State of Shock and Disbelief

[owcc16]

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I am in a state of shock and disbelief..I thought I was ready for the MCAT...heck, I took AAMC practice tests, and did well. (Got a 30 on AAMC IV)..So, today, I take the Princeton Review Diagnostic 481, and get killed!!!! I am on my lunch break, and still have biological left, but got a 39/65 on the Verbal, and a 37/77 on Physical. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!? Are the princeton known to be hard?

Please post constructive advice/comments.

 

[owcc16]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by owcc16:
I am in a state of shock and disbelief..I thought I was ready for the MCAT...heck, I took AAMC practice tests, and did well. (Got a 30 on AAMC IV)..So, today, I take the Princeton Review Diagnostic 481, and get killed!!!! I am on my lunch break, and still have biological left, but got a 39/65 on the Verbal, and a 37/77 on Physical. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!? Are the princeton known to be hard?

Please post constructive advice/comments. •

UPDATE: 51/77 on Biological...Still, these raw scores are the lowest I have had to date....Are the Princeton exams supposed to be super hard? please! someone tell me!

 

[moo]

Not super hard--just harder. The highest I could muster out of VR was a 7, in BS, an 8, and an 11 in PS. My scores go up dramatically as I do the AAMC practice materials. And one more thing I find... TPR's bio stuff focuses a lot more on memorizing little anal facts than on any real thought. I think that's why I got so low there.

 

[yigit]

I've taken PR and the MCAT 3! times and I got the same score on the real thing as I got on my last diagnostic on 2 of them and did 1 point better on the real thing the last time.

 

[shlongstar]

I'm taking the Princeton Review Course, and so i've taken all the Princeton Review diagnostics. I previously had a post asking if people tend to get higher scores on the real MCAT then on the diags, because I've always heard that the PR Diags are supposedly harder. I believe the consensus says yes.
I just took the AAMC MCAT V today with TPR, and I graded it myself afterwards. I personally thought that the material on the AAMC MCAT sciences sections were harder, however I did much better on them. My previous best on a PR diag was missing 10 on Bio, and 23 on Physical, and today I missed only 9 on each (I've also been studying a lot since then). I think I mainly thought it was harder because it focused much more on conceptual ideas, so I didn't have the answer to many of the questions right away. I think the other poster may be right about TPR focusing on anal facts.

Hope this helps!

 

[mongoose]

I am in the pr class as well. I totally agree that the pr diags are full of "little anal facts" with no emphasis on thought process. for what its worth here is how i did on some of the tests...diag 481 - 16... diag 485 - 25... aamc #4 - 31... aamc #5 - 33... I just hope the real MCAT is more like the aamc tests. If so I should be in good shape, and if not I am in trouble!