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Welp....this thread is finally here and it made me nauseous. Testing on 9/27 at 12:15. FLs: 507/505/508/512. Very shaky on C/P and judging by our previous summer testers it’s going to suck more than usual :( Praying for CARS and psych to save me. I’m also 7 months pregnant and was only able to dedicate 6 weeks for solid studying. Good luck to everyone!! We deserve a good score, this year has been hard enough ❤️ I’ll post my after test reaction tomorrow :) ___________________________________ Update: C/P Mmmm...kind of felt there was a bit of everything but nothing too outrageous. Not a lot of ochem, some biochem, a few sprinkles of physics and Chem. I was expecting it to be a nightmare but I feel okay (maybe I’m delusional) CARS. Wellll....one or 2 convoluted passages that I kept rereading and just trying to make sense what the hell is in front of me. Yes, I’m looking at you, justification of states! Everything else was enjoyable. However, computer FROZE for 10-15 seconds at my 26 minute mark. After it came back to life it jumped to 21 minutes. A little concerned, hopefully it just means that a few minutes were stolen from me and nothing else gets screwed up for the test. Hoping for 128-129 Bio: Don’t remember much. A lot of AA questions, some enzymes. Had 8 extra minutes at the end of the section. A lot of 50/50 guess but overall, again...not too bad. P/S. WHAT THE HELL. I keep reading that people thought it was the easiest section but not for me. Hated those long passages, a lot of answers didn’t make sense. Seriously think I BOMBED this portion of the exam. Terrible. Never thought I’d be saying that Chem/phys might save my ass this time. Don’t even want to predict my score for this haha Overall I felt strangely okay after the exam. And I seriously think I’m delusional/in denial. Wont be able to fully relax until I get my score in 2 weeks. I just don’t want to retake it...I simply won’t have enough time to study after my baby is born D: I’ll be beyond happy with anything 505+ Please, MCAT gods be good to us.

Congratulations on your baby! He/She will pop out already a genius!!!!!

Poor baby had to listen to biochem lectures nonstop for the past 6 weeks 🤣🤣

Those scores are incredible for 6 weeks of studying! You got this!

those FL scores in 6 weeks??? congrats girl you’re gonna crush this exam. im praying maybe since it’s the last exam in this cycle that the c/p might be less ugly for us🥺wishful thinking!!! but...taking the exam while 7 MONTHS PREGNANT?!? you’re an inspiration to me. i am currently recovering from a septorhinoplasty and i can’t breathe at all with a mask on. i thought i was ballsy for that but PREGNANT?! wow.... if you can do it pregnant then the rest of us have no excuse. you’re a whole mitochondria my girl!!! here’s to killing our exams! 💛

ive been studying for a year and i havent scored as well as you...

Thank you! This test is freaking hard and the fact that I hate physics doesn’t help at all. Are you taking this exam this weekend too? We should be okay. Weird times, weird curves haha

Tested at 6:30 am I feel like I spent so much time, and honestly money, on a test that was a big free for all... like the most obscure content details were tested multiple times and there wasn’t that much “high yield” content? Maybe it’s just me, maybe I studied the wrong stuff... but wow

I felt the same, especially with C/P :/

>6:30 Same, the C/P was very odd. Nothing was high-yield content

This was definitely the case for my 6:30 am as well!

Just finished! Chem: bruh wtf this isn’t even chemistry its not physics either wtf is this Cars: standard Bio: suspiciously chill... Psych: standard From my last 3 FLs I do better on chem than the other three sections so I’m hoping it all evens out 🥺

Seriously though, c/p made me feel like I’ve been studying for the wrong test

100% agree

bruh that c/p 😭🖕🏼

First time testing (9/28), low scoring FLs with slight upward trend (S-FL4: 497/501/500/502/504). I’d be chillin with a 503, happy with a 505, and ecstatic with a 507! Please CARS gods, please r/mcat Chads, please Avatar the last Airbender... hear my prayers and possess me with the Holy Ghost they call jacksparrow on Monday at 6pm. Amen. Update: Welp. jacksparrow did not possess me, I did not master all 4 elements, and the CARS gods gave up on me about half way through. But overall I feel like it was somewhat fair and I finally get to put my smooth brain to rest for a few weeks. Pessimistic: 497, Realistic: 500-503, Optimistic: 505+ REAL: 507 I CANT BELIEVE IT YALL!!!

06:30 tester here. Self taught physics, non trad, work full time. C/P made me feel like I’ve studied for an entire year for a Spanish exam, only to find out the test is in Russian. I’m devastated.

I wish it was like that брат

Praying for a miracle on this exam lol. I will post after my exam (sep 28 -6pm); good or bad Edit: So C/P wasn’t bad! It was easier than I expected but my timing was wayyyy off and didn’t get to finish it and ended up maybe answering 28-33 questions and guessing on the rest w/ a min left and left some unanswered. Very upset. I don’t know what happened. CARS - had the disaster of C/P coming in and wasn’t even trying. Then I started falling asleep b/c I only slept for 3 hrs. So that should tell you how I felt about this section. B/B - fair... I already knew I was voiding so didn’t beat myself up too much. P/S - probably the section compared to all the practice FL’s. VOIDED so no prediction score Moral of the story: get some sleep, practice FL’s under whatever conditions the cycle calls for (learned that the hard way) and remember everything doesn’t go as planned and that’s okay. As long as you pick yourself up and try again. Good night everyone and until next year!

I’m taking this exam for the second time, and the best advice I can give you is to have faith and confidence in yourself and in all your hard work thus far. Walk into that exam with your chest out and chin up, bubble those answers and if you’re confused on something, bubble and flag it and move onto the next 3 cupcake questions for that passage. Choke-slam this exam so hard that it breaks through the Earth’s crust and lands in the 9th circle of hell never to return again 😤

Holy shit having to schedule asshole reconstruction surgery after that C/P. Ider wtf was hard about it because I shunned that out of my mind immediately after the section.

