Jixe Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Word on the street is that there were 3 organic passages. Wtf? The August 25th sitting had 1. What's with this inconsistency? Here's hoping that there's NONE on September 15th! Congrats on being done guys! NOW GET MASHEDD! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sisyphus Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 so when you get the 10mins break, are you allowed to leave the room and study your materials? Do you have to return exactly after 10mins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Hey the aerosol think i was talking about was a question in the silver colloidal thingy PS honestly wasn't that bad, it was like AAMC, i felt like i got a lot of not sure questions, but I went with my gut instinct and that has served me very well on the past exams. It 'felt' like an 11. and VR was interesting!!! i loved the achilles passage gosh im such a nerd, and this started off 'feeling' like a 10 but I think it may have ended up being like a 9 Yeah im not sure, but there was i think 3 orgo passages, it was definetely wtf and regular orgo is fine.but it was like mass spec and crazy ass stuff..like there was WAY TOO much weight on some things, but that's how the cookie crumbles, I never scored anything less than 12 on AAMC and I felt that this was around 11, gahhh! I heard that people usually do fairly better than they anticipate, i really hope thats true, and best of luck to all who are writing tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantom Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 hey guys, good to get it finally over with eh? hope you guys get the scores you want! Lots of orgo eh and seems like a much harder one than the 25th bio... this may seem strange but im actually hoping for more orgo on the 15th good luck with apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducky Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 hopefully the curve will show accordingly. I still can't remember the aerosol thing you're talking about.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 phantom I was with you! I hoped for orgo cuz im pretty good at itcept this was like the NMR and Mass Spec crap from HELL, ridunkulous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 It was a question where the ions were suspended and they floated around in some medium, and the options were like aerosol, sol, etc etc and I think it was aerosol but im not sure? It was the silver ions reacting with NaBH4 and how they disperse them and how it is yellow and then breaks down and crap.i cant believe i remembered that...meh! I am so glad to be done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducky Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 ok, I don't think I skipped any passages...maybe they mix it up?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 ok, I don't think I skipped any passages...maybe they mix it up?? Mayyybe, the question pertained to a passage about nanoparticles of silver and how they react with sodium borohydride ive seen something like this before, i think they had many versions of the tests and such Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roycer Posted September 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 There are different versions administered on the same day. I didn't get an aerosol passage either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducky Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 I hope so, now I'm worried I skipped passage by accident....but I think I reviewed that section, so maybe not. *sigh* I don't care anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrugby Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Ouch about the orgo passages... I probably wouldve gotten screwed on this version of the test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 no no, the passage had nothing to do with aerosol, aerosol was an answer option, which i thougth was the answer, to a question in the passage about silver nanoparticles being yellow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 How did you guys find PS and VR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest begaster Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Just wondering, was there a search function? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip_138 Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 There is no search function ... Yeah, alastriss, i totally agree with you about everything you said. PS was not too bad except for the colloidal thing, what was with that question about what color will yellow colloidal particles absorb (red, blue, green, yellow) wtf? isn't it everything except yellow? I guessed about what it was called too, i think i guessed sol... I had a little time to review, maybe 10-12 min VR was a little worse, there were a fair amount of q's where i kept feeling like i was guessing between 2 answers. I had no time to review at all, i think i had like 15 sec after answering the last q. WS: I actually didn't mind both of them. The second one about priority to financial security i talked about evolution and our need to survive and reproduce and this is achieved indirectly through money. At the time i thought it was amazing but now i'm starting to think my counter examples are really just rephrased examples ... hopefully i get a Q here. BS was wtf too. so many times i was guessing between 2. and same with the lactone nomenclature, i had no idea what structure was the right answer. I had little time to check this section too, maybe 4 min. I was also really dissappointed with the way you 'mark' a question, since when i wanted to go back to my marked questions i would choose the 'review marked' but it would only show me 1 per page, so if i marked more than one there wasn't any significant notation telling me i had more marked q's on that page excpet for clicking on the actual q and noticing if the marked box was red ... very annoying right now i'm feeling fairly depressed, i'm thinking i got 12/9/11 (PS/VR/BS). Lets hope they super curve BS because that was complete BS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eng_dude786 Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 any suggestions for us for BS? how was chemistry for PS....were physics and chem balanced? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 any suggestions for us for BS? how was chemistry for PS....were physics and chem balanced? My answer for that lactone thing was that I looked at the compound in the passage, and they had a lactone system thingy that matched one of the questions, so i was like might as well picked that haha and eng_dude I wouldn't consider our BS to be reflective of what a BS section is actually lie, but if you must, pretty much study NMR and mass spec. I think we just had a freak-test Man this has ruined my day, i felt like PS was an 11 and thats a little on the 'safe' side, VR was 9/10, and i was thinking BS was going to raise it but I feel like i might have just gotten a 10. I think im going to end up having to do a 5th year after this, but a lot of my friends thought they did s*** and then they did better than they thought so don't give up hope guys, i keep reminding myself that its all relative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMmd Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 I was also really dissappointed with the way you 'mark' a question, since when i wanted to go back to my marked questions i would choose the 'review marked' but it would only show me 1 per page, so if i marked more than one there wasn't any significant notation telling me i had more marked q's on that page excpet for clicking on the actual q and noticing if the marked box was red ... very annoying I know!!!!! I only figured that out when i was doing BS!! and then I realized I didnt review all the questions I marked for review! :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMmd Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 hey where is avenir???? did the cat eat her? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 I actually started to write the questions i wnted to mark on paper, cuz i was unsatisfied. I liked the headphones tho, it sounded like u were in a vacuum and really put me in the zone for VR, but they really hurt your ears! Im looking at the EK book and Im kinda tempted to do a passage... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 hey where is avenir???? did the cat eat her? it did stupid vr...didn't finish BS: some serious BS from hell...as mentioned above, 3 orgo psgs, beta lactones, nmr, mass spec, u name it...other psg topics included hemoglobin, vitamin E isomers, a space study on phyl, cystic fibrosis...overall, i was surprised by the level of detail u needed to know for some questions anyway, good luck to those writing tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Im looking at the EK book and Im kinda tempted to do a passage... i'm sorry, but u r insane i want to burn my books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 btw, my test center was awesome....like a hotel...so comfy i didn't wanna come home...the ppl were the nicest u could meet...i fell in love with the ~ 50 yr old male invigilator...we got ear plugs...very effective and comfy as well...loved them so much i stole them...not that they'd be recycling them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roycer Posted September 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 I am thinking I got lucky and didn't get a mass spec passage. I did get a micro-RNA passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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