premed11 Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 hey, howd you guys find the test? I think i had a diff one than the ppl on SDN. PS: was much harder than practice. Ran out of time which doesnt happen in practice. VR: same as usual. There were passages on intelligence, history, wildness, holidays and some other stuff. WR: easy, saw those topics b4. BS: was a little harder than usual. There was some retrovirus inhibition thing i found hard. There was some hormone feedback one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoDoc Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Did they have a 1pm and an 8am test today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premed11 Posted August 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 yup, i had the 8:00 am one. Woke up at 5:00, left home at 5:45 and got there at 6:30. Thought it would take much longer than that. This is the Bloor Location which had some pretty ****ty but functional computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgmed23 Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 PS: i would say it was a little harder than aamc and calculations were not long or difficult...i usually finished practice on time and same for this one VR: not too much humanities, most had to do with science so kind of interesting. BS: found it harder than usual...stuck on ADH and kidney passage extremely exhausted by BS but then again I didn't do many full practice MCAT's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premed11 Posted August 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 i took my test at the Bloor location today, it seems like most of you got a different test than i did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 I just finished my 1pm sitting, BS: Really tricky IMO, required very little outside knowledge. Essentially another VR section. PS: Ok, had a few tough passages. Namely the diamond and the magnetic field one. VR: I think I did okay, I had trouble with the optics/painter passage though. WR: One really easy essay and one WTF? Overall: For a first time test-taker, the experience wasn't bad. Though, I probably should have studied less for bio - mostly wasted time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Btw, anyone know when and how our results will be available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premed11 Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 september 12, by 5:00 pm. man thats gonna be a scary day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgmed23 Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 damn....so if i TRY even getting a seat rite now for re-write i won't have my results before....crapppy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 My thoughts on the test... I wrote 1:30pm in Toronto... Facilities: Computers were old school and did have a slight flicker. The proctors were so nice though, very amiable. The earphones, I started VR trying to use it - but they sound weird. They totally block out noise (well not totally but close enough), and I wasn't used to using them... so I took them off. Besides the occasional person walking in and out of the room, overall, it was fairly quiet and a good atmosphere to do work in. PS: About the same level of difficulty, if not a bit more difficult than the AAMC exams. I had maybe slightly more chemistry than physics... actually, it was about 50/50... I don't think it went too badly. Topics included gas laws, equilibrium, transition metals, inclined planes, fluids, only like 1 optics problem , and waves, oh and electricity. VR: UGh. Let's not talk about this. The passages were LONG, the question stems were LONG, I had to guess more than I usually have to. I was falling behind and I rarely have problems with timing for verbal. It was hard. One passage read like an ecological research paper, so much information and they used the scientific names of the species and it was just really long and annoying. Not enough time man, sighhh. WS: Not bad... topics included effect of technology on underdeveloped countries and whether "visual images" were a more accurate view of reality than words. BS: Longer than the AAMCs. Usually, I"m really good with time for this section... but I found myself rushing because the clock was ticking down rather quickly. Ugh, had a lot of physio... not enough molecular bio, but I think I nailed the molecular bio that I got. Only 2 orgo passages - 1 annoyingly, forced you to scroll to the side of the page to look at this table... but you could never view all the data on the table at once. Really annoying. Like THX, I found a lot of it to be very verbal-like (especially this one passage on immunology). Topics included diabetes (physiological associations), immunological response, promoter bashing (although they didn't call it this - i.e. molecular genetics), biochemistry booyakah, typical orgo topics (random IR spec question) and that's about it... NOW OFF TO CELEBRATE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radhika Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 I wrote in ottawa at 1:30 I think i had the same one as Law PS: i found it was ok..I had 15-20 min to go back and look through the questions and review..there were some weird passages for sure like something abotut he magnetic field one...otherwise it was ok compared to other sections VS: i rather not say anything..yes the passages were LONG- liek 6-8 paras and long question stems...I wasnt sure of a lot of questions..did a lot of guessing.I hated this section..Was running out of time WS: Was ok..same prompts as Law mentioned BS: yA the orgo passage which required you to scroll from here to there was very annoying and took upa lot of time..maybe i was going slow on this one but i had 4 minutes left when i finished everything..wanted to go back for a few questions but couldnt...It was longer and harder than the practises for sure.. Atleast its done Good luck to all those who are writing:) and definitely not waiting for Sept 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premed11 Posted August 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 it seems like a vast majority of you wrote a different test compared to mine. and i wrote in toronto too at 8:00am. Does anyone know how the tests are curved? Are they curved by which test it was or by all tests done on that day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Ah, looks like I had the same version as Law and Radhika. Law: I also had difficulty with the eco passage, not as much as the warhol one though. Regarding PS's optics.. hah I was worried about optics but the question was the easiest they could ask And the orgo scrolling was really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avenir001 Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 when i wrote last august, each version had a 2-letter code (eg BR, etc) so how u did is relative to those who had the same version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoDoc Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Congrats to all the August 9th mofos.... now get ready for the longest month of your lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoDoc Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 The warhol one, I think I have repressed those memories lollThat optics question was gold. Damn, Law you're still able to type a coherent sentence? What happened to the celebration? :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACHQ Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Congrats guys I'm sure you all did fine, and now your freeeeeeee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 yay you guys are finally free! I can't wait to be done...4 more days :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bane Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Breathe the free air! Congrats guys!! Welcome back to life! Hope you get the scores you want and benefit from writing on the same day as Law.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Damn, Law you're still able to type a coherent sentence? What happened to the celebration? :p LOL, I got sooooo lazy and now I'm doing absolutely nothing ahhahah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Breathe the free air! Congrats guys!! Welcome back to life! Hope you get the scores you want and benefit from writing on the same day as Law.... :p pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Breathe the free air! Congrats guys!! Welcome back to life! Hope you get the scores you want and benefit from writing on the same day as Law.... Lol... that's a nasty burn haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Law Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Eh, I'm a tough guy... I'm used to it. haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbrugby Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Congrats everyone!!! =) I am sooo jealous right now (writing on aug 20) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMmd Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Well I just got back. So this is the only time I'll mention the mcat again!!! PS: started relatively easy, then ended being super hard (there was one passage where i was like wtf is going on... ) VR: well as everyone else said, it was nothing like a practice... it was hard and LONG!!! super long passages and the questions didnt have anything to do with anything ( i really dont think I did that well on this ) BS: usually my favorite, however it was very hard! I had alot of immuno quesitons (and loooooong passages too. wtf) and orgo was really really hard!!! but overall it was ok i guess... i was just so fed up at the end... WS: uhhhh i had no inspirations (well i didnt practice writing so its expected) overall, I was too stressed out... I should have arrived earlier at the center (I came in last and the guy was starting to shut down the comps while i was doing BS!!! grrrr) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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