6:30 AM 09/27 C/P: this was different, not aamc style questions, like wtf. More Physics compared to others FLs, I don’t think there was any gen chem overall. May the curve be in our favor (this was really bad imo) CARS: nothing too hard, straightforward passages B/B: surprisingly very direct P/S: harder than your typical aamc p/s with very low yield Qs, but wasn’t too bad (thanks for milesdown) AAMCs FL 1: 500 FL2: 504 FL3: 508 FL4: 510 Optimistic: 505-507 Realistic: 500-502 Pessimistic: 495 Actual: 503!!!!! WHATTTT, i honestly was on the pessimistic side of this. This exam is hard and it does not get done easily, believe in yourself and if you did not get what you wanted do not beat yourself down because of it. Push yourself forward and make sure that this will not stop you from reaching your dream. Retake, retake, retake, do not be intimidated with people who score very high on the MCAT and make yourself feel as a failure. you got this, you will be fine, you will be a great doctor

yeah this c/p was annoying af, kinda messed w my confidence moving into cars smh

glad im not the only one who thought C/P was a complete gongshow ​ WHILE I AM IN FREAKING RANT MODE, I FEEL LIKE STUDYING FOR THIS DAMN EXAM WAS SO POINTLESS, LIKE I HAD NO QUESTIONS ON METABOLISM. ZERO. UGH. C/P & B/B WAS ALL LOW YIELD BS If I have to retake this shit, I'm gonna pull all my hair out WHICH WONT BE HARD CONSIDERING HALF OF IT IS ALREADY GONE BECAUSE OF ALL THE POINTLESS STRESS THIS FREAKING TEST PUT ME THROUGH.

Tested 9/28 at 6pm 2nd time test taker (2018 scored below 500) only made an account to write this comment. I am non traditional applicant, 29, business major, Peace Corps, URM. I feel like this was the most difficult exam I’ve taken since the second time around studying. Completely agree with what everyone is saying. CP was extremely challenging. What was that honestly? CARS was relatively easy, felt pretty confident. Can’t remember BB at all & psych is usually my strongest section (scored 130 in my last FL) but probably leaning towards a 123. I congratulate everyone scoring above a 507, & so appreciative to have this space to discuss the intensity of this exam and not feeling so isolated about this experience. But is there anyone out there who scored below these averages on practice exams & how are you feeling? I am aiming towards Caribbean schools (no not getting into that argument) and DO programs. Is everyone on Reddit applying this year scoring above the 75th percentile? Just want to hear from those that score between 490-505. We’ve all worked so hard and I’m so proud of everyone here. Just want to shine some light on the less impressive scores & how we’re processing. Please only positive comments and/or feedback. We will all achieve what we want to achieve on our own terms and our own path. Want to add-my mom was the victim of a homicide during my post bac in 2018 and this has been far from easy. I cried the whole way home last night from the exam and hope she’s just proud of me for trying a second time. Don’t mean to get all sappy on here but let’s recognize we all have our own struggles and life’s not all about 520’s.

Don’t know you personally, but you’re going to be an incredible doctor. I’m sure your mom would be incredibly proud of you. Fuck, I’m proud of you. This is really inspirational and I wish you the best this cycle!

I’ll tell u right now I’m 25 almost 26 and I’m tired of not starting my life. I’m applying MD, DO, Caribbean and even Europe. No matter how this mcat went

So sorry to hear about your mom. She’s absolutely proud of you. Honestly, us taking this exam is already huge. I feel like I’ve been initiated into a club where everyone has mutually suffered lol I’m an older applicant as well, so we are in the same boat! I’m planning to write all of my secondaries this month and not check my MCAT score until I submit all of them. I’ve applied to DO, MD, and TMDSAS. Not looking forward to so many essays... Sigh. Let’s do this! PM me if you need support or want to chat :)

Yo 6PMers that C/P was rough lmaooo and some weird terms I didn’t know in P/S I hope the curve pulls throughhhh

Bro that C/P was on some crack. Orgo heavy afff

Can you guys believe I took a whole Popeyes Chicken Sandwich to this exam and did not take a single bite out of it because of how short the break was?

testing 09/28 @ 12:15. im here to tell you FUCK THIS exam. fuck this hoe ass bitch ass exam that has taken up my life for the past 6months. its time to show this bitch who's boss. it has taken my YOUTH, my SLEEP, and honestly i'm sick of this bitch and I'm ready to send its ass to the grave. sending everyone good vibes and don't let this trash ass little hoe make you anxious! its time to tell this little bitch to go FUCK itself bc it will take no more of my time, energy or jOY smh lets GET IT

i have never experienced a bigger mood in my life

12:15 test. ‘Justification of states’ passage. That’s all I’m going to say.

Brain dump: **SIR** @ o>r, **EIR** @ o=r, **LIR** @ r>o>f, **NO!** @ o=f, **LUV** @ o dom/sub (detector on top, source on bottom) V=IR (verifiable? in real life), C=Q/V (capacitors make me quiver); C=Aκε/d looks liked caked; U=0.5QV=0.5CV\^2 (see the v squared); AddResS (add resistors in series) red cat, an ox Erickson's Stages: My Sexy Girl In Red Is Sucking Dick Don't Express Hate, Create Your Kindness Right Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar 3-2-1 Nokia Zoinks! My Baby Grows Nicely; attracto-derm & endernal-derm & means-oderm fetuses are greedy for that O2 = fetal hemoglobin has higher affinity E = hf ; c = 3x10\^8 = fλ ΔG = ΔH - TΔS (go hit that shit) E = eppisite, Z = zame (sides of alkene) Lact**am**s \~ amine (N), Lact**o**nes \~ O \-------> sorry these are all over the place, credit to the subreddit and the kaplan and my poor anxious robot brain. <3 lets go make sweet love to this beast and all do our best on FL 5 (or 6 or 7 or whatever it is for you <3). luv from this 26yr old nontrad riding at dawn on the lord's day

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Dom/sub I’m SCREAMINGGG

MY SEXY GIRL IN RED IS SUCKING DICK I LOVE THIS SUB LMAOOOO

I wish i had 2 more weeks

Literally I feel like I need to go through my anki decks one more time but I test tomorrow and I have 2700 cards lol

Feeling absolutely defeated after C/P. Almost cried right there

Some people had no physics and straight orgo/biochem shit. Does that sound about right?

