The Official Sept 11, 2013 MCAT Thread

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Here it is, the official thread for those of us writing on Sept 11th.

This will be my third time taking the MCAT. Yes, that's right - my third time. It's been a rough ride to say the least and my confidence has definitely plummeted.

Here's to hoping third time's the charm!

Sept 11ers unite!
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My plan: get really drunk right before the score comes out on THx

+pissed+

Step 2: Open a new tab to sign up for the January MCAT!
 
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Got my Amazon gift card email a few minutes ago!

I also scored 59% of the questions in my trial section correctly, which puts me in the top quarter of others.

Honestly, I was fried by the time I took that. Then again, I've taken a few psych classes for my minor, so I'm not surprised.
 
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I got my gift card a few minutes ago also:

You answered 72% of questions correctly on the Trial Section which puts you in the top quarter as compared to others who received the same Trial Section questions as you.
 
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Just got my gift card! I didn't score as high as I hoped, but apparently a 78% is in the top quartile.
 
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44%- bottom half LOL. Doesn't matter, got gift card! Which will go towards paying for my textbooks for next semester :p
 
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59% on the trial section, which put me in the top quartile. Considering I got the psych/soc questions and I didn't take either class in college, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Now to figure out what to buy with my gift card...
 
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I had biochem and got 66%, top quartile. I'm surprised since I was barely reading and it felt like a lot of guesswork. Sucks being in Canada when all the things I want on amazon.com don't ship internationally.
 
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Good luck with scores soon guys! I was a 9/11 test taker last year so I know how it feels to be roughly a week out from score release...enjoy not knowing!! haha
 
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Anybody know if you still get an email to let you know how you did on the trial section even if you dont qualify for the gift card? I'm a September 12 taker but our thread is pretty much dead so im looking at sept 11 for info :)
 
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Ceepee said:
Anybody know if you still get an email to let you know how you did on the trial section even if you dont qualify for the gift card? I'm a September 12 taker but our thread is pretty much dead so im looking at sept 11 for info :)
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No, no email if you didn't qualify for the gift card.
 
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DualDocDreamer said:
59% on the trial section, which put me in the top quartile. Considering I got the psych/soc questions and I didn't take either class in college, I'm pretty pleased with the outcome. Now to figure out what to buy with my gift card...
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How about some more MCAT study materials??? You might need them!! :eek:

Im just kidding!! No but seriously, I am saving all my mcat books just in case :scared:
 
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Had my first MCAT dream last night. I dreamt that I had an impossible VR passage and the time was running out. It was the last VR passage and time was running out and I was thinking that if I void this mcat then I have to wait all the way until january to retake and I didn't want to do that so I just guessed on all of the questions and I took the hit.

Almost there Team 9/11-12/13 :thumbup:
 
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just confirming...is there anything radically different between the sept mcat and the jan mcat? if im not mistaken its still the same topics/concepts + trial section right?

hence, all 2013 material should be good for 2014?
 
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gordony said:
just confirming...is there anything radically different between the sept mcat and the jan mcat? if im not mistaken its still the same topics/concepts + trial section right?

hence, all 2013 material should be good for 2014?
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yes, will be good for January 2015 too !
 
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organicmingle said:
Wait what do you mean by qualify for the gift card?? So we have to get a certain amount in order to get the gift card?
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AAMC requires you to put in your effort in the trial section to receive the gift card. How they determine that is unknown.
 
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Guys this is a dumb question that I already know the answer to but I'm just nervous/wanted to make sure. There's absolutely no correlation between your trial section score and your actual score right?? I thought I would get the biochem trial section and I opened it but it ended up being psych. I really didn't want to do the psych stuff so i just guessed through the whole thing and left. That's not going to badly affect my actual score right? Thanks
 
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keepcalm2 said:
Guys this is a dumb question that I already know the answer to but I'm just nervous/wanted to make sure. There's absolutely no correlation between your trial section score and your actual score right?? I thought I would get the biochem trial section and I opened it but it ended up being psych. I really didn't want to do the psych stuff so i just guessed through the whole thing and left. That's not going to badly affect my actual score right? Thanks
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Well it would be hard to prove that there's absolutely no correlation (r=0.0000000000000 with infinite number of significant digits). JK.

Don't worry about it. You're right.
 
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Stark7 said:
Hey everybody, took the 2pm test, and:


Overall I hope to get ~9s in BS and VR and at least a 6 or 7 on the PS. For were I Iive, that's good enough to get accepted to at least one university somewhere, I only studied 3 weeks and I was going to college full time though I don't think that hurt me in BS and VR, only in PS because I didn't know the formulas. I feel that what really hurt me was that I only did one practice test (the one on AAMC website). I felt I could have honed my skills a lot more.
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I would be happy with a 9/8/8. Im the opposite I feel better about PS and worse about BS. VR is such an up in the air section I dont even wanna speculate lol
 
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This was the second time I took and was much harder than first one. The PS was really wierd and Verbal was a boring and alianish. Anyway Biology was better but those questions always catch you off guard. So I guess I will have to open those books again :(
 
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I'm pretty sure I scored below the 30 mark I wanted, so waiting for Oct. 15th to prepare for the MCAT again. Uggggh.
 
