eternalkeener Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 Alright, so I put all my effort into Verbal and went from a 7 to 11/12 range, consistently, even on most AAMC FL's. I was happy, needless to say!! I need at least a 9 in verbal for every school I'm applying to. Like others on this forum, I then started focussing on PS and suddenly my verbal went down, but then I made it go back up before the test. Now, when I wrote the test, a very unnerving thing happened - my timing was off, I felt like the passages were SO LONG (Sept. 1st MCAT anyone?) and I was not sure of my answers like I had been for months! It was as if the question stems were quite different from the type I had been practising on in the other AAMC FL's. OUCH. I can't get this sick feeling out of my stomach... I'm not even 'sure' I got a 9! Has anyone written the MCAT, felt the same amount of uncertainty about how they did in verbal, and then looked at their mark and saw they pulled off a 9 or above VR? At this point, I'm just praying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubcMDhopeful Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 Ive had the same feeling since Aug 18th, after a while it goes away untill it gets near the release date lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeblue Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 I had the exact same experience on the sep 1st mcat. Question stems seemed very long and I was rushed to skim and guess on 2 passages. Dont know what to say about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalkeener Posted September 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 I'm happy to hear that, codeblue... not happy for us and our current feelings, but happy because it might mean that the test was just hard and so our marks will reflect the difficulty of the test (which it always does, apparently). Waiting is so hard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imawannabe Posted September 4, 2011 Report Share Posted September 4, 2011 I wouldn't worry too much about it. How you felt about the test doesn't always correlate with how you score, and most of the time people have no idea how they did (including me). But I still did better than expected on verbal, so don't lose hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalkeener Posted September 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Thanks, imawannabe, I guess I just have to trust the universe, as I did put in a lot of practical prep which must have affected my score somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anxious1818 Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 I wrote my MCAT on the 2nd and the verbal was hard, nothing like the AAMC emcat tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eternalkeener Posted September 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2011 Wow, that's great to know. I love the solidarity here, knowing that I'm not alone in thinking this MCAT was so freaking different from my practice tests... I for one think they are experimenting on us with new types of question mixes and passage lengths! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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