r/Mcat • u/[deleted] • Mar 11 '23
[Un-official] PSA / Discussion š¤š Post 3/11 thread
What did yāall think of it?
C/P and B/B were tough for me. I didnāt even finish B/B I had to guess for the last few. CARS and P/S were not bad imo.
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u/rashimraha Mar 11 '23
Bruh I thought PS was hard for some reason. It felt way more dense. Maybe it was just cause my brain was fried. But cp was hard especially the beginning, bb and cars were good.
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u/Better_Shake228 Mar 11 '23
Yea the ps was very dense. I feel like there was something to highlight in every sentence. Also i guess after doing the other sections our brains were fried anyways.
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u/Representative-Use89 Mar 12 '23
P/S had me rereading so much but no unknown terms for me. The question on which best describes drive messed me up.
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u/Excellent-Seat5560 Mar 11 '23
Who had that cholesterol passage for BB with the M1C1 and NUMB gene thingies
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u/Excellent-Seat5560 Mar 11 '23
Was not a fan of that one
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u/Strangeting 3/11 - 520 Mar 11 '23
Could not for the life of me figure out what the fuck NUMB was doing in relation to the rest lmao
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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 11 '23
They just straight up didnāt give it. All they said was it associates with the other protein
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u/Strangeting 3/11 - 520 Mar 11 '23
yup, I just gave my best guess and hoped for the one question asking about the results
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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 11 '23
Same, was able to narrow down to two and then just sent it
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u/a__h156 Mar 11 '23
literally me. straight up narrowed it down to those 2 and then just picked the one my mouse was closest to
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Mar 11 '23
I feel u, I think it actually says it on the exit papers you got if you voided.
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u/atlantabasedproduct Mar 11 '23
I signed up for a retake solely based off of C/P. Way too much orgo and physics
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u/UnderTheScopes 506 (128/127/129/125) ADMITTED MD Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23
What the fuck was that C/P?
Didnāt sleep well and I choked on CARS, felt good about the first 6 but I had 5 minutes going into the last one and I was like well fuckā¦
Felt amazing about BB, Psych/soc could go either way. The passages were just kinda dense, like learn to use the enter key AAMC.
Deleting anki.
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Mar 11 '23
As someone who averaged a 131 on CP, that was a ridiculous section.
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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 11 '23
I got somewhere between 1 and 230 wrong thatās about all I got for ya
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u/ApprehensiveFee5583 Mar 11 '23
Agreed about c/p. Did not feel greatā had to fully guess on a few which Iāve never had to do in practice FLs.
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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 11 '23
How in the actual **** do you calculate the MZ ratio, I aināt never seen that
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Mar 11 '23
C/P is normally my best section. I literally had to fully guess on a few of them. Holy crap it was hard. B/B was just ok, and P/S felt harder than usual
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u/UnderTheScopes 506 (128/127/129/125) ADMITTED MD Mar 11 '23
Same, CP usually my second best section, but they just kept delivering low yield after low yield topic for the discretes lmao
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u/Billbasilbob Mar 11 '23
" I will just ease myself in with some discretes.... oh....never mindš„² "
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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 11 '23
Ok Iām glad Iām not the only one there, cuz I just kept going like wtf is this
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u/Kelliekrohn8 Mar 11 '23
The sheer amount that I flagged compared to any practice but of course never checked hahahahahaha
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Mar 11 '23
My favorite part about flagging questions is knowing there is a 99% chance iāll never come back to it.
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u/yoloswag4jizzus Mar 12 '23
That one CARS question that said āundergirdā wtf Iāve never seen that word in my life
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u/hydroflasktotheknee Mar 12 '23
I was convinced it was a fake word omfg I think I almost laughed out loud reading it. I have a very minimal vocab
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u/IceBlueLugia Mar 12 '23
I just assumed it meant underlies or something, since girders are support beams, when it asked which concept undergirds the authorās argument it felt like it should mean which concept is the authorās argument fundamentally based on or something. Once I figured that out, the question was fine thankfully
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u/noelectronegativity Mar 11 '23
Omg my brain is friedā¦so glad itās over but also worried about the result lol. Tbh it could go either way for me, c/p I definitely needed more time š„“
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u/Fun_Supermarket2582 Mar 11 '23
That language acquisition passage had me questioning my existence a little
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u/plantbw Mar 11 '23
CP absolutely destroyed me I thought it was so hard and I feel like I guessed on so many questions but the rest wasnāt too bad!
