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Well, better late than never, I guess. Am I the only one taking the MCAT on this date?

This'll be my first (ideally only) time and I'll be writing in Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

Cheers!
 
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So while we're all on here... did anyone think the Bio section was particularly difficult with all those organic sugar questions? Man...
 
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MDbefore30 said:
So while we're all on here... did anyone think the Bio section was particularly difficult with all those organic sugar questions? Man...
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imho, they were easy... but, the long experimental story like questions were time killers..
 
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I have the thx site opened in a browser with just the date showing, gonna keep on refreshing until I see the 8/6 test date and slowly drown in my miseries as scroll to the right to reveal each score one at a time
 
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AlphaMagnum said:
39S (12PS, 15BS, 12VR). Am at a loss for words (good way). Hope things went well for everyone else.
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WOWOWOWOW! Nice score!!!!! ( I'm from the 8-12-11 thread). What was your initial impression leaving the exam?

You must be one happy student right now 👍
 
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Practice averages do come true! I averaged 36.5 and I'm really happy to see it turn out this way.
37S (12V 13P 12B)
Congratulations, everyone!
 
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AlphaMagnum said:
Finished up today; here's my report:

PS: About as difficult as expected. Nothing too strange on here but there were a few tough questions scattered around.
VR: Fairly challenging; I'd heard that the passages on the real deal were longer but didn't have a real idea of how much longer. Finished just in time.
BS: This was actually really easy. No trouble here save for one or two toughies, generally Orgo.

The orgo wasn't what I expected and I don't think it was terribly fair to ask what they did, but...yeah. I can't exactly discuss the details.

Overall verdict: It's over and I'm feeling really good about it, so I can take the rest of this summer off. Hope everyone else fared well; I guess this thread will bulk up again in a month's time. I'll see you all then.
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AlphaMagnum said:
39S (12PS, 15BS, 12VR). Am at a loss for words (good way). Hope things went well for everyone else.
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👍 Strong work. You predicted your BS performance quite well!
 
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36S!

12P 10V 14B

I wrote 6/16 and got an 11 08 11 Q and only studied for 2 weeks after getting my scores. This goes to show you how stupid this test is, given a 6 point increase with no change in study habits and minimal extra reviewing. This score is close to my practice average, although my PS average was a bit higher. Overall, not complaining at all! It's finally over for good.

Congrats everyone!
 
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Cheezewhiz said:
36S!

12P 10V 14B

I wrote 6/16 and got an 11 08 11 Q and only studied for 2 weeks after getting my scores. This goes to show you how stupid this test is, given a 6 point increase with no change in study habits and minimal extra reviewing. This score is close to my practice average, although my PS average was a bit higher. Overall, not complaining at all! It's finally over for good.

Congrats everyone!
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Yeah, I don't like how the scores are so variable at the upper ranges.
 
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Oncoloman said:
WOWOWOWOW! Nice score!!!!! ( I'm from the 8-12-11 thread). What was your initial impression leaving the exam?

You must be one happy student right now 👍
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I dunno where I posted this but paul411 was kind enough to pull it up in his post:

AlphaMagnum said:
Finished up today; here's my report:

PS: About as difficult as expected. Nothing too strange on here but there were a few tough questions scattered around.
VR: Fairly challenging; I'd heard that the passages on the real deal were longer but didn't have a real idea of how much longer. Finished just in time.
BS: This was actually really easy. No trouble here save for one or two toughies, generally Orgo.

The orgo wasn't what I expected and I don't think it was terribly fair to ask what they did, but...yeah. I can't exactly discuss the details.

Overall verdict: It's over and I'm feeling really good about it, so I can take the rest of this summer off. Hope everyone else fared well; I guess this thread will bulk up again in a month's time. I'll see you all then.
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36Q! 11VR-11PS-14BS I scored 1 pt. higher than my practice averages so I can't complain! I'm just happy to not have to take the stupid thing ever again!
 
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31N... PS: 10, VR: 10, BS: 11

Can't say I'm super happy considering its four points lower than my AAMC average, but its good enough for state school with my other stats. I just was really expecting a higher VR, and especially expecting a higher BS, not sure what happened there.
 
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30P (10PS 9VR 11BS) I would take getting in anywhere... do you think I should take it again? should I apply this round? thanks
 
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38R.

15 Physical Sciences
9 for Verbal
14 for Biological Sciences

R for writing.


Should I go cry right now or should I move on?
 
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salim271 said:
31N... PS: 10, VR: 10, BS: 11

Can't say I'm super happy considering its four points lower than my AAMC average, but its good enough for state school with my other stats. I just was really expecting a higher VR, and especially expecting a higher BS, not sure what happened there.
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I'm in the same boat...got a 32 after averaging a 36...had a >13 BS average and dropped to a 10 on the real thing ...I was surprised to say the very least.

Hit basically exact averages on my other 2 sections, though.

We have good scores, just a little disappointing.


Also, for the 15, 9, 14 R person above me...very impressive. Congrats
 
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31Q (12 PS, 12 BS, 7 VR)

Verbal screwed me, but my gpa is very good, and my mcat is above the average where I want to apply. I was aiming for a 30 and am happy with what I got. Verbal was keeping back in my diags but I'll take it.
 
