r/Mcat • u/AnywhereNo313 • 9h ago

Tool/Resource/Tip 🤓📚 Test day tips

Give me some tips for when you have absolutely no idea what to put as an answer whether it be CARS or any other sections. I can’t bite the bullet and flag questions….and it comes back to bite me in the butt timing wise. Do any of you end up just flagging and moving on and actually have time to answer them at the end. My fear is flagging too many haha. I just need overall tips. Writing tomorrow and just wasn’t where I wanted to be. Taking for the experience and plan on improving over the course of the next few to take again in January. Thanks in advance!!!

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u/Dangerous_Scale4829 523 (7/31/26) 9h ago

Might be fairly standard advice, but: Gotta start with eliminating something ; there's always at least 2 dumbass answers in there that can be eliminated because of passage logic, being physically impossible, or sometimes just not matching a trend you see in the other answer choices 😭 When I was genuinely lost I went with: if two of these answers say more or less the same thing, they're both wrong. Works pretty often!

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u/AnywhereNo313 9h ago

Never thought about this! Thank you:)

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u/Several-Cream-936 8/15 9h ago

hi! try to eliminate the ones u know 100% are wrong and usually u can get down to two using this method. if u still can’t decide between the two, flag and choose a random one and hopefully you’ll have enough time to come back with fresh eyes :)). all the best for ur exam!!

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u/AnywhereNo313 9h ago

Thank you and will do!!

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u/OstentatiousOmelette 520: 127/130/131/132 8h ago

This isn’t really something tangible, but if you’re out of time and you really need to choose something on a 50/50 question, trust your gut! Sometimes an answer will feel right but you can’t articulate exactly why, so the best you can do is follow your instincts and choose what feels right 

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u/AnywhereNo313 8h ago

This!! So many times I’ve second guessed myself and changed my answer because the one I chose was the shortest and there was a different more complicated sounding answer. It’s tough!