The Official 4/27/13 MCAT Thread

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This might be considered a bit early, but full-time college students need to prepare ahead of time, especially when they are doing a research and volunteering, which requires them to spend at least 30-40 hours per week...

Let's share plans, strategies, schedules, and so on to help each other to crack this exam.
 
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Strawberry7 said:
If you took the trial section (or had the option to do so), you didn't void. How long do you guys think it actually takes AAMC to get the scores ready, with scaling and such?
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A month.

How long do I think it would take a competent group to get the scores ready, with scaling and such? A few days.
 
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circulus vitios said:
A month.

How long do I think it would take a competent group to get the scores ready, with scaling and such? A few days.
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personally I think they do it to make more money....

a lot of people sign up again without getting their scores on the chance they did not perform well.... once they find out that their score is satisfactory, the proceed to cancel the planned retake and request a refund. But since its already close to the 2 weeks or past the 2 weeks, they dont get their money back... and that is how the AAMC gets you to take one MCAT for the price of 2.
 
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Sphenoid927 said:
I felt/feel just like this, too. I have no idea how I did and it drives me crazy.
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Feel the same way 🙁

I also thought the PS was as weird as hell.

Didn't have nearly as much time left as I normally do on any section. And I join the group that thinks the test was nothing like any of the AAMC's.

Sad about only 1 ochem passage. Even sadder that they're likely gonna throw out one of the discrete ochem's I got right 🙁
 
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Today I realized that I got not just 1.... but 2 questions wrong the on 4/27 PS section. Are my hopes of a 14-15 (my practice range) totally dashed???? I feel that 15 slipping away...hopefully our exam is curved more understandishably than the AAMC FL tests are. As many others before me, I too wonder how the presence of experimental material affects the sensitivity of the raw score to scaled score conversion.

I understand none of this is productive. But I'm using this to vent..... but it's ok. Just 17 days and 16 hours and we'll know for sure.
 
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wiloghby said:
Today I realized that I got not just 1.... but 2 questions wrong the on 4/27 PS section. Are my hopes of a 14-15 (my practice range) totally dashed???? I feel that 15 slipping away...hopefully our exam is curved more understandishably than the AAMC FL tests are. As many others before me, I too wonder how the presence of experimental material affects the sensitivity of the raw score to scaled score conversion.

I understand none of this is productive. But I'm using this to vent..... but it's ok. Just 17 days and 16 hours and we'll know for sure.
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I've realized that there are 2 questions in both PS and BS that I got wrong. Guess what? I have no clue if they're experimental or actual questions.

Nothing you can do. A 15, 14, 13 or 12 are all AMAZING scores that will put you in the top tier of test takers. I know it's disappointing and disheartening to realize that mistakes were made, but there's nothing you can do about that now. Focus on finals/AMCAS and enjoy the freedom of not having to study for the MCAT.

We're all gonna make it bro.

Stay calm. Your score will 100% reflect the work you put into preparing for the exam.
 
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For the record, I would totally be thrilled with a 12/12/12!!! I'd even be happy with an 11/11/11 after all this agony. After the AAMC FLs I felt like the real thing would be a breeze... but I now know better.

Yes, 16 days and 17 hours.
 
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"I would totally be thrilled with a 12/12/12!!!" you don't say????? that's like 97th percentile. i think any of us would be thrilled
 
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hockeyboy23 said:
"I would totally be thrilled with a 12/12/12!!!" you don't say????? that's like 97th percentile. i think any of us would be thrilled
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I understand that. I was posting in response to the very wise and reasonable johnnyscans, who wanted to put in perspective for me that you don't need to get a 14 or 15 in your strongest subject, but a 12, 13, 14, or 15 in any subject is a great score. And it's true. In my case I have to make up for a somewhat checkered academic record...but really any score 33+ can do that just as well.

I would've quoted the relevant part of his post but I was posting from the ambulance laptop...we were on standby for an hour and a half from 12:15a to 1:45a and I got bored.
 
