r/Mcat

without taking the classes, how would u learn all the concepts for free?

My eyes hurt, they feel dry and I don’t really care too much now but would like to avoid for test day! Is one day of not looking into a screen enough?

Anyone else experience this issue? Probably doesn’t help that I’m staring into a screen all day.

Testing 9/3, want to take a uworld FL and do more uworld questions m, when should I start switching to Aamc?

I’m literally at the point to where if I don’t get a decent score this first time around, I’ll just retake in January. I’ve been studying for 6 months while working full time and I’m exhausted.

Hi guys! I test on August 22nd. I took my first AAMC Unscored Full-Length and scored around a 485.
I did the worst in Psych/Soc (18/59) and the best in CARS (33/53). I also missed about 11 questions in Chem/Phys because I ran out of time.
I wanted to ask if it’s realistic to reach a 508–510 by test day if I: Take about one full-length exam each week
Complete the AAMC Section Banks and Question Packs in between, Start doing Anki every day (I’ve never used Anki before)
Do you think a 508–510 is achievable?

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I genuinely thought I did worse on this section this time srdkgnhrsokhgnsoeig (for reference I went from 123 on FL1 to 129 now)

My science sections are at least solid though thank god

I started studying in April. not sure how effective it was. I took my first FL about a month ago but I was so anxious that i just blew through it without much thinking. practically guessed. got a 481. i continued studying after but didn’t take another FL because i didn’t want to feel stumped like how i did the first time. now my exam is basically 5 days away. i don’t know if it’s the nervousness or what, but i feel like i haven’t learned anything. these last few days ive tried to just focus on high yield things but im in such a state of sheer panic that i can’t focus nor retain anything. i am not naturally a good test taker. i need at least a 500. any advice is appreciated!

Title. Took the mcat on 6/13 and scared as hell to get that score back next Tuesday. Chem/Phys was the hardest thing I've ever encountered but felt good about everything else. Idk I hope I'm overthinking it, but now that it's creeping up I'm getting nervous. Anyone else feel the same way?

EDIT: Grammatical and spelling errors.

I’ve taken 5 Blueprint tests (4 FL and 1 HL) so far and I’m trying to get a realistic idea of where I might be at on AAMC.

FL	C/P	B/B	CARS	P/S	Total
HL Diag.	128	128	125	131	512
1	129	129	125	128	511
2	129	128	124	130	511
3	129	128	127	129	513
4	129	129	125	130	513

For people who took Blueprint and then AAMC FLs, how did your scores compare by section?

I'm aware CARS may not exactly map so I got a 77% CARS diagnostic and 80% correct on UWorld. Both were done timed and testing conditions.

I'm shooting for a 522+ on August 21st but at this point I feel kind of stagnant and defeated.

Just took my second FL( AAMC FL2), after 3 months of studying. Scored a 493, from a 490(Diagnostic score). Here’s my score breakdown: C/P:125 CARS: 121 B/B: 124 P/S: 123. My test date is August 21st. What should I be doing to bring my score up? For the past 3 weeks, have been doing Uwhirl(50 questions/day, but reviewing 10 question a day). Have also been doing Pankow Anki, and a Anki set I’ve created of missed concepts. And also how much time should I set apart to reviewing the FL? FYI I’m super slow at reviewing questions, like 10 questions takes me 3 hours 😭 Any advice is appreciated.

So basically I have been studying for my MCAT this summer and started in May 16 while also taking some summer classes that ended June 18 (probably a big mistake as this took a good amount of time away from studying). My baseline was a 493 and I spent most May and June doing content review. I just took my first full length yesterday and got railed with a 489. I don’t know how but it genuinely felt worse than my first attempt, I constantly ran out of time in every section except P/S. Additionally every section score went down except for P/S which only went up two points. I test August 20th and am really just kind of in limbo in how I should carry on studying. I have the Kaplan course and I’m now in the “application phase” where they have me applying what I learned previously, but I wonder if I should just focus from here on out just doing Anki , AAMC practice questions, and then practice exams. Also I plan to do the khan academy and 100 page document for P/S and finish that in hopefully like a week.

TL;DR: baseline was 493 and first full length was 489. Need advice on if I should just do Anki, AAMC practice questions and tests or stick to my Kaplan plan.

I use a spreadsheet but legit it took me like 6 hours to just go through chem and physics + cars alone 😭 idk if there’s a faster method or what.

What worked for u guys/was more efficient?