honestly for me it was like a mixture of in between, but not similar to any of the practice tests. I'm sure if you know the content well enough you can adapt, i don't mean to psych you out or anything, but for me the test felt like 85% unfamiliar like i could not have even prepared for. Even some of the concepts on the exam that I am completely comfortable with I couldn't do because of how the passage was set up/question being asked. Good luck on your exam!! so far it seems like the waiting game is the worst part lol
Ahh that would be fantastic I just hope we can all feel the glorious feels of not having to retake. I honestly feel like I am going to have to retake
I was kidding haha, but I'm sure it will all work out.
Yeah totally, I felt the same way going in - I feel like my strong suit is being able to decipher new information (similar to 9,10,11AAMC), but I don't know, for whatever reason it just felt tougher to me on the real thing. Yeah you are right, haha not AS much anxiety, but just more of a helpless feeling in my opinion haha
you had my hopes up! what would you estimate -10 realistically being?
Pessimistically, probs a 10/11, optimistically 11/12?
Right! I remember reading a thread a while ago where a guy was CONVINCED / absolutely certain he got -5 on BS and ended up with a 15. So, perhaps miracles do happen?
I presume friend 2 promptly cancelled that next test lol
I felt somewhat the same way. I used the periodic table several times. If specific passage information was directly needed, the question was most likely impossible to answer
I also messed up on a few o chem questions because I was being stupid and overthought them. Join the party.
That soon? ahh man I don't want to think about anything MCAT related for at least a few weeks, when would you plan on retaking if you had to?
Depends on how confident I feel but I suppose one of the October dates, I figure if I wait too long I might lose some details im strong on so ill start right back up and be ready, then at least if it turns out I didn't do to bad everything's all submitted so all I will have lost is time. I'm only working now so I don't have to worrry about classes.
That's nice you don't have classes to worry about. What do you mean by everything is all submitted ? I haven't started my AACOMAS yet (I am applying DO) I wasnt sure if I should wait until I get my MCAT back, it seems pointless to fill it out without submitting it, am I right on this?
You can submit before having your scores back for sure! Especially since it takes a month or so for aacomas to verify your app anyway. Heck some of the schools that dont pre screen might even send you a secondary before your scores are back. But of course by the time your aacomas is verified anyway youd have scores back. I think one differentiator though is I have taken the mcat before so I do have a score already in the system, but listed this aug 21st exam as upcoming. Plus if you have the time why not start on the app and if you dont submit download and save the pdf of everything you've entered so you have it incase you decide to hold off on applying.
I've been telling myself that last part since Thursday, Altho I'm still just as anxious.
I cant stop thinking about the last discrete--or maybe it was second to last. Not gonna mention specifics, but I think it may have meant one thing while I interpreted it as meaning something else. I'll literally never know.
that's so weird i think i did the same thing.
From my perspective, the Bio was much easier than I thought it would be--I do not remember a wtf bio passage or discrete. I have a ton of background knowledge in those areas.
You... You give me hope.
I absolutely agree with you. One of the o chem passages was structured differently and the style of question required, I feel, more guesstimating than I am comfortable. Some of the bio stand alone questions were like bio trivia of minute details, which is odd because these are often the questions that were super simple in the FLs because they asked about basic questions about organelles and overall high yield stuff. I thought the passages were fair and on par with 11, but the o chem and trivia made the test more challenging. In the past, I would complete bio with 20+ minute left. On this exam I had 5.
Was it the one with no calculations?
Right? Haha, our physics was significantly more difficult than the practice tests, our Verbal was utterly ridiculous, and the BS was SO orgo-heavy, and as an orgo TA and tutor, I found many of those orgo questions very difficult. I didn't think it was as exaggeratedly more difficult than the practice tests as the general SDN consensus would make one believe, but it was certainly no walk in the park...
I'm just happy i'm not the only person who thought it was a challenge and will be stressed about it over the next month. It's nice to know ppl with similar practice scores have similar feelings. Misery always loves company.Anybody else having nightmares about this test?
Yea
I actually find this extremely offensive. Just b/c you're getting these high scores no need to go out on a limb and say "it must of been hard for everyone else." I actually thought this test was very simple and straightforward and I'm an "average composite score" Don't be arrogant.
