To those who got 131 or 132 on a section

[creat1ne]

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It seems like whenever someone scores this well on a given section, it always comes as a huge shock to them. I'm curious to hear everyone's experience.

Did you pretty much feel like you rocked the section and expected a very high score? Or are you still in disbelief that your score could've been so high?

 

[Sir.SavaLottaLife]

Sorry I haven't received my scores yet (June tester) but hopefully I will be able to answer it when I recieve my scores 🙂

I think one big reason a lot of people on the new test are surprised to see those 131s and 132s is because they are still equating them to 14's and 15's. On the old test, you would pretty much have to get every question right for a 15 and miss 2 tops for a 14. Also only ~2% of people got a 14 or 15 on the old test per section (except VR ~1%). Now it looks like 3% of people get a 131 or 132 across all sections, including CARS. So one could say its slightly easier to score that high in a section.

Luck, of course also plays into it. Out of all the people on the old test who made 15's on a section, some of them may have had to guess on like 2 questions and just happened to get them both right. I got 5/6 right once on a CARS passage in one of my practice FL's that I had to guess on because I was running out of time. The MCAT mixes a lot of easy and medium difficulty questions with some hard ones, and 1 or 2 questions that are super hard that separate the 14's from the 15's. When testing a bunch of very smart hopeful doctors, they design a test that sets a stratification to ultimately weed people out. That is ultimately what the MCAT is for and is pretty much the purpose of many standardized "admissions" tests.

 

[basophilic]

Also, to add to the OP's question: for the natural/social sciences, did you emphasize more knowing the content (AAMC outline for that section) closer to the exam date OR was it a very high volume of passages nearer the exam? I know both are important, but what did you emphasize more?

 

[EverStriving]

I was kind of surprised to get a 132 on chem/physics. There was at least one simple physics question where I just didn't know the equation so I had to 1/4 guess. Maybe I got lucky hehe. No one needs to know.

 

[jd989898]

I was kind of surprised to get a 132 on chem/physics. There was at least one simple physics question where I just didn't know the equation so I had to 1/4 guess. Maybe I got lucky hehe. No one needs to know.

132 on chem/phys..

So you only guessed on one? The rest you were very confident about? I guess it's possible 58/59 was a 132

 

[EverStriving]

I honestly don't remember C/P other than that one question. The rest of the sections I remember I felt confident. Maybe CARS a little less than the others. But I must have blacked out during C/P. 😵

 

[jd989898]

I honestly don't remember C/P other than that one question. The rest of the sections I remember I felt confident. Maybe CARS a little less than the others. But I must have blacked out during C/P. 😵

I've noticed that the less detail I remember about a test afterwards, the better I usually end up doing. I'm convinced it's because the more thought/effort/time you have to put into a question, the more likely you are to remember it. And what happens when you need to exert more effort? You're probably struggling and missing/guessing on more questions. I know I missed 2-3 questions for sure, but otherwise only remember about 8-10 questions that I was iffy/ 50/50 on. I'm praying that is a good sign lol.