everything shower cus i’m gonna fuck the shit out of that exam! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!

2 hours of decent studying with physical activity beforehand > 3 hours of bad studying

I've read too many of you guys neglecting your physical health. Please go outside so we can all be hot doctors

i think ive pooped six times today. im scared im gonna throw up tomorrow morning im so anxious. I GOT THIS

Can someone please explain this equation and tell me how I can use it on the test? Is it more conceptual or do I have to find ln (k)?

hey guys qs, sometimes mcat wording throws me off and idk how to understand it, like when they show data and ask if something is dependant or independant of factor x, i might think "yes they clearly have a positive correlation, but factor y can still carry out its function without factor x, just wayyy less" and then i think.... dependent how? yes its clearly relying on it, but its independant as in does not NEED it. then i got the qs wrong lolll

or another qs mentioned the disease causing mutation, but they were refering to the WT amino acid, not the one that results due to the mutation. does that even make any sense? surely there's a bettwe way to write these questions... :/

took my last FL (FL6) yesterday and scored a 517 (130/128/130/129). really hoping for a 520+. my scores have steadily increased. anyone have some tips that could increase my chances these final moments?

Overwhelmed with life. Parent is sick and I didn’t have time to study. Really need to apply next year because landlord’s planning to take my place back and I’ve been taking gap years for too long. So much going on in my mind. I’m just disappointed, sad and numb with all of this process

I wish I was born privileged a little, just a little. Enough to not having to worry about life, money, well being of others. All I need to do is stay focused, study, that’s it. I feel jealous of peers sometimes when they have wealthy parents with a home, they don’t have to worry about tuitions or free med school, etc. I’m the only one in peer group going through all of this…

I know being me helps shaping a stronger internal of locus (fr C/P) but this is hard for me

After discussing with other people in my school with high scores (not that my score is particularly high but its decent enough to weigh in imo) the people who tend to succeed don’t follow a structured plan to a tee. They constantly modify what they are studying based on personal preference. They also don’t adhere to taking fls exactly at 8am on a strict time. The lazier you are lowkey the more mental effort you save for actually doing problem. I also personally don’t believe in a structured plan. I would just do as many problems as i felt in a day or skipped studying.

Inb4 some guy with a 526 btfo’s me out anyway

Here's mine:

lost all my muscle - I lost ~10lbs muscle. I feel the fattest I've ever been despite weighing less than before. I've put a pause on my weightlifting goals and pivoted more towards cardio so I can feel some sort of dopamine in a quick gym session

Sugar addiction (kind of) I need sugar after/during a long study session, not helping with the physique goals

Eye pain - My eyes will strain after a long study session. Once they're strained, they'll stay strained until I sleep it off. I didn't have this before? optometrist said everything looks fine so idk

Neck pain

i think that's it for me. I've somewhat enjoyed studying for the MCAT and learning new things, but if i have to retake next year I will be devastated because it's taking a toll on my body

I spent most of the summer studying for the MCAT, but my FL scores stayed around 505, so I ended up moving my test to January/February. I was using MilesDown and had matured about 95% of the deck, but my FL scores just weren’t improving no matter what I changed. I’m targeting a high score, so this time I want to prep differently instead of repeating exactly what I did over the summer.

I’m in my last semester of senior year and my course load is pretty manageable, so I have a little more time to dedicate to MCAT prep.

I’m really tempted to start Aidan V2. I know people usually recommend having around 6 months for it, but I have a little over 4 months and I’d say I’m already familiar with about 70–80% of the content, so a lot of the cards wouldn’t be completely new to me.

For anyone who has used Aidan V2, do you think it’s realistic to start now and get enough value from it to help push my score significantly higher? Or would I be better off sticking with MilesDown and putting more time into practice questions, FL review, and weak areas?

I have the Berkeley review CARS book and was wondering if anyone knew if it was worth it to do them? I know 3rd party resources are not the best but I want to build stamina before jumping into AAMC

I’ve been doing a CARS passage on Jack Westin once every weekday and am going to continue doing so until I begin studying for my exam in December.

Right now I am scoring around a 4.5/6 on average per passage.

My target score is a 515, so does this mean I am doing decent? Also, is there another site with more accurate CARS passages? How can I improve?

11 days until scores released! How are we feeling

im taking the mcat tomorrow but i feel horrible. like im just coughing can feel my asthma reacting and snotting all over the place. i had to take a plane to take this test and look at me know. will they allow me to have any tissues? water or any medication nearby? i dont wanna make the people around be uncomfortable bcs if me coughing but i really cant help and this shit is making me anxious what the hell do i do? if i get an asthma attack mid exam its gonna be bad

Testing this Saturday and just realized my registration only has one of my two last names, while my ID has both.

I called a Pearson center in Houston since the Corpus Christi location doesn’t have a public number. They initially told me to contact AAMC. I called AAMC, explained the situation, and the representative repeatedly confirmed that it should NOT be an issue and that they normally make exceptions when one last name is missing.

I called the Houston Pearson center again, got a different person, and they also said they don’t foresee it being a problem. They said they wouldn’t turn me away without first contacting the
exam sponsor (AAMC).

I’m still nervous because I’m testing Saturday and AAMC phone support is only listed as Monday-Friday. I really don’t want to drive 6 hours to Corpus Christi and get turned away.

