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bazuka

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Good god, the beast is gone. I think it was terrible, a lot harder than Collins and the tests Kaplan provides.

Verbal: Many appeared from Collins
Biology: What the hell?
Chem: Way too many tricky questions
RC: Thats my worse probably
QA: Had to guess on word problems, but got all the logs and stuff
Essays: ????????????????
 
Good god, the beast is gone. I think it was terrible, a lot harder than Collins and the tests Kaplan provides.

Verbal: Many appeared from Collins
Biology: What the hell?
Chem: Way too many tricky questions
RC: Thats my worse probably
QA: Had to guess on word problems, but got all the logs and stuff
Essays: ????????????????

you probably didn't do as bad as you think, i basically just used Collins, studied for less than 2 weeks, this was my first time (probably not last 😡)

Verbal: peice of cake, finished early but i can definitley see how some people could have run out of time, wouldn't have finished early if it wasn't for collins

Biology: i thought it wasn't too bad, but there were definitley some odd ball questions in there, some questions are just so general whereas others are so freakin specific i doubt any study guide covered them, i thought this would be my best section but i made some pretty dumb mistakes on it so now im just not sure what to expect

Chemistry: i was realllly happy to see so few calculation problems, all of which i skipped and came back to some in the end, the organic was also pretty basic (no pun), i do feel collins prepared me for it but there was just a lot of stuff from collins that wasn't on (but I'm not complaining!)

RC: Needed a little bit more time, didn't fully read the last passage and took educated guesses on the last 4, I spent too much time on answering some questions, cause the answers are sooo close to each other on some of them, this part was definitley full of tricks

Quant: i knew this would be my worst, i skipped the entire first page just to get to the quick and easy log and exponent questions, happy i did it this way cause time went by super fast and there wasn't much room to write in, and speaking of writing, i learned that if you have to write a question down, you won't finish it fast enough, i should've developed a habit of doing every question in my head

Essay: Haven't taken an english class since highschool, so i have no clue :/
 
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I feel the same;
Verbal was too easy (Collins is great prep for that section)
Bio was iffy. Some easy and some hard
Chem is always my weakest section, but there were probably 5 calculations on the whole section
Quant there were some easy and some I totally guessed on. At the 5 min mark, I had about 10 left that I had to go in and guess
RC surprised me though. I found the passages to be very interesting, so that was a sigh of relief. Surprisingly, this has been my lowest scoring section both times I previously took the test. This time, I feel much better about it.
And the essays are easy, I usually don't have enough time to finish and then read over my work, but I had enough time for both this time around.

All in all, I think the test went by WAY fast. Like I said, I hope the 3rd times a charm...
 
the more I think about this test, the worse I feel about it, found out 2 of my verbal guesses were wrong

...it's gonna be a looooooooooong wait