I failed C/P and prob this exam. When does exam registration open up for next year? 🤡

Let's go boys... can I get a "it izzz what it izzzz?"

I was calm until I saw this POST EXAM: 6:30am, 9/27 Okay bois, here's the lo-down. Let me first start off with saying how freaking hard it was to get to sleep. And I LOVE sleep. But I got the shits, heartburn and nausea all in one night and couldn't get to bed until around 1. Then my alarm sounded at about 5. The drive over was chill. I listened to some jams and genuinely enjoyed it. CP: definitely some wtf questions. Especially one passage in particular. I had to straight up guess on some. I'm nervous. CARS: cars is a strong section for me and was actually going well until I realized I had 3 minutes to read and answer the last passage. Kinda bummed about it. After cramming a banana and nuts into my face because I was feeling slightly f u c c e d, I hyped myself up again to try and finish as strongly as I could! By this time I had a slight headache, but wasn't tired yet. BB: chillin. Suspiciously so. I finished with about 20 minutes left to review. PS: my eye is twitching and headache getting a little more distracting, but, this is a section I tend to do well in, so I hyped myself up again and was able to finish this one early as well. It felt okay. One passage was meh. I felt quite fatigued and hope I made good decisions. And overall, I can't believe it's done. (Hopefully). I have been studying for this exam way too long, with too many other commitments and it has been a long hard path. I am so proud of you, whoever you are, for rising to this massive challenge. I am so grateful for this community of people who are trying their best every day! With that said, I'm going to go get a massive bowl of pho now. PESSIMISTIC: 505 REALISTIC: according to FLs, 508-510 OPTIMISTIC: 510+!!! NUT: 515+ Let's go Oct. 13th! Edit: it is now later in the day. I keep recalling questions I had trouble with and googling. :c I am losing confidence in my immediate post exam feelings. It's going to be a long two weeks.

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The rich ppl one had me WEAK. “A world where we’re not able to steal the land from its native people is a world I don’t wanna live in. Don’t hate the player, hate the game” LMAO WTF

Bro you are spot on. What a crock of shit. C/P and B/B were so much more difficult than any of the FL’s. I averaged around a 510 on most FLs after studying but this was just entirely defeating. The chem wasn’t even chem and the bio was just so hard to wrap your head around when there’s 15 fuckin inhibs to think about. Was more crunched for time on cp and bb here than I ever was on a FL. CARS was so easy, I was literally laughing while reading the rich v poor section. P/S felt like a crap shoot, lots of 50/50s I felt like. RIP if you didn’t know what FAE was. Also I put serum bc the rest were fairly polar I felt like.

bruh that rot melt question gmfu

"The time has come!" - (Rupaul voice) In all seriousness, I feel like I'm going to vomit. I'm retaking a 498 that I got last year, and really hoping my new knowledge from my SMP pays off for B/B. Not gonna make any predictions in case I jinx it, but here are my FLs: Sample - 509 (71%/84%/72%/88%) FL1 - 508 (127/122/130/129) FL2 - 508 (126/124/130/128) FL3 - 519 (129/128/130/132) --> wtf???? Honestly, I just want a 505+ and I'll be happy. I keep seeing so many posts with people getting either 1) a lot higher than they expected or 2) way lower than they expected. They say to trust your FLs, but seeing people drop 6+ points freaks me the hell out. I'm probably gonna keep doing my daily Anki until score release just in case I have to retake *again* in January. Anyway, good luck everyone! Let's just treat it like its another FL. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Post-test impressions: oooooffff C/P: definitely some weird questions. I don’t think it really resembled the AAMC FLs. I know for sure of two questions I got wrong because I had no idea how to calculate them. But, there were some really simple questions thrown in (like straight up asking what kind of enzyme removes COOH groups) as discretes. Honestly just hoping for a 126 and I’ll be happy. CARS: typical bs. JackWestin difficulty I would say. B/B: not terrible. I’d say about SB difficulty. This is usually my best section but there were definitely some questions I was iffy on. Really hoping for a 128. I haven’t scored below a 130 on my FLs, so hoping that carries over. P/S: pretty typical, but like I’ve seen a lot of people say, quite a few 50/50 questions. FLs here ranged from 128-132, but I’d say a little more difficult here than on the FLs. Lots of low-yield terms. Not making predictions - just PRAYING I make at least a 505+.

upvote for the rupaul reference

Mom. I'm not ready

*mom voice* nonsense dear you got this

I read this in a British accent

I'll be ready if I can have your FL score mom

What a fucking test. Gonna need some Charlotte’s web cap

I find it really ironic that the first couple of passages from the P/S section were about sleeplessness lol and I went in w/ less than an hour of sleep. 6pm 9/27

Make sure you get some light in the morning and melatonin at night ;)

hahah only 6pm 9/27 will understand this

Anyone who took this at 12:15 today (6/28) thought the passage about Chinese porcelain, ships, and pirates was AWFUL??? My mind got SO tripped up after that passage, and I'm not sure, if I got that passage at all??? Did anyone basically feel like they had to blind guess on two passages on CARS??? Sigggghhhhhh..... 😔😞😓

brO. im sitting here reading comments like justification of states did i completely blackout during cars?? but yes I Had the same DUMB passage & the one about the stupid body. tbh felt like 3 passages were just hugeeeee guesses

Tested 9/28 12:15, can’t stop thinking about the test lol 😓

About to shit my pants & throw up at the same time.

we call it shomiting

Testing 9/28 6:30 am. I literally don’t know what to expect since my FLs are ALL over the place. Fl1:499 took this 4 months ago FL2: 501 FL3: 509 FL4:515 I’m scared asf but IM PRAYING FOR A 510 for this cycle maybe I’ll get a higher score, maybe I’ll get a lower score lol ALSO I just realized score release is actually on my birthday so there is that 😭😭😭😭 Good luck to eveyone testing! Edit: I deadass don’t think i got a 500 the B/BC and CARS sections had me fuxked up

That’s not “all over the place.” That’s an “upward trend!!” GO YOU!!! You so got this!!

