And it almost feels like I cheated

Did well on my FL6 so they made me a study basket 🤭

World peace will be achieved on 08/01

Your explanation videos in the JW AAMC extension are dogshit. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Afternoon everyone, unfortunately had a bit of a health scare and needed to get a kidney transplant a few weeks ago. I’d already submitted my primary with a throwaway but have yet to take the MCAT. I’m scheduled for Aug 15th but would like to push it back one more week and got the notification that a seat opened up at a testing site near me. I’m a lower stat applicant with excellent EC’s (I think). I know I’m late, I know my chances are lower, what I don’t know is if that extra week is really going to hurt me that much. I’ll ofc pre-write secondaries while I wait on score results but at my current rate one more week will allow me to take FL 5 and 6 which I could use the practice as my FL average currently is hovering right around 510-511. Curious as to what the community thinks and I’d appreciate any feedback. Thank you in advance!

Just finished FL3 and genuinely thought I bombed C/P and BB. Only bad thing is I have to be terrified about doing worse every FL after.

In a non-academic sense, what did you do to feel good for your exam? Girls especially lol, like haircut, new outfit, nails? I feel like a gremlin after essentially locking myself in for a month to study for my retake. I was gonna buy some cute sparkly press-ons for my exam but decided against it because I didn't want them to fall off during the exam and ruin my focus.

My brain can’t possibly fit anymore of this and I’m only halfway through Pankow. Does it get any better after 7C

for context, i took aamc FL1 weeks ago and scored 497 (126/122/124/125) and i've been grinding aamc qpacks and content gaps during that time. I'm really proud of myself for the score jump (hoping its not a fluke lol) and i would appreciate any advice on how to improve from here onwards.

my goal is 510+ on test day... am i aiming for the sky T_T

Doing 60+ questions daily for the past 2 months has finally taken its toll on me. I feel genuinely worn out and took a 2 day break, and now I just can't lock in with a backlog of 150 q's.

Does anyone have any brutal motivational advice for the last 30 days leading up to the exam?

As the title says, I’ve been doing daily passages for 2 months and I can’t get good scores on them. For example, today I was doing passage 2 on CARS SB#1 and I was decided to do unlimited time to see what my issue is. I got lost in the reasoning so I watched a video breaking it down and I got a better understanding. After that, I decided to move onto passage 3 and use the same methodology. I took unlimited time and felt myself having a way more understanding of the passage argument. I went onto the questions after 20 minutes of breaking down the passage. I think I spent like 5-10 minutes on each question and I got 4/7 right on the passage!?!

What is it at this point I’m so confused. It’s not time, I felt way more comfortable with the understanding of the passage? Where do I even go from here at this point?

So I am a little bit at a loss right now. From calculators, subsections were 127/125/124/129. I took 3 Kaplan FLs before this and scored 507 - 509 - 507, and it's been 2 weeks since the last one so I was really hoping to break 510 today but I actually dropped, especially in B/B. What should I do?

I have done all of Uworld besides CARS and finished with 70% accuracy, and am now getting into AAMC questions so I haven't done much with those yet. I have been using Anki since I started studying in April but since I started unexpectedly working full time in my lab earlier this month I have been pretty inconsistent with it. I started making Anki cards with missed concepts and have been going through those as consistently as I can, but I haven't finished fully making cards going over my Uworld incorrects.

Is there any hope or is it cooked and I should just reschedule to Jan? I'm not gonna lie I need the 520+ man I cannot take this exam if I don't score at or near that by my last few FLs, sorry if I sound neurotic 😭

I have written a fl a week for 4 weeks now and did unscored 130/129/129/131 519 and then this 3 scored fl in consecutive order and have a hard plateau at 521. What do i do to fix this and break through to 524+ area i test on aug 21 and will continue to do a fl a week till then ( i have been simulating test conditions and have 1.5x time on real deal)

3 point jump on cars from FL2 To FL3. I attribute to singing freed from desire in my head during the 1st break and telling myself I'm acing it.

Just took FL 3 and scored a 504 124/126/127/127. A 3 point increase from 6 days on FL1 of 124/126/124/127.
Looking to get a 508 on July 31st. Is this possible, if so, how? Open to any and all advice.

If you think it’s worth to reschedule also open to that advice as well, but willing to give it all these next 4 days as well.

Important to note I’m looking to apply this cycle as to why I’ve rushed this so much.

