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[deleted393595]

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I'm going to start undergrad this Fall and I recently took a practice MCAT from the AMCAS website and scored a 33 (PS:13; VR: 10; BS: 10). I know that most people on SDN advice not to start preparing for the MCAT until Junior year, but I couldn't resist taking the free practice MCAT after a friend told me about it. I'm also volunteering in a hospital this summer and might shadow a couple of physicians.

What would you'll advice me to do? Thanks in advance.

Btw, I don't intend to troll. For the realz.

 

[Entadus]

If I were you I would do verbal practice. Get faster, get more accurate, become a wizard. 👍

Just read a lot, maybe buy a verbal practice book and start doing passages.

 

[Monocles]

If you haven't started undergrad yet, make sure you take the MCAT before the switchover in 2015 if you're scoring decently. Go ahead and take all your pre-reqs, you should be able to breeze through them based on your current scores. Just go back and do some content review before you take the test and you should be fine. 🙂

 

[flatearth22]

First of all you took AAMC3 which is NOTHING like the real MCAT (it has questions from the MCAT's administered in the 80's...lol).

My advice?

Freshman year: Bio 1 and 2, Chem 1 and 2

Sophomore year: Orgo 1 and 2, Physics 1 and 2, any upper level bio class (if possible) like cell bio or genetics or whatever

Summer after sophomore year - study for MCAT....take MCAT in July, August, or September.

Retake accordingly if necessary.

 

[Monocles]

First of all you took AAMC3 which is NOTHING like the real MCAT (it has questions from the MCAT's administered in the 80's...lol).

Damn it's that old? No wonder it's so much easier than the other ones. I thought it was from early 2000s or something.

 

[deleted393595]

I love you guys. Thanks a lot for the coursework and MCAT advice!

 

[autotroph]

AAMC3 may be pretty easy compared to newer tests, but don't let anything on these boards get you down. 33, even on an easy MCAT, is solid for your first one AND for where you are at currently in your education. Just pay attention during your pre-reqs and READ. Read a lot and read for content. The better you are at reading fast and accurately, the better you will fare on the verbal.

 

[bucks2010]

can't tell if srs