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mitchlucker said:
I'm in the same boat...got a 32 after averaging a 36...had a >13 BS average and dropped to a 10 on the real thing ...I was surprised to say the very least.

Hit basically exact averages on my other 2 sections, though.

We have good scores, just a little disappointing.


Also, for the 15, 9, 14 R person above me...very impressive. Congrats
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Yeah its really such a debate in my head right now about retaking, because my average was 4 points higher than my score. It feels like I hit the absolute bottom of my ranges on all three sections, I scored an 11 only once before in bio on AAMC 8, and I felt this bio was easier than AAMC 11 or 10, which are supposedly pretty difficult. I got 13s on both of them, so I'm wondering what really happened... maybe it was the organic, thats the only thing that was really different, but I didnt feel like it was too much trouble.

I have another year before med school since I'm taking a gap year. I might see how I feel in a few months, and if I feel up to retaking it, I will. Most likely I'll just stick with the 31 though, I dont really care about going to top tier that much.
 
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11 VR
12 PS
10 BS
overall: 33Q

planning to take it again in mid-January... was hoping for 12s in all sections, and had been getting 13 VR and 12 BS in AAMC practice tests. pleasantly surprised by physical sciences score, though. I thought the Bio was trickier for me because it had more biochemistry and Orgo that I had neglected to brush up on...

Is a Q an ok score for the writing section? I had only done 2 writing practices prior to the test...
 
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wannabeMD19 said:
11 VR
12 PS
10 BS
overall: 33Q

planning to take it again in mid-January... was hoping for 12s in all sections, and had been getting 13 VR and 12 BS in AAMC practice tests. pleasantly surprised by physical sciences score, though. I thought the Bio was trickier for me because it had more biochemistry and Orgo that I had neglected to brush up on...

Is a Q an ok score for the writing section? I had only done 2 writing practices prior to the test...
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Q is fine. Basically, unless you write like a 12 year old, it's hard to mess that up. Let's be honest.

A Q puts you, basically, in about the 75th percentile. See this document for specific statistics on 2010 applicants: https://www.aamc.org/students/download/157904/data/combined10.pdf
 
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July '10: PS 8 / VR 12 / BS 9 = 29P
Sept' 10: PS 8 / VR 11 / BS 8 = 27O
Aug '11: PS 9 / VR 11 / BS 11 = 31Q

I will most likely take the exam one last time early next year. I would really like a 10+ in every section and know I should be able to get another 12 in verbal.
 
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Hey guys!

I got a 28Q (BS and PS 9; VR 10).

I am pretty happy with my score because there was quite a lot of orgo on the test, but I didn't learn any orgo in university or prior to taking the MCAT. I am still undecided if I want to retake it, I meet the average scores right now for the vet program I want to get in to.
 
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So this may be a stupid question, but do we ever get to go through the actual exam to see what we got wrong? Or can we do that currently?
 
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25Q (7VR/7PS/11BS)

...Unbelievable! Honestly don't know what happened...never got below a 10 in PS. Maybe I missed a passage? Though I thought I reviewed it at the end.. Practise average was ~31 with the highest being a 34 and lowest being 28! Wrote on 9/08 so I'm hoping that will be more in line with the average, although I'm not holding my breathe...I really don't know what to do..
 
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gongshow89 said:
25Q (7VR/7PS/11BS)

...Unbelievable! Honestly don't know what happened...never got below a 10 in PS. Maybe I missed a passage? Though I thought I reviewed it at the end.. Practise average was ~31 with the highest being a 34 and lowest being 28! Wrote on 9/08 so I'm hoping that will be more in line with the average, although I'm not holding my breathe...I really don't know what to do..
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Posts like this scare and make me think I might score a 26.

I would accept a VR score of 7 even if my score was faked, but I would be very very shocked if I scored below a 10 on PS. How did you feel about the PS after taking it?
 
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Chrome19 said:
Posts like this scare and make me think I might score a 26.

I would accept a VR score of 7 even if my score was faked, but I would be very very shocked if I scored below a 10 on PS. How did you feel about the PS after taking it?
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I dont know about gong but I thought it was pretty easy. There was a lot of chem, I felt really good about it but I ended up with a 10 in the section, which was slightly below my PS average, I really thought I was gonna hit 11-12 for sure on this section. MCAT is really hard to predict unless you're good at that sort of testing, and I dont think many people are. There's so much more to the test than just content.
 
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Chrome19 said:
Posts like this scare and make me think I might score a 26.

I would accept a VR score of 7 even if my score was faked, but I would be very very shocked if I scored below a 10 on PS. How did you feel about the PS after taking it?
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Yea, I'm still pretty shocked. Honestly, the whole thing felt pretty good with the exception of VR (where I thought I might score lower than practise averages..and in the end did). Nothing really stuck out as being overly difficult. So like I said the only thing I can think of is that I may have accidentally missed a passage, even though I was sure I reviewed everything at the end. Hoping the score I have coming in early October will be more in line with the practise tests.
 
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