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aamc's such a tease. like the road to becoming a doctor isn't annoying enough. get this, you get your DAT scores the same day you take the test. like wtfux
 
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Had a dream last night that I had just received my MCAT score :scared:
Made 8PS/ 10VR/ 1BS.......but somehow the composite was 16. I think I am officially going cray cray :laugh:
 
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oldnaish said:
Had a dream last night that I had just received my MCAT score :scared:
Made 8PS/ 10VR/ 1BS.......but somehow the composite was 16. I think I am officially going cray cray :laugh:
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4/26 taker here. I had a very similar dream. 5PS/7VR/4BS, but my overall score came out to be a 15. I just wanna know my score already!! :boom:
 
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Does anyone know when and where the scores will come out?

I thought they only gave us a rough date as to when the scores will be released (30-35 days)
 
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Cynicalbrit said:
The "tentative" score release date is 5/29.

https://www.aamc.org/students/applying/mcat/reserving/261800/deadlineandscorerelease.html

As far as I know, they tend to release scores on the tentative date, around early evening. However, they never make any concrete promises about when they release scores, so for all we know, they could hold on to our scores until December. I'd look for them on the 29th, though.
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Darn. I assumed that they would just release them on 5/27. Ugh..add 2 more days to the wait 😡
 
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Hey, I'm taking 7/13 and I want to know if you guys have any suggestions for review material/accurate practice exams after exhausting the AAMC exams?
 
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34% correct, bottom 50th percentile. Not bad for not reading a single question and guessing on literally everything.
 
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I got 84% correct which was top quartile.

At the time I felt I was guessing on half the questions...hopefully this bodes well for the scored sections where I actually was familiar with the material!

I received a sociology/psychology/biology trial section (as opposed to a biochem/genetics/chem/physics trial section... the AAMC trial section page suggests they give out trial sections of either one or the other set of subjects to each examinee).

I wonder how many different trial sections are given out at each administration to ensure they have a large enough test bank for 2015 and onward.
 
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I got 88% correct on the trial section that I completed in 15 minutes.

Dear god... I'm going to cry my eyes out if I did better on the trial section, without studying and giving a ****, than I do on the real mcat, which I studied my ass off for.
 
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I got 59% as well. I keep thinking about the fact that they have graded the trial section which I'm
 
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Oops what I meant to say was they have graded the trial section which I assume to mean that they have graded the actual test as well (that may not be true but it's just my opinion) but we still have to wait another 6 days to find out our score. I just want to know 🙁
 
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Oops what I meant to say was they have graded the trial section which I assume to mean that they have graded the actual test as well (that may not be true but it's just my opinion) but we still have to wait another 6 days to find out our score. I just want to know 🙁
 
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i got 53%... i usually get 10,8,10.
for everyone that got their trial section percentage, can you put what score you get on your practice aamc as well so we can all compare??
 
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I will say that I doubt there's much relationship between raw score on a section that we all spent zero time and effort reviewing for and the scaled scores on sections that we poured all of our energy into the last few months.

It would also depend not only on your % raw score, but also on which trial section you received. For that reason, if you want to look at trial section results in context, you have to use the percentile ranking they give you (i.e. top 25%). But since there's only 4 separate categories, it probably won't help too much. 🙁

But if you still want all that info:
I had a social sciences trial section, scored 84%, top quartile, AAMC avgs: 14/12.3/13.3

For what it's worth I suspect I scored lower on my real MCAT than I did on the AAMC FLs.
 
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wiloghby said:
I will say that I doubt there's much relationship between raw score on a section that we all spent zero time and effort reviewing for and the scaled scores on sections that we poured all of our energy into the last few months.

It would also depend not only on your % raw score, but also on which trial section you received. For that reason, if you want to look at trial section results in context, you have to use the percentile ranking they give you (i.e. top 25%). But since there's only 4 separate categories, it probably won't help too much. 🙁

But if you still want all that info:
I had a social sciences trial section, scored 81%, top quartile, AAMC avgs: 14/12.3/13.3

For what it's worth I suspect I scored lower on my real MCAT than I did on the AAMC FLs.
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I feel the same way.

I also had the social sciences trial section and scored a 88%. On my last three AAMC practice tests, I was consistently scoring 40+, with a 14/12/14 average.

However, I also suspect that I scored lower on my real MCAT than the AAMC FLs.

I doubt that there will be a correlation between trial section scores and actual AAMC or MCAT scores, as we did not prepare for the trial sections and had no idea what kind of questions it was going to throw at us.
 
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