Retake Plan

[wrongladder]

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Hi everyone! This cycle I only received 1 II —> WL and I believe the part of my app that’s really holding me back is my MCAT of 505 (125 B/B, 123 CARS, 129 P/S, 128 C/P) I have started studying for a retake about 1/2 way through content review (going through content review much faster this time) and hope to retake sometime in April.

Would love to hear some advice about how to improve my score or retake success stories. Thanks in advance!

 

[MateoGM416]

Hi everyone! This cycle I only received 1 II —> WL and I believe the part of my app that’s really holding me back is my MCAT of 505 (125 B/B, 123 CARS, 129 P/S, 128 C/P) I have started studying for a retake about 1/2 way through content review (going through content review much faster this time) and hope to retake sometime in April.

Would love to hear some advice about how to improve my score or retake success stories. Thanks in advance!

505 shouldn't be an insurmountable issue for a lot of DO schools if the rest of your app is good.

 

[BerkReviewTeach]

The notable red flags are CARS 123 and BB 125.

BB can be improved by becoming more proficient at woking through passages/articles and fielding basic questions on the concepts that are presented. You need to build up your 'practical vocab' by exposure to experiments. I'd start by repeating every AAMC BB question you can, and maybe even use an AI generator to create similar questions. BB and PS are the sections where you need to 'know' a lot of information, so create a concept and terminology glossary as you go.

For CARS, spend time analyzing right and wrong answers in the AAMC materials. If you can recognize a pattern in their questions and answer choices, you can change it to a game rather than a test. It sounds odd perhaps, but the best people I have ever seen at CARS seem to have the innate ability to eliminate invalid answer choices based on nuance. Reading speed doesn't help as much as it would seem. It comes down to choosing the answer choice that 'language people' want us to choose.

And as Mateo points out, 505 can open some DO doors.

Good luck!