Turkelton Posted July 20, 2010 Report Share Posted July 20, 2010 Anyone writing on August 12th? Crunch time, a little over 3 weeks left! How's everyone doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anna8 Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Count me in! I'm just about to start doing full lengths. The date's coming really quickly! How are you doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted July 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Just finishing up NOVA physics. Probably do a full-length on Friday. I have AAMC 6 that expires this weekend and 7,8 which expire mid-August. I got killed on PS last year, but I feel like NOVA has really helped me. We'll see how it goes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anna8 Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 PS is my weakest section as well! I really have to touch up on that. I wish I had NOVA physics, I've been hearing good things about it. Do you have any good strategies in tackling PS problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted July 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 Practice, practice, practice and more practice. It sometimes feels so repetitive but you start to realize that the same type of problem takes less time to do because you understand the concept so well. At the end of the day, time management is the most important thing for the MCAT (and most standardized tests). I realized the first time around, I understood some concepts, but I spent too much time trying to dissect each problem that I ran out of time. Practice helps to show you how to weed out only the important info and automatically know what the question is asking. Where are you writing btw, if you don't mind me asking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All_star Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 I write August 13th if thats close enough ! Friday the 13th by the way ! Struggling right now to get in some essay practice, and need to review all my bio and organic chemistry (just learned it this summer). Then got to see if I still know the physical section. Then Verbal, self-explanatory. So much to do, so little time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apixaban85 Posted July 21, 2010 Report Share Posted July 21, 2010 August 13 here as well Classes are just finishing up next week and I've done about 4 TPR diagnostics (average of 11/9/8) and 2 AAMC tests (12/10/10). Got about 10 more to go through in the next ~20 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted August 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 Nice day of complete relaxation. How's everyone else feeling about tmr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charmer08 Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 omg one more day for you guys... Good Luck everyone!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apixaban85 Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 Good luck to you guys! Pound em down for us August 13ers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted August 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Good luck everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted August 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Done! I've been waiting for this day for 3 months now. How did it go for everyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
changster Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 ^ How did YOU do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted August 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 Well PS went a lot better than last time, its always been my weakest section. BS only had 2 orgo passages and wasn't too tough overall. Verbal is always up in the air in my opinion, sometimes you feel you killed it and get an 8 or 9, other times you feel unsure and it ends up being a 10 or 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoteny Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 ^^Did you find the verbal section to be any longer than the sections in the AAMC tests? Overall, easier, more difficult or on par w/ the AAMC ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted August 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 VR is much longer. I usually finish with a couple minutes to spare, but on the real thing it went right until the very end. If you're used to seeing 5 paragraphs per passage, expect to see about 6-7 paragraphs per passage. Everything is a little more difficult on test day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charmer08 Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 expect to see about 6-7 paragraphs per passage. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anna8 Posted August 12, 2010 Report Share Posted August 12, 2010 How did you find the WS prompts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkelton Posted August 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I thought that the student rights prompt was difficult from the antithesis point of view but the globalization one was ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charmer08 Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I thought that the student rights prompt was difficult from the antithesis point of view but the globalization one was ok. Ah I wish I get the globalization prompt... I took an entire course on globalization lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All_star Posted August 14, 2010 Report Share Posted August 14, 2010 Yeah holy the August 13th mcat had ridiculously long VR too... I went in hoping for double digits across now I'll settle with a 9 for VR lol. The written prompts were wierd, but I managed to come up with examples with some ease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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