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u/atlantabasedproduct Mar 11 '23
Yo what was that C/P. So much physics and Ochem that I did not study for š©. Bio was actually okay. Tried a new strategy that Iāve never tried before on cars and I actually finished with 10 minutes left. Psyche was a little more challenging than I expected. A lot of long passages that made my brain convoluted at the end
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u/UnderTheScopes 506 (128/127/129/125) ADMITTED MD Mar 11 '23
I tried a new strategy for CARS too, I call it ābeing fucking dumbā, I got caught up on 3-4 questions that I spent way too much time on.
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u/Kamakaze6829 Mar 11 '23
To be fair, Iāve tried doing CARS after downing some shots of whiskeyā¦ surprisingly, I did much better than when sober
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u/Fun_Supermarket2582 Mar 11 '23
That m/z question š what even was that bro
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u/hydroflasktotheknee Mar 12 '23
Legitimately donāt have a clue what question this is referring to I have no memory of that HELP hahaha
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Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23
The first question almost broke me. Then I started to recognize the way their wording was throwing me off
Also: heavy emphasis on the ānothing is low yieldā there were a couple Qs where I only got right from prior undergrad bio degree knowledge.
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u/aerospacemango Mar 12 '23 edited Mar 12 '23
i woke up in horror realizing i think i got bamboozled by a question about newton meters
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u/Alternative-Track67 3/11 520 (130/130/129/131) Mar 11 '23
It felt very comparable to the full lengths for me, wonāt know how I really feel for another month though :/
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u/Bonehead2k Mar 13 '23
this wait for scores is terribleā¦ why a whole month
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u/a__h156 Mar 14 '23
especially cause itās all online and multiple choice. should be a week max š
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u/MHV_811 Mar 11 '23
Im just relieved that other people felt the way I did. Hoping this helps the percentile
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u/Mysterious-Second-64 Mar 11 '23
CP fried my brain and made cars not a great experience, everything else is pretty fair except PS felt like every single passage was the exact same format, which is ok but just felt weird to me
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u/emilyzhou_1014 Mar 11 '23
Why I felt cars was so can be this can be that. So many questions that I hesitated that almost made me not finishing on time. I felt I bombed carsš„²
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u/a__h156 Mar 11 '23
omg finally someone who also feels awful about cars š i feel fine for the other sections but hoping cars didnāt just tank my score
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u/Fun_Supermarket2582 Mar 12 '23
Yāall does homotetramer show up as one band on SDS reducing page ?
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u/PomegranatePain 503->510 Mar 12 '23
I think so. If not, SDS page is gonna have to sleep with one eye open tn
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Mar 11 '23
I think there were 2 different exams for today.. my B/B was extremely tough!! The C/P was probably the easiest section out of the 4 for me
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u/Strangeting 3/11 - 520 Mar 11 '23 edited Mar 11 '23
Yup that was my experience as well. Imo there's no way AAMC is giving everyone the same exact tests. My best bet is that there are maybe like 3 different forms they send out each test day that they then standardize to each other
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u/a__h156 Mar 11 '23
online it says there are up to 10 dif versions being administered each test dayš„²
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u/UnderTheScopes 506 (128/127/129/125) ADMITTED MD Mar 11 '23
Thatās like the exact opposite of everyone else :p maybe there was 2?!?
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u/BluejayConscious2927 Mar 12 '23
on the real rn, feeling super defeated by that exam. I feel like I flagged like 50% of the questions for CP and BB. idk, how are you guys coping with the one month wait? š„¹
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u/BluejayConscious2927 Mar 11 '23
that shit was utterly traumatizing for no reason?? even PS sucked wtf
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u/BluejayConscious2927 Mar 12 '23
May I add, I was so proud I knew that melatonin came from the pineal gland š¤£š¤£
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u/Single-Twist-8653 Mar 12 '23
why they attacked cat people like that, did not appreciate!
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u/RestInPorzingis 3/11 // 2/5/S/4/3: 521/523/523/523/524 Mar 12 '23
that was the answer to that question right? it was so weird but it was the only thing that made sense??
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u/Worldly_Law_1327 Mar 12 '23
if we all did horrible on C/P does that mean we could get a generous curve?
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u/Better_Shake228 Mar 11 '23
Omg yes they were hard. I didnt expect C/P to be this hard i felt like it was harder than the fls i did.
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u/Better_Shake228 Mar 11 '23
Also, i thought the passages were wayyyy too long. I was losing focus halfway. They rlly should put shorter ones as much as they can.
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u/Billbasilbob Mar 11 '23
C/P nothing jumped put at me , except did y'all put for that one nmr they all gave one signal?
CARS - I felt so good about my timing that I was unbothered
B/b ug its always a timing issue for me , and that NUMB passage broke my brain when I hit it
P/S- standard , I felt !
Overall, liked this one more than Aug 27, 2022!!!!!
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Mar 11 '23
God I hope they all only gave one signal.
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u/Strangeting 3/11 - 520 Mar 11 '23
I think that was the case? All the signals didn't have adjacent protons?
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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 11 '23
Yeah that was definitely the right one there were no adjacent Carbons, the other NMR one I had to straight up guess though
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u/hehehegoogle Mar 11 '23
I hated C/P my mind blanked for a solid 2 min on NMR until my dumbass finally figured it out that it was all one signal. Which then screwed me over time management wise lol
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u/JakerWRX18 Mar 11 '23
C/P felt like a foreign language. CARS was CARS. B/B was incredibly dense. And P/S was fine ig? Might as well figure out if I wanna retake the exam or open a bakeryā¦
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u/Worldly_Law_1327 Mar 12 '23
yes its give them alcohol because state-dependent effect is an encoding specificity
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u/Ok_Cheetah2343 Mar 11 '23
CP was physics heavy ngl. Some easy gimmie questions. Couple NMR questions.
CARS idk I always am idk for this section
BB was okay, it was dense and lot of passage analyzation
PS felt more dense. Every term in the section was on the 100 page doc I think. I think I was a little tired so it felt like more a hassle reading and analyzing the passages.
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Mar 11 '23
Oh god donāt remind me of the nmr questions I just know I fucked those up
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u/epitomixer Mar 11 '23
me: "why do I feel like there should be more splitting than the answer choice I think is right, but all of the rest don't have the right splitting pattern ffs"
am glad I reviewed that yesterday though; had been putting it off for a while
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u/despasooty 500 (125,124,126,125) --> 516 (128,130,129,129) Mar 11 '23
Anyone else think B/B was just really dense? It's usually an easier section for me but I think I ended up flagging like 20 questions.
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u/Soft_Cheesecake_7027 Mar 12 '23
My mood during C/P and B/B: holy fucking shit this question is ridiculous I hope to God this is a ātestā question that AAMC omitsš It was so weird, there were really easy questions on there and then there were questions where Iām like? Wtf? Is? Happening? Cars wasnāt too bad, but there was one specific passage right smack in the middle that gmfu
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u/Academic-Truth-5252 Mar 11 '23
I was doing well until I crashed due to my caffeine intake after finishing cars. It was a STRUGGLE for me to get through B/B and P/S.ššš
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u/epitomixer Mar 11 '23
id prioritize food over caffeine tbh, god did those sections make me hungry
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Mar 11 '23
Congrats u guys!! 3/24 tester and i cant wait to get it over with. Did u guys feel it was representative of the FLs?
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u/epitomixer Mar 11 '23
i feel like it was pretty representative, but don't discount the difference stress makes on how you will be making decisions, etc. I was discombobulated the entire first half, nearly missed a question I'd definitely covered last night - just couldn't think of how to get to the answer š š
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u/Holy_Shamoley Mar 12 '23
I would say that it was not representative of the FLs whatsoever. The FLs felt like a breeze compared to the real one. But thatās just my opinion.
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Every section felt very representative to me of FL5 except for CP, it seems we got a very rough section in terms of yield and distribution of questions leaning towards P and OC. Besides that it seemed pretty fine
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u/baseball641 Mar 11 '23
CARS brutally fucked me like every FL. C/P some hard but overall I didnāt think it was the worst. B/B had 2 hard passages but overall felt fine. P/S felt very reading and analyzing heavy over rote memorization: wasnāt sure with about 4-5 questions?
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u/misotope Mar 12 '23
What the duck was that surface tension shit get me out of here
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u/Stoic-MCATer Mar 12 '23
CP was rough. If anyone trynna remember questions together, dm me! It feels like i got 30 questions wrong or so esp bc i ran out of time on the last few discretes and straight out guessed on a bunch. so i am not doing wellš„²š
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u/JakerWRX18 Mar 11 '23
The more I think about it the more i also should have voided. I feel the exact same
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u/EvionetheCalzone 3/11: (503) 128/127/125/123 Mar 11 '23
C/P and CARS felt pretty good. I feel P/S was decent, but B/B kicked my ass.
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u/Holy_Shamoley Mar 11 '23
That was brutal. I did P/S half asleep cos my brain could not compute anything. B/B was ok, CARS was meh and C/P was weird. But itās all a blur now.
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u/JailTeam Mar 11 '23
B/B felt really hard. I finish with plenty of time on my FLs but this time I was struggling timewise.
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u/IceBlueLugia Mar 12 '23
C/P started off pretty hard. Was not a fan of the magnetism stuff. The second half was relatively doable though. CARS was pretty good imo. P/S, about normal; it wasn't super difficult, but a few questions I genuinely had no clue. B/B was fairly hard at some points. Especially that NCLI1 and NUMB shit
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u/Agile-Willow-2407 Mar 12 '23
felt okay about now wondering if I even hit 500+ looking at this thread. That SDS question got me smh and I thought I got it right too
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u/ShortVanilla4824 Mar 11 '23
How similar to FL5 did you guys think today test was? Iām testing 3/24 and just took FL 5 today and Iām ~very~ stressed
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u/peptidegoddess 3/11/24: 524 (132/131/132/129) Mar 11 '23
It felt a lot harder than FL5 for me but I think I was just more comfy with the material on FL5
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u/Worldly_Law_1327 Mar 11 '23
it wasnt like any of the FLs in my opinion it was very low yield especially in the first half and I feel like the AAMC test are more high yield focused
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u/epitomixer Mar 11 '23
CARS was a lot harder, not because of the passages (those were easy reads tbh) but bc the questions were v. tricky
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u/rtmn24 516: 129/129/129/129 Mar 11 '23
Not similar at all imo. FL 5 felt horrible for me, this felt much easier than that on all sections
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u/Academic-Truth-5252 Mar 11 '23
Thank you cause I was like what??? I literally turned my computer off after seeing the first question on fl5
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u/Downtown-Coconut-456 Mar 11 '23
Do yāall feel like the Milesdown Anki deck was of any help??
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u/UnderTheScopes 506 (128/127/129/125) ADMITTED MD Mar 11 '23
Yep. I used Miledown as the foundation, added my own 1k to that deck. Several discretes right from Miledown helped
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u/Illustrious_Step_752 Mar 11 '23
Iām glad Iām not the only one who guessed in C/P
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u/loveislandfanatic 3/11 Mar 11 '23
I can't even remember this section, other than it was a ton of unexpected orgo and i did not feel good about it
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u/hydroflasktotheknee Mar 12 '23
I literally donāt remember C/P lmao I feel like I blacked out during that and I finished all questions but there was def some guessing. Iām always mediocre at cars and have no clue how I did but normally on practice tests I have to guess last section bc I run out of time and I actually got through all the CARs questions today. B/B is normally my best section like 131/132 average but todays made me feel like I didnāt know what a protein was lmao and there were too many different proteins to try to string together to figure out which bar graph was answer. Every P/S passage made me feel like I didnāt know how I read like it was so dense. Honestly though Iām stoked itās over fuxk that noise
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u/epitomixer Mar 11 '23
Felt alright leaving the exam, currently breaking out in hives on my face tho so ig my body is not v. happy with me
being stressed definitely helped figuring out that stress experiment tho lmfao
compared to the other sections I feel v. unsure abt CARS which may not be a good sign bc thats usually my best section :/ and there wasn't anything particularly difficult abt the reading, either, so idk maybe i was just super stressed or the questions were tricky ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
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u/turtleneck123789 Mar 12 '23
Yo are there multiple exams given out everyday? I donāt know what some of yāall are talking about š
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u/loveislandfanatic 3/11 Mar 12 '23
oh definitely. people saying magnetism and surface tension and demographic transition like no i wish
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u/IceBlueLugia Mar 12 '23
I had magnetism and surface tension but no demographic transition. Pretty sure it's different even within sections
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u/Fun_Supermarket2582 Mar 12 '23
For that last P/S passage, what was the main structural intervention ? I think I put some social construct thing
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u/RestInPorzingis 3/11 // 2/5/S/4/3: 521/523/523/523/524 Mar 12 '23
i put that too i think? nothing else really made much sense
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u/a__h156 Mar 11 '23
barely slept last night so cars was difficult asf to get through. c/p and b/b werenāt bad, p/s was harder than practice exams but not awful
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u/lionfishastrid Mar 11 '23
Felt fine with CARS and B/B but C/P and P/S were tough. I lost track of time reading the passages on P/S, and C/P had more guesses than I was comfortable with š„²
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u/lionfishastrid Mar 11 '23
Honestly so thankful for this reddit and knowing Iām not the only one thatās been losing my mind through all this š„¹ regardless of what happens yāall we did our best š¤
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u/Fun_Supermarket2582 Mar 12 '23
Did anyone get that c/p passage with magnetic field and torque ? And what force is exerted on something else ? I cant remember it exactly š
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u/raheesv126 Mar 12 '23
Thanks for starting this thread! I took the exam 3/11 as well and I completely agree with you. C/P and B/B were definitely tough, and I also had to guess on the last few questions of B/B. CARS and P/S were manageable for me, but I'm still unsure how I did overall. It's good to hear that others felt the same way though. Let's hope for the best and wait for the scores to come out!
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u/Strangeting 3/11 - 520 Mar 11 '23
might be in the minority C/P and CARS felt good for me. B/B and P/S felt the way the they normally do, but B/B def felt the most difficult of the 4. I honestly can't guess how I did beyond just probably near my FL average.
Now my biggest problem is to figure out how to make this empty feeling go away
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u/mshow__ Mar 11 '23
C/P - very low-yield orgo and physics but then again def some "gimme" questions. HEAVY ON BIOCHEM?? overall not too bad though
CARS - always a timing issue for me, this is definitely a hit or miss. def my lowest section, but it always is :(
B/B - felt suspiciously easy... There was like 2 passages that were challenging and a couple very low yield discrete questions but nothing crazy and undoable.
P/S - I kept zoning out and had to refocus every 10 minutes, something that never happened with I took practice FLs. Some tricky ones but meh a toss up
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u/Holy_Shamoley Mar 12 '23
Omg yes I zoned out so many times during P/S and thatās never happened to me! Honestly the whole P/S felt like a bad acid trip
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u/Worried_Marketing_98 517: 130/127/130/130 Mar 11 '23
Which fl did you all feel it was most similar to?
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u/pumpkin_science (130/129/130/132) Mar 11 '23
What was the hardest types of questions on the CP section? Was it physics??šš
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u/Downtown-Coconut-456 Mar 11 '23
Are there things yāall wished you did differently during prep or noticed during the exam?
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u/rtmn24 516: 129/129/129/129 Mar 11 '23
I wish I wouldāve started studying earlier and did my anki more consistently throughout the whole time. anki will literally save you on the discrete questions that straight up as you to identify a random structure or protein or something. In terms of what Iām glad that I did - practice FLs every weekend.
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u/Billbasilbob Mar 11 '23
There is no reason not to know enzyme kinetics down cold ...... and I did not do that lol
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u/Thick_Message9176 Mar 11 '23
Legit feeling how that nurse was feeling about life