<p>i m a high school senior..verbal SAT quite not good..i took a practice test on MCAT and got a 5..i have 3 years to prepare for MCAT..
.how can i get a 12 by my sophomore year in college, if i start reading hard..???
the reason my verbal isnt that good is becuase i never read too many books...but now i come to realize..that getting a good score on VERBAL MCat is important...so really in urge to read like hell</p>
<p>so how should i improve my verbal score ??..<tips...reading newyorker..times..atlantic="" crossing...classical="" novels="" help="">???</tips...reading></p>
<p>i neeed advices..or is it even possible to go up from a 5 to 12 in jsut 3 years????</p>
<p>Why are kids worrying about this three years before they take the tests?! The kids I know - the country's most ambitious premeds - spend roughly two months studying for this thing.</p>
<p>You have no idea what the future will bring - whether you will even be premed in three years.</p>
<p>Worry about this later.</p>
<p>In the meanwhile, read lots of things. Not because it will help you on the MCAT, but because it's good for your academic career and education in general.</p>
<p>Magazines - no, not Maxim, think the New Yorker. Newspapers. Magazines which explain academic subjects to the public.</p>
<p>aaaaaah please understand why highschools seniors are already fearing this thing</p>
<p>if your older it may not be quite as clear to you but college admissions has become more and more ridiculous over the years. The schools i was a good match for with my standardized scores/GPA two years ago were reach schools this year, and i'm sure the same applies for practically all of the class of 2006. Med School admissions are extremely competative as it is and are only going to be more difficult when it comes time for us to apply.
Is it really too early to be preparing and ensuring everything goes well on what may be the most difficult and influential test we will ever take?</p>
<p>i'm in a similar boat as the original poster my verbal on the SAT was a pretty eh 640. I have no idea if that correlates with the MCAT's verbal, but i know I will need some work. Any advice would really be appreciated!</p>
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ahh...dont judge my english skills by what i wrote on my initial post... i just got in a habit of writing short , incomplete, fragmented sentences..(result of chatting..etc)...my SAT score writing essay was 10 .not quite good...but certainly better than what is assumed by u..so dont deragote my writing skills..simply askin for advices..not some crooked responses that answers nothing..(sorry if it may sound invective though)</p>
<p>anyways..back to improving VERBAL SCORES..how much do i read to improve it at such point??or is it even possible? m i passed the age of improvement since reading skills develop from an early age??</p>
<p>The thing that is bothering me is partly that you are being neurotic, but part of what is bothering me is that you are so dead-set on becoming a doctor that you are trying to use grossly excessive study habits to make up for what you seem to think is some kind of defiency in competence. You might actually be perfectly competent, but in that case you do not need to begin studying until months - not years, and not even a lot of months - before the MCAT.</p>
<p>The MCAT should take you between two and four months to prepare for. Two to four months. Either it will go acceptably with three months of intensive studying - in which case, congratulations - or it won't - which is fine! There are many, many rewarding careers out there. I must confess, I envy most of my friends! I wish I were going to law school; I wish I were going to business school; I wish I were a high school teacher; I wish I were a dentist; I wish I were a financial analyst; I wish I were helping a Senator run his campaign...</p>
<p>Can you promise your patients that you are a better doctor than the young person whose spot you took? To me, that has always been the ethical dilemma underlying my decision to become a premedical student. If you truly believe that you need three years to study for this exam while other students only need three months, then can you honestly tell your patients that you will be able to take better care of them?</p>
<p>I think we're concerned that too many young people are willing to do too many hypercompetitive things to get themselves into medical school. This hypercompetitiveness concerns me because it has the potential to mask serious flaws in candidates, does not breed good doctors, and is - frankly - unhealthy for young people.</p>
<p>PS: Dell, you may be a perfectly competent writer (although you do not just abbreviate, you actually mix up words and phrases, I think), but I have no idea what you are saying half the time on this board. A little tidyness in your posts would probably be a good habit to start building.</p>
<p>hmm ...well..the reason why i am so motivated on improving verbal score is because it is the easiest to..the average i say is like a 10...americans...i say ..have good reading skills...
one of my asian friends..improved his verbal in SAT from a 500 to 710..simply by reading classics..ended up with a 1530..and thus i was inspired such that i wanted to do the same...and its just that..all i want to do is read...read for pleasure..b/c if i take practice tests..it wouldnt help me...just he strategies i would be familar with..which will likely to be unhelpful since new passages show up eveytime...</p>
<p>anyways..the discussing therefore...leads to ...reading ...can it improve or not..lets leave behind the statements of giving someone else a chance...etc..</p>
<p>You might not ever be able to get a twelve, but that will be because it's a hard test and not because three YEARS is too short a timeframe. A 12 is what, 95th percentile? 95% of all testtakers don't get a twelve. It has nothing to do with how long they studied; it's just a tough curve.</p>
<p>dell2006, your too young to be worrying about MCATs.....end of story!</p>
<p>yes, certainly read, just for your own benefit, i hate people who do things for this or that test. Whats wrong with just reading for the hell of it, or reading just to improve your overall communication skills, which i agree do need alot of work. </p>
<p>Also, take things ONE STEP AT A TIME. What if you go to college and pull a 2.3 GPA? Your not going to med school with that GPA, so you would have wasted your time studying for MCATs for an excessive period of time.....**** happens! you cant plan this far ahead....life is full of baby steps....if you are too busy looking very far ahead, you will stumble on the rock that is right under your feet at the moment....which in this case is graduating HS, and going to a good college and then getting a good start in college. So stop asking questions about the MCAT. You arent even a premed yet!</p>
<p>Hey, bluedevil, I'm a proponent of the 2-month study plan for the MCAT. That's what I (and most reasonable people) did and it worked just fine. Best preparation is not to start freaking out about the MCAT 4 years ahead of time but rather to pay attention and do well in the premed classes at your college. I started at a 30 on my diagnostic and haven't looked back.</p>
<p>hey i agree with dell...
he needs to work hard to improve it here..i mean three years is seriously nothing..i know kids who starts studying for SAT in 4th grade</p>
<p>That's an impossible question to answer because people don't start studying during their senior year of high school. People don't start studying during their freshman year of college. It's impossible to translate a score three years later because nobody studies for three years!</p>
<p>If it turns out that you studied for three years and achieved an MCAT score of 30, you should reconsider your career goals - since your average premed studies for two months and gets a 30.</p>
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<p>Studying hard is one thing. Studying in such grossly excessive proportions that you are clearly trying to manipulate the system is another entirely.</p>
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<p>And what am I? I have no idea what you're asking...</p>