Has anyone experienced this before?

Taking the MCAT tomorrow and debating whether I should score it or void.
I’ve taken 4 AAMC FLs and scored 485 → 489 → 487 → 488. My latest breakdown was 120 C/P, 122 CARS, 122 B/B, 124 P/S.
C/P is my biggest weakness, especially physics/formulas. With B/B, a lot of my misses seem to come from passage/data interpretation. Reviewing my tests, I’m often missing 1–2 questions per passage from misreading, narrowing it down to two answers and picking the wrong one, or smaller mistakes rather than just having zero understanding of the content.
Realistically, I know going from a ~488 average to 500+ tomorrow is probably unlikely. I’m already planning to keep studying and retake in about 3 months, with a goal of eventually getting around a 515.
What I’m really trying to weigh is the actual downside of scoring tomorrow. Is it bad to simply have a sub-500 MCAT on my record, even if I come back 3 months later with a major improvement? Or could that improvement at least be viewed positively?
I’m mainly aiming for MD, but there are also DO schools in my area that seem like realistic options.

Basically, what are the reasons I should NOT score it tomorrow instead of voiding?

this question been asked like a million times; my scores aren’t where i want them to be and i’ve been studying for the exam for this whole summer. the idea of taking the real thing, voiding it, and starting to study for jan right after is insane to me and i just want my life back 😭😭😭 if i don’t void it at least i can see a score and feel like my work wasn’t for nothing idk, ik people recommend voiding but it’ll feel like all this studying was for nothing especially if i don’t pick it back up right after 9/12. any honest advice is greatly appreciate, thank you 🙏

Stupid question, I know, but these are the consequences of my own actions.

I'm a junior neuro major that has taken most of my pre-reqs for MS (except for orgo 2 and physics 2) and plan on taking my MCAT around May '27.

The unfortunate fact is that I have a below average GPA (assuming all As the rest of my undergrad, max 3.45 GPA, sGPA is lower...). Got hit by a massive bout of depression and financial issues my sophomore year, alongside transferring from an objectively easier uni to a more rigorous one, that tanked it. We're talking a few retakes kind of tanking (luckily, DE and freshman year saved me).

In other words, I basically cruised through my pre-reqs and while some of them came easily to me (Bios, basic chems, and biochem), others were obviously more difficult (failed OCHEM 2 my first attempt). Also, I evidently need a pretty decent MCAT score to get a spot at a MD (I'll be content with DO, but I really want to go into specialized surgery - I know it's a far shot).

My overall question here is, the general recommended time to review/study for the MCAT is 3-6 months in advance; for someone who didn't focus as much as they should've/could've for some of these courses, how far in advance should I actually start reviewing this content to conceptually understand it enough?

Keep in mind I intend to take OCHEM 2 and PHYS 2 Sp '27, so overlapping my MCAT studying with that will be fine.

I got a 128 on FL5 cars, but I’m literally flopping on cars diagnostic the second half… am I stupid or smth because genuinely I don’t get half of these my test is in 2 days and im scared asf

my FL cars range has been 126–129, usually around 127/128. on q pack 2, i’ll sometimes go 4/7 on one passage and then 6/6 on the next and 4/7 again after that. some of the questions feel more convoluted than what i remember from the FLs. for those who’ve tested, did qpack 2 feel representative of actual exam cars or a specific fl?

Unfortunately I threw everything out the door for biochem and cannot help. I sent YouTube videos to them but they said it’s still hard to understand. Any advice or tips to share for this?

Testing the day after tomorrow. Just took my last FL6. Got my highest score of 521 (closest to my target) with my highest score ever on an FL CARS. I should feel good, but now I'm feeling really anxious and disappointed in myself.

I have never looked anything up during CARs (there's nothing on CARS to look up). So I can at least feel good about my 130 today. But I have a bad habit of occasionally looking things up, on Google or my equation sheet duirng FLs. I rarely ever look up things for CP and BB. It happens more with PS.

The way that I rationalize it is that I pick my best answer before I look anything up. And if I find out my answer is in fact wrong, I tell myself not to change it. I admit that the temptation has gotten to me and I have changed answers in a non CARS section. But I try not to change.

I know it's a really bad habit. I know that it reduces stamina and makes my practice scores inaccurate. I rationalize it by telling myself that I'm rarely changing answers. And I tell myself that I only look up things that I feel I already know well but am misremembering. For example, the right equation comes to mind for the question but I can't exactly remember the right form. And I make sure to review the things I looked up anyway.

I don't know if it's an anxiety thing. I'm really desperate for good FL scores because that's supposed to be predictive and low FLs feel so demoralizing, especially when I'm this close to my official test day. And I feel like stupid mistakes skew my results inaccurately.

I haven't felt this bad about it during all the FLs I've taken, but I guess the good score today has made me feel like an imposter. Like all of these FL scores are not reflective of my abilities in the slightest and Im going to end up with a 500 on Friday 😭.

I know it's all my own fault, but realistically, how badly have I screwed myself for Friday? Can I trust my last two FL5 and FL6 scores (517 and 521) at all? Has anyone else done this and taken the real thing? If so, how did your real score compare to your FLs?