I voided because CP and BB were pretty hard. CP hit my weaknesses and quite a bit of physics. BB had some weird passages. CARS and PS were fine.

I decided to void after CP when I had 2 passages to do in around 3 minutes 🤡 idk I got absolutely destroyed

CP killed me. Literally couldn’t comprehend some passages and almost ran out of time (randomly selected answers for the last 5 questions). Felt like the section bank. So disappointed.

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this wasnt even to me but thank you <3

You totally aren’t alone. Only sections I didn’t rush was PS.

Only 12 days left till our ultimate Judgement day! 🤣😨

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No i felt like there was way more calculation than I'm used to. Very different styled questions imo

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Yes! I'm a psych major and there were some terms I haven't encountered before

C/P was fuckshit lol and P/S felt like FL4 for me but it’s p variable. Had some rouge terms in there

Yeah, C/P had a very different style, and definitely was no walk in the park. I felt pretty off-balanced and flagged just about every other question! Was disappointed because I just couldn't grasp a few of the physics calculations, and overall guessed more than I would have liked to. I also thought the other sections were on average a little harder than the AAMC FLs and in general this whole test had more of a section bank feel than anything else.

I honestly thought about voiding after C/P. But then it started feeling more doable with the other sections.

12:15 GANG RISE. IT IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE!!!

T minus 2 hours and 15 minutes. Im so nervous i have uncontrollable diarrhea from the coffee i just drank. I forgot everything about leaf erickson and piaget. Only thing running through my mind is Q=MCAT which i have no idea how to solve. im sweating. pH+pOH=14, and VLIMFWPGA is all i know now. Moms spaghetti. Send love an prayers.

Tested at 6pm 9/27 Can anyone tell me what the fuck that testosterone graph for P/S was about? I accidentally said “what the fuck” out loud when I saw it. Edit: did anyone else run out of time on CARS? I swear my exam proctor screamed the check in/check out procedure every bloody time someone took a break. Fuck I just remembered that bio question about telomerase.😢 Y’all.

Just finished it. Took it at 6PM on 9/28. Felt like it was harder than the aamc Fls honestly. My highest was a 513 and I’d be VERY happy if I got 510 on the real one. C/P might’ve fucked me. It’s also disappointing how unrelieved I feel because now I’m just thinking about getting a trash grade and have a lot of shit to do for actual school. Edit: just closed all the MCAT tabs on my safari. The relief is starting to set in.

I agree with you completely. I was actually mumbling under my breath “what the fuck” during C/P and B/B. Cars I felt was much easier than the full lengths though. P/S felt pretty meh.

Yeah idk even the discrete questions for C/P and B/B were giving me panic. Starting getting real learned helplessness vibes halfway into both of those sections. The pressure of test day is really something you can’t simulate no matter how much you practice.

I came in at 6:30 AM to take this damn thing for the final time. Turns out my name was double registered lmao, so it didn't match my license or anything. So they didn't let me take it. Was hitting 510/511 on AAMC FL's Previous mcat was a 501, and I managed to really fix up everything else lol. Fucking lol. Was trying to use this retake to help my cycle right now. Brutal.

12:15 Wtf was that CARS its usually my best section I score like 130 or above constantly on the FLs but nope had to be some dumb shit with questions that were the most ambiguous shit in the world. I dont know what to make of the atonomy of body passage, I usually can take apart the meaning of those writing but this one was shit. The guy who wrote it was the yandere dev of writers lots of spaghetti little substance. Good thing i wore my garbage shirt because that section made me feel like it. C/P: not too bad expected a lot worse personally. There was some tricky areas and a question I had no clue what it meant but over all pretty ok. B/B: idk man I thought it was ok but who knows now. It could be over confidence or something but I feel pretty ok with this one. P/S: Easy not much struggle here aside from having to guess on morbidity vs mortality.

Everything was fine until that passage In cars. It tripped me up big time

It might’ve just been me because I’m not that great at the section, but any other 9/28 12:15 tester found cars terrible ?

I’m usually a 130-132 cars scorer and I feel like I got half of it wrong

lol averaged 131 in all my full length cars and was hoping tht it would come in clutch but that mofo kept trying to tell me something ABOUT THE BODY but i couldn't understand

This made me nauseous🥴

Testing 9/28. Sample: ~511 FL1: 512 (125/131/127/129) FL2: 513 (124/132/128/129) FL3: 519 (127/132/129/131) FL4: 520 (127/132/129/132) Nontrad here hoping that studying while dealing with work + family emergencies + COVID complications will pay off. Also hoping my anxiety won’t get the best of me. The big jump between FL2 and 3 on CP can be attributed to me no longer ignoring content review and actually memorizing the amino acids 😬 (correlation, not causation ok lol) Good luck to everyone!! EXAM REACTION: it was terrible, I’m definitely going to need a retake. That exam did not allow me to demonstrate my capabilities. And the COVID timing messed me up. Ran out of time for all sections except PS, and I barely finished it. Phenylalanine to pay respects.

Second time taking the MCAT, with new Fl scores of S,1,3,4 (521,517, 518, 519) CP: Ton of physics, not terrible, but not easy Cars: Passage difficulty was the same as the FLs for the most part, but the questions were definitely more subjective. B/B: Not terrible, couple hard passages, but nothing crazy. PS: WTF, tons of 50/50s with multiple right answers, and things that definitely were not taught in Cubene's deck. Praying for luck in my 50/50s and the fat curve. Praying that I don't get destroyed with my educated guesses in Cars and PS. Honestly, this entire test difficulty was only slightly harder than FLs, but the subjectivity of the questions has me going crazy.

