My thoughts on the June 2nd test.
- My C/P section felt like it was about 75% gen chem, with lots of calculations. There was almost no ochem and very little physics. Was a little pressed for time on this one but I normally is short on time in this section. Out of everything on test day, my score in this section is the only one that I am worried about.
- CARS, which is normally my strongest section, felt like there were a couple of particularly nasty passages with some really convoluted questions, but overall 7 of the passages were about spot on with the three AAMC FL's
- B/B: I felt like there was more ochem here than I normally see (good for me). The standard fare, high-yield topics were present in their normal percentages, along with the few "obscure" bio definitions. More calculations involved here than I think. A few obscure biochem knowledge questions as well but thankfully I found the topics curious enough the first time I learned about them to commit them to memory, even though I was never tested on them in the past.
- P/S: I never know with this section b/c I always felt like I did well on this section on practice tests but sometimes I didn't do well even though I felt fine. I had plenty of time and reviewed all questions that I was concerned about and changed a couple of answers. The questions in P/S seemed to be more extreme in their difficulty on the real thing. That is, the questions on the FL's seem to be all of similar difficulty but on the real thing a lot of the question were either really really easy (like there was no way you could pick the wrong answer) or super hard, where they asked you some finely nuanced detail about a theory that would never have been covered in a intro psych course, wasn't covered in the KA video's, and that you likely would only know if you have had upper division psych courses (which I have), and even then the distinctions were debatable.
In retrospect, my best advice is to know everything on the KA 300 page document inside and out and be able to give specific examples. P/S really is the easiest way to improve your score but I was more afraid of getting a bad score in C/P so I neglected P/S until the very end. I also crushed the P/S section bank questions but the FL's and real thing did not seem to be representative of the SB Q's. As a matter of fact, I would say the SB was much harder than the real thing for all 3 sections and I spent a lot of time trying to understand the really complex questions in the SB instead of focusing on how to do basic gen chem calculations fast and efficiently.
