Hello fellow May 12ers! I didn't see a thread for our test day and considering we are 5 weeks away, I decided to make one! I hope everyone's preparation is going well!
Hey a friend of mine got a PS/V/BS 8/12/12
Total: 32N
She's worried about the PS being unbalanced what do you guys think?
I wanted to bump this to see what people think about that. She has a 3.85+ gpa and good ECs
When doing the practice VR, if the essay was discussing "the cretaceous boundary and the extinction of dinosaurs from an asteroid," I would read the essay with great enthusiasm (since I was interested in the subject) and found the answers to be extremely easy and straightforward such that I would say to myself "I aced that passage on the asteroid killing dinosaurs". But then when I would review the questions, I would usually get 5 out of 6 of them wrong.
When the essay discussed how "a paintbrush and canvas expands the spirit and enlarges the soul", I would always have an extremely difficult time with the answers--having to do a lot of "ennie meenie, miney, moe" between B and C. Yet I would regularly get at least 5 of the 6 questions correct.
I attributed my results to poor question writing by the Kaplan people (as this was my primary source of study material for the VR section). But maybe there is some trick to VR that my brain simply can't comprehend. I have taken a few literature classes in my academic career, but could never get past the "black and white" interpretation.
For example, when a poem reads, "roses are red and violets are blue", and then the literature professor says how the poem is actually an allegory to the Napoleonic conquest of Spain, all I can say is "Where in the world did you get that interpretation?" Perhaps some are more talented at seeing deeper meaning than I am, but when you're interviewing a patient, are you really supposed to be looking for deeper meaning in what they are saying?
Things are not always black and white, and sometimes things are not what they seem.
Sounds like you're planning to be a psychiatrist.
9 PS / 11 VR / 12 BS = 32P
AAMC average: 29.8 (scary place to be!)
My AAMC practice tests wavered between 29-30 with one oddball 31. Of course, the last one I took was over a week before the MCAT so that extra 10 days may have paid off. A little dissapointed with PS section, but I'll take a 32!
10 PS 12 VR 10 BS = 32O