Advice for Taking 9/9 MCAT!! Please help!!

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Hey guys,
I was really worried about not having improved that much since I started studying late June and was honestly thinking about putting the MCAT off until January. I just took the AAMC FL though and feel a little better about where I stand.

This has been my progress so far:

Kaplan FL2: 498 (126/126/122/123)
Kaplan FL3: 499 (123/125/125/126)
Kaplan FL4: 503 (127/126/125/125)
Kaplan FL6: 505 (126/125/126/128)
NS 2: 504 (Was also feeling really sick for this one, so I'm not sure) (127/124/126/127)
AAMC FL1: 510 (129/125/128/128)

I'm aiming for a 514 at least (I have a 3.75 GPA from a top tier undergrad). Do you guys think this is doable, given that my scores have been improving slowly? What should I be working on in these last couple of weeks? I know my CARS score is still low, and I'm really trying to improve that. What suggestions do you guys have?

Good luck to anybody writing soon!!

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Hey I just took my MCAT three weeks ago and the one I had was in no way representative of the Full Length's. Either one of them. Hammer hard the Psychology/Sociology terms. Know what they mean!! CARS is a wash. You are either good at it or not IMO. I wouldn't put anymore time in it past your practice tests. The MCAT I took has a lot of experimental passages in the B/B section. So, maybe practice trying to breakdown experimental graphs quickly?? Good Luck!
 
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Hey guys,
I was really worried about not having improved that much since I started studying late June and was honestly thinking about putting the MCAT off until January. I just took the AAMC FL though and feel a little better about where I stand.

This has been my progress so far:

Kaplan FL2: 498 (126/126/122/123)
Kaplan FL3: 499 (123/125/125/126)
Kaplan FL4: 503 (127/126/125/125)
Kaplan FL6: 505 (126/125/126/128)
NS 2: 504 (Was also feeling really sick for this one, so I'm not sure) (127/124/126/127)
AAMC FL1: 510 (129/125/128/128)

I'm aiming for a 514 at least (I have a 3.75 GPA from a top tier undergrad). Do you guys think this is doable, given that my scores have been improving slowly? What should I be working on in these last couple of weeks? I know my CARS score is still low, and I'm really trying to improve that. What suggestions do you guys have?

Good luck to anybody writing soon!!

My last AAMC FL was 510 and ten days later I scored a 514 on the real thing. The above poster is right, you're gonna see some stuff you're not familiar with, just the nature of the mcat.

In terms of CARS I would go back and reread all of the SB questions I'm assuming you've done. Just read a few passages each day and try to understand logically why each question is right, or perhaps even better, why the other options are wrong. I feel process of elimination is huge for CARS. Ultimately, again the other poster is right you have no idea what the CARS section is going to look like and will just have to keep your cool during it.

Hitting psych terms and physics forumlas IMO is the quickest way to get a score increase right before the real thing.

I would take AAMC fl2 on like sept 1 if I were you!
 
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Y'all are the best, thanks! I'm planning on taking AAMC 2 at the end of this month!
 
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