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MCAT PRACTICE TEST PDF 2016 HOW TO
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The MCAT is a mind game–just gotta beat it. That way, by the time you’re halfway through, you feel a little bit calmer knowing that you have the last passage already done.

Not 100% necessary but do the last passage first! I read this somewhere on Reddit, but someone suggested you do the last passage first (works for the other sections too!), then go to #1.

I didn’t do this perfectly on my test day (re: nerves), but when I did remember to do this it helped me immensely This I took from the SDN guide–you will feel all sorts of anxiety and nerves on your test day, and spending the few seconds to breathe before each passage helps clear your mind.

Take a deep breath and count to 3 before each passage.

At some point I was probably spending around as much time or more time going over answers than doing problems, but as I got better and better at it, there were less I have to go over! It was definitely really frustrating at first, but as I got better (and the AAMC CARS qpack and FL’s are easier than some of the questions I was doing too-more about that later), I was spending less and less time, and reviewing the answers and understanding AAMC logic is a huge contributor to that.

MCAT PRACTICE TEST PDF 2016 HOW TO

I personally did not benefit that much from breaking down the question types (I didn’t retain much of the different question types and the strategies to navigate them), HOWEVER what I found MOST helpful from his guide was how to go over your answers. However, I highly recommend a look-see if you don’t know the resource, I feel like the guy had pretty good advice (though I think I’m giving fairly similar advice here), but if you’re someone who likes the different types of problems broken down, then it’s a good read. Because I only had 10 weeks, and only 6 left by the time I found the guide, I didn’t follow the whole 90-day plan.

That was the format that they had, and I felt like being able to do ~7 passagesĪround week 3 or 4, In comes Reddit and SDN, and I found the 90-day-guide to a good CARS score on SDN.

MCAT PRACTICE TEST PDF 2016 FULL

I’d do the full test in one sitting, timed, and I remember when Iįirst started, it was a struggle to finish the 7 passages in theĪllotted time of 1 hr (I did this because this was the “old MCAT” CARS, and This time I also started doing passages from EK (the old Verbal Reasoning I knew that it was taking too long, because around Paragraph (as they had suggested) and writing down bottom lines/main ideas was It wasn’t working out that well for me though, because taking notes on every I actually read their tips and tried to follow it (lol) I feel like So? What did I do?įor the 2 weeks or so, I actually used the Princeton ReviewĬARS book. That said, you can’t improve your score if you start practicing timed passages too late, and you can’t improve your score by reading gimmicky test prep company tips. If I can, you can too–most people start CARS practice way too late. Why am I telling you this? Here’s the thing: anyone can score a 130+ on CARS. I think by the end I did around 200-300 passages, all of the timed.Ĭoming into MCAT CARS, I knew I was gunna have to practice this section, hard, and honestly, I think I would’ve been happy with a 128, especially based on how hard Reddit hyped this section up. So, I knew that MCAT CARS is actually just a numbers game-it doesn’t matter how many “tips and tricks” the test prep companies throw at you, if you don’t do the passages, you’re not gunna do well. I remember studying for SAT reading and not doing as great as I wanted (I don’t even remember if I broke 700 for SAT reading lol), but actually, I knew it was because I didn’t do as many passages as I should have. I know this might be hard to believe now, but coming into the MCAT I knew CARS was going to be my “weak spot”.

FebruHow I got a 132 in CARS (10-week prep!) Some background: