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What a nightmare! Last night at dinner I had one very small cup of coffee and it was the biggest mistake of my life. I didn't sleep for even one second all night. I tried to beg Prometric to allow me to postpone but there was no way. The only way was to pay again and I am flat broke. So I had two of those four hour energy drinks and headed to the testing center. I got there an hour early and sat in my car, a 91 Buick Regal with no A/C (in ARizona), (I had a much nicer car but my sis got into some trouble and needed a car, so she shipped that out to me and I shipped her my 2003 Lexus IS 300. (I only have that b/c I previously graduated from univ of florida with my masters in information science and got a real good job after. (which I eventually quit to go back to school, and take all the pre reqs for dental school. (27 yrs old). I sat in my hot ass car going through all kinds of notes that I had written and throwing notecards all over the car as I skimmed through them.
I asked the man at the counter if there was anything he could do to postpone and he said I'd have to pay again, and I applied to 17 schools so that's big bucks. (all on credit cards). As I sat there, shaking from the drinks, and trying to keep my train of thought, I realized that this test was f***ing ridiculous. I started to think of ways to get my scores canceled. I honest to God considered starting to smack people in the back of their heads or just running out of there. During my break I downed another one of those drinks and walked outside, which apparently you're not allowed to do. The guy said it as I was walking to the bathroom to try to wake up for the reading comp and QR that I didn't even want to take because of how I felt about the first part of the test. I started thinking of people to call to get my old job back and how I could cancel my student loan for this upcoming year b/c I could never afford to retake this test. As I started that RC, I couldn't follow one word of what the hell was going on, so I just had to search for answers, but I was so done with all of it that I started to just answer questions without even looking through the text. I honestly didn't care anymore. And QR, ahahahah OH MY GOD! I have SOO much respect for anyone that can finish that. It is so hard. I only worked through a couple and others just took 'educated' guesses. All in all, the entire test was tumultuous. I wouldn't know where to begin if I was going to retake it. I would just quit and look at it all as a loss. I didn't look at the scores when they came up on the screen, but all I saw was the words Academic average and one number, '6.' Then I just hit End and got the hell out of there. I got my official score report and walked to my sweatbox of a car with all rust forming a hole near the back driver side door. I wasn't even going to look till I got home but saw the first score on the top, Perceptual Ability, 34.0 Percentile, 16. Which is a miracle because I hadn't seen any practice problems like these. I am quite sure that some crazy person is sitting up in their room all night and designing these f***c*ed up designs for pattern folding and those angles had to be 1 and a half inches apart. I didnt use the scratch board once (actually not for anything but QR a little). Gen Chem was very tough. All the calculations were worded different than I had ever seen. Thanks Mr. Destroyer. I didn't work one out. I finally saw a freezing point one that I thought I could do but it was funky. I wrote the two numbers given on my blank scratch board and had no clue. And then most have the equations worked out as the answer choices but that just confused me and made me not want to work any of them out, which I did.
But here are the remaining scores, QR 18, 75.8%, RC 22 90.3%, Bio 26, 99.6%, Gen Chem 18, 61.7%, OChem 26, 98.1%, Total Science 22, 96%, Academic Avg 22, 96.4%.
Any of you that think you have it tough, maybe it's not so tough after all... I'm starting my 8th year of school (completed 5 year combined degree BS/MS program at UF), with not a penny from either of my rotten parents. Which equates to minimum credit card pmts of about 700 a month. Leading to my two jobs and mountains of student loan debt accruing crazy interest b/c I have never had a cosigner my whole life. I obviously have no choice but to join up right after dental school. Either Navy or Air Force... Anybody with any suggestions for this crazy life, I would love to hear them. I truly respect you all so much, you are all fierce competition and I dread facing you all throughout the interview process. But the real question is, how the hell am I going to get to these interviews? If you see a short, spikey haired guy hitchhiking near the interstate, please give me a break...
I asked the man at the counter if there was anything he could do to postpone and he said I'd have to pay again, and I applied to 17 schools so that's big bucks. (all on credit cards). As I sat there, shaking from the drinks, and trying to keep my train of thought, I realized that this test was f***ing ridiculous. I started to think of ways to get my scores canceled. I honest to God considered starting to smack people in the back of their heads or just running out of there. During my break I downed another one of those drinks and walked outside, which apparently you're not allowed to do. The guy said it as I was walking to the bathroom to try to wake up for the reading comp and QR that I didn't even want to take because of how I felt about the first part of the test. I started thinking of people to call to get my old job back and how I could cancel my student loan for this upcoming year b/c I could never afford to retake this test. As I started that RC, I couldn't follow one word of what the hell was going on, so I just had to search for answers, but I was so done with all of it that I started to just answer questions without even looking through the text. I honestly didn't care anymore. And QR, ahahahah OH MY GOD! I have SOO much respect for anyone that can finish that. It is so hard. I only worked through a couple and others just took 'educated' guesses. All in all, the entire test was tumultuous. I wouldn't know where to begin if I was going to retake it. I would just quit and look at it all as a loss. I didn't look at the scores when they came up on the screen, but all I saw was the words Academic average and one number, '6.' Then I just hit End and got the hell out of there. I got my official score report and walked to my sweatbox of a car with all rust forming a hole near the back driver side door. I wasn't even going to look till I got home but saw the first score on the top, Perceptual Ability, 34.0 Percentile, 16. Which is a miracle because I hadn't seen any practice problems like these. I am quite sure that some crazy person is sitting up in their room all night and designing these f***c*ed up designs for pattern folding and those angles had to be 1 and a half inches apart. I didnt use the scratch board once (actually not for anything but QR a little). Gen Chem was very tough. All the calculations were worded different than I had ever seen. Thanks Mr. Destroyer. I didn't work one out. I finally saw a freezing point one that I thought I could do but it was funky. I wrote the two numbers given on my blank scratch board and had no clue. And then most have the equations worked out as the answer choices but that just confused me and made me not want to work any of them out, which I did.
But here are the remaining scores, QR 18, 75.8%, RC 22 90.3%, Bio 26, 99.6%, Gen Chem 18, 61.7%, OChem 26, 98.1%, Total Science 22, 96%, Academic Avg 22, 96.4%.
Any of you that think you have it tough, maybe it's not so tough after all... I'm starting my 8th year of school (completed 5 year combined degree BS/MS program at UF), with not a penny from either of my rotten parents. Which equates to minimum credit card pmts of about 700 a month. Leading to my two jobs and mountains of student loan debt accruing crazy interest b/c I have never had a cosigner my whole life. I obviously have no choice but to join up right after dental school. Either Navy or Air Force... Anybody with any suggestions for this crazy life, I would love to hear them. I truly respect you all so much, you are all fierce competition and I dread facing you all throughout the interview process. But the real question is, how the hell am I going to get to these interviews? If you see a short, spikey haired guy hitchhiking near the interstate, please give me a break...
