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everyone's thoughts on the test today, i thought it was pretty damm hard!!
polls are fun, yay! haha
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=5216926&posted=1#post5216926
no anyway i just got this idea in my head for contesting a bad writing score...
"what do you mean you couldn't find the main idea? i modeled it right after that last verbal reasoning passage...."
was that passage really that hard to interpret and start answering the questions? I mean, was that kaplan passage almost exactly the same as the one on your real MCAT? See, I understand why this could make someone upset, but I seriously just looked at that passage on the Kaplan full length, and it took like an extra minute than normal, but its possible to wean out the right answer on some of the questions...
So i guess what im asking is, was the passage exactly alike to the kaplan passage?
Someone on the thread said no.
I had never seen the Kaplan passage until today but I answered 4/5 of the questions correctly just from the information given in the passage. The passage I did miss had a term I wasn't familiar with, cla---something, that meant formation of a standing wave pattern. I didn't think it was that difficult.
And then they did it again with the Rail passage... OMGGGGGG WTF.
That's not two discretes that is two passages!!!
Someone said there was an exact question from an EK physics 1001 on a prior MCAT exam... EK physics 1001 are all discretes I don't think they made a passage outta one question.
is there anyway to figure out which passage on each section was the "experimental/ungraded" passage?
I did it in under 10 minutes. One-third of that time was spent on the single question I missed.Foghorn... You could have done that passage in ten minutes or 30 I dunno... For us it was timed and the clock was ticking... Furthermore, I believe the questions on the Kaplan were actually easier than the ones on the real exam... But like I said. I Don't know...
I mean one question, and this is not the question, but is the equivalent to asking... If I put water on your head and then you run down the street and stop where would the water be?
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PS: 1st passage took so much time out. I was coming short at the end. So last question I had to totally guess. Out of the 52 questions I would say 45 easy, 5 between 2 answers, 2 totalty guessed
VS: Easiest out of three sections. First 30 questions pretty easy. Second to last passage 2 hard questions. Last passgae guessed on 2 questions.
BS: FOr me I finished bio with 10 min to spare and I went over the first 30 questions slowly and I found 6 mistakes, I finally understood the passages well and last 22 i knew well because ochem.
All in all I think it wasn't bad test if u study your butt off. I studied 3/4 with the time I had. Stupid quarter system. I hope rest did well and we all do beteer than 30. Hopefully good curve.
Me too, but not likely 🙁
I've always finished early when i take tests, standardized or not.
VR - i think 4 or 5 of the passages were okay, but then the limestone one and the last one seriously fried my brain. I couldn't for the life of me concentrate on anything in the limestone passage, it was just so convoluted. And the last passage I remember spending a heck of a lot of time on b/c the questions were really tough, yet I honestly don't remember what it was about anymore...
Ok this is the last warning.--
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Ok, as noted and posted all over this forum as well as in your agreement with the AAMC, SPECIFIC discussions of questions on the test are NOT allowed. I am deleting ANY post on this thread that has mention of a specific question and there are ALOT of them so I'm deleting rather than editing. Sorry in advance.
General mentioning of topics is ok, but please adhere to this guys. There are way too many posts on here with mention of specificity in questions. Thanks.
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If you discuss specific questions, you will be infracted! Thanks!!!
I have been reading these forums for 4 years and i do not remeber a time when people would have a passage almost identical to that of prep company. WTF???
Foghorn said:As for the actual question on the May 31st MCAT, you don't even know if it's an experimental question so it might not even be graded....this whole discussion about whether or not Kaplan students had an advantage is irrelevant and therefore much ado about nothing. That's my opinion on the matter.
Excellent point. Your opinion is a great one. It seems that you understand this whole thing at a much deeper level than the average Joe. I've been impressed each time I've read your two cents.
How would you feel sitting for the test of your life and you come across a REDICULOUS passage that you only find out latter someone has done or saw before.
It is hard to take your posts seriously when you don't take the time to check your spelling. The word is ridiculous, you have misspelled it on numerous occasions.
Additionally, the MCAT is not suppose to be a set of questions you expected to get. If this was the case any idiot could memorize the types of questions asked, and how to produce an answer without much understanding what is being asked. This is why they can present the material in any form that they like.
I don't doubt that the test was hard, but if everyone thought it was hard it will be scaled accordingly.
Futhermore, the whole Kaplan passage thing is being blown our of proportion. I have taken numerous passages from TPR diagnostics and that doesn't mean I explicitly remember any of them. I am sure a negligible amount of people received an unfair advantage from taking Kaplan and those can be added with the people that always get 11s and then that day get a 14. No one gets upset when people get lucky, so why be upset about this.
Let's not get caught up bickering back and forth with the fairness of the passages. Especially since there's already a thread created by you, Christian, to address the "egregariousness" of the drum passage.
Bickering back and forth is a sure method to speed up the closing of this thread, and I'd still like to see what other opinions of the test content are at this point.
You guys can PM each other if you want to argue.
Just thought I would throw in my .02 on the May 31 MCAT.
Overall the computer setup is pretty good, but I miss having a lunch break in the middle. The hour that you got on the paper exam was a nice time to decompress and look over some bio or org flash cards. In the end I think they are equal in terms of mental strain even though the computer test is shorter. I took the April 06 so I will try to compare the two.
P.S. Extremely hard. Much more difficult than the practice tests Ive had. I had the test with the drums and the magnet rail gun. I found that there was very little problem solving to be done in the chemistry sections, mostly just basic redox type stuff. Also, there was almost nothing from physics I on the test, no trig at all, and maybe only 5 formulas to remember, it was almost all conceptual, but very tricky. I spent way too much time on the first three passages and almost didnt get finished on time. I think I had to just fill in junk on the last three questions . Sucked
V.R. The first time I took the MCAT, I did very well on the VR even though I didnt finish. I worked a lot on building up my reading speed in the last year and was finished this time with three minutes to go. I had the test with the passages about caves, seeds, and some super complex one about modern writers. The first passage was a joke and you almost didnt have to read it to answer the questions, but the passage about modern writers was imposable and took forever to understand. Overall I was pretty satisfied with the VR but there were a couple of questions that I had to just make a good guess on.
Essay The first essay was great and I wrote three paragraphs. Super easy. The second however stumped the hell out of me. I just sat and stared at the screen for about ten minutes trying to figure out what to say. Ended up with about a paragraph.
B.S. This was really the make or break section for me. I figured that if it was as hard as the PS I would void the test, as I think the best I could have gotten on the P.S. was an 8. But to my surprise it was not too hard. I had the test with the mice ear problems, the kidney stuff, 2 org passages, and fetal blood vessel development. I thought that the org stuff was a little harder than a lot of the practice tests, a couple of synth problems and some steriochem. Some of the bio passages were confusing; I got slowed down on the passage about fetal blood vessels a lot. But not too bad.
Overall, I thought the PS was extremely difficult; the other sections were what I expected. The funniest thing about the whole experience is that I have been studying for about 4 months now, and the only thing that I felt helped me at all was that I memorized the difference between bones and ligaments... what a waste of time.
Best response I have heard... but there was a passage about fetal blood vessel development... I don't remember it being exactly like that.