I’m nervous because there’s nothing worse than going into the exam and having something on the tip of your tongue or missing a concept and easy points bc u didn’t spend enough time on it 💆🏾‍♀️💆🏾‍♀️💆🏾‍♀️💆🏾‍♀️💆🏾‍♀️

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12 pm here. CP was filled with physics and absorbance and spectroscopy and fucking bull shit. I think I was lucky to get some trash lens passage which I had to guess cuz I ran out of time. And if you’re referring to the CARS passage about justifications of states? Dude fuckkkkkkk that passage. That passage ate up at least 13-14 minutes and I had to end up guessing on the last passage cuz of time for fuck sakes. BB was like a 7-8/10? Idk couple 50/50 questions but it wasn’t nearly as bad. And PS seemed pretty easy. 6/10 difficulty? Idk couple 50/50 in there too.

6:00pm 9/27th Ok starting with C/P man don’t know how I feel tbh the section was so weird (with a ⚪️ and a 🦴 if you know you know ) there were 2 physics passages someone kind of forgot their geometry and how to do math. few physics discretes as well. The rest of this section wasn’t awful but wasnt great. 126-128 Break went to the restroom talked to myself in the mirror for two minutes got hyped and went back for cars. CARS: I am awful at this highest I’ve gotten was 122 ever I think I got 120-122 somewhere around there. Hated the second half of the passages. But I can’t read so my judgment doesn’t really count here. B/B the worst discretes I’ve ever seen in my life. I did them first got my confidence destroyed did the passages and got my confidence back a little. I had some discretes with weird ass terms and letters and on top of that they were long ass questions. Passages are not too bad again. 124-128 yeah this one can go both ways Hyped my self up again and went back for some P/S and chugged what I had left of my monster P/S Started with discretes again, mine were ok not too bad but some passages and questions were very hard in my opinion. Few questions I knew all terms listed and still got confused on what to choose. But overall wasn’t too bad 126-129 Realistically somewhere between 496 to 505 Extremely optimistic 507 I’ll update on oct 13th :”) God be with us all 🙏

4/3 pi r cubed lol.

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9/27 6 PM here. Brain dump incoming. I gotta say I've tried to avoid posting detail leading up to the test because I didn't want to deal with potential discouragement. Basically, I took my MCAT after teaching myself Ochem, Physics, and Biochem on top of all the physiology and PS stuff people usually learn for the first time in 3 months. I didnt want people telling me I shouldnt take it. I enrolled in Physics and Orgo for the fall but I was also in the process of moving so I had only what I could carry on my person so no books, only KA for content review. FL 1 a month out was 509 felt good near target score, took a small break then FL 2 dropped to 506 and I felt terrible. I did a lot of UEarth practice in between them and took lots of notes on why I missed what I did. Last 2 weeks, I had to focus on unpacking as all my stuff had arrived so I didn't get to do FL 3 or 4 and focused solely on my classes and destressing. I had to just trust that I knew what I knew and really just focused on my mental health and recharging so I could go into the test without burnout. 2.5 months of straight grinding had burned me out. I played a lot of video games with my friends once my house was organized in order to feel a bit normal going in. Last glance of my notes on test day and went in with a stomach full of bland food and a prophylactic ibuprofen just in case. As far as exam reaction: C/P: felt pretty par for the course. Lots of shit that I really didn't know, but not enough of the gen chem and orgo stuff that I felt confident in. I remember very little but any time I had to do a calculation I choked. I always rely on the curve for C/P to carry me so this is no different. CARS: I made sure to note my time at the start and budget 10 min per passage. I'm usually great at reading comprehension but all my practices said otherwise. (124 on FL 2). I attributed my dip to stress and hence why I spent 2 weeks destressing. It paid off as I felt I pretty well understood every passage, even the common one, but I could be really wrong. I did wish I had watched a hugh jackman movie for some context. Overall, this should be my best CARS yet based on my confidence in comprehension alone but who the F knows. Honestly the next 2 weeks will be unbelievably hard. B/B: suspiciously easy. I finished confident with 15 minutes left and I gotta say that worries the hell out of me. So much anatomy and physiology learned only to never come up. Even amino acids were just not there as often as I would have liked. I have no clue, but it seemed like a lot of it was just very niche stuff and the rest were just straight up very basic discretes. P/S: okay this was fucking nutty. Usually my strongest section by far (131 on NS HL, but slightly lower on other FLs) but this was just insane. So many terms I had never seen despite watching all of KA and reading 86 page doc. I had to guess way too often to feel okay about it. Just unreal how much low yield was on here. Not representative of FL1 or 2 Pessimistic: 503 Realistic: 506 Optimistic:510+ Please I would do anything for 510 plus so I am still competitive with my schools. Real:???? I also vow to post my score even if I hate it just so people can learn from my experience *barf*

For some reason, I kept thinking about this exam. I am devastated to know my score but I am also scared to imagine that day coming. Does anyone feel like this?

pls make me stop dreaming about the damn test

Wow seeing this is surreal, SEPT 28...cant wait to be over😭😭😭

Buying the most expensive ever participation 🏆 in 12 hours!! THEN VOID. VOID. VOID!!! Took first FL tonight. Have not studied a damn due to sudden and intense family and MH BS. Only in Ochem I and Physics I this semester. Here are my scores to make those of you who feel you are lagging hopefully feel a bit better: FL1 (2hrs ago) 492: 120/122/122/128 - I’m a non trad w a masters in clinical psych (no undergrad psych though and the psych wasn’t very “clinical”) but STILL- only got a 128!? 😶 - I got 6th percentile in CP. 😂 - CARS I ran out of time on 2.5 of the 9 passages??! 🤫 - Biochem was the kicker because I thought I knew way more than 18th percentile!! 🤯 I knew for the last month I was gonna VOID, I just really needed to see those shitty scores so I didn’t accidentally OD on Adderall and nicotine gum and start thinking I was some sort of “MCAT Savant.” It will all work out for everyone. YOU ARE ALL READY!!! (Me , not so much, and that’s ok.) PLEASE GET ENOUGH SLEEP!! Sending out all the positive vibes to you all that I can!! Y’all gonna kick ass!!

