April 5 test had hard PS,
April 13 test - hard BS,
Which is next? VR or WS
lol, on my exam last summer, BS was super ultra mega ridiculously hard. this BS was a piece of cake compared to that, not even joking.
SERIOUSLY!!!!! Memorizing all the hormones, kidney cr*p, etc etc etc. Useless. Might as well have taken the bio section blind because nothing in the past months or years would have ever helped in that BS section. I was averaging 12 on the AAMC's and I swear I got a 5. FML.
yea, i spent less than 2 days doing content this time around (last 2 days only did content). did more practice, and read books (not science journals, actual novels)--it seemed to help a lot, for the sciences and the verbal section.
I'm surprised some of you remember exact questions, that test was a blurr to me. As for there being no curve, that bites, I don't see how previous takers of a different test should set the standard for the one we took today. Whatever, it's over, and there's no use in ruminating over that.
I'm interested in hearing about what will motivate some of you to retake. Like, will you wait for your scores, or are you just going to sign up without waiting.
Anyone else feel like memorizing all those hormones and other countless random bio facts were pretty useless? I felt the same way after the last time I took the mcat...and if I had to give anyone else advice it would be know your orgo and read scientific literature.
i dont think im going to take it again. last summer i waited til scores and then only focused on my apps, i think thats worth it more than worrying about retaking it soon as getting scores back.
I had to take educated guesses on A LOT of the bio questions.
same!
At least 2 passages and probably 3 or 4 discretes. It seemed like a lot. There was some bio stuff that was surprisingly difficult as well.
yup
Talk about the 13, the computer shut down on me while I was in the writing section. Turns out, I accidentally kicked the power cord off the computer
It did not affect the timing though, just another incident to freak me out
LOL not as bad as mine, it happened during my verbal section, computer screen just shut off don't know how or why, took around 2-3 min to figure out how to get it back on by proctor, time was still going down and just sped up.
the BS was hard for sure, but the orgo passages werent that bad (only 2)--just very very time consuming in having to look thru it all and scroll and figure out what is going on
for difficulty:
BS: today >>>>>>>> AAMCs, today >>>> TPRH
VR: today >>> AAMCs, today >> TPRH
PS: today >>>> AAMCs, today >>>TPRH