35S!!! (12PS, 13VR, 10BS)
1. Your Form (If you remember): I remember it vividly because I chuckled like an immature 13 yr old when I got my form - BJ
2. Your Practice Score Range:
5/10/06: AAMC 3R - 8PS, 8BS, 12VR (28)
6/3/06: TPR diagnostic 4911 (proctored) - 8PS, 8BS, 11VR (27-O)
6/10/06: AAMC 6R - 9PS, 12BS, 11VR (32)
6/13/06: AAMC 4R - 10VR, 9BS, 9PS (28)
6/25/06: TPR 4921 (proctored) - 7PS, 10VR, 10BS (27-N)
7/15/06: TPR 4931 (proctored)- 10PS, 11VR, 10BS (31-O)
7/23/06: AAMC 9 - 10PS, 11VR, 11BS (32)
7/29/06: AAMC 5R - 10PS, 11BS (didn't take verbal)
8/5/06: AAMC 8 (proctored) - 12PS, 11VR, 10BS (33-N)
8/12/06: AAMC 7 (proctored) - 13PS, 12VR, 11BS
(I thought the posts with progress info when I was studying were more helpful than just the final score. More encouraging also! ;-)
3. What you used to Study:
TPR class including outlining each science chapter several times (It had been five years since I'd taken gen chem and intro bio). I also made sure to go through every single TPR class WB problem and passage (270+ passages in all and hundreds of stand alone questions). Finally, I also had EK's verbal 101 book, but I didn't find it that helpful. While I was getting 9's on the EK tests (which was totally discouraging for me), my AAMC scores were usually 11's. The biggest thing for me was building up endurance for the test and confidence by taking lots of practice tests and really drilling my weak areas (As a social science major in college, I'm not used to taking tests, much less multiple choice ones).
4. How do you feel right now?I'm a little disappointed/shocked by my bio score since I thought the real test was actually much easier bio-wise and I thought I'd bombed the PS section. Still, it goes to show that predictions aren't everything! Coming into score release (too superstitious to actually say ahead of time), I was thinking 10PS, 11VR, and 11 or 12BS. Overall, it may not be good enough for MD/PhD programs in the social sciences, but I'm hard core grinning!!! Congrats to all August MCATers!!!