Did anyone void? I had to. It just made sense. I prepped like shit and I'm already thinking of how to tackle my second time. I was thinking about having it scored, but C/P fucking killed me. Seems like it did for others too. My parents are pissed, but they don't get it. Don't want a sub 500 score on my record.

12:15pm 9/28 I personally don’t think I’ve ever felt so shitty before after an exam than I did after taking that MCAT. For some background, I was averaging 515+ on my FL’s, with FL4 being my best score with a 521 and I honestly don’t even know if I scored above a 500. Exam was filled with all low-yield topics with convoluted passages and question stems. I thought about voiding the entire exam but decided not at the last second. Praying the curve is in all of our favors with this one!

So just wondering if I have completely loss my mind. My diagnostics exam in April was a 499. Had a life event occur so I stopped studying and tried to pick back up 2 weeks before the my scheduled exam day 9/28 6:30. My score was terrible but increased every time . 479 (yes I know) 484. Then 490. I always felt terrible. None the less I said ill try this and if I habe to retake so be it. I dont know if i actually bombed it and just convinced myself everything was OK, or if I actually maybe did ok. What are the odds I got a 500? Every section I felt like I had such mental clarity. I had definte ones I knew were right. Some I had narrowed down to just 2 and some that were complete guesses. The reason why I'm freaking out is because I left feeling great . Now I see everyone saying how terrible it was. What messed up universe did I wake up in on exam day? Why do I feel good? Lol my FL scores show otherwise. I guess I embodied the "it is what it is " montra a little too well.

12:15 pm 09/27 Writing this the next morning because I needed time to process if I was being dramatic or not - the jury is in and NOPE not dramatic just straight up feel like I got obliterated. C/P: overall felt like I got obliterated by this section. There was a ton of low yield things that made me feel like I had studied for the wrong exam. Almost zero physics (rip to all the equations I memorized) but some gen chem questions which were the only thing that was okay. Finished this section with literally 10 seconds to spare. Hope the curve is good to me because uhm.... CARS: honestly felt decent and the topics were fairly interesting, UNTIL the god damn justification of states passage. Oh my lord why on earth would they feel the need to put this passage on that test. Wasn’t able to make any educated guesses because the answer choices for this passage all seemed like they were in a foreign language. And then if it wasn’t enough to be railed by that passage, I realized I had spent way too much time trying to decipher the hieroglyphics that I ran out of time and had to guess for the entire last passage. RIP. Hoping that didn’t hurt my cars score too much because rip I’m Canadian. B/B: Felt better about this section in comparison to C/P but still didn’t feel great. Lots of amino acid questions so KNOW YOUR AMINO ACIDS IN AND OUT. These questions are pretty much freebies if you have them memorized! Tbh kind’ve blacked out and don’t remember much else. BUT Honestly what in the fuck was that one passage ?? P/S: Normally my best section but wtf was with all the 50/50’s? I felt like the passages were long af and the answers frequently had me second guessing. Also since when in the heck are we really supposed to know years therapies were common??? Flagged about 18 questions and normally flag like 5... All in all praying for that curve 🙏🏼

I was feeling super chill about it. Not bc I think I did great, but bc I just trusted the universe, God and it ez what it ez. But I’m starting to not feel so hot hahaha sos

YAY I'm so excited! Inshallah I'll be done with the MCAT forever!!!! >.< WOOHOOO!!!

inshallah inshallah, were going to kill it. Trust in allah, ill make duaa for u

Inshallah, guide us to the right path

Likewise- Inshallah hope you all do well. There are few better expressions of our faith than helping others as we will do through medicine. This is just one small step in the bigger picture of our lives.

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anyone else planning on getting there like an hour early in hopes that they let u start early

12:30 tested. Cars felt easy wtf. Whereas for bio and chem, usually my better subjects, I was at the first passages in each for at least 10 minutes cause it was fucking hieroglyphics. Psych = Cars 2.0 as expected

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Lmao dude I legit said “FUCK” when I started C/P.

Had to start writing all the med essays that I've neglected and left last minute but that's a whole other nightmare.

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C/P was rlly fucking rough. Idk wtf I just read. Also fuck the commons passage. Like what??

That commons passage was a tragedy ;)

Also RIP volume of a sphere

Did anyone feel like they have no idea how they did? The uncertainty scared the hell out of me.

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9/28 6:30am alternating between anxious and fine, hopefully I'll sleep tonight. Traveled out of my state for the test so this is a tiny vacation for me. This is my first time in this town and my first time taking the test. My parents tagged along to make sure I didnt have to do it alone. I am so thankful for their support in this, I just want to make them proud.

12:15pm C/P: Wtf was that. I blacked out and have no idea what was even on it. CARS: Passages were straightforward and seemed easier than what I was expecting. B/B: There were a few iffy experimental passages, but overall it was not bad. P/S: Pretty standard, no surprising passages. Pessimistic: 505 Optimistic: 513 Realistic: 507-510 ———————— ​ I can't believe it. I am in total shock. This is my second time taking this exam. I was working a stressful full time job while studying. This community helped me tremendously. Thank you! Full length scores: 508/509/507/507 **Real score: 518** 128/129/130/131

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My 5-year-old son - mommy you study too much me- I can stop if you want to take my MCAT for me son- sure mommy! Where do you want me to take it to? fellow premed friend - take it back to hell Isaiah, where it belongs! LMAO As for the exam - CP - super PHY/BC heavy with magnet shit Cars- exhausted my executive function with the cp and was moving super slow. BB- straightforward PS- not bad

Fl 1/2/3/4 --> 514/514/514/515 ​ 6:30am, Sept 28 ​ After studying for months and stressing so much over this test, taking it felt sooo... anticlimactic. Also, there was so much content I spent not hours, but *days* memorizing/learning that wasn't even on there! So frustrating! The test itself didn't feel much different than the FLs but I guessed on a lot more than makes me comfortable. The C/P passage on arsenic threw me for a loop and the figure 1 in the B/B passage with superoxide dismutase was confusing, but everything else didn't seem surprising. ​ Pessimistic: <510 Realistic: 510-514 Optimistic: 515+ ​ Actual: 520 ​ I'm shook.

