<p>Also, she was glad that she opted for the 2PM sitting. She was there by 1:00 and was probably the fifth one to arrive!</p>
<p>Like the example I just mentioned: You really do not know whether you will get a 33 or 37 until the scores roll in. Thanks!</p>
<p>I didn’t know how well I did until I received my score - wouldn’t it be impossible to do so? I felt somewhat confident, but so did Custer.</p>
<p>There were a few things on my mind.</p>
<p>1) I thought I’d done well, but to me, “well” meant “not having to take it again,” and that meant anything from a 30 to a 39+. We all say that a 30+ is good, but there’s a universe of difference between a 30-31 and a 36+.</p>
<p>2) The whole test-taking experience felt just like another 8am practice session at my local Kaplan center. I went into the exam thinking that I’d feel something “real,” but it was so hum-drum that I was worried I might have screwed something up. </p>
<p>On a humorous note, I took the test at the NYU site (this was back when the test was still offered on paper). On the day of the test, I got to my assigned room and groaned. I was going to take the test in the lecture hall where my p-chem class was held! I couldn’t help but laugh a little.</p>
<p>Shades: Maybe that “familiarity” with the lecture hall gave you good luck!</p>
<p>I agree with shade. Once you it 36+ you are really chugging. While a 39+ might get you more merit scholarship offers, a 36+ is going to get you interviews pretty much everywhere (assuming good GPA).</p>
<p>I walked out of the test thinking I did really well. By that night, I had convinced myself that I skipped a verbal passage. My expectations for my score steadily dropped as time went on.</p>
<p>(I ended up scoring exactly as I had first predicted, both breakdown and total score).</p>
<p>JUST DON’T THINK ABOUT IT. What’s done is done, and for the next thirty days you need to find a way to distract yourself from even remembering it. It’s hard, for a week all I could wonder about was how I had done. But somehow I managed to completely forget about it… until a few days before my score was to be released, as someone asked me if I’d found out yet. But those 2.5 weeks where it was out of my mind were great. Focus on classes, watch a ton of football, play tennis, hit up the bars. Just don’t think about it!</p>
<p>^ Definitely best advice I’ve heard. I thought was gonna be able to easily forget too, and what you said about you walking out thinking you did well and then progressively thinking you did worse is exactly what I’m feeling (minus the skipping a verbal passage bit haha). i’m trying to forget - problem is i don’t go back to school for another 2.5 weeks and most people i know went back this weekend, so i’m basically stuck on my couch watching reruns of the office on my laptop and surfing the internet. however, i’m gonna pass the time by at least continuing to go to the gym (gotta build the muscle and burn the fat - and it’s a great stress reliever) and continue my clinical research. not as fun as tennis and bars, but it’s something till i’m back at school :P</p>
<p>When my son left the exam he thought he had done miserably; this after scoring well on practice exams. He literally thought he had bombed it. His test session was the first of the new format in 2007 so no one knew exactly what to expect.</p>
<p>He was pleasantly surprised when he got his score which was in the 99+ percentile.</p>
<p>For now all you can do is try to not get yourself worked up about it and wait to see how the curve shakes out. Good luck!</p>
<p>“Is it the physics portion or the general chemistry portion that surprised her?”</p>
<p>Mcat2: She says she honestly doesn’t remember at this point. I think she wants to put it all behind her until her score comes in.</p>
<p>Thanks, twinmom.</p>
<p>one quick thing - i actually don’t think that the mcat makers are that careful about writing their questions. this wasn’t actually an ambiguity thing, and i know for a fact i got this one question right - because it was a question that was taken word for word from an aamc practice test! same question, same numbers, same answer choices and listed in the same order. kind of unfair if you didn’t pay for that test if you ask me, and careless on their part if you ask me. i mean, it was the EXACT same question! of course, i was happy when i saw it on there, but after taking the test, it’s easy to realize that it really was inherently an unfair question due to the clear bias towards those who paid aamc for that particular test.</p>
<p>It’s one question. One question is not going to significantly affect your score. Sure, one question, in theory, might mean the difference between a 41 and a 42, but are you really going to quibble about a 41 versus 42? Just let it go. This is not worth getting upset about.</p>
<p>For the record, I didn’t take any AAMC practice tests and did just fine.</p>
<p>oh, it’s not that the question was bad - i know i definitely got it, because it took 1 second to look at it and know that i’d seen it before. i’m just annoyed that it can still affect other people’s scores who didn’t take it, and i’d guess with some statistical significance. i just hate that type of bias.</p>
<p>Stats tip for med school: Statistical significance is important only when combined with “clinical significance.” With a very large sample size, you can detect even very minuscule differences – say that aspirin relieves pain in 0.01% more patients. With a large enough sample size, you could get that p-value down pretty low.</p>
<p>But if the difference is one-ten-thousandth, then even if you’re sure it’s a TRUE effect, it doesn’t make it a MEANINGFUL one.</p>
<p>Just got my MCAT score</p>
<p>37S</p>
<p>PS: 13
VR: 11
BS: 13</p>
<p>I’m really really happy now!!!</p>
<p>Congratulations, Waffle!</p>
<p>Beast it up, haha.</p>
<p>Are the AAMC practice tests offered both in paper and computer form? It would make more sense to take them in the computer form to get as close to the actual testing environment as you can.</p>
<p>They are available in formats. At least, they used to be. If not, they will definitely be available in the online form.</p>
<p>Hi CC Friends, BDM, Shades, BRM, MiamiDP, Curm, and all,</p>
<p>Just learned that my DS got a 38Q in the August 14th MCATs.</p>
<p>Phew! One more milestone is over. He had told me that he was going to take it once and that was it!</p>