What games are you playing? I'm trying to ell myself that I can do anything I want in a few weeks, which helps... But yeah the stress is hard to deal with. :/
Have you been spying on me?? Because you just described exactly what happens to me whenever I do CARS.
Timing isn't really an issue for me, but stressing about timing definitely is. I had to stop paying attention to individual passage timing because I thought about it way too much. What I am doing now is having mental checks at question 20 and 40. At 20 I need to have 65 minutes left in the science sections and 60 minutes left in CARS, and at 40 I have to have 35 minutes left for science and 30 minutes for CARS.
Do we know if the AAMC recently changed the scale or something? Good god I did not expect to score as low for as high of a percentage correct as I had (I know 75 percent isn't a lot) but it should correspond to AT LEAST a 75th percentile score haha
The "the-official-april-2016-mcat-thread" has some pretty good results... take it for what it's worth though.
I guess so. Who knows, it could be bad, I haven't finished yet so I don't know how I actually did. I honestly felt like I took a ton of time on a few passages, kind of couldn't believe it when I got to the end. This is my first test I'm taking under "real" timing, and I have 20 minutes left in B/B too.
rearrange the equation to get: lambda = 4L/n; we are given the wavelength of 2 consecutive resonances and n =1,3,5,... (which mean that consecutive resonances will have n and n+2)-- using the given wavelengths, we have 8=4L/n, 4.8 = 4L/(n+2); we can rearrange the first one to get 8n=4L---> n=1/2L
That helped a lot, thank you!
If you've done the section bank, i'd say the OG questions because they're in the same style as the new mcat. the question packs are just questions from the old mcat on relevant topics, so good for content review but not so much for giving you a feel for the test. You could probably do both though, I did the OG like a half length test so it only took 3.5 hours.
I'm really happy I seem to be naturally good at CARS because I'd have no idea how to improve if I wasn't. I mean, it's a beast. My approach is to read it fairly casually, try to have some interest in the subject, and highlight liberally, like any word that could be referenced and anything that points out the point of view of the author. Then I go with my first instinct when answering questions and if I have no idea, skim back through the passage looking for clues. I also don't review anything at the end because I'm not in the same mindset as when I first read the passage and I don't want to second guess myself.
Did they give you the equation for resonance?
Yea they give score, percentile, and percent correct.
is NS giving higher or lower ?
The percentiles line up perfectly to the AAMC charts, you just can't really compare the percent correct from test to test.
2015 MCAT Percentiles
