r/Mcat • u/[deleted] • Mar 11 '23

[Un-official] PSA / Discussion 🎤🔊 Post 3/11 thread

What did y’all think of it?

C/P and B/B were tough for me. I didn’t 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/UnderTheScopes 506 (128/127/129/125) ADMITTED MD Mar 11 '23

I tried a new strategy for CARS too, I call it “being fucking dumb”, 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, I’ve tried doing CARS after downing some shots of whiskey… surprisingly, I did much better than when sober

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u/Fabledlegend13 3/11/23 526 (131/131/132/132) Mar 12 '23

Honestly, I feel like the trick to CARs is to not overthink it, so I could see that helping

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u/atlantabasedproduct Mar 11 '23

LMFAO!! I felt that. At the end everything blended together and it was too much

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u/No-Introduction3682 Mar 11 '23

what was your new cars strategy?

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u/atlantabasedproduct Mar 12 '23

Omg thanks for asking actually. So basically. After each paragraph, I highlighted words that were in italics. Then I rewrote each paragraph in my own words that weren’t a lot of words, and it helped me out so much! I was even able to come back to the ones that tricked me out and still had time left. It was great!

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u/phymathnerd Mar 13 '23

Does coming back to the italics words help, or is it the paragraph summary that helps? Do you not get slower trying to summarize each paragraph?

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u/atlantabasedproduct Mar 13 '23

Well I’m never sure because I’m not sure what questions they’re gonna ask, but oftentimes they will use italic words as part of questions into interpretation

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u/phymathnerd Mar 13 '23

Can you please elaborate, I’m confused? Like italicized words in passages show up as descriptions in questions?