Right?! I have an excuse to drink copious amounts of alcohol to deal with my results if they were released before Independence Day. But July 19th? I have no excuse. Thanks AAMC.
I marked 15 as well, but I also mark extremely liberally haha. I marked 25 on the scored FL and missed 10. I'm sure I missed more than 5, I just know of 5 that i missed. :/
I agree. I literally have no clue what I would study for a retake... I felt fairly confident going in. The questions and the wording felt completely foreign to me. I just can't get over some of the discrete questions- there's no way I could prepare for it. Low yield stuff was very prominent in every section of the exam. Even the high yield stuff was asked in a way that made me second guess myself because several answers were so close.
Both CP and BB felt like the difficulty was at the level of the section bank or harder on my test. CARS was very difficult, PS was just weird and nothing like anything I've seen. 🙁
Thanks, but I blacked out on a lot of the test so those are just questions that I thought about for long enough for them to resist being repressed. I'm not expecting a great score lol. Totally agree, I hate that none of the practice materials were representative. Section banks felt close, but I had more weird stuff on the real thing than I saw on the section banks.
My BB felt easier than the other sections but I still thought there were a lot of hard questions. Just not as many as the other sections haha. Plus BB is my strength so I always feel best about it just because I'm more familiar with the subjects than CP or PS.
Seriously tho...
In light of thinking AAMC is attempting to do good: I think they're just trying to make it so it can't be gamed. They want everyone to be on an even playing field, and that means buying X amount of studying materials and memorizing line won't put person A at an incredible advantage over person B who can barely afford to take the exam.
This theory doesn't hold quite true due to the fact that the test(at least the one I took) tested minute details and a broad spectrum over incredibly detail-y questions that sometimes had to come from background knowledge.
This theory holds true when you look at how well you need to be able to pick apart and holistically examine the passage in its entirety to answer a specific question. Ie those crazy mumbo jumbo questions that's seem to be asking you something in gibberish.
Now my pessimistic theory: The AAMC wants to ruin all of our hopes and dreams and thinks that only people that can memorize the entirety of a library can become doctors. And they hold an elitist view on only select geniuses with IQs of 180+ be doctors as well.
I mean obviously not enough of us pre-meds are getting weeded out by the undergrad weeder courses (think of how many people you came into freshman year that said they were pre-med and now how many still are lol). The AAMC has to step in and make sure only 50% of the people that make it this far (to take the MCAT) have a score technically eligible for acceptance at most schools. But only 25% of us are allowed to have a score that could be looked at favorably by (most MD) schools(75th percentile around 30/508 right?). And I'm pretty sure the old 30 is now a 32/510 to be competitive. So what's that like 82nd percentile, so only 18percent of people that get through all of the pre med weeder courses stay on track for med school for that long and sign up for the MCAT will come out with a desirable score(for most MD). Then after the AAMC takes us out, it's up to med schools to have those 3% acceptance rates to kick the rest of us down
(I understand that these measures and percentages are acceptable and understandable because they represent people that have proven their ability to succeed in med school and what not. I also understand why med schools have low acceptance rates and all that, I'm just being dramatic lol. I just find it crazy how much just the PRE-med portion of becoming a doctor weeds people out. )
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In light of thinking AAMC is attempting to do good: I think they're just trying to make it so it can't be gamed. They want everyone to be on an even playing field, and that means buying X amount of studying materials and memorizing line won't put person A at an incredible advantage over person B who can barely afford to take the exam.
This theory doesn't hold quite true due to the fact that the test(at least the one I took) tested minute details and a broad spectrum over incredibly detail-y questions that sometimes had to come from background knowledge.
This theory holds true when you look at how well you need to be able to pick apart and holistically examine the passage in its entirety to answer a specific question. Ie those crazy mumbo jumbo questions that's seem to be asking you something in gibberish.
Now my pessimistic theory: The AAMC wants to ruin all of our hopes and dreams and thinks that only people that can memorize the entirety of a library can become doctors. And they hold an elitist view on only select geniuses with IQs of 180+ be doctors as well.
I mean obviously not enough of us pre-meds are getting weeded out by the undergrad weeder courses (think of how many people you came into freshman year that said they were pre-med and now how many still are lol). The AAMC has to step in and make sure only 50% of the people that make it this far (to take the MCAT) have a score technically eligible for acceptance at most schools. But only 25% of us are allowed to have a score that could be looked at favorably by (most MD) schools(75th percentile around 30/508 right?). And I'm pretty sure the old 30 is now a 32/510 to be competitive. So what's that like 82nd percentile, so only 18percent of people that get through all of the pre med weeder courses stay on track for med school for that long and sign up for the MCAT will come out with a desirable score(for most MD). Then after the AAMC takes us out, it's up to med schools to have those 3% acceptance rates to kick the rest of us down
(I understand that these measures and percentages are acceptable and understandable because they represent people that have proven their ability to succeed in med school and what not. I also understand why med schools have low acceptance rates and all that, I'm just being dramatic lol. I just find it crazy how much just the PRE-med portion of becoming a doctor weeds people out. )
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I've come to the conclusion that the AAMC is a business, and like every business, they want to maximize profit. Whether that corresponds to test difficulty, I'm not sure. But, one could make a reasonable argument that it does.In light of thinking AAMC is attempting to do good: I think they're just trying to make it so it can't be gamed. They want everyone to be on an even playing field, and that means buying X amount of studying materials and memorizing line won't put person A at an incredible advantage over person B who can barely afford to take the exam.
