I haven't seen a thread for the 8/10/12 MCAT so I thought to start it.
I am following SN2ed's 3 month schedule btw.
I am following SN2ed's 3 month schedule btw.
Took the 2pm test. I'm a retaker and I must say that today's exam was harder than my first try (6/21/12).
Anyway, I was able to manage my time properly. Had 2 mins left to review the questions that I marked for both PS and VR. And 14 mins left to review the expt'l passages in BS. Anyway..
The PS was kinda ok, though it was harder than my first try. There was one passage that seemed like part of the verbal coz there weren't any calculations, just pure texts! (good luck, right? I'd rather calculations). I checked on the two discrete questions that I remembered and so far, I got 1 out of 2 correct! So, we'll see.
Then, the VR section came. The VR for me is really the hardest part of the MCAT exam, mostly because English is my 2nd language and also, sometimes, I couldn't even understand what the passage is talking about. But for this test, I felt confident, surprisingly! I just hope I score better this time.
Last, the BS part. Well, BS was totally BS!!!! What can I say? Last 6/21, we only had 2 expt'l passages. But for this test, there were 4! So good luck!!! The discretes were pretty straightforward though. There were more BS than Orgo (I wish the other way around coz I'mm better at Orgo). But anyway, I did my best. Hopefully, my best will be good enough!
What did you guys think of the exam?
Took the 2pm test. I'm a retaker and I must say that today's exam was harder than my first try (6/21/12).
Anyway, I was able to manage my time properly. Had 2 mins left to review the questions that I marked for both PS and VR. And 14 mins left to review the expt'l passages in BS. Anyway..
The PS was kinda ok, though it was harder than my first try. There was one passage that seemed like part of the verbal coz there weren't any calculations, just pure texts! (good luck, right? I'd rather calculations). I checked on the two discrete questions that I remembered and so far, I got 1 out of 2 correct! So, we'll see.
Then, the VR section came. The VR for me is really the hardest part of the MCAT exam, mostly because English is my 2nd language and also, sometimes, I couldn't even understand what the passage is talking about. But for this test, I felt confident, surprisingly! I just hope I score better this time.
Last, the BS part. Well, BS was totally BS!!!! What can I say? Last 6/21, we only had 2 expt'l passages. But for this test, there were 4! So good luck!!! The discretes were pretty straightforward though. There were more BS than Orgo (I wish the other way around coz I'mm better at Orgo). But anyway, I did my best. Hopefully, my best will be good enough!
What did you guys think of the exam?
Took the 2PM test:
Writing: Couldn't help but feel the prompts were begging for an emotional response in regards to politics.
Took the 2 pm.
PS --- I love physical sciences and it's usually my best score, but ugh.. I didn't feel up to par. and it was SOOO physics heavy! I felt like there was only a couple of general chemistry questions!
Verbal - I actually usually feel pretty iffy on verbal, but here for some reason I didn't feel too bad? I hope that doesn't mean it was just super easy and the curve will be unforgiving 🙁
BS -- All I can say about this is it was so weird. Different than any practice test I've taken. So detail heavy.. just really bogged me down 🙁
No timing issues.. but a couple of guesses. Sigh. I cried the whole way home! I feel awful about it overall.. it was just so unlike any of the others I've taken! And I've been getting great scores! But I just don't think today was a good day to take it for me .. yuck
Andddd... I felt like there was so many things/topics/typical high yield stuff I was expecting to see and it was totally NOT on there.. and then a lot of stuff I was prepared for but totally didn't expect.
hey did u guys have an immensely dense experimental heavy bio section like we did for the 8/17 MCAT?
Me too- I have been checking any questions i remember. I have days I am confident I did well, days I already see that abysmal score on MCAT thx. I get all we can do is wait 🙁
I'm not sure what to do, I plan on applying this cycle to one or two schools that I'd like to go to, knowing that I'm applying very late in the application cycle and will probably have to try again next year. I'm working on my personal statement right now (It's taking me much longer than expected!) and would like to submit my application within the next couple days. Should I just wait until I get my score back and then send my app out? I'm not sure how confident I felt about that MCAT and don't want to submit an application if I end up just bombing the MCAT.
What I did was submit my application a month ago- with only one school. And as soon as my MCAT comes in- and fingers crossed Im happy with it- Ill add the rest. Adding schools gets processed the next day
No lie...i've had dreams about getting my MCAT score back. This can't be healthy 🙄
I think its usually between 2-3 pm
Could not sleep last night- trying so hard to stay off SDN and get my mind off it- but as you can see- Unsuccessful!
Me too... I'm at the AAMC website with my username and password typed in to check my score but I can't click submit. I'm too nervous! I will do it in 10 minutes no matter what after I get my nerves calmed. Has anyone checked their scores yet?
Scores will be released tomorrow, right?
Yeah its supposed to be tomorrow. For some reason I thought it would be today... LOL sigh...