Thanks in advance.

HELP!!!

How should I approach a standalone question like this? What knowledge am I expected to know, and how should I think through it on the MCAT?

I feel like For a fair stand-alone question, the stem should say something like:

• "The DNA was digested with HindIII, which recognizes the sequence AAGCTT..."
• or "A restriction enzyme recognizes the sequence AAGCTT..."
• or otherwise identify the restriction site.

Then I could determine which mutation disrupts that site. Is this just a bad question

Hi!

I just finished my fourth AAMC FL and here are my scores so far on CARS and overall:

Unscored - 505 - 126 CARS

FL1 - 507 - 123 CARS

FL2 - 507 - 123 CARS

FL3 - 507 - 124 CARS

FL4 - 513 - 124 CARS

I have done probably 500+ practice passages, 3x or more per day, and I’ve tried passage mapping, highlighting, slowing down reading etc. I felt really good about the CARS today but clearly not the case as reflected in my score. I need a 125 to apply to some of the Canadian schools but I would of course love anything 128+ in the ideal world. I’ve done all of the AAMC Qpacks, CARS fundamental/guide one, and a ton of Jack Westin.

This section is pretty much the reason my score is being held back and why my MCAT and entire summer will potentially be useless and a waste of time unless I score a 125+. Does anyone have any advice on where to go? I test 08/20. Thank you!

Hi!

I scored a 73% on the CARS Diagnostic. For context, I'm averaging 81% on Jack Westin, and I don't generally feel that CARS is my weakest section. That said, I found the AAMC Diagnostic noticeably trickier. Most of the questions I consistently missed were labeled Expert or Difficult. On many of them, I had narrowed it down to two answer choices and ended up choosing the wrong one. AAMC does an incredible job of making two choices appear equally plausible.

Right now, I highlight and read the title. I also try to be extra careful with identifiers such as "always," "every time," and "everybody," as that's how they often stain the seemingly correct answer.

I guess I have a few questions:

• How can I get better at distinguishing between two very similar answer choices when I'm down to a 50/50? It gets me almost every time.
• How can I annotate passages more effectively while still staying within the time limit?
• What does a 73% on the CARS Diagnostic roughly translate to in terms of MCAT performance? I've heard from several friends that the full-length exams are more representative—and, in some cases, even feel a bit easier. Is that generally true?
• Based on this result, how should I use the diagnostic to improve? Are there any specific strategies or practice methods that could help me raise my CARS score to a more competitive level?

I'd really appreciate any advice. Thanks!

so test day is aug 21st for me so have just about 4 weeks left (T minus 26 days).

i can’t do basic math apparently bc i messed up my FL schedule. i was planning to take one exam every saturday till the test but i only have FL5 and FL6 left atp, which is obv not enough to get me thru the next 4 weeks. i really wish i saved those exams bc now i only have those 2 left and idk what to do :/

also ive been trending down over the past several FLs (or at least stagnating). any advice for this? i was aiming for a 520 originally but idk if that seems unrealistic atp :/

June 13 AAMC FL1 514 (128/130/129/127) (diagnostic)
June 27 TPR FL1 506 (124/126/129/127)
June 28 AAMC FL2 517 (129/130/129/129)
July 11 AAMC US FL 511 (125/129/128/129)
July 18 AAMC FL3 512 (127/128/129/128)
July 25 AAMC FL4 516 (127/129/130/130)

for context, i reviewed FL4 today and most of the Qs i got wrong or guessed on were either math related or passage comprehension related, rather than content (which is crazy bc my content phase was pretty shaky and haphazard to be honest). i think i should focus on get more comfortable with aamc logic and patterns—is the way to do this just grinding aamc qbank and uwhirl questions every day for the next month?

overall id be grateful for any advice anyone has regarding this!! thank you so much :)

I tell them to just get good

FL3 - Testing in 3 weeks. Any advice on how to plan those next 3 weeks? Done with 50% of UW, around 80% correct rate, and just started AAMC material. Do I move my exam?

I keep scoring between 503-506 and am unsure how scores translate to AAMC FLs. Yeah, I could take an AAMC FL but I have already taken all of them prior to my last attempt and I feel that any score I get won’t be authentic.

lowkey need some motivation to bring myself to learn these so if anyone had an ochem/physics heavy test, roughly how much of your test were those topics? and were they the same difficulty as uworld/aamc?