I'm glad that post is a point of inspiration for you. I think your verbal statagey is on point. I PMed this to someone else in request to my verbal stategy; Sure no problem, First i just backed way away from the watch on my wrist and figured out how to read the passage without the clock in my face! This wil allow you to really look yourself in the mirror and understand where your screwing up. I found that staying "above the passage" was my way of not getting bogged down in the crap. I always felt so troubled by the details and not being able to remember what i read two to three sentences ago, etc etc.. really messed my big pic game up. This was the key for me. I try and stay interested in whatever they are talking about and understand what they mean/or are thinking. Get away from the details and you should drastically improve. The more questions you practice without the clock the more you are able to analyze the question stems. Soon you will develop an intuition about what kinda question they will be asking and can read with the confidence of " o yeah, this whole paragraph shows that the author supports the legalization of drugs",, (eg) I honestly believe that initially getting the hang of it without the time is critical. Then i just got a simple little strategy in my head of 8 min per passage..(give or take) This means i should be ab 1/2 done with the passage in 2 min and finished in 4, leaving 4 min to answer 5-8 question. Thats how i did and think you could see dramatic score increases in as little as 3-4 days!! (Thats how long it took me) GLHey, so What are you saying? Are you saying i should take AAMC 3-6 even if i have taken them or should i take TPR and kaplans (the ones i haven't taken)?? Did you happen to look at the Verbal strategy? I am beyond burned out so taking the evening off and doing EK VR 11 first thing tomorrow morning. Any feedback on verbal would be great!!!!!!!!
As far as your AAMC 8 goes. I got a 10 in PS too. Very last solution passage confused the hell out of me and also BS passage about treadmilling was confusing too (especially the graph, but it makes sense now)
Btw, i have printed out the following as a reminder and planning on reading it everyday..
Originally Posted by unDRdog
I've taken practice test where I'm not really that into it and score noticeably lower. Its sucks, its discouraging, its counterproductive at best. Over the last week i have made a commitment to myself to not take these test unless I'm going into it with a balls to the wall mentality. Ramped up psycho mode on it!!!! Bottom line is that we know that on the 10th we are going to take the biggest test in our lives up to this point. Its going to suck, its going to be hard, there are going to be WTF questions all over the place, but if we charge into it like a bat out of hell then i believe we can put forth our best effort no matter what. I also am finding that "details" are the things that keep me from <32 to >32 on all the tests!!!
you said your scores are around the 9-10 range in verbal right? If so your on the right track just keep pushing and working at it. Take a verbal test without the timer and see if you improve drastically. If you dont then you know its not the timing...
Yeah bro for sure take aamc 3-6 sciences. Stay with EK for verbal and supplement your PS and BS with the kaplan and dont worry about the score like you say. I think thats a pretty solid strategy. I bet with that plan you will do very well on the 10th...sounds like we are on the same page as far as scores go. My aamc tests are 32-36 averages with 4, 9,(PS BS) 10 left. My target average 35-37ish. would love to rock out in the upper thirties but who knows if that is possible
As long as we dont get hung up on the score thing i believe we will do well on the real thing... >30... You have the edge on this thing now cause you have your nerves in check........ Just think of leveraging the pressure of the real thing on test day to your advantage...
yea, I am arnd 10s and couple of bone headed mistakes are causing me to miss the rest of the questions..
I would. Continuing my normal routine the day and even the week before makes me less anxious about the test.
I just took the PS on AAMC 9...Physics is and always has been my weak point so for all of those who are going to take this test STUDY...to me the physics was freakin hard...Circut passage, Optics passage, bunch of crooked discretes...i'm soo pissed off right now i can hardly stand it...i'm starting to take this test way to personal...
You know i could see how it would be eaiser in that respect....i think my problem was with FOCUSING...serioulsy if you cant focus then you will fail on this test...Yesterday i was having trouble and was answer the questions with the attitude of "who gives a f**k.." Have you ever had this problem and if so did you see your scores drastically drop??? I dunno ab EK12 didnt take it....I Personally thought that AAMC 9 PS was one of the easiest. Meaning it was tricky somewhat and had intimidating looking passages (such as mirror passage). Mirror passage was pretty much all discretes for most part and you really didnt need the passage except for maybe 1 question. To me Solutions is f**** crap and when they give batteries in conjuction with electrolytic and recharing etc. I hate that Sh**. Anyway, Just don't worry and take it as practice and LEARN from it.
Did anyone found EK VR 12 to be horrible. In some questions, one answer choice is incorrect and then later on same answer choice in correct. WTF!!
...and I scored 3 points less in bio/actually my lowest score ever...tossing at night /sleeplessness/performance anxiety is not helping... me went to mall n chilled myself a little...
LMAO...u know i think if you could some how bottle up both of our energies we could have some sort of weapon of mass destruction!!
Finally snapped out of my 36 hour funk i was in earlier...Took another practice bio and scored a 12 on BS!! My concentration is finally back...Staying calm and emotionally uninvolved is helping me restore the focus!!! Enough of this Dr. Phil ****! We are going to rock this thing!! Including the ever elusive Baboo!!
Thanks for the reply...thats actually the order of priority that i ascribed them!!! I'm good with lab tech...but am going to really crunch chapter 4 and 6 leaving carbohydrates to chance bc of time. I do not have TPR so i'm SOL there...just going to keep pushing and pray for the best!!hi Underdog,
TBR orgo book two is very useful ...most Imp chapters in order-Carbonyls/ROH,spectroscopy/Lab tech ,amines/Carbohydrates ...If you have done biomolecules chapter from TPR try to do some carbohydrate passages outrt. without reading theory...its basically sterechemistry fundas
I wouldwork on theory first then do 6 passages each chapter 3 which seem to be very common 3 which seem to be intimidating.
