Hey, first post!
Wow, once I first stumbled upon SDN, my impression was similar to the impression I had when I lifted this huge piece of old and rotten wood, and I found a whole sea of all sorts of different bugs underneath it . Regarding the June 15th MCAT, I think I did well, but why should you care?? However, if you insist on knowing why I feel this way, let me clarify: I actually had fun doing this test, as opposed to the August 2006 version. I believe the main reason for such feelings is being more prepared. For the first test, I studied a week, where I "went through" all of Kaplan material, and did 2 practice tests (well, partially anyhow). I score 28O, 11 Bio, 10 Phy, 7 verbal. Meh, so what? This time I studied for about 2 months, you know, 4 or so hours after work, when I felt like it. I also did many of these AAMC test, not many of the Kaplans, as I found them to be different from AAMC. Yeah, obviously Kaplan tests are different, but what is different besides the content? Well, I found Kaplan structure was different. It is of no use preparing for a test by doing mocks, which are really mocking the wrong thing: your preparedness for the MCAT. Yeah, I mean, Kaplan is a great way to check if you really have all the formulas memorized and all teeny tiny details, while the MCAT tests your understanding and application of what you should already know from you undergraduate studies.
Furthermore, I guess one advice is try to enjoy the test; try to pretend it is a Sudoku puzzle. Better yet, try to do a Sudoku puzzle, while thinking that its completion within a ridiculuosly small time frame will impact the rest of your life. See what I mean? MCAT is as hard as you want to make it. Cliche? Perhaps, but not necessarily false. F5 away!
