Long-time lurker thought I'd ask for your guys' opinion!
So I am taking the MCAT Jan 19th, and hoping for a 515, but would be happy with a 510+ I've taken five and half exams so far, but not sure if I'm in my target range or not. In order my results are
Demo TPR-495 ( C/P 122, B/B 122, Cars 125, P/S 126 ): Was surprised it was this low even though I heard it was absurdly hard because I felt as though I understood most of the content/questions.
NS 1: 508 (127 on everything): In line with what I expected based on difficulty of the test.
NS half-length diagnostic: 511( C/P 126, B/B 126, Cars 131, P/S 128): Surprised my science scores went down due to taking this after the FL.
AAMC sample (C/P 63%, B/B 86%, Cars 87%, P/S 80%): Still don't know if this was good or not. The C/P should have been higher; About 3/4 of the way through I misread a calculation for diameter as density and wasted a lot of time meaning, I had to skim over the rest of the passages. Reviewing the test, I found 4-5 easy questions (amino acid type gimme type) I probably would have gotten right had I not skimmed through and another 3-4 I understood and may have gotten right without the wasted time. B/B and P/S seemed right.
AAMC scored: 509 ( C/P 126, B/B 128, Cars 127, P/S 128): Still need to review this but it seemed harder than the sample...and maybe even NS. I felt like I understood most of the content, but thought I'd get a 127 on C/P (seemed to be a question or two away from that). CARS surprised me since I got 77% correct but on the AAMC qpacks I've been getting 83% correct minimum (though I've been doing 3 timed passages a day rather than a whole exam so maybe I'm not doing it right?) but B/B and P/S seemed right...though again seemed harder haha. I thought I'd do better considering I heard people tend to do a few points better than their NS, and I'm about a week and a half from the actual thing.
Don't know if it matters but on my physics qpack I got 74%, chem 82%, and biology 86% a few weeks ago. This has been on par with the TBR exams I've been taking (been doing better % wise on TBR biology however). Section bank 60% C/P, 64% B/B, 71% P/S though this was months ago while still reviewing content.
Sorry for the long post, but by your estimates is a 509 about what I should expect or is 510-515 still within reasonable grasp?
Thanks for the help, and good luck everyone! It will all be over soon!