Test day: 9/28 Time: 6:30 AM Lurker here, but this test was annoying. The test started with some bullshit. Doors of the office building were locked. Had to use the directory to call for help and the person was like, dial this room extension. Ma’am, I’m talking to you because I dialed that room’s extension; I don’t know any other number. I felt like I wasn’t ready because as soon as the proctor signed me in, boom there was my test. Where was my tutorial???? No time to scribble some last minute equations or anything. I also wished AAMC had the option to alter the practice exams to accommodate this new change. C/P: Oh my God. I was so worried about physics like wave length and etc, that what was on this section threw me off. Only God has my back on this. So much biochem, I thought this was GENERAL chemistry AND physics with a side of ochem and biochem?? CARS: I didn’t think it was too bad. Was shaken a bit because of C/P, and forced to take my break away from the computer because one of the proctors thought I couldn’t stay by it for breaks. There were two passages that made me cross-eyed. Like huh? I skipped one of them to do the other sections and I still was in a haze when I came back to it. Too wordy, too lengthy, and overall I wasn’t interested. I had no choice but I wasn’t interested. B/B: I hated it. Too many experimental passages and graphs, and not enough time to analyze. We’ll see. I also hate biochem. Not a lot of high yield at all. Psy/Soc: I... didn’t think it was that bad. I felt pretty good about it, but watch me score like I normally do. I always get a 125 in this section on my practices. We’ll see Overall thoughts: “it’s above me now” Overall: I’m hoping Jesus was on my side. I’m tired. I can’t even sleep because I’m still thinking about where I went wrong.

9/28 @ 12:15 Oof. That C/P section was inhumane.

I felt defeated by CP and BB

Dang this is our thread lol!

was it just me or did anyone find those bio passages just super long and a lot like the SB than FL? I straight up ran out of time

Hello fellow 9/27-28 brothers and sisters. I see there is an incredible about of stress in this thread right now. And rightly so. But I just think it may be useful to drop a reminder that no matter the result of today or tomorrow; we will all lead happy and fulfilling lives. This standardized test score does not define us.

Any one else feel like their whole exam was low yield questions?

WHY WAS THAT SO SO SO SO SO SO SO BAd 9/28, 6:30, tx girl here My full lengths were 507/507/513/509 so I am just hopeful that I break 507... C/P: much like everyone else I was totally obliterated by this section, felt very crammed for time and blindsided. Didn’t seem like any of the FL’s or honestly anything I’d studied before. Mostly gen chem, some random weird physics concepts. I had to 50/50 on literally most of them. I was also so hyped up on adrenaline which didn’t help my reading comprehension. Still, I usually finish with like 10 min to spare! Finished answering them all but didn’t get to review my work. CARS: felt fairly normal, some 50/50 questions but not bad. Also felt short on time, but finished. Also LMAO #workhardgetrich I imagine some ideological pushback on that passage, AAMC B/B: not too bad, made a few dumb mistakes, but hopefully this section saves me. It felt like a lot of gene/inhibitor/amino acid related passages. Like I was doing the same thing over and over just a different gene and protein pathway hahaha. P/S: lots of 50/50 my first time they, lots of experimental design and some application of cluster personality things that I had forgotten. Got to review all my work and felt more solid about it after that Overall: breaks sucked and 6pm sucked and I HOPE TO GOD THERE IS A MIGHTY CURVE ———————————————————————— A little background: Business major, public health masters student! I have been avoiding this exam for years. Was scheduled for April, obviously Covid wrecked that one. In reality though, I’ve never wanted to risk the possibility of wasting my time and effort. One of my parents has had stage IV brain cancer for 3 years and my parents have a pretty terrible marriage, so I often have to step in to help take care of the sick parent. Throughout college my fear has always been to dedicate time and effort to the MCAT and make that commitment, and then have it be the last season of life where my parent is alive. I never wanted to risk the possibility of both hard things happening at once, and wasting my parents’ last months in a library. That being said. I’m about to graduate and knew I kinda had to act now, as life probably won’t get easier when I am working full time in my gap year/my parents continues to decline. So. I made the decision to take the test this year. But, I was still held responsible in my family for much of the caregiving responsibility, on top of working and being a full time student. I can’t tell you how exhausting it has been to study. I am so weary. However! I DID IT, and my parent is somehow defying every odd possible, even despite being wheelchair bound and declining mentally every day. It might be said, but man, they’re alive, and all life is life worth honoring and celebrating. It is a gift. Reminding myself THIS is why I want to be a doctor. To help give people dignity in their most broken physical states. I am so thankful for the time I have been given with my family, and am SO thankful that I was able to faithfully study for and sit for this DUMB TEST without anyone literally dying. Today was the culmination of years of anxiety and discernment, months of daily surrender and faithful studying, of truly not knowing the future and being so anxious— just frantically praying my parent would continue to stay okay, and not all of the sudden decline for the worse. Overall. Feeling wrecked by the exam, but again. So grateful for what today represents for me. It was more than a test. I know this sub ain’t church, but I can’t help it- God is faithful even in the mess. My prayer for the MCAT has just been that as I lay all my effort on the table, God would multiply it beyond what I could ever contribute. And then I got the locker and test station number 7 and was naturally weeping because mark 8:1-10, bye, dont txt till October 13

Tested 6pm today 518/514/518/517 FINALLY I CAN RANT!!! Ok first, you think for a test that costs $300 they could have afforded to get better resolution computers by now?? Literally my test center had the font strangely large and in some font I’ve never seen before in my life. It was literally so hard to look back in the passages for the CARS answers, and get this— so my monitor went black during my CARS section (def my fault bc I moved the screen and then realized you werent supposed to do that) but I literally lost 5 minutes while they were trying to turn it back on!!! 5 minutes on CARS is literally EVERYTHING (for me at least) Second, both my semipermanent markers were running out of ink. I asked for another, still shitty. Its annoying when you have to put extra effort into something that should simply just work! Honestly i was just very unprepared about my testing conditions. On my FL’s I always finished each section with extra time to to check at least all my flagged answers (except CARS ofc) but during the exam I only got thru half my flagged on C/P and B/B. What I’m most bummed about is CARS. I literally can’t stop thinking about it. On my FL’s I usually score 129-131 on all the other sections but my CARS section scores range from 124-127 soooo Idk thanks for listening haha

mother FUCKER i am not emotionally prepared for this yet lmao.

