you know when i came out of the test i actually felt confident that I applied everything I learned in the last 3 months on 4/18. I wasn't overly joyed but I knew that what I saw on the test came to me as no surprise and was thankful I could apply what I had learned while preparing for the test. Although as time goes by, and I start to think and read things such as this thread and slowly but surely, self doubt creeps into my head. Its a pretty painful feeling, not knowing and trying to speculate what your result my be. This is in fact torture, but i realize whats done is done and all these questions we have about specific passages or questions won't change the result. Im sure what I just said sounds cliche but its so f*cking true it sucks. Im in the same boat as everyone else here, and have the same questions about what was on the test so Im not definitely bagging or flaming anyone, I guess im just venting to those who can relate.
As far as the test goes heres my 2 cents:
PS: Not bad, I got freaked out by the ladder but realized that it was a pretty simple concept which was convoluted with extra force vectors not necessary when looking for the answers. The laser on with the mirror was a mind boggler , but I felt like it was doable except for one almost impossible question ( i think some posters posted the same thing, and yes im pretty sure u have to be physics god to answer that within 1 min). The entropy and gen chem stuff werent bad either but I felt like there were some tricky little questions which could have been marked wrong if one didnt careful read the question and tables. The bug one was cake. I had like 3 mins left and tried to go over the marked questions...All in all i feel like I did ok, maybe even pretty good, but as more time goes by I feel like I got more questions wrong. I was getting 11 - 14 on practice exams, which included TBR, TPR, and AAMC. I averaged at a 12.9 haha but ill just say 13.
VR: like everyone else, its my weakest section. I finally started getting consistent 9's and 10's on AAMC, TBR, and TPR with some 11's and 12's. Still there would be an 8 and 7 here and there. I felt like the passages werent bad but like everybody else i felt they were much longer than practice exams. This negatively impacted my timing and I was left with 5 minuts on the last passage which forced me to guess on 2 questions. The law passage was definitely a tricky one, but like another poster said, at the end it all came together. The furniture passage definitely made me think IKEA too. The sweating and medicine passage were pretty cool, and the humor one was fun but the questions were kind of insane. The others were on par with practice passages but again I cant say im super confident and at best I did mediocre considering it being the real thing. Who knows
WR: watever....never had a hard time writing an essay
BS: For some add reason I felt like it was kind of easy and fun. It was very much like TBRs stuff. I almost felt like the writers of the 4/18 were from TBR. The octopus and twin passages were kind of fun, but again it required the ability to extrapolate and interpolate data from the graphs and tables. It was pretty much a kin to the verbal, although you had a better feeling and evidence to infer an answer choice. The MCAT gene passage was kind of cool and I had some fun with that one. OCHEM was peppered all over the discretes with only one OCHEM passage. I think I got one of the ochem discretes wrong for sure, and at least one bio discrete wrong. I finished with 5 minutes. Im telling you, after thought is in some respect useless in this situation. In my case its recking my nerves and making me second guess myself. I averaged around 10 - 14 on all the different practices exams eventually earning a 12 average. TBR is probably to thank for that.
I guess all we can do is hope and pray, and get on with our lives. Is it only me, but does anyone else out there feel a little lost after the MCAT on saturday? Im almost going through withdrawal, and find myself wanting to take a practice test or do some passages. Im not crazy (well maybe haha), I think this process sux major donkey b*lls but I guess I became conditioned after months of preparation. Good luck peeps and I hope the best for everyone
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