I actually tried a new technique today, now that you mention it. I'd noticed that I tend to score very well on passages that I found interesting and entertaining, so today, even on the incredibly boring passages (of which there were many - I'm looking at you, passage #8), I tried to convince myself that I was super interested in what the passage was talking about. I think that may have given me the extra boost necessary to intensely pay attention to all the relevant details. It was grueling, though, and at the end of that section I felt super drained and discouraged, evidenced by my post in this thread during my 30-minute break haha. A similar method is to imagine that you're having a conversation (or an argument) with the author, and try to be overly-emotional and overly-engaged in everything s/he says.
This is what I try to do as well. I found most of the passages to be super boring on this CARS except for the book one and final passage which was mildly amusing. Which one was 8 without giving anything away? The historical passage? If so almost every single question I missed was from that passage.
8 was the absolutely riveting one about architectural paint research.. so incredibly dull haha
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They might make it harder just for you since you totally destroyed it haha.
Oh yeah... For whatever reason I was able to get into that one LOL. I have more issues with economics passages...
So since you're good to go for Ivy Leagues with that score, you get to sit under a palm tree with some banana leaves and answer everyone's questions with your expertise.
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You can see which ones have an R group that actually contributes to the overall charge. Keep in mind, the amide bond isnt gonna have any charge (in a 15 peptide chain, there are 14 amide bonds. dont need to worry about it)
there were a few extremely specific things on there that worry me....
Do you have any topics that you keep telling yourself you'll look at them later? maybe review glycolysis/gluconeogenesis/blah blah metabolic pathways? Otherwise you should be good. just review high yield stuff to keep it fresh in your mind.
Yeah I'm focusing on metabolic pathways for my last two days after doing the section bank and seeing how much detail we need to know (aka a lot of detail). If you already have the steps memorized then I agree, highly regulated steps or any steps where different pathways diverge or converge should be the right thing to focus on. Also agree that different types of PAGE and blots are important. I feel weakly prepared for this bc I swear they were barely even a section of a chapter in EK.
haha at least you had a minute left! you've got this. good luck on CARS. 🙂
I am redoing the official guide questions, and it's demoralizing me. somehow i'm doing worse on this on my second time than my first time doing the section bank and scored FL. :/
Agreed, you should do AAMC since that will be most representative, while NS is accurate, its still not AAMC.
I'm only going to do light review in the morning Friday and then force myself to stop... I keep having dreams of solving problems and I'd like to not have that the night before. If you do end up doing the section banks Friday, maybe try to keep it to under a couple hours and just in the morning?
I'm also seeing Finding Dory on Friday haha. we're all basically the same person i think.
Take it really easy on your run... I twisted my ankle the morning of my first mcat because i was just thinking about the test so much that i wasn't watching where i was running, and i was in serious pain during the test. it was a worst-case scenario for sure, but just be careful. 😉