This theory doesn't hold quite true due to the fact that the test(at least the one I took) tested minute details and a broad spectrum over incredibly detail-y questions that sometimes had to come from background knowledge.
This theory holds true when you look at how well you need to be able to pick apart and holistically examine the passage in its entirety to answer a specific question. Ie those crazy mumbo jumbo questions that's seem to be asking you something in gibberish.
Now my pessimistic theory: The AAMC wants to ruin all of our hopes and dreams and thinks that only people that can memorize the entirety of a library can become doctors. And they hold an elitist view on only select geniuses with IQs of 180+ be doctors as well.
I mean obviously not enough of us pre-meds are getting weeded out by the undergrad weeder courses (think of how many people you came into freshman year that said they were pre-med and now how many still are lol). The AAMC has to step in and make sure only 50% of the people that make it this far (to take the MCAT) have a score technically eligible for acceptance at most schools. But only 25% of us are allowed to have a score that could be looked at favorably by (most MD) schools(75th percentile around 30/508 right?). And I'm pretty sure the old 30 is now a 32/510 to be competitive. So what's that like 82nd percentile, so only 18percent of people that get through all of the pre med weeder courses stay on track for med school for that long and sign up for the MCAT will come out with a desirable score(for most MD). Then after the AAMC takes us out, it's up to med schools to have those 3% acceptance rates to kick the rest of us down
(I understand that these measures and percentages are acceptable and understandable because they represent people that have proven their ability to succeed in med school and what not. I also understand why med schools have low acceptance rates and all that, I'm just being dramatic lol. I just find it crazy how much just the PRE-med portion of becoming a doctor weeds people out. )
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In light of thinking AAMC is attempting to do good: I think they're just trying to make it so it can't be gamed. They want everyone to be on an even playing field, and that means buying X amount of studying materials and memorizing line won't put person A at an incredible advantage over person B who can barely afford to take the exam.
This theory doesn't hold quite true due to the fact that the test(at least the one I took) tested minute details and a broad spectrum over incredibly detail-y questions that sometimes had to come from background knowledge.
This theory holds true when you look at how well you need to be able to pick apart and holistically examine the passage in its entirety to answer a specific question. Ie those crazy mumbo jumbo questions that's seem to be asking you something in gibberish.
Now my pessimistic theory: The AAMC wants to ruin all of our hopes and dreams and thinks that only people that can memorize the entirety of a library can become doctors. And they hold an elitist view on only select geniuses with IQs of 180+ be doctors as well.
I mean obviously not enough of us pre-meds are getting weeded out by the undergrad weeder courses (think of how many people you came into freshman year that said they were pre-med and now how many still are lol). The AAMC has to step in and make sure only 50% of the people that make it this far (to take the MCAT) have a score technically eligible for acceptance at most schools. But only 25% of us are allowed to have a score that could be looked at favorably by (most MD) schools(75th percentile around 30/508 right?). And I'm pretty sure the old 30 is now a 32/510 to be competitive. So what's that like 82nd percentile, so only 18percent of people that get through all of the pre med weeder courses stay on track for med school for that long and sign up for the MCAT will come out with a desirable score(for most MD). Then after the AAMC takes us out, it's up to med schools to have those 3% acceptance rates to kick the rest of us down
(I understand that these measures and percentages are acceptable and understandable because they represent people that have proven their ability to succeed in med school and what not. I also understand why med schools have low acceptance rates and all that, I'm just being dramatic lol. I just find it crazy how much just the PRE-med portion of becoming a doctor weeds people out. )
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, it's hard not going into this process with eyes and hearts wide open. But I'd like to stay in state and near my S/O (whom recently got a killer job right by my goal DO school) and family if possible. Not saying I wouldn't be happy to get in and go anywhere, but just thinking about how low acceptance rates for one specific school are makes me worried I'll have to prepare for my life to be turned upside down.
Do any of you guys have one specific school you're dying to get into?
Like I'll be ecstatic to get into any school and I'm applying incredibly broadly. But the thought of not getting into my goal school drives me wild, it's hard not going into this process with eyes and hearts wide open. But I'd like to stay in state and near my S/O (whom recently got a killer job right by my goal DO school) and family if possible. Not saying I wouldn't be happy to get in and go anywhere, but just thinking about how low acceptance rates for one specific school are makes me worried I'll have to prepare for my life to be turned upside down.
