![]() ![]() TLDR: Every single eanswer to CARS is right there in the passage, you just need to be really damn fast and discern intended meanings. I might be totally off base here, but advice on here often recommends to either come up with an algorithm to help (like quickly summarize each paragraph, highlight certain things, etc) but this really takes too long to reasonably answer all questions, and seem to be limited effectiveness. This might sound completely ridiculous, but I actually felt that English Lit AP exam books were good preparation for CARS. This is to me unfair to most science kids, who probably hated english in high school and were overjoyed when they went into STEM and never had to analyze shakespeare ever again. The long term advantage of this is that I basically feel I was prepared my whole life to quickly read a passage and discern relevant info. I originally wanted to major in english literature, but changed when I figured there wasnt money in it. Like, read Harry Potter 6 times when I was 12 kind of deal. ![]() For context, I've been a voracious reader my entire life. Its unfair because I honestly dont belive you can meaningfully improve on it, maybe go from like a 125 to a 127, but I'm totally convinced that aptitude at CARS is alot more predetermined. Don't pause practices, its totally unrepresentative of the exhaustion you'll feel in the real thing).ĬARS is unfair. Just use them to prepare for testing conditions (ie working for 8 hours straight, with breaks at the appropriate time. Basically, don't feel like crap just because you found practice exams by prep companies to be insanely difficult. For reference, the PR exams I did 2 weeks before the exam were both 507, and my AAMC exams were 517, 519, and 521, which roughly reflects a 522 final score. If you score a 504 when you want 510+, you'll feel anxious and go buy some more exams, which is how PR makes money. Why? Because they benefit from you getting a crappy practice exam score. Princeton Review deliberately makes their exams extremely difficult. Memorize a bunch of equations and basic theory behind them, and then move on, because 99% of princeton reviews physics content didnt end up on the exam.ĭon't trust any of the full length exams besides AAMC. Think of it like this: if you cant bring in a calculator, they cant ask long complicated mathey questions, which is what most prep books seem to aim to prepare you for. You really only need surface level knowledge of common physics questions. I studied for it partially using a book designed for SAT practice, and the difficulty level was honestly quite similar. Like, not just the names, what they actually imply. Jean Piaget's 4 stages, know the fuck out of those too. I studied princeton review, which honestly kind of glosses over that stuff, but it's the one thing that seems to most consistently be called upon in aamc practice tests and exams. All 20 of them, their charge, polarity, and type of side chain. If you look at any of this and say "This could never work, what a hack", thats fine too. This is all just stuff that (looking back) were some of the important info to allow me to succeed. I also wanna say that studying for the mcat isnt very generalizable, since I don't think any one strategy works for everyone. If I say anything I'm not allowed to say, I guess I'll get banned (who cares I got a 522). This rambles between overall advice about attitude and preparation to stuff about content that is "high yield". I felt like a douche giving advice on this site before I knew whether I did okay or not, but now that scores are in for August 10th and I'm tremendously happy with my 522 (130/131/131/130) here's a bunch of stuff I wish I'd known at the beginning. ![]()
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