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Recent test takers: what low yield/niche topics did you wish you'd reviewed one more time?
My test is coming up and I'm trying to make sure I review everything one more time before the real deal
u/pondering_leopard — 2 days ago
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What percent did you get on the section banks and what score did you end up getting?
Curious and also scared because SBs have not been going nearly as well as I'd like but I know a lot of people say they're great practice and help increase scores
u/pondering_leopard — 22 days ago
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How to sleep-can't sleep from stress while studying
Anyone else experience this? For reference I am at the gym 5 days a week, waking up at 6am, taking melatonin at like 9:30pm and I genuinely cannot sleep. My brain does not turn off, and if I do fall asleep then I wake up in the middle of the night and I am up for 2-4 hours a night. This exam is genuinely ruining me I'm so stressed and idk if anyone has any sleep tips I've never experienced insomnia like this. This is also after pushing my exam back another 6 weeks which I feel has lifted a weight off my shoulders but evidently not.
I have also tried no screens 30 minutes before bed and still nada. I am exhausted during the day and then wide awake at night but I'm not productive at night (even tried that and that was worse than studying tired during the day for me). I don't know what to do or take, my bed is only for sleeping, the only thing I can maybe think of is moving my studying out of my room? Idk if that has helped anyone is making the study space also not their sleep space.
Also don't think anyone would suggest this but in case: I will not be taking edibles to sleep (multiple people have suggested that irl) bc I think that's a horrible dependency to fall into and I want to be at maximum mental sharpness for this exam.
u/pondering_leopard — 28 days ago
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Please advise (the only thing I can do is read)
Basically had a pretty significant drop from AAMC FL1 (125/128/126/129) to AAMC 2, with 10 more questions wrong in B/B. Every time I start to think I understand B/B I get rocked by a certain passages, and I do not know how to improve for the life of me. I have tried every method that everyone ever suggested and I cannot make sense of the passages, I get so caught up in everything, even when I draw out the pathways (also takes so long for me to draw/map it out in a way that makes sense). And before people ask, it's not even a content issue 80% of the time it's because I couldn't figure out the information in the passage and figure out the relationships or what a relationship then implied.
If anyone had a significant jump in a few weeks or a way that gave them a boost in B/B (or CP but I have more hope for B/B tbh) I would really appreciate it. I don't need a 132 in every section, I would just love to be around a 127-128 range.
If anyone who is also like me who struggles with the more sciency stuff has had improvements please give me your methods. I'm not sure where to go from here.
Side note-this is the lowest PS I've ever had lol (my diagnostic was a 126) but I think AAMC 2 is scaled weird?
Any and all advice to break down these science passages is appreciated since I can't find any method that I haven't tried.
u/pondering_leopard — 2 months ago
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What was your highest BP FL vs highest AAMC FL?
Or vs actual score. I’m not doing well with Blueprint full lengths and I’m about to switch to AAMC so would love to see something encouraging. I’ve heard it gets better?
u/pondering_leopard — 3 months ago