bored Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 I dont know what to do now.. Im getting 11s and 12s in Physical science and Biological Science but am getting only 7-8 in verbal.. I have about a week left till my exam. Is there really anything I can do in this one week to improve my verbal? How should I approach this sitation..? Any guidance would be appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccountantGirl Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 Were you getting better verbal scores before? I found when I started to get burnt out my verbal score quickly plummeted so I took a day off and my scores went back up. How are you doing, time-wise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored Posted September 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 Were you getting better verbal scores before? I found when I started to get burnt out my verbal score quickly plummeted so I took a day off and my scores went back up. How are you doing, time-wise? What happened was I was doing fine in verbal afew months ago, but I focused on Bio too much and now my score isn't doing too good. Time wise, I would be fine. Before, I was getting an average of 1-2 wrong per passage.. but now its not the case... Its as if I forgot all the basics. At the moment I am writing a sentence for each paragraph but In this week I hope that I wont need to do that so I would be alright time wise for the test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanillabear Posted September 2, 2011 Report Share Posted September 2, 2011 What happened was I was doing fine in verbal afew months ago, but I focused on Bio too much and now my score isn't doing too good. Time wise, I would be fine. Before, I was getting an average of 1-2 wrong per passage.. but now its not the case... Its as if I forgot all the basics. At the moment I am writing a sentence for each paragraph but In this week I hope that I wont need to do that so I would be alright time wise for the test I was in a similar situation too when I was studying. I was getting 11s and 12s in verbal, then I focused on PS and saw my verbal drop to 9s consistently. I started to refocus on verbal (just doing a couple practice passages daily) and saw it go back up to a 12 two days before my test and the day before my test. So just keep trying...identify the key things you used in your strategy and remember to use them during your test - don't forget all your prep! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored Posted September 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2011 Not sure how much Ill improve in this little time.. SHould I write the test if I dont reach the 9-10 on verbal? Is it even worth writing if I cant reach that much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted September 3, 2011 Report Share Posted September 3, 2011 There is no penalty for writing & you will gain experience from having gone in there and written the mcat...it will only help if you have to write again. You have very little to lose. Just do your best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored Posted September 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 so Canadian schools don't care about rewrites right? Anyone have any idea on American schools? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumanmacbook Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 American schools will care, but they don't have as high an emphasis on VR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AccountantGirl Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 What method did you use? I would try going right back the the basics - read the lectures again, do the exercises again. Maybe that would bring you back to what you were doing to begin with. The other thing is maybe you just need a day off. I found burn out really affected my verbal mark. I would still write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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