Missing Moderate questions, getting easy/hard ones right

[SiR99]

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A majority of questions I miss on the AAMC practice exams are in the moderate difficulty range, however I can get most of the easy/hard questions right.

It seems really weird to me, but has this happened to anyone else? Any advice on what to do or what you did to improve?

Thanks

 

[meliora27]

I'm in the same boat. I figure keep doing practice tests, practice passages, and content review with plenty of freestanding as well as passage based questions in areas of weakness and in time things should get better.

 

[pam61371]

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[JJMrK]

One possibility:

The easy questions are easy, so you get those right. The hard questions are hard, so you spend more time on those and eventually figure them out. The moderate questions are hard to enough to require a bit of extra time, but you treat them as an easy question and make an educated guess.

If it is a timing issue, just realize that all of the questions are worth the same number of points. I used to have an issue of taking forever on hard questions. Eventually I realized that by spending so much time working for a single point, I'd be forced to rush toward the end and lose 4-5 points through carelessness. Personally, I really have to focus on not doing this while taking practice tests.

 

[MegaProjectile]

A majority of questions I miss on the AAMC practice exams are in the moderate difficulty range, however I can get most of the easy/hard questions right.

It seems really weird to me, but has this happened to anyone else? Any advice on what to do or what you did to improve?

Thanks

Been there. Easy, hard, moderate...these labels are just subjective in my opinion. We answer a question correctly because we know it or made an educated guess. Just try to read up and understand why you got the question wrong. I once scored a 12 on an AAMC PS but failed 70% of the easy questions. Go figure.
Don't get too bulge down with the difficulty level since every question are of equal value.