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Stark7 said:
Hey everybody, took the 2pm test, and:

Bombed the PS section, didn't now what to do in 90% of the section, I did great (as in 9) in the practice test I took, yet the real one was on a whole other level. I though I knew the formulas, I spent 2 days looking at them but during the exam forgot them all except the velocity ones.

VR I think I did "ok", but English is not my main language I only use it on the internet and my university books are in English, so I think I am in delusion thinking I did fine, though I barely studied so this section was nice since you didn't need prior knowledge.

And BS was ok, I looked up a couple of questions online and about 60% were wrong which has me very nervous.

Overall I hope to get ~9s in BS and VR and at least a 6 or 7 on the PS. For were I Iive, that's good enough to get accepted to at least one university somewhere, I only studied 3 weeks and I was going to college full time though I don't think that hurt me in BS and VR, only in PS because I didn't know the formulas. I feel that what really hurt me was that I only did one practice test (the one on AAMC website). I felt I could have honed my skills a lot more.
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WHat you only did that practice exam?? Tat exam is like the easiest of all the practice tests. But anyway i understand you were busy but still. wow you must have been very confident.
 
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man i completely forgot about this test...well.....can't beleive it's almost been a month.

And in that month, plenty of drinks were taken.

But now that I think about it again, I just wanna punch myself for all those stupid/avoidable mistakes I made argh....so far I think I said I had 6 for PS & BS each I believe.
 
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:scared: so nervous! I feel like I guessed on the entire test right now. Only a week left, I really hope I won't need to retake. The night before......definitely drinking lol
Wish everyone the best!
 
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armenian said:
:scared: so nervous! I feel like I guessed on the entire test right now. Only a week left, I really hope I won't need to retake. The night before......definitely drinking lol
Wish everyone the best!
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LOL not the night before man, more like the hour before

:D
 
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I had a dream the other day that I got a 7 in BS... that's probably not too far of a stretch. Actually, it may be quite accurate O_O

When I check the other dates and they're about to get their scores back, my heart starts pounding like crazy even though it's not even my test. I can't imagine what the actual feeling on the 15th will be like >_<
 
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Stark7 said:
Hey everybody, took the 2pm test, and:

Bombed the PS section, didn't now what to do in 90% of the section, I did great (as in 9) in the practice test I took, yet the real one was on a whole other level. I though I knew the formulas, I spent 2 days looking at them but during the exam forgot them all except the velocity ones.

VR I think I did "ok", but English is not my main language I only use it on the internet and my university books are in English, so I think I am in delusion thinking I did fine, though I barely studied so this section was nice since you didn't need prior knowledge.

And BS was ok, I looked up a couple of questions online and about 60% were wrong which has me very nervous.

Overall I hope to get ~9s in BS and VR and at least a 6 or 7 on the PS. For were I Iive, that's good enough to get accepted to at least one university somewhere, I only studied 3 weeks and I was going to college full time though I don't think that hurt me in BS and VR, only in PS because I didn't know the formulas. I feel that what really hurt me was that I only did one practice test (the one on AAMC website). I felt I could have honed my skills a lot more.
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idk if this will make you feel better but I did about 5 practice exams in august but did no practice exams 2.5 weeks before the real sept exam and just did content review so I am pretty worried too about how my prep will translate on the exam.

Also tests are not everything. I took the 6/20 exam and took 10 practice exams but I did poorly. My friend on the other hand only took AAMC 3 and AAMC 8? the week of her exam in May and she did well
 
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I thought PS was a little more difficult honestly, but I made 2 very dumb mistakes lol but Im sure a lot of people feel that way about a particular portion of the test...

Verbal I never have any idea how i do on. I remember feeling really rushed for the exam on this section, I think test anxiety kicked in here for me but then went away again when the BS section came around. On the practice AAMC tests i scored anywhere from a 7-11 and i'm pretty sure the time I got an 11 was the time I thought I was going to get a 4.

BS i feel pretty confident about, i felt like I knew how they were trying to trick me with certain questions. But honestly with this test you really never know it seems. -_- 6 more days fellas...
 
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Getting more and more nervous every day. I thought at one point I would score above my average but now I'm just hoping to hit my average. :eek:
 
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Does anyone feel good? Like they actually might of passed the test? Need done positive thinkers!! And y is it the 15 and not the 11 like the rest?
 
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