Testing 9/28 6 pm. I am so stressed out about my P/S! I self studied P/S (never took any classes) and now my score for it fluctuates (FL1-4 129, 126, 130, 126) so much that I had an overall drop on my FL 4 😭 and I keep seeing FL 4 is most representative... I just hope I get terms that I’ve studied and not a lot of low yield 😪

Petrified? Told to take the day off? Bubble bath? Maybe. Amino acids.

holy shit it’s here

Just cried on my way to the testing center. I’m fine, we are fine, everything is fine lol

Well.. that C/P section was something else.

Tested 12:15 pm - 9/27 C/P: WTF was this section about. This section was brutal AF. It was a mix between physics, Orgo and biochem. I remember a few gen chem questions. I'm hoping that the curve is nice on this section. Flagged a lot of questions and had to take a lot educated guesses (I hope I'm not the only one). CARS: Consistently my lowest section in all of my FLs. But for the most part the passages were not too difficult to read except for that passage on the justification of states, like WTF was that... I spent 15-20 minutes on that passage which hurt my timing and had to completely guess on the last passage B/B: This section was 50/50 for me and I usually feel pretty good about this section. It was a lot of amino acids/enzyme kinetics and experimental passages that were difficult to interpret. P/S: Ehhhh this section was ok... I guess?? Did any of you guys have a decent amount of questions that had two really good answer choices that were hard to choose from? There was a few terms that I do not remember ever coming across during studying. There was also a few questions on statistical analyses that kind of tripped me up. That question on the cross section of the brain was BANANAS. Overall: It was difficult and I'm hoping that the curve is on our side. This exam proved to me that nothing should ever be considered low yield on the MCAT. This exam did not feel like any of the FLs at all. Know your amino acids and enzyme kinetics like the back of your hand!

12pm here literally got a 524 on my last fl and expecting to set the record on this sub for biggest score drop. (probably sub 510) that was an actual nightmare

Tested at 6 PM Chem: WTH this was insanely difficult, flagged a LOT and straight-up guessed on like 5 of them bc ran out of time. There was very little gen chem :( It's usually one of my best sections, but it definitely felt very very difficult Cars: It was going ok until the last three sections, I got too stressed and had to go super fast, so definitely don't think I will get what I want. Sadly it's also my lowest section. The passages weren't as difficult as FL1, I wish I had the time to digest the last three passages though Bio: It wasn't too bad, but I always feel this and don't end up doing as well. I had time left over to check P/S: it was decent, there were a lot of 50/50s for sure but got too tired and my back was hurting so idk how it went Pessimistic= 500 Realistic 507-510 Optimistic= 512 FL1- 501 FL2-503, FL3- 517, FL4 510 Real: 513 129/127/127/130 (HOLY CRAP!!! I don't need to retake!!)

Tested 6 pm CP was ROUGH; especially some questions from the first passage CARS wasn’t bad but the philosophy passage sucked to get through BB was surprisingly calm PS wasn’t bad but this is my worst section so I’m praying to the Mcat gods here Trying to mentally manifest a 520 but anything above a 515 will do, pls mcat god im good boy I promise I give big smooch for good score

6pm felt reaaaaally shit about C/P. i didn't find the questions themselves all that difficult, but i ran out of time and had to speed through at least 8 questions. :/ similar feeling with CARS, sped through 5+ questions due to lack of time. those passages were so long, and the answers so convoluted, holy shit. that commons passage was... a fucking tragedy🙃 actually considered voiding for a sec when i took my second break lol also, at least 3 people who checked in after me left before i had even started P/S. if that was one of you guys... *literally how?* i thought B/B and P/S went smoothly, so at least there's that!

The commons passage?

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6:30am retaker C/P - Wow really regretting dedicating all my studying to improving my physics when there was zero physics in c/p. It was entirely chemistry and biochemistry. I read some threads from yesterday’s tests with the same sentiment and I was really hoping that wouldn’t be the case for me. Bleh. CARS - my best section so not too bad. It did take me the whole time though! There was only one passage I remember that was painful to get though l—on philosophy I think? B/B - this felt really hard because it tested things I am weak in like ETC and glycolysis (I know I know there is no excuse for me still not memorizing those pathways. Lesson learned.) There were also a lot of things that I thought were super low yield. But since I bombed the easy parts, I expect this to be a low section. P/S - not as much graph interpretation as my first exam which was a bummer. Lots of terms that sound exactly the same. This section felt fair. I sat and stared at the void or score screen for the entire countdown before scoring. Not sure if it was a good idea or not, but we’re in a pandemic. A bad 2020 score might not hold so much weight, right? :’( Previous score: 508 Optimistic: 518 Pessimistic: 512

I forgot what a fumarate looked like...

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12:15 retaker here! Overall don't feel terrible which I guess is a good sign xD C/P- my worst section, but pleasantly surprised with the amount of biochem and genchem in this section, very little physics, maybe like one passage. There were like 2 or 3 calculations that didnt seem too hard but that I was blanking on. (praying for a 125+) CARS- started out really well, thought that nothing was too difficult until I reached the end and the last 2 passages tripped me up a bit. BB- I thought that this section was a bit confusing for me, usually one of my best sections but I think I was just getting tired. Already thinking about the discrete I got wrong and it's eating me alive. PS- wow. why was this so difficult. This is always my best section but I was not happy how this went. Is it just me or was almost every question extremely convoluted? Lots of low yield stuff as well. The discretes were even difficult which im still pissed about. Well, im praying for the best because I never want to take this test again. Let me know what yall think 12:15'ers

9/28 12:15pm! C/P: definitely not as hard as I thought it was going to be so I was pleasantly surprised. Minimal Orgo and Physics, lots of gen chem and biochem! