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Figured I'd start this one out. I'll be registering for the MCAT first thing tomorrow. Who else is taking it on this date? How do you all plan on studying over the school year?
on my way out the door!!!
GL EVERYONE!!!
YEEEE 🙂
PS was "ok". 1 ******ed chem passage and 2 ******ed physics passage. I feel I guessed on more than what I should've.
VR as everyone says is longer by a paragraph each. The question bodies were bigger but the difficulty was easier than AAMC 8.
BS was light on Orgo. Light on physiology but heavier on experiments and molecular bio. 1-2 experiments were like WTF.
I feel like I bombed it so I'm guessing 8/8/8 = 24.
Wow, I feel like I bombed it too. Felt that was much worse than all my practice runs and reading passages were really long. Maybe that will skew the curve a bit so raw scores will convert higher.
Here's hoping.
P.S. how long until we can register for another sitting?
well that was fun.
my guess: 12/10/12
It was a pleasure trading tips and talking to you. Good luck! I hope in a month when I'm preparing to take my exam, I glance back and see how ecstatic you are from your score.
👍 I'm rooting for you buddy! 🙂
Peace out Nutty 🙂 See you after the exam![]()
Later, NED. Although you won't see it, good luck! I know you'll rock it.
See you on the other side.
We'll catch up in a week, when you tell us how you grabbed that test by the nose and kicked it in the ass!
I'm glad to be done 🙂
First of all, thank you to all my fellow 3-23'ers (and everyone else who participated in this thread) You guys are the best! While everyone at my testing center was waiting to be brought in one by one, the only thought in my head was "Oh man I wish I could be hanging out with my homies on the Student Doctor Network right now!!" (Nobody at my test center was talking. Nobody!)
The exam was 100% MCAT, no more, no less. I expect my AAMC practice exams to be predicative.
AAMC min: 38
AAMC max: 44
AAMC mean: 40.6
AAMC median: 41
(n = 8)
I am confident that I got: 38+
I can reasonably hope for: 41
Those are some really insane scores... Just wondering, but when you took the MCAT in 2010 did you use the same practice tests?
I hope AAMC thought the PS was as difficult as I thought it was.. 4 wrong = 14, please? =/
No, of the scores I used just now to generate those statistics ....I didn't take any of those AAMC tests the first time around.
I did not include AAMC 3 in the statistics because that's the one I used prior to my 2010 exam.
Yeah, I highly doubt that 🙁
I already can count 4 Bio/orgo questions that I missed.... 🙄 14 on that, please?
Thanks everyone! 🙂
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Today's test. Every test dates has one section where everyone unanimously feels that it was the "killer" section. Today that section was Physical Sciences. The funny thing about this was there was a passage on subject material that i was going to write about in the "made up" passages we did rather than the dr who theme. The only problem was that I couldn't find any good papers to reference on it and I couldn't find questions that were easy enough to ask that was mcat level. But the actual topic was on the test! Having said that, the questions they asked about it were mostly theoretical (physics) and not very difficult compared to the subject matter of the passage. The section overall was difficult and I am sure I did much worse than what I feel my potential is.
Verbal was interesting. Only one passage was on subject matter that I found to be mind numbingly boring (i forget what it is now) and the others were not bad at all. The passages were longer but not 900 words like people have said, probably closer to 700 words. The aamc supplied verbal passages seemed pretty tame in comparison. I never thought of verbal as problematic for me but just unpredictable.
The Bio section I thought was extremely easy. Having said that I've never broken an 11 on a bio section in a practice exam yet so I'm giving myself a predicted 11 (what I've more or less been getting in practices). But I did most of the section skipping the experiment passage and saving it until last, where I ended up spending 20 minutes on that passage alone, just to be sure.
The theoretically/trial section was on bio, seemed just like another bio section so meh. I really wanted to see what the socioloy and psychology type of questions they would have would be like.
My AAMC average: 30.4
AAMC 3 - 29
AAMC 4 - 31
AAMC 5 - 28
AAMC 8 - 34
AAMC11 - 30
My Prediction: 30
PS: 8 (hurt pride)
VR: 10-11
BS: 11-12 (Dare I dream?)
Now the wait begins and I am hoping i did "good enough" so that I dont have to subject myself to this prep again.
Good luck man. Just wondering, what score would you be happy with that would not warrant a retake?
To be honest, I dont know.You'll see me in the WAMC forums soon enough...........
I made a deal with myself that I won't retake unless I get a <25 or a <7 in verbal. I'll just apply DO![]()
haha I was going to write about this. everyone wouldn't shut up at my test center except they were all working each other up into a frenzy. It was the only time I wish i had ear plugs. lol. i'm sure it would have pissed them all off if i just sat there with ear plugs while they were all freaking out.but i'm sure they each lost a few points on the built up anxiety they created in each other right before the test.
edit: so when are the scores out again? 😛
Entadus, stop worrying, you probably got like a 40 🙂
I'm not sure why, but I can barely remember any questions from the test. The few I do remember, I looked up the answer on Google and said "sweet, I got that one right......wait, did I put that answer?", so I'm not sure what to make of it.
I would kill to go back to this morning to start over (not even considering that I've looked up some answers - purely from a test-taking standpoint). I was keeping pretty calm up to the test, but once I physically started the test, I felt...different? When I didn't know and answer right away, I somewhat panicked (not terribly, just enough to fog you're thinking a bit) and just picked a best answer because I thought I had to keep moving...at least I THINK...that's what's weird, I really DON'T REMEMBER much from this morning, which leaves me unsettled.
Same thing with VR. I developed a strategy that was working pretty well literally a few days before today. I even outlined the strategy on the scratch paper so I would remember. Once the first passage came up, I somewhat abandoned it for the first two passages. Maybe they were just hard, but I had to do the "pick an answer and keep moving" strategy. Then for the third one, I told myself to snap out of it and stick to the plan. I felt fine after that, but didn't have time to investigate a few questions because the first two passages took longer than they should've.
BS - again, I really don't remember anything. Did I really read 7 passages and take 52 questions? Doesn't seem like it. Again, maybe that's because I had to quickly pick answers and keep moving sometimes.
Trial - My section was on biochem. I think I owned it. Maybe AAMC will feel nice and pass along some effort points.
I still think I'll come out with a 29ish. The practice tests averaged 10 questions wrong for an 11. I don't think it's a stretch to say I got more than 10 wrong on them, especially since I can't remember anything. I realize a passage may have been purely experimental so the scoring is different but I'm also not expecting much of a curve on this. Still feel like I underperformed.
NED, this is hilarious!!I wonder what the difference was between my silent test center and your nervous/talkative one? Maybe if one person at mine had opened their mouth, the nervous pre-med banter would have spread like wildfire-contagion!
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