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Hi everyone!

I just registered to take the MCAT on May 23, 2013 at 8:00 a.m.! I had to register early because I live in NYC and seats fill up fast!

I'm gonna start with SN2's schedule in a couple of months. I ordered the books (TBR, EK, EK1001, etc) a couple of days ago.

How are you guys gonna study?

Best of luck everyone,

- DT93
 
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Good luck people.
 
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clothcut said:
hahaha, i figured i was calm until i had my first "mcat dream" today that i had scored a 25... wtf. lol, oh well, better today than two weeks ago. good luck and whatnot to us :luck:
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OMG I had the exact same dream few days ago, and last night........
It was 20 and 24 for me. I had to go through unnecessary nervous breakdown
over that stupid dream 👎thumbdown
Today I hope my dream DOES NOT come true😱
Well, let's relax for next 6 hours or so! Good luck!
Wish you the best 🙂😉
 
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So nervous, I feel like I might puke. These will be the longest 6 hours of my life haha
AAMC average was a 34-35 but I felt pretty bad about the test afterwards. PS was horrible and usually my weakest area so I need a miracle to pull a 10.
My prediction is a 30-31, which I will be okay with. Anything over a 30 and I won't retake. Praying to God I don't have to retake this thing, that would be pure misery!
 
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Hokiehi said:
Hey everyone! Nontrad applicant and fellow 5/23er here. I've tried to avoid coming to this thread for the last month but I couldn't help lurking now and again. Some quick thoughts about the exam; I have been fighting off panic ever since everyone else thought PS was insane. I thought it was fairly reasonable and PS can be my weakest section. I don't remember much of verbal, only that I thought I did well on it. BS just about broke me, I was not expecting that much Ochem, and the Ochem topics I had prepared most for were barely there. I never broke 30 in my prep but then again I did it with the TPR class and they have you taking them all along, before content review is finished. The week before the exam I got my best score (29 on TPR 4) yet, so here's hoping that uptrend continues! I'm expecting a 28-29 and am applying to a post bacc if I get it, but med school if 30+. Cheers and good luck everyone, the first big exam of our medical careers is almost behind us!
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The TPR exams are far harder. Probably so you are guaranteed to make a huge improvement on the real thing from their tests. I took 3 TPR exams, and didn't get above a 28, but averaged around 35 on the last several AAMC practice tests I took. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with your score.
 
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mtbski said:
The TPR exams are far harder. Probably so you are guaranteed to make a huge improvement on the real thing from their tests. I took 3 TPR exams, and didn't get above a 28, but averaged around 35 on the last several AAMC practice tests I took. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with your score.
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Thanks! That is really encouraging.

Which TPR exams did you take? Some of my classmates took the Cracking the MCAT ones and said they were insane, unfortunately with a 50+hr a week job I didn't have the time to do much more than what was recommended in the course. So I took all 5 core TPR exams and several AAMCs, though I can't say I put much stock in gauging my performance by the AAMCs since I was like a month from being finished with the content review when I took my last one.
 
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drmsk said:
anyone else notice the number of users viewing this thread rising? making me even more nervous!
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Yeah all of us June 20'ers are waiting and watching in hopes for good news - I feel like it's such a crap shoot might be great might be horrible- a whole month of waiting is just awful
 
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vassiliades21 said:
I am in the same boat...seriously already registered to retake it 07/25...but i hope i didnt do that terribly on 05/23....what is taking so long we had to take the whole thing on a computer which was oh so fun...just run the data!
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lol. Same here...I signed up for the 9/12 test date.
 
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Having taken the test multiple times, I've noticed when I got the same subscore, say a 9 in verbal on the first try and the second try, the percentiles are the same(for the subscore of 9). So my guess on why it takes so long is they have to first group all the 5/23 test takers into percentiles with each other. After they do that, they have to compare this test to all the other tests from different days.

What I am saying is a lot goes into the scores. Having 52 questions, getting 40 correct on one exam would land you into the same percentile as say 43 correct on another exam. While I understand waiting a month is painful, I'd much rather them take more time and make sure everything is correct, rather than a computer output.
 
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The amount of guests viewing this thread just keeps going up and up, I predict by 3pm we'll be over 100.

I slept til 11 so as to avoid having to panic this morning 😎 we got this yall
 
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pre med 2014 said:
ehh not really too late, especially if your GPA is good.
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GPA is ehh..I am a non traditional applicant. graduated from undergrad when dinos were still roaming. Throughout the years got an MPH then when to PA school--been one for 10 years...I signed up for a retake for August 3rd but now I am wondering if I should give myself a bit more time before my retake(I am assuming at this point that I will need to retake because I didn't feel good at all about the PS)...
 
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ChemEngMD said:
The amount of guests viewing this thread just keeps going up and up, I predict by 3pm we'll be over 100.

I slept til 11 so as to avoid having to panic this morning 😎 we got this yall
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Last weeks release thread had 200 people if you can believe that. Something like 100 or more of those were guests too. This thread was pretty desolate compared to the others until these last few days.
 
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Unfortunately I know mine is on the low side. It's just a question of 28-29 or 26 range. For now I'm listening to trance and have the price is right on pause so I can go watch it all in a bit without commercial. I made the mistake of drinking coffee this morning so I'm more nervous now and my stomach is upset. I think I've seen every link on reddit to the 50th page probably lol.
 
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I'm sitting here watching the prices right and one of the contestants just graduated medical school...what is this some sick joke.
 
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I just keep telling myself there are so many mathematical ways to a 30 haha

I'm going to go watch a Master's thesis defense and hopefully that will at least eat up half of the time remaining 👍
 
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ChemEngMD said:
The amount of guests viewing this thread just keeps going up and up, I predict by 3pm we'll be over 100.

I slept til 11 so as to avoid having to panic this morning 😎 we got this yall
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78 guests....people are starting to watch us.....

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Yes, good luck to all! Like many of you, I have imagined many score scenarios. My wonderful roommate says we're drinking tonight, regardless of the number that appears on that screen sometime later today, to celebrate all the work I put into this. I get where she's coming from, but I REALLY hope I'm celebrating a happy number, too ...
 
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How does the score report look? What info do they give?

For practice AAMC's I always made the window super tiny, and then moved around to see my percentiles first because I was so nervous. Haha. Can I do this for the actual mcat scores?
 
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neleponea said:
How does the score report look? What info do they give?

For practice AAMC's I always made the window super tiny, and then moved around to see my percentiles first because I was so nervous. Haha. Can I do this for the actual mcat scores?
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from google

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Running out of time on PS and leaving a couple blank has been haunting me for this past month. Had a dream my score report told me I had left 30 blank. On one section. So you know, I'm not freaking out or anything... mentally preparing for the worst but hoping for the best! Good luck everyone! :luck:
 
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Is it better to know your score and have done badly or be in limbo like we are now and not know? hmmm as u can see im going kinda crazy over there
 
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I keep bouncing between the MCAT's twitter and this thread to see "Scores are up!".

The twitter account answered someone's question and I freaked out just because I saw their number of tweets had gone up. I think I need professional help.
 
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Nah, when I saw the tweet count go from 320 to 321 my heart stopped momentarily. Sadly I think this whole process fosters neurotic behavior.

Edit: As I typed this the twitter account responded to another person so I had another heart attack. And when I read the persons comment about vomitting my neurotic behavior theory was validated.
 
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