So much information. When I was studying I decided just stone cold knowing the important steps (rate limiting) and anywhere in glycolysis things can deviate (where products go in aerobic/anaerobic conditions). Overall summary (net gain) and purpose.
Yea, I don't get any money back so I just decided not to cancel for now. Maybe I'll take the aamc scored on Tuesday and make my final decision then.
Good plan. FWIW i think your score should be pretty solid based on those percentages, i just don't know how much you feel like you need to improve over your previous scores to be happy with it.
the question packs were sooo different than either the section banks or any new mcat material. not sure if you've gone through them, but they really felt like a different test to me (well i guess they were from a totally different test haha). i thought they were good for reviewing certain high yield content, but i don't think the percentages on the question packs reflect your performance on the new test at all.
This along with the Question Packs not being representative of the new exams, 100%. I think the biology is very similar and CARS is the same (obviously). Useful for practice regardless.
wish granted
The question packs are questions from the old AAMC exams. Hence why there isn't much body system integration and addresses concepts directly. For instance, straight up questions "involving battery connected by..." etc. Good for reviewing concept, though. I did all of them and it helped me identify weak areas.
They're fairly quick to work through (passages are much more straight forward) and decent practice, so I don't think they're a total waste of time! Just do them for a couple hours in the morning and then maybe review section banks/high yield content in the afternoons. CARS hasn't changed much so if you need CARS practice those sections should be pretty similar to test day.
I didn't practice CARS much (was scoring 127+ early on and made a 128 on my MCAT) but strategies I implemented were: 1.) Active reading; read for main ideas...not for the details. 2.) Make a stereotype of the author; identify as you are reading whether they are in favor/against/neutral to the topic (almost always questions like this, 3.) Generally, if something is convoluted*/difficult to digest - keep reading, it will be the same for all readers and you will waste your time re-sending over and over again.
This is my strategy exactly. Minus smelling aromatic oils, maybe i should consider mixing that in! 🙂
You should! Helped me a lot. Closest thing I could squeeze in to meditation for the exam 🙂.
Appreciate the response. I may end up retaking the AAMC tests and I know its gonna be better but at the same time, im thinking about slowly going through my old tests to see how much of the knowledge ive retained
It just a little scary since my percentages are quite similar to what I scored on the unscored the first time I took it around august (btw I didn't remember a single question although I've taken it before). My previous percentages were 53%-83%-71%-71% and I ended up with a 125-124-123-126 🙁 Goal is at least a 503, but would be ecstatic with a 505.
is that 83% on CARS that 124?
Yea I ended up with a 124 on CARS after a 83% on unscored, but I attribute some loss of focus on getting back to the screen after the break with 15 sec left since my testing center was new and they took forever checking people in and out. So the first passage was taken when I was a little flustered.
oh didn't know you took the actual exam thought you were converting your score
I've been watching videos on Khan Academy for the last few days and it's helped me a lot with the orgo questions. I don't like Sal's videos and he does most of the physics ones so I haven't gotten as much out of them, but if you watch high yield videos on Khan academy (electric fields, fluids at rest and motion, properties of waves) then I bet you'll start to get more of a grasp on things.
I'm doing the last EK exam, and then the scored on Wednesday. I'm extremely nervous about it as well!Who else is doing the scored AAMC FL tomorrow? I'm really nervous and have postponed taking it like 3 times already.
thank you so much for clearing that up! i was literally confused for the longest time. Wouldn't temperature be a factor into this though? Since delta H is positive and delta S is positive?
Cramming the **** out of everything.
B/B section bank. feels really easy compared to the C/P section bank, but bio has always been a comfort subject for me. there's been a few things that have really caught me off guard tho.....
Okay, so breaking a bond is referring to a specific portion of the equation (endothermic, +H), but the overall equation refers to the spontaneous reaction (-G).
All of these things. I have a good list of subjects that EK does NOT mention whatsoever in their 9th edition texts. Same with catalytic efficiency, amino acid titration, and a growing list of psych terms.
YES. The EK psych is abysmal, and the fact that they released a list of psych terms that should have been included but didn't give any explanations or definitions on them was pretty ****ty IMO.
