Psych social was hard in that you could narrow it down to two answers most of the time, but deciding between those two was really difficult. This is why I stress the concept part because I think that you have to identify what psychological/sociological theory they are talking about and reason to yourself which answer is more relevant to that theory. I am kind of frustrated with the way every portrayed the psych section because my experience was pretty straight forward. It was the fl practice on steroids. That's to be expected. It's not that the full length isn't representive, but it expects you to try harder to solidly what you've learned/
For those lurking here to see what you need to do, I highly recommended the PR. There tests are hard as S*** and taking your time going over them is very fruitful. Personally, I thought that The Next Step exams were really helpful. I took exams 1-3 and that were also very hard, but utilized data interpretation like a mofo. Lastly, I took EK exam 4 and the psych social was literally on point with the exam I took.
As far as chem/phys, it's really about grasping the passage enough to use your foundational information in both disciplines. Like, there were passages that I read where I was like wth is this, but then question stems were basically asking you easy questions in a very tricky way. At least for me, I probably did like 5-6 calculations in total, but most of the time it was basically testing your recall knowledge conceptually. Oh and yes, like everyone has said, know your AA's inside and out. Nomenclature as well as how they reactive in enzymatic processes/ physiological states.
Bio/biochem - again, AA are crucial. But, just like the p\c section, if you can grasp the idea of the convoluted passage, you can pretty much break down the question stems. I mean, data interpretation were def there, but it wasn't something I sat back and was like "wth are you asking me right now???"
As I stated before, I suck at CARS, so my evaluation of that is unfair to most of you, but the passages are definitely longer. Perhaps not as difficult as what we've seen in other prep companies but I'd say it was just a tad bit harder than the full length and the passages are longer. It's really more of an endurance thing.
I d k guys, I personally felt like I was prepared. I can attribute that to TPR. The prep was so hard that it made the exam wen easier. Moreover, know your concepts, be able to read and understand your CARS passages in 10 min tops, and take your psych prep to a whole new level. With that, you will be okay.
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I thought they figured our from all the crepe that happened during may. Best of luck.
