The ups and downs of studying

These last few weeks have been up and down in terms of the my MCAT practice test scores. Since my last blog post I was getting around 30's for my tests, however this last week my scores have dropped to pre-studying days. I dont know what I am doing wrong it seems like everything has flipped. On my most recent test I recieved

• BS 6
• VS 7
• PS 9

In terms of physics I have been doing so much better but I feel that I have spent so much time focusing on it that the other ones have suffered. This does not feel good and makes my extremely nervous since I have roughly 18 days to figure out my life and do the best possible on the real test. If you have expierenced this please let me know how you handle the dissapointment and tips of how to get passed it.

So continue the MCAT blues.

MCAT Test Prep Materials

Glad to finally be back to a normal schedule. There was hardly any legitiment MCAT studying going on this holiday weekend. However I did manage to squeeze in a practice test on Saturday. Overall I am ok with my results.

• PS: 7
• VR: 10
• BS: 7
• Overall: 24

Although I did drop two points in the BS, much of the drop was due to the fact that I didnt remember embryogenisis and the other missed questions were on topics that I have not reviewed yet. So I am confident that my score will go back up. I am extremely happy with the verbal reasoning score. Hopefully it only goes up from here. PS is not amazing but I think I simply need more practice.

In my last post I talked about ordering ExamKrackers 1001 questions in physics. I thought it would be here by now however, I didnt realize that I ordered the book from England and it would take roughly 14 days for it got get here. That sucks but oh well. But in the mean time I still need to finish reviewing Biology and Organic Chemistry. I am not too worried about Organic Chemistry because apparently I remember enough to do fairly well on those questions.

What materials have I been using to prep?

• ExamKrackers verbal reasoning 
• Since using this book, I have seen my score orginally go from 5 to a 10. I tried Kaplan's practice of the section but I thought their's was done very poorly and I didnt feel like I was learning anything.
• Kaplan Subject Review
• I have the subject review for Kindle however I could not find a link for them on Amazon. I got the reviews for free when Kaplan released them for Kindle and Nook. I like them because they keep me awake because its like someone is trying to explain something and they are trying hard to be funny. However I dislike them because there noticeable grammar and spelling mistakes. I dont know if this is only a problem with the digital version or not but it is a pet peeve of mine. These books are not cheap and the least they could do is make  sure they dont have simple editing mistakes. (yes, I know that you will find plenty of grammar and spelling mistakes in this blog but I dont make millions of dollars for a fancy editor)
• ExamKrackers 101 passages Verbal Reasoning
• Great book just to practice. A recent med school student told me when she was studying she would do a few passages every day to keep in the mind set and this became her strong subject. I have noticed that I do better when I am practicing everyday. 
• ExamKrackers 1001 physics questions
• I haven't received this one yet but I will let you know as soon as I get it. 

Overall I am seeing improvement, but with only 35 days left before the big day. I feel like I should be a further along than I am. I want to finish all my review in the next week so that I can simply do lots of practice questions. Lets hope this pans out. 

On a side note today I did win MCAT test prep materials from Bench Prep. I have not really gone through it but it seems like they have a nice mix of questions that I am excited to go through. 

I know there is so much more I want to talk about but I have this big feeling that I need to go study so I am off. Good luck with all your studying!!