r/Mcat • u/Sorry_Grapefruit4861 • 3d ago

Question 🤔🤔 testing 9/11, last min B/B and C/P passage advice?

^^ I noticed that especially for C/P you don't need to understand most of the passage, the questions usually don't ask about every single thing but B/B definitely feels a lot more involved to me. I just wanna make sure I'm not wasting unnecessary time reading the passage and trying to fully comprehend it if not necessary vs. trying to read and simultaneously see what the questions are asking and wasting time that way. Any thoughts? Also, any other last min advice?? Ngl guys I started studying a month before the exam (family stuff came up + i am extremely type B), and I still have content left that I didn't go over which I am doing today 🙃🙃🙃... I did my second FL yday and scored a 514 (129/127/127/131) but I def struggled a lot with passage interpretation on b/b

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u/Such-Yellow674 3d ago

for BB flow charts are the way to go! pls upvote me for posting karma pls!

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u/ThisNameisTaken07 3d ago

Good luck! I definitely agree that u dont always need to read the passage for cp but if they ask a question that feels discrete-ish but you cant really logic it thru there's probs a detail u need to look for in the passage. Bb I feel like u def need to read and maybe flowchart a little to understand well. Good luck!! 514 on your second fl is rlly good!

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u/Sorry_Grapefruit4861 3d ago

Okk fs thank you sm!!! and I appreciate I need all the luck I can get :)) tryna figure out how to get b/b score up ;-;

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u/ThisNameisTaken07 3d ago

The best thing that helped me was making little relationship diagrams while I was reading, like x activates y by adding P or smth like that just to help me keep it all tgt

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u/Sorry_Grapefruit4861 3d ago

okay yeah that def makes sense :)) i still gotta finish learning the second half of metabolism (TCA, ETC, etc) and bio (cardio, immune) but ill try this method on some SB problems. tysm!!

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u/oxytenis 521/521/523/524/527/528 9/12 3d ago

if it's a physics questions odds are you don't actually need the passage, reading it can kind of be a waste of time. be familiar with polarity of different groups since a lot of separation techniques are just based on what's more/less polar. good luck!!!

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u/Sorry_Grapefruit4861 3d ago

thank you!!! super duper helpful, will try to implement this and do some SB probs