AAMC is fusing the CARS diagnostic, qpack1 and qpack2 into one big question bank. They're also adding new questions
how do we feel abt this? highkey cheesed ts didn't come out earlier
i'm 5/7, 7/7 and 3/7 on the first 3 passages of Qpack1.
ik everyone says these are ridiculously hard but oh my god.
i ended up being forced to do them untimed because each question takes me like 3 minutes and if I hold myself to a 10min/passage i'd have to guess the last 5 questions. i think i spent an average of 25 minutes for each passage.
for reference my CARS FL 1-3 have all been above 129. how do the qpacks compare to FL5/6?? am i just screwed?
i've done unscored + FLs1-3 and psych soc has consistently been my worst section. i hover around 128/129 and struggle to score above 130
anyone have strategies on how to get the last few points? I always manage to narrow it down to 2 options but it feels like so many questions have 2 equally probable answers.
I've watched all the Khan Academy videos, finished Pankow, and did all of UWorld PS
Is this a content issue or should I grind out the section banks and get used to AAMC logic? id do literally anything atp
narrowed it down to A and C. The correct answer is C but I picked A.
My reasoning for ruling out C was that it only shows the test has inter rater reliability (producing the same result regardless of who is measuring), and there's the issue of reliability not being the same as validity.
I thought A was correct because it was an example of convergent validity. It shows that two measures which should theoretically be related are related.
did i just overthink this one?
Was stuck between A and B.
I understood that [pRB] was involved in apoptosis activation and that cytochrome C would end up in the supernatant only if apoptosis occurred, but couldn't find anywhere in the passage mentioning the effects of having [pRB] = 0.
I thought that there could've been some alternate apoptosis activating pathway that leads to low levels of apoptosis without pRB and picked B as the less extreme option. (e.g. the graph with basal levels of pRB with like 5% apoptosis)
Did I just overcook this one or was there a detail I missed in the passage?
i'm going into 3rd year and this is my first application cycle.
my stats are my strong suit and my ECs are fairly weak (100 hrs of volunteering, ~100 hrs of tutoring university students, no clubs, no research)
is it even worth it to buy a lottery ticket to queens given that it's an EC heavy school?
i was feeling pretty confident and ended UWorld with a 90% in all sections under test-like conditions.
i started the qpacks which are apparently easier but every single passage feels so vague and the answer options are all roundabout.
am i just stupid?? i thought these were supposed to be easy
basically title. i saw what looked like a nymph (it was tiny and light brown) last week but wasn’t too sure. cleaned up everything and caulked up a bunch of gaps
just saw two fat ones tonight and one crawled under my fridge which i didn’t check thoroughly because it seemed really clean when i shined a flashlight from the bottom
i live in a condo and im canadian. is it 100% cooked? will i have to buy a new fridge?? sorry for the bad image quality
i'm not sure if i misunderstand regioselective, but i think of it as a reaction producing multiple constitutional isomers with a major/minor product
however, the answer key says that because multiple acetonides can form, the reaction is neither regioselective or stereoselective.
isn't a defining part of regioselectivity having two products that are constitutional isomers?
(image 2 for acetonide group the question provided)
An answer to a practice problem I was doing mentioned that salt dissolved in an aqueous solution increases the entropy by disrupting the ordered hydrogen bonds between water.
But looking to the hydrophobic effect, the addition of a hydrophobic solute decreases the entropy of water by making it too ordered.
Is there a way to qualitatively reason this difference out? Does it have to do with the polarity of salts? Or is it related to how hydrophobic molecules are generally larger than salts?
In the answer key to one of the practice problems I'm doing, it mentions that protons B&C and A&D are chemically equivalent.
I'm a bit confused, wouldn't the electronic environments be different due to not having a plane of symmetry through the molecule (the R group with an oxygen, ester, and amide), which would produce 4 separate NMR signals?
If there's diamagnetic anisotropy at work, wouldn't that cause protons ABCD to all be equivalent?
