Hey everyone,
So I took the July 2015 MCAT and did not do as well as I wanted to. The goal was to score 500+ but i scored a mere 492. This basically crushed me and I have yet to pick up any type of MCAT books since. My breakdown:
CP- 125
VR- 120 :/
BB- 124
PS- 123
So here I am halfway through my senior year of undergrad. I applied to a few med schools but my confidence is not too high so i'm obviously thinking about retaking either Jan 2016 (just so I can enjoy the rest of my senior year/ summer) or Spring/Summer 2016 (So I can have an ample amount of time to study).
The main problem is verbal. I scored decently on all of my verbal sections on the EK practice tests and even the AAMC FL (77%). I did put the least amount of prep into verbal though, only doing a passage each day (if that), and not even fully going over my answers like I should have. My goal is to score 125 in verbal the next time around and I feel that if I get better at verbal, my PS would naturally go up slightly as well because it felt like another version of the verbal section. I even recently picked up a book for pleasure (first time in YEARS) just to kinda get into a reading mode. I have EK 101 and im going to purchase the AAMC bundle soon, anything else worth getting to increase my score?
Does anyone have any tips/success stories as well? I would love to hear a living testimony.
So I took the July 2015 MCAT and did not do as well as I wanted to. The goal was to score 500+ but i scored a mere 492. This basically crushed me and I have yet to pick up any type of MCAT books since. My breakdown:
CP- 125
VR- 120 :/
BB- 124
PS- 123
So here I am halfway through my senior year of undergrad. I applied to a few med schools but my confidence is not too high so i'm obviously thinking about retaking either Jan 2016 (just so I can enjoy the rest of my senior year/ summer) or Spring/Summer 2016 (So I can have an ample amount of time to study).
The main problem is verbal. I scored decently on all of my verbal sections on the EK practice tests and even the AAMC FL (77%). I did put the least amount of prep into verbal though, only doing a passage each day (if that), and not even fully going over my answers like I should have. My goal is to score 125 in verbal the next time around and I feel that if I get better at verbal, my PS would naturally go up slightly as well because it felt like another version of the verbal section. I even recently picked up a book for pleasure (first time in YEARS) just to kinda get into a reading mode. I have EK 101 and im going to purchase the AAMC bundle soon, anything else worth getting to increase my score?
Does anyone have any tips/success stories as well? I would love to hear a living testimony.