u/Financial-Artist-884

I see a lot of people who took the exam and have a few regrets on their write-ups, I wouldn't say that my run was perfect but for anyone else that took the exam already, what is something you wished you knew before taking the exam? Mine would be that I shouldn't have waited so long to dive in my AAMC materials, I think I would've been more productive if I worked on it with bootcamp and other third-party resources.

What's currently your strongest and favorite section and why? Do you have tips for anyone struggling for that specific section?

I'll go first, mine would definitely be CARS. Reading is my favorite past-time activity so it's not that much of a strain to read passages back to back, although my tip would really be more mindful on how you read a passage. Take your time and not try to speed through it because you might miss an important detail and you'd end up having to re-read the entire thing again.

I officially got my scores back from the recent release: 516 (129/128/130/129) and I told myself I'd write up what my experience was through this entire thing. My baseline diagnostic score was a 503 and for the first few months of my prep, my scores were disappointing to say the least. II was drowning in text heavy explanations and I felt like I couldn't understand anything, and the content review felt so heavy I'd end up burnt out. I switched to bootcamp after seeing a few people talk about it and managed to snag a code at first to try it out.

The science sections were killing me during my early months, I used to think that I was just really bad at memorization, but turns out I had a hard time interpreting data and the passages under pressure, where bootcamp helped out tremendously with their visual video explanations with a high-scorer that taught me how to filter the background filler. And lastly, if I get confused about a certain passage, answer or explanation I can just go ahead and interrogate their on-page AI tool.

My biggest lesson here was to stop passive reading and stop spamming questions without analyzing your reasoning gaps!