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Hi everyone,
Hoping your journey is going well! To make the story short, I took the MCAT in August and did horribly because like DJ khalid said, I played myself and with work responsibility and passive studying I did absolutely horrible on my exam (way below the 500 mark). No one to blame but myself. Took me a bit to get my **** together and now I'm taking one more stab at it.
I also took the exam without having biochem, which again, was not a smart idea.
Currently taking the biochem clss and trying to get into the groove of studying again and hopefully, if all goes well as I plan on taking the April exam.
Materials I am currently using is
1) my Kaplan books for references / reading and following the topic that is being tested.
2) Watching AK Lecture materials on youtube on topics that I don't really understand. He's been such a helpful babe.
3) Using TBR for passage practice only with questions that accompany the Kaplan chapters, while doing one passage of AAMC material per day in topic of biology, verbal, chem and about to start physics soon. I find this helpful because I can really focus and really review the questions I got wrong and learned from them.
4) Full-length wise, I'm using Nextstep which I found to be most representative of the exam. But I'm doing really bad on them which got me questioning about my knowledge.... I'm trying to get in atleast 1 full length per week. But it's been difficult because of other priorities so I've been doing 1 every two weeks.
5) I'm also supplementing my verbal skills by reading short essays from sites like Aeon.co and asking myself questions about the piece like how MCAT would ask.
Any suggestion or modification about this plan is greatly appreciated!!!
Now, my dilemma is that I find myself, on the full -length test atleast, to be really struggling on those hardcore molecular biology passages with a bunch of genes, proteins, methylation, phosphorylation etc and asking me about design and things like as to why they did them or what could weaken the experiment etc...how can I beef up my knowledge and prepare myself for something like this??? Another issue is timing. I spend so much time trying to follow and understand what's going on to the point that I loose so much time on a crappy passage. I'm getting better at just picking something and moving on though because of that issue.
Any recommendation / tips is greatly appreciates!!!
***** Oh another info piece••••• my full-length scores on next step as been ball park of 488-494
Hoping your journey is going well! To make the story short, I took the MCAT in August and did horribly because like DJ khalid said, I played myself and with work responsibility and passive studying I did absolutely horrible on my exam (way below the 500 mark). No one to blame but myself. Took me a bit to get my **** together and now I'm taking one more stab at it.
I also took the exam without having biochem, which again, was not a smart idea.
Currently taking the biochem clss and trying to get into the groove of studying again and hopefully, if all goes well as I plan on taking the April exam.
Materials I am currently using is
1) my Kaplan books for references / reading and following the topic that is being tested.
2) Watching AK Lecture materials on youtube on topics that I don't really understand. He's been such a helpful babe.
3) Using TBR for passage practice only with questions that accompany the Kaplan chapters, while doing one passage of AAMC material per day in topic of biology, verbal, chem and about to start physics soon. I find this helpful because I can really focus and really review the questions I got wrong and learned from them.
4) Full-length wise, I'm using Nextstep which I found to be most representative of the exam. But I'm doing really bad on them which got me questioning about my knowledge.... I'm trying to get in atleast 1 full length per week. But it's been difficult because of other priorities so I've been doing 1 every two weeks.
5) I'm also supplementing my verbal skills by reading short essays from sites like Aeon.co and asking myself questions about the piece like how MCAT would ask.
Any suggestion or modification about this plan is greatly appreciated!!!
Now, my dilemma is that I find myself, on the full -length test atleast, to be really struggling on those hardcore molecular biology passages with a bunch of genes, proteins, methylation, phosphorylation etc and asking me about design and things like as to why they did them or what could weaken the experiment etc...how can I beef up my knowledge and prepare myself for something like this??? Another issue is timing. I spend so much time trying to follow and understand what's going on to the point that I loose so much time on a crappy passage. I'm getting better at just picking something and moving on though because of that issue.
Any recommendation / tips is greatly appreciates!!!
***** Oh another info piece••••• my full-length scores on next step as been ball park of 488-494