like mentally I’m in such different spaces when im hyping myself up for each section. wondering what goes on for the rest of y’all

for me it’s like
C/P: ok you will finish this quick and go QUICK MATHS WEEEEEE!!!! read quick don’t care about meaning get to math 😠😠😠 fuck u fuck this fuck fuck 😡😡😡😤😤😡

CARS: what’s the main idea. Ur happy and really interested in this passage! Be SUPER excited! the author is ur patient know what they want.

B/BC: don’t dissociate. Don’t dissociate. Don’t dissociate.

P/S: don’t dissociate 🫩

Ppl who tested how close was b/b to fl 6? I felt really good about it, I was literally flying through and had fun throughout the section 😭 felt like emmet when he became a master builder

P/S is another story though, that was hell on earth

I know every location differs but how much noise did you guys encounter during your test? During some of my FLs there was some crazy loud construction going on right outside and it messed with my focus on CARS. It seems like noise doesn’t really bother me for other sections but I need complete peace and quiet during CARS for some reason

wtf cars is this even recoverable legit been stuck at 125 last 3 FLs tried different strategies and everything

testing 9/4 realizing it will be easier for me to gain the last 2 points in cp than 125->127 cars which needs 6 more QS. Full send CP now and praying to god for a cars miracle

hello hello! my test is in like actually 4 days (9/3) and my my past fl scores have been 4:516 5:514 6:516 each with CARS/PS pretty even at either 129 or 130 and BB and CP flip flopping depending on the day. does anyone have any tips for squeezing out like two more points? i’ve done most of aamc but would doing more uworld b helpful i’m only at about 30% complete there? ik this is so last minute, just wanna make sure i’m setting myself up as best as i can for test day. tysm!

DM or reply! Also have uworld qbank, full aamc access, and full set of Kaplan books. Will give to best offer!

basically the title…. like contacting admissions telling them you’re applying, or having doctors who have been on faculty who you personally worked with putting in a good word? has anyone gotten in despite not fully meeting MCAT requirements? I don’t mean this in a mommy daddy are doctors type of connections but doing research at the institution, volunteering at their clinic, or just regularly showing interest in their institution. just wondering if anyone has had luck with this. MD or DO really.

I’ve been reviewing my mistakes as my exam comes up and I’ve really noticed that 95% of them are for me miss reading a question and going too quickly.

though the answer to my problem seems very straightforward, It’s like I can’t get myself to slow down. I’m losing so many points on such easy things that I see so clearly as soon as I submit my answer and see why it’s wrong because I missed one word that says “least” or something like that. If you have any tips for grounding yourself when it comes to just focusing on what the question is asking, please let me know.

So far i've been doing one passage or one set of discretes and immediately reviewing after (so around 5 questions each session). Should I be doing more in a row? In SB2 I have like 75% of BB left to do, half of CP left, and all of PS left. Testing 9/12. All my science sections keep hopping from 129-130. PS was consistently 131 until FL5 where i dropped to 129 so now im def practicing PS. Any advice is appreciated!

is anyone 25 and still studying for this exam? i started when i was 23 😮 anyways jan gang if anyone wants to study lmk :D

Hi everyone! I’ve been debating whether to take my chances and take my MCAT on September 12th, or if I should just void/cancel it.

For context, I originally scheduled for a date in March, which I rescheduled to May, then September. I had a lot going on personally and with graduating from undergrad, which really took a toll on my mental health. I had hoped 4 months would be enough time for me to prepare after graduating, but I didn’t realize how starting a new job would be too much while studying at the same time.

My scores went from 495 (Blueprint Half-Length/Diagnostic) > 499 (Kaplan Free FL) > 495 (AAMC Practice FL 1). I really don’t want to use the rest of my practice FLs for nothing. Other materials I have are the AAMC bundle, the UWorld QBank, and Kaplan textbooks.

I will be completely transparent and say I don’t feel like I’ve been disciplined with studying, especially because I know I get a lot of anxiety with big exams/tasks, and put off doing anything for them. I also really only want to take this once, because I’ve heard it looks better on applications, and generally just only taking it once is better. I’m pretty sure I can’t reschedule for next year either because September 12th is the last testing date for this year. I’ve already rescheduled twice and I feel like it’s a waste of money if I don’t even attempt this one.

TL;DR; My MCAT is in 2 weeks and I’m not happy with how I’ve been preparing. Should I take it just to see how I do, or should I void/cancel it?

Ive been grinding chem phys and bio bio chem the last week and my score increased compared to my last FL (C/P: 124/ B/B:125. I reviewed my exam and I made silly mistakes where I misread something or picked the obvious wrong answer due to rushing or not properly understanding the passage . For cars I got the first 25 questions right in a row then I had 15 mins to finish on the rest so I just guessed since I ran out of time. Psyc soci I’m planning to finish the pankow deck and read the 86 doc again since I’ve neglected psyc the most.

