According to a formula I found on one of these threads awhile back your actual score would be around a 513, your decreased score would be a 508
Yes, waste of time, in my opinion. You're going to have to answer them eventually.
This is what I am realizing also. I took the scored yesterday and would get so overwhelmed reading the science passages. I am reviewing it now and realizing that the questions are deceptively simple. Most of the questions I missed were things I absolutely knew but I got thrown off by the passages.
bio is normally my strong section and it suffered a bit today.
You were so right about C/P for EK2. I died inside. Then my caffeine wore off halfway thought CARS. Ended up with a little bit of a comeback in the psych section to balance sleeping through 1/2 of CARS and all of bio. Lol. Ended up with the same score as on the first one.
Does anybody know how coffee works for caffeine addicts like myself? Can we drink coffee on the 10 minute breaks? I know it's a diuretic but I CANNOT burn out on the real test like I did todaybio is normally my strong section and it suffered a bit today.
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I can hardly drink half a 8 oz. Redbull without having palpitations. I cannot imagine that much coffee and a full scoop of pre-workout. Half a scoop of my pre-workout at 6:45 gets me through a workout and studying until right about now, haha!
Yeah it was rough! Good job getting through it. How may full lengths have you taken? I've done 4 now and my stamina during cars has gotten a lot better just with additional practice. One way I get caffeine if I don't want to have to pee is to take excedrine (bonus of getting rid of a headache if you have one lol).You were so right about C/P for EK2. I died inside. Then my caffeine wore off halfway thought CARS. Ended up with a little bit of a comeback in the psych section to balance sleeping through 1/2 of CARS and all of bio. Lol. Ended up with the same score as on the first one.
Does anybody know how coffee works for caffeine addicts like myself? Can we drink coffee on the 10 minute breaks? I know it's a diuretic but I CANNOT burn out on the real test like I did today
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Hahaha I never thought to try pre-workout! I feel like the beta alanine would drive me crazy trying to read passages.
It'd be nice if they let you have an IV of caffeine while you sit there but I'm guessing that's not allowed.
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my score on the unscored was really similar to yours- what do you think a realistic conversion is? I'm not super worried about the CARS because I've done well on the EK CARS which I find really subjective and much worse than AAMC materials, but yeah i've also heard the passages on the unscored are more straightforward. As for the real thing, i think the curve was really hard for CARS because most people have felt really good about it and then done poorly, which suggests that the curve has just been tougher on that section.
I think that it has to be much easier. The unscored CARS was the easiest CARS section that I have come across. I bet the real thing is much more like the scored which worries me because that was my lowest section.
I took the unscored about 2 weeks ago and my scores were C/P 81%, CARS 91%, B/B 73%, Psych 88%. It made me realize that I was weak on bio/biochem and I managed to get that up for the scored.
I don't think 65% on the section banks is that low. Those are really tough. I would see how you do on the scored first.
Thanks. I wish I had advice for C/P but I feel like I struggle with that section especially with timing. Knowing all the amino acids backwards and forwards and knowing enzyme kinetics really well will definitely get you some points. For psych, I used the Kaplan book and read it a few times, took notes on all the definitions, and did a lot of the Khan passages. For some reason, I am really good at memorization so that section just plays to my strengths. I wish I had better advice for you as this is not that helpful.
I had to memorize them when I took biochem. The best way for me was to draw them out over and over until I could draw them all without making a mistake.
