August 2006 MCAT

MCAT Discussion
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Here’s our thread! Anyone else started studying yet?

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pathdr2b,
I truly hope I won’t have to take Augus MCAT. But I really have not clue how I did. My plan is a follows:
10 weeks before August MCAT, which puts me at the beginning of June I’m going to start reviewing with ExamKrackers’10 weeks self-study guide. Hopefully a week after that, or at most 2, I should know the results of my April MCAT. If I’m not too satisfied I’m going to continue studying. If I think my score is fine I’m going to stop.
Kasia

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I don’t know what your schedule is like, but I did the 10 week EK study guide, and found out that I needed WAY more time than they suggested for most of the sections and problems.


You may want to give yourself some more leeway than exactly 10 weeks.

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Skeeter,


thank you for the suggestion.


But as I said before - I truly hope whatever I score will be enough for me not to have to retake it. Anyway, I don’t have time to start earlier, and hopefully if I have to take the test again, I’ll still remember a lot from my April studying, when I really put a lot of time into it. I’m taking full time summer classes and with my schedule I reallly cannot do more.


For now I’m waiting…

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Ah, I didn’t realize you’d already taken it. You’ll probably be fine.


Hopefully I won’t have to take the August administration either - I wish I didn’t have to wait so long to find out!

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Hi Skeeter,


I’m also doing EK, I started my 10-week course a couple of weeks ago. Did you already take the April MCAT? If so, did you feel that EK was sufficient preparation? So far it seems to be a very “focused” review course, not putting alot into extra details. Any thoughts, regrets, words of wisdom for those of us just starting the review?


Bea

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Bea,


I’m thinking about starting tomorrow. at least looking at that stuff. My April results will arrive 9 days from now…and hopefully they will be satisfactory enough so I don’t have to retake the test in August.


Any suggestions? Hmm - buy all the tests from AAMC and do these instead of EK tests…They are slightly different than the tests provided by the test-prep companies - at least EK and Kaplan.


Good luck.

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Thanks! That seems to be the one piece of advice every med student has given me…practice practice practice. One non-trad at Tulane actually said he didn’t “study” that much but did practice exams constantly. Right now I have 4 AAMC exams and one EK. Do you recommend more AAMCs? How many practice exams did you do?


Thanks again and I hope all goes well with your scores. Keep us informed!


Bea

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Bea,


I did 12 practice tests. 3 AAMC, 1 EK and 8 Kaplans. I found EK to be the hardest. Kaplan’s were the easiest…but I guess only for me! All the people in my Kaplan class thought that Kaplan tests were much harder than AAMC’s. I didn’t think so. Probably b/c I took more Kaplan’s tests and just got used to their way of asking things.


I know it sounds like I did a lot, but I didn’t get close to the score I wanted. I never scored 30 on neither of these tests. But when I did short tests at the end of the EK chapters I did great. So I certeinly knew my stuff. I really don’t know where my problem was and how to improve it. Well - 9 more days and I should have better idea what next.