I had been taking Kaplan for a while and I was having the hardest time getting the scores where I wanted to be.
Then finally, one day I went in to a test and said to myself....SCREW THIS...I am going to take this bull by the horns and throw it bloody on the mat. EVERY time I had a hard question that I was focusing too much on, I would think this to myself. It motivated me. It inspired me. I almost saw myself becoming viscious during the test, skipping hard questions, skipping hard passages....I was beating the MCAT beast and i knew it. . . .Then, right in the middle of the test, I decided to come up iwth my own technique. I stopped reading PS and BS passages. I was so motivated, I went straight for the questions. For about 75 percent of those questions, I found, I hardly even needed to read the damn passage. That bought me time. I would snicker as I realized this little secret and wondered if anybody had even thought of it. The beast was being beaten over and over. By the time i was done with the test, I thought this was the hardest test ever. But I was brave enough to look at my score. If i hadn't done well this time, I thought, there's no hope.
That same evening, I found out my score had jumped from 7, 7 7 to 8, 12, 12. Until then, I had never dared to imagine a 12 for either of the scienecs. I remember calling my fiancee that evening and telling him to pick me up and take me out into the mountains for a ride. That is perhaps the most "FREEDOM" I ever felt in my entire MCAT studies. As I had walked in, I had told myself to remain calm, be free from worries..free from any negative thoughts. I told myself that at the end of it, it's either going to be me or the MCAT b****. You can guess who won.
I really want you all to remember and be inspired by the fruits you are going to gain from being a physician, and remind yourselves WHY you are doing this in the first place. Don't think of the MCAT as an obstacle that is going to devour you. Think of it as a respectable challenge, a little puzzle, that you have to solve so you can attain your big dream.