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Were you guys able to cross-out answer choices on the real thing? It didn't let me do that for the practice exam or Q packs…
 
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Took the exam today too.

PC: definitely the section I feel most unsure about. Know I missed some questions because of lack of studying those areas. Typically this is my worst section, I think that the nerves and it being my first section made me perceive it as harder than it really was... Eventually got into the rhythm of things and nerves settled. Just remember to breathe and focus on what's at hand! No need to stress yourself out.

CARS: no opinion on this section really. Who knows, I feel like it went okay but as I've learned the hard way, relying on my "gut feeling" isn't always accurate lol

BC:! This is typically my best section and I feel like it went wel. I took my time and pretty much every question except for a few I thought I knew the answer. Or at least my reasoning made sense to me...

Psych: finished with enough time to go over questions again. Lots of educated guessing... Being the way I am, I googled stuff I didn't know once I got out and the majority of stuff I guessed I got right.

DISCLAIMER: I have taken practice tests and thought I did great but actually bombed them and vice versa. Actually, that's usually what happens on every FL I took in preparation for today's test haha. So I realize I may not actually be very helpful at all.

For those of you taking it tomorrow and any following dates, good luck!!! Remember that it's more important to be able to play on game day than cramming things at the last minute! It may be a challenging test, but you can reason through many of the questions and narrow it down to a 50% chance of getting it right! Anyway, enough ranting, I have faith in you all!
 
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Anyone drink coffee before their test? Any problems having to go #1 or #2 during a section? I drank coffee before all my full-lengths and I was usually fine except a few times and especially once when I had to pee really badly during Bio and it was hard to get through the section...
 
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Sob21 said:
Anyone drink coffee before their test? Any problems having to go #1 or #2 during a section? I drank coffee before all my full-lengths and I was usually fine except a few times and especially once when I had to pee really badly during Bio and it was hard to get through the section...
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LOLS the question I REALLY wanna ask but am always scared to

Well i've taken midterms/finals with that problem sometimes, and I've surprisingly just been able to deal with it (parasympathetic system inhibition I'm guessing? lols), I feel like all of us need to remember how much adrenaline/cortisol will be at our advantage tomorrow. And also, if you have to use the restroom, you'll probably have to hold it for maybe...an hour tops? (hope nobody has to pee earlier than 30 mins into a section). I think our bodies are more flexible than we think.

My two cents, but i'm curious if anyone who took the test today has comments
 
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I studied with TPR and went over every topic that AAMC posted for Psych/Soc and I thought that was just cruel and unusual.

What did everyone else think?
 
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believe <3 said:
Were you guys able to cross-out answer choices on the real thing? It didn't let me do that for the practice exam or Q packs…
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you can def cross out on the real thing, the AAMC materials had a disclaimer that noted you couldn't do that with their e-mcat stuff. I also think on the real test, highlighting function has an extra click in the step (after you highlight, you have to then click some icon or something?)

idk someone who took the test today should know

Guess that's why there's a tutorial!
 
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neonghost said:
I studied with TPR and went over every topic that AAMC posted for Psych/Soc and I thought that was just cruel and unusual.

What did everyone else think?
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oh gosh :/ you sound like you came in prepared

Well hopefully the curve is lenient then, since many people must have been in your boat. Hope psych majors/grad students don't offset the curve enough. I don't think anyone would considering being well versed in BOTH psych and soc isn't easy.
 
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Congrats to all who took it today and good luck for saturday takers. Im enjoying my first drink in two weeks (rye, neat, and a summer ale if you must know)

My assessment:

Ps- thought it went well. Very light on physics. Not much detailed ochem either. Was pressed for time when normally im not. Struggled w portions of two sections but thought rest was relatively easy. There were many topics that i was expecting but were not tested.

Cara- usually my strongest. Felt good here. All the passages were easy to understand. They def could have picked trickier passages.

Bio- felt pretty good here too. Two passages i struggled w initially in trying to comprehend. Not too heavy on biochem. Also felt pressed for time

Psych...oh psych. ..my major and the career i pursued for many years...this section was unnecessarily tricky. They had many questions where there were two answer choices that mean very similar things and both appear to be right. More similar to the kaplan psych sections than the aamc psych sections.

Oveall i feel things went as expected, more or less, but with a more-than-anticipated difficult psych section.

Good luck, looking forward to hearing others' experiences
 
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PakiMDDreamer said:
you can def cross out on the real thing, the AAMC materials had a disclaimer that noted you couldn't do that with their e-mcat stuff. I also think on the real test, highlighting function has an extra click in the step (after you highlight, you have to then click some icon or something?)

idk someone who took the test today should know

Guess that's why there's a tutorial!
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Yeah You highlight with left click then theres a little icon at the end and you click it. To unhighlight just click the text.
Also right click is to strikeout
 
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I'm glad a lot of people also had a struggle with the Physics/Chem section.

If it weren't for PS I wouldn't feel nearly as bad as I did post exam... but I feel like most people feel as though they did poorly.

I ended up purely guessing (as in not able to use process of elimination at all) on like 5 questions in PS.
 
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mikil100 said:
I'm glad a lot of people also had a struggle with the Physics/Chem section.

If it weren't for PS I wouldn't feel nearly as bad as I did post exam... but I feel like most people feel as though they did poorly.

I ended up purely guessing (as in not able to use process of elimination at all) on like 5 questions in PS.
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and you were fairly prepared to crush the PS lol, GREATTT!!!
 
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Ouch......I took the test in April while I was taking Ochem and BioChem just so I could get a feel for it and take it today.....crammed physics for the april test and there was almost none on it...so this test I decided to focus on the FL and concepts tested on the april test....big mistake
 
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JTig said:
Ouch......I took the test in April while I was taking Ochem and BioChem just so I could get a feel for it and take it today.....crammed physics for the april test and there was almost none on it...so this test I decided to focus on the FL and concepts tested on the april test....big mistake
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Just can't win with this test!
 
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Well, signing off for the night! 🙂 congrats to everyone to who took it today and can't wait to kick MCAT ass tomorrow.

Let's do this!

Night and good luck tomorrow everyone!!!
 
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Good luck guys. I know someone who took it today and he's ecstatic to be finally done with it.

Have another friend taking it tomorrow. Best of luck guys!
 
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Never commented on here before, but yall's posts really have given me some guidance, and for that, I thank you; I really do.

Ladies and gents, may the force be with you in the morning. I know tomorrow may seem ominous, but somewhere deep down I know were all gonna strut our stuff come game time. Were all in the position for a reason, and that is do make this test our B**** and get in med school, which is exactly what we all deserve, and exactly what will all accomplish, one way or another.

God speed, my friends.
See you on the other side
 
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C/P: Always my weakest section, I was excited to see previous test takers post that orgo and physics were heavily reduced in the new exam. I was even more excited to find the AMCAS practice exam also suggested this. While this might generally be true, I think I must've been dished one of the more orgo/physics heavy exams and I was totally unprepared.
CARS: This has always been an easy section for me and I was looking forward to crushing this one. I don't know if I just wasn't in my element because of the pressure of the exam or what, but I actually ran out of time on this section! When I took the practice exam, I had plenty of time to spare and scored fairly well (~85%)
BIO : Thank God for this section. The only section I feel confident about, nothing surprising here. I felt like the practice exam represented the real exam well.
PSYCH: I agree with much of what I had read about this section and experienced with the practice exam- felt part verbal reasoning-ish, part knowing the topics listed by AMCAS cold. In this way, it wasn't anything surprising....that's not to say that I crushed it though...
 
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exodian1 said:
Wow well now I'm pretty nervous about the C/P and Psych sections :scared:
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You can be nervous now, but don't be nervous tomorrow, no matter what. Itll result in a downward spiral and you wont even get the questions you do know. Even if you see a passage you have no clue what's going on. Skip it and and do the ones you do know and come back for it later. Take each passage at a time, and keep your focus on. I'll admit there were tons of questions I had no clue how to approach today, but i blocked the "oh im never going to be a doctor" thoughts away and just did my best. Also if this makes anyone feel better the free standing questions were straight forward. Felt like i completed a lap once i got to them haha.
 
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Remember guys and gals taking tomorrow: You may get a very different exam than we got.

DO NOT GET NERVOUS. Stay focused. Nothing else matters while you take this exam except the question you are doing then and there. Not even the next question matters.

Focus. Breath. if you start panicking close your eyes, count to three and get back to it.

Good luck to tomorrows test takers.
 
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Please don't make fun of me but I'm seriously considering pulling an all nighter. It's a really bad force of habit.
 
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I pretty much did. Couldn't get to sleep till after midnight and woke up at 4am unable to fall back asleep. I was fine at first with caffeine but started to get really sleepy by the time Psych/soc started. Luckily that section requires the least brain power.
 
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SerendipityMD said:
Finally took the exam today! Congrats to all who took it! I thought it was very fair and used Kaplan/KA/AAMC practice banks and an last years TPR science workbook. Very similar to AAMC practice. Good luck!!
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How was it compared to tpr swb is it worth doing?
 
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Took it 6/19.
Obviously, these are my very subjective opinions/observations.
It was more difficult than the AAMC practice, all sections.
Overall, I thought there were a lot more difficult/trick questions. And then there were the intermittent super-easy questions (too easy that it made me second-guess). For the C/P and B/B sections, the easy-hard polarity was too much... It was a roller coaster, and I found it hard to manage my time like I usually do. I ended up spending a LOT of time on some questions.

For reference: Kaplan 499-501. Gold Standard 500-503. Practice AAMC 81-83%.
C/P: I felt a decent amount of everything, most interdisciplinary. There were some topics that I did not expect at all... I just made educated guesses. Difficult, but doable. I had time to revisit a few questions.
CARS: So long. Not the worst, but stressful. I skimmed the last passage and ran out of time on the very last question.
B/B: Contrary to what's been said, this was the hardest for me. Very dense information. I actually found the questions confusing and difficult to understand. Doable when I read carefully, but I had to give that up towards the end. Forced myself to move forward when I wasn't ready. Left me feeling sad b/c this is usually my best section.
P/S: Mental exhaustion by this point. I was moving really slowly, but somehow had 30 min to revisit. I'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else.