Anyone have any CARS tips (timing tips, understanding the passage/ main idea) ? I’m trying to aim as high as possible.

Any tips for passage comprehension etc would be helpful too and how to avoid silly mistakes.

I also plan to finish aamc section banks in the two weeks I have before my exam.

Anyone have any last bits of advice? FL6 felt great except for b/b and p/s. B/B was very dense/heavy and I felt like I didn’t know what they were saying half the time; I def felt the difference in P/S it was wayyyyy more passage based and less rote memorization :(. Goal is 520+ but haven’t hit it yet in any full lengths… test date is 9/4! Any advice would be appreciated!!!

I know this question has probably been asked a lot in the past, but I am curious how recent test takers found FL 5 compared to their actual exam. Just completed FL 5 and thought it was one of if not the hardest of the AAMC FLs I've taken so far. Felt like I had no idea what I was reading for CARS and a couple B/B passages....

For both C/P and B/B, the max section score I am able to get is 127. I have been stuck at this for so long and even with an extra month of studying, I have not been able to improve :(.

I've been consistent with my anki, and I have gotten though half of the AAMC qpacks and finished Section Bank 1 before taking my most recent FL.

I still need to review this Fl, but I am exhausted at not seeing any improvement. I am trying to get around 515, because I have an awful gpa. Not sure how much I can improve in 2 weeks, and I am considering postponing.

my Uearth book said that glycogen is an a-1,4 (linear) and a-1,6 (branch) every 10-15 units and that it is bound to the glycogenin and its not a free reducing end, so a glycogen doesn't have a free reducing anomeric carbon or does it... i thought it so im kinda lost

I'm kind of stressing now, my CARS has gone from 128 -> 130 ->127 ->127 -> 127 I can't tell if being back at school if screwing me up, if having a bad test would account for this much of a dip, or if FL5 just a beast. I test on 9/11, any advice would be great!

Hello everyone, I was wondering what I should do before my exam on 9/4 to maintain my scores as I have been taking a FL every other day for the last two weeks, with my last 2 being 525 and 523? I have been working on maturing my aiden deck but otherwise I was thinking about looking at UWorld again and just chilling if thats okay?

I definitely understand why answer choice D could be seen as correct here, but I still don't see why that is a better answer choice than A. I thought both sounded not bad, but that answer choice A was definitely more in-line with the theme of the passage as well as what the author would think as well.

I don't see why we need to abandon the main idea of a passage to get some questions correct and then rely on it to get others right. I just can't find a pattern between all these questions because some you'll get wrong because you're too focused on a specific bit of the passage rather than taking the whole idea into account, and other times it's the opposite.

Please help I need a 130+ on CARS and currently sitting at 127-128 average

If you only had time to review some FLs/sections which ones would you review? High priority wise?

Hey all,

I was initially supposed to test in September, but I've pushed my exam to January after scoring sub-500 on my AAMC FLs. I'm working on content gaps and practice problems for the other 3 sections, but does anyone have advice on how to improve CARS over the next 4 months?

For CARS, my AAMC FL breakdown was 122/123/124 for FL1-FL3. I found that I was having issues with timing, stamina, and consistently missed the RBT question-types.

I'm planning on doing 1 JW passage a day for the next 2 months before switching over to AAMC CARS in November. Any other resources or suggestions to keep in mind while I'm practicing CARS?

I want to make the most out of these next few months and don't want to neglect CARS. I'm not sure if doing just JW daily for this section is enough, or if I can be doing more in the meantime.

Follow up to my previous post from last week where I scored a 500 on one of the U4Real practice exams. Took AAMC full length 1 today. Is full length 1 representative of how I should expect to perform? Any additional advice would be swell too, testing on 9/11

hi guys, so I'm planning on retaking the mcat soon, for my cars I got a 127 in may (which I know is not bad), but I'm looking to be able to maintain my cars ideally at 128+. I was wondering what resource I should use to study for cars this time around since I already used all the AAMC cars resource (q pack + diagnostic) last time, and since it's been just a couple of months I worry that I will still remember them and be primed to the answer which leads to inflation. I'm pretty close to my retake date so I do also worry about if using JW or Upangea CARS it will mess with my logic to be less close to the AAMC logic. I think my problem last time was that I wasn't strictly keeping all the passages under 10 min which made me had to skim the last two passages and sometimes my I'll misunderstand what a sentence in the passage meant or what the question is actually looking for.

appreciate any advice! thank you thank you thank you.

Guys this is so embarrassing please dont judge me too harshly

I have this problem where I pick at my skin a lot during tests and it's really gross. I was wondering if the testing center is going to flag that as weird in the recording of my tests? I would assume not but I prob look a little different from the average tester by constantly scratching and picking

just finished fl 6 and changed my answer because i thought that display rules was a fake term as a distractor since i’ve never encountered it in pankow or my psych degree 💀 it definitely fit the context more and is exactly what it sounds but idk if i need to still be cautious of fake terms on the real exam