with 70 right). The physical is NOT that hard...just open up your old textbooks.
I used physics- Cutnell and Johnson (good one)
Chemistry- General Chem by Petruccia and Harwood.
I haven't used this method for the biological section yet as it's hard to find a bio book that has all the info, but it works with Orgo somewhat.