Practice test difficulty assessment: P/S > C/P > CARS > B/B
Official test difficulty assessment: B/B > CARS > C/P > P/S(?)
Oh, look how the tables have turned. :laugh:

So basically, I had trouble finishing everything (except P/S), and I left half of my q's marked (except P/S). I can see my results going either way. I don't feel great/confident, but it is far from the worst.
Good luck! :highfive:
 
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How's everyone feeling? For some reason I feel a lot more confident about my score today. Maybe it's the sleep lol

Edit: honestly thinking back I feel like the majority of the cp and bb discrete Qs in particular were really easy.. Like weirdly easy. I'm interested to see what today's people think.
 
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I Guess I'll give my overall interpretation of it too:

You know how sometimes you walk out of a midterm or final and say wow I really failed? And then you find out you do really well because you actually caught all the trick questions that you were unsure about?

Well the MCAT is like you come out feeling great and then you do great or you fail
or you feel like crap and you fail or you do great.
So really no one's assessment of how they thought they did is accurate, because the test (game) makers can make you second guess who your parents are if they phrased it correctly. And you'll be sitting there between mom/dad and Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt because they already have so many children and why not you too?

I WORKED MY ASS OFF, STUDIED 50 HOURS IN THE LAST FIVE DAYS, AND SPENT AN ENTIRE YEAR PREPARING MYSELF FOR THIS TEST.
I COULD HAVE DONE NOTHING MORE.
SO I'M PROUD OF MYSELF.

AND YOU ALL SHOULD BE TOO.
 
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neonghost said:
I Guess I'll give my overall interpretation of it too:

So really no one's assessment of how they thought they did is accurate, because the test (game) makers can make you second guess who your parents are if they phrased it correctly. And you'll be sitting there between mom/dad and Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt because they already have so many children and why not you too?
AND YOU ALL SHOULD BE TOO.
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That is pure gold.
 
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Yeah the test can really make you question even the simplest things sometimes. I think part of it is how the question difficulty varies so wildly from question to question
 
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I keep seeing a lot of people say Psych had a lot of unfamiliar terms. When you guys say that do you guys mean the terms weren't even on the outline?

How would we prep for that section then? :laugh:
 
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nolookpass said:
I keep seeing a lot of people say Psych had a lot of unfamiliar terms. When you guys say that do you guys mean the terms weren't even on the outline?

How would we prep for that section then? :laugh:
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Get good at using the knowledge you do have and the information given in the question to eliminate answer choices and infer meaning. Also a lot of things in psych/soc mean what they sound like they mean.
 
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jd989898 said:
Get good at using the knowledge you do have and the information given in the question to eliminate answer choices and infer meaning. Also a lot of things in psych/soc mean what they sound like they mean.
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Got it. Makes sense. Just a little worried since I did a full self study for psych. Any recommendations on how to study for it? I simply used TPR, Khan videos + questions and googled things on the outline that weren't in those two sources.
 
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nolookpass said:
Got it. Makes sense. Just a little worried since I did a full self study for psych. Any recommendations on how to study for it? I simply used TPR, Khan videos + questions and googled things on the outline that weren't in those two sources.
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I self studied using Kaplan and khan videos. There were at least 5 terms I had never seen before but I was able to manage with some reasoning/lucky guesses. I'd be surprised if I got less than like 53/59
 
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Just finished...

Chem/Phys-
Feel most confident about this section. I probably only guessed on 1-2 and maybe not completely sure on a couple more. Healthy mix of biochem, gen chem and physics. Only a couple of really easy orgo questions. A fair amount of calculations. What shocked me was the fact that most of it (other than the biochem stuff) was A LOT like the question packs, more than even the sample test.
Practice AAMC score:80%
Predicted real sore:130

CARS-
My historically weakest section. Anxiety got to me on the first passage and I spent too much time on it and wasn't confident in my answers on that particular one. After that it seemed pretty easy except that I ran out of time on the last passage and had to guess on like the last 3 or 4. (ouch). Similar to practice AAMC in terms of difficulty.
Practice AAMC score:85%
Predicted real score:126

Bio/BC-
Woah experiments... and really easy questions. It seemed like most of the questions were pretty easy but there were several that I felt were really deep. Not sure about this one.
Practice AAMC score:83%
Predicted real score: 129

Psyc/Soc-
AAMC.... That wasn't cool bro.... NOTHING like the sample test (this was my highest score on the sample FL). Yes a fair amount of the questions had a CARS feel to them (ambiguous) as others have mentioned, but what blindsided me were how many terms there were that I had never heard of. I feel like I've acquired sooooo much psyc/soc knowledge that went untapped.
Practice AAMC score:88%
Predicted real score: 127

Predicted real scores are obviously pure speculation, we'll see how far off I am lol
 
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