Lost&Found Posted August 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 Did you guys memorize the molecular structures of all the biological compounds (OAA, purines, pyrimidines, etc.)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savac Posted August 10, 2012 Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 Did you guys memorize the molecular structures of all the biological compounds (OAA, purines, pyrimidines, etc.)? I know them all from biochem already, otherwise I would have never bothered memorizing them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrenchToast Posted August 10, 2012 Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 Did you guys memorize the molecular structures of all the biological compounds (OAA, purines, pyrimidines, etc.)? This is embarrassing, but what's OAA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost&Found Posted August 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 Oxaloacetate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost&Found Posted August 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 Is anyone else starting to burn out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzle Posted August 10, 2012 Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 I burn out about every 4 days Take a break and keep trucking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost&Found Posted August 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2012 Thanks. When do you write? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzle Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 september 6, you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#Cevapi Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 I don't know if you all already know about mcatquestion.com but it's pretty solid. Let me know you're opinions about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzle Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 I don't know if you all already know about mcatquestion.com but it's pretty solid. Let me know you're opinions about it. ive been using the kaplan one question a day email thing. the one you suggest is cool as well, but its pissing me off that they dont offer an explanation for wrong answers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGo1990 Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 man i hate magnetism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Let'sGo1990 Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 ive been using the kaplan one question a day email thing. the one you suggest is cool as well, but its pissing me off that they dont offer an explanation for wrong answers... It'd be good practice for all us if we posted which answers we don't understand were incorrect. I'm sure somebody would know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 man i hate magnetism. spend a day with it and ull love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bored Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 **** verbal, I wish I had Mike Ross powers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1440sunsets Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 I am also having some trouble with this section. I have been studying for the last 3 months, but my score has not changed at ALL. My first score was a 9 and my score now three months later is still a 9. I can't seem to get anything above this. I tried figuring out where I am going wrong, but most of the time the errors are made because I don't understand the question, not because I didn't understand the passage. I am confused as to what to do about this. Also, I end up with two passages that I do not have time to read, so I end up randomly guessing for those. I am trying to work on my timing, but no matter what I tend to spend a whole 4 minutes reading which is time consuming. I am not following any "strategies". I simply read the passage and answer the questions to the best of my ability, treating it like a reading comprehension test. I tried the TPR strategy (skim questions, read passage, highlight, write down main idea, and attack the questions according to question type, etc). I tried their method for a couple of weeks but each time I did it, my score dropped to a 6. When I went back to what I was doing before (which is really just reading and answering questions), my score went back to where it was before. What do I do now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazzle Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 I am also having some trouble with this section. I have been studying for the last 3 months, but my score has not changed at ALL. My first score was a 9 and my score now three months later is still a 9. I can't seem to get anything above this. I tried figuring out where I am going wrong, but most of the time the errors are made because I don't understand the question, not because I didn't understand the passage. I am confused as to what to do about this. Also, I end up with two passages that I do not have time to read, so I end up randomly guessing for those. I am trying to work on my timing, but no matter what I tend to spend a whole 4 minutes reading which is time consuming. I am not following any "strategies". I simply read the passage and answer the questions to the best of my ability, treating it like a reading comprehension test. I tried the TPR strategy (skim questions, read passage, highlight, write down main idea, and attack the questions according to question type, etc). I tried their method for a couple of weeks but each time I did it, my score dropped to a 6. When I went back to what I was doing before (which is really just reading and answering questions), my score went back to where it was before. What do I do now? I follow the EK strategy. In simple terms, what the strategy suggests is that you focus most of your time on reading the passage, soak it all in in one go. Second part of my strategy is inspired by the following skills list from AAMC: https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85564/data/vstopics.pdf So basically, 1) Soak it in 2) What is the author trying to say? You should be able to answer the other questions by your having well read the passage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyDLuffy Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 I just did AAMC #7 and did bad on the VR section. Did anyone find this practice test to be particularly more difficult? Especially passages 3 and 4 on this test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funtimess Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 I just did AAMC #7 and did bad on the VR section. Did anyone find this practice test to be particularly more difficult? Especially passages 3 and 4 on this test. It was actually my best FL so far (got 11 on VR for AAMC 7 whereas on all the others I got 10s). Passage 4 was definitely tricky (my worst passage on the test) because the right answers required some some extrapolation that didn't really come to me. Passage 3 went well for me because there was very little you had to know to answer the questions right, just the main idea. Also the curve on AAMC 7 looks to be worse than the other ones, so keep that in mind too I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windupboy Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 How do you guys attack deduction questions? (The ones that are like: the author of the passage would most likely agree that, it is assumed in the passage that, it can be concluded that and implicit in the passage is that). What do you find to be classical wrong answers on these questions? Kaplan says to predict before looking at the answer choices, but this takes a rly long time for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost&Found Posted August 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Personally, I find the "predict" strategy really lame because the answer choices can be anything (from very general ideas in the passage to very specific facts that the author mentions). I feel that generally 2 of the answer choices are pretty obviously wrong (for most questions). For the remaining two answer choices, I try to compare them to each other to see which one is a better fit. Sometimes, it just so happens that one answer choice is too extreme compared to the other Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecobeco Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Haven't done much the past two days thinking I'm burnt out. Got 3 more FL's (9,10,11) to do before the 23rd... how's everyone doing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrenchToast Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Hey guys. I'm going to do *one* more FL before my test on Aug 16. Should I do AAMC 4, AAMC 5, or a Kaplan one? So far, I've done AAMCs 3 and 7-11. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrenchToast Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 Haven't done much the past two days thinking I'm burnt out. Got 3 more FL's (9,10,11) to do before the 23rd... how's everyone doing? Aww I feel burnt out, too. I'm writing on Thursday and I really don't even feel ready content-wise, but I haven't been doing much because I don't want to be too tired. Don't worry, though. I feel your pain. Also, just remember that you still have time . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyDLuffy Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 It was actually my best FL so far (got 11 on VR for AAMC 7 whereas on all the others I got 10s). Passage 4 was definitely tricky (my worst passage on the test) because the right answers required some some extrapolation that didn't really come to me. Passage 3 went well for me because there was very little you had to know to answer the questions right, just the main idea. Also the curve on AAMC 7 looks to be worse than the other ones, so keep that in mind too I guess... Very impressive verbal scores! At this point in time, there seems to be little left for me to do. I will have to rely on the curve to save me now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economist Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Anyone else have VR scores that fluctuates A LOT ? I did all the passages in the EK 101 and they were pretty consistent. (7 in the beginning and slowly going up to around 9 at the end) ' However on the AAMC's , the 4 that I've done I've scored 9, 7, 10, 7 ... wtf mate? This is really frustrating.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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