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I signed up for it today! Who else is taking it at this date?
AM Exam:There was the miRNA passage as well... my mind is drawing a blank. I remember some random discretes though.
I was just wondering, you know when we take AAMC practice tests offered by TPR and Kaplan, does the AAMC get our practice test scores in their system? I know it is a very stupid question, but I had to ask.
the am bio section was so friggin hard. is it me or did the collagen passage did not tell us squat, and it was impossible to answer most of the questions on that passage?
hate to be a debby downer but- i too teach chemistry and not only is voltaic said alongside alvanic in textbooks but just about every mcat review book.
but still i always use the word galvanic
AM:the am bio section was so friggin hard. is it me or did the collagen passage did not tell us squat, and it was impossible to answer most of the questions on that passage?
No doubt AM was tough. The passages were very dense and the bio sections were mostly experiments (For those i can never be absolutely sure am doing the right thing). What happened to the hormones and regular bio stuff??? I dont know how the curve works but if it was set before hand, that would really really suck!hey guys,
I took the AM exam as well and thought it was ridiculously hard.. i took all of the AAMC practice exams as well as all of the TPR exams and this MCAT did not compare.. verbal was good (and it is usually my weakest) whereas BS and PS were pretty tough (i didn't have time left over, felt totally rushed, and most of the passages were confusing and too dense)..
do any of you know how old the AAMC online practice exams are? and are all of the new MCAT exams this difficult? if not, how is it fair that we got such a tough exam?
and does anyone know how the curve works (i read above that they set it beforehand, but how do they judge the exam if no one has taken it?)
thanks!
No doubt AM was tough. The passages were very dense and the bio sections were mostly experiments (For those i can never be absolutely sure am doing the right thing). What happened to the hormones and regular bio stuff??? I dont know how the curve works but if it was set before hand, that would really really suck!
Haha so much goes into to SDN'ers hypothesizing what there curve will look like...
A curve represents the difficulty of the test.
Questions given on this test will have been given on past tests. The performance of individuals doing those passages in the past will heavily influence the scales coming in.
While it's debatable how much influence the current test takers have on the "curve" one way or another a tough test will have a corresponding grading scale.
The AAMC is a statistical analysis machine and by the end of the day Easy Test X and Tough Test Y have been graded to make them virtually equal.
You can go back to all the threads about the Ultra Death Test of April or the Worst MCAT Ever in January and inevitably one month later there are still a tonne of keeners going on about their 35's and 12-15 section scores. The place where a tough test may hurt one's scores is if the test taker responds to the unfamiliar material with more despair and panic than the test taker next to him or her. That's when tough sections hurt people's scores.
Rest assured though most people will come out with scores similar to their averages.
I took the PM test and it was unreal...
VR: Was ok, the passages kept me excited to read them and helped me understand what I was reading
PS: It stared off fine, by half way through i was thinkin, "what is going on here" and scratching my head
BS: It was and always has been my best section- but it was the HARDEST I have seen...I know I did horrible for sure
Overall, no joke everyone it felt like a 18...serious, im in some trouble![]()
You'll be fine. Everyone feels like they just ran into a wall with this exam. BS was pretty rough though, very challenging. I still feel like VR was the hardest section but so far in the thread people seem to believe that was the least challenging of the three, go figure.
a lot of people here were saying that magnetism passage was experimental , because some people didnt have it. so that means it probably wont count towards your score. i hope you feel better nowI took the AM exam
I'm really starting to feel like crap.
I went into the exam feeling confident, but I got struck with panic right from the first question. Spent 5 minutes to do an easy density problem. However, a few questions later, my stride started to pick up and my ball got more momentum as I went on. I felt pretty confident at the end of the PS, thought VR was okay, and Bio wasn't that bad either.
However, now after speaking to people, I see that I got more wrong in PS than I thought I did. Those two stupid magnetism (qvbsin0) questions which I should have known and should have been easy for me, I put the wrong answer in.
I really feel like crap. I really don't want to think about it, but it seems that I may have done bad.
I really hope that those are all the wrong answers that I got and the rest I did perfectly fine on....
I took the AM exam
I'm really starting to feel like crap.
I went into the exam feeling confident, but I got struck with panic right from the first question. Spent 5 minutes to do an easy density problem. However, a few questions later, my stride started to pick up and my ball got more momentum as I went on. I felt pretty confident at the end of the PS, thought VR was okay, and Bio wasn't that bad either.
However, now after speaking to people, I see that I got more wrong in PS than I thought I did. Those two stupid magnetism (qvbsin0) questions which I should have known and should have been easy for me, I put the wrong answer in.
I really feel like crap. I really don't want to think about it, but it seems that I may have done bad.
I really hope that those are all the wrong answers that I got and the rest I did perfectly fine on....
oct 6! yayy.
this month is going to drag on...
*dies*
a dirty shoe formally used to step on dog feces and crush cow bawlz 😛.I think everyone feels like they 9-4 test beat us all with a dirty shoe......
i admire yet envy your power of will 😡i agree.. 👎
this time IM NOT GONNA WAIT AT THE COMPUTER FOR DAYS
a dirty shoe formally used to step on dog feces and crush cow bawlz 😛.
back to worrying...![]()
I agree with you. I keep asking myself why I didn't take it on the 10th or something. Bummer!hi all, i've been a lurker on this thread for quite some time. i took the AM session, and pretty much hit a wall when it came to bio. i admit that i could have done better on physics but i knew my physiology pretty damn well and it was disheartening to say the least that i didnt use any of that knowledge at all. what makes it worse though as i wait for the score is to hear from my friends who took the exam this week how easy their exams comparatively because then all i think is whyyyy couldn't i have signed up for a week later?? 🙁
i really hope that all of you get the score that you were aiming for...in the meantime, i need to stop thinking about this test!!
hi all, i've been a lurker on this thread for quite some time. i took the AM session, and pretty much hit a wall when it came to bio. i admit that i could have done better on physics but i knew my physiology pretty damn well and it was disheartening to say the least that i didnt use any of that knowledge at all. what makes it worse though as i wait for the score is to hear from my friends who took the exam this week how easy their exams comparatively because then all i think is whyyyy couldn't i have signed up for a week later?? 🙁
i really hope that all of you get the score that you were aiming for...in the meantime, i need to stop thinking about this test!!
anecdotal, but it may make you feel better: if you look at the january threads, one test date people thought was easy and the other people thought was insanely difficult. Overall skimming through, those in the more difficult test day thread did better than the easier day.
I'm glad classes have started... so now I have less time to dwell on my score!
Urgh...this is murder...ikeep feeling like i shoulda voided that test- if i get lower then my score tht barely made the mark- 28- ill lose it
I hope since its been 2 weeks i am only remb. the ahrd parts of the exam but i remb. now that the PS toilet flush passage was hard and that the flow rates kinda sucked
also for BS I remb. i didnt love the SiRNA and stuff......
as for VR i felt nautious after taking it- i hope it didnt go worse.....
i cant beleive my dreams are riding ont his dumb exam! everything else i have going for me is pretty good and currently am already takign a yr off- i hope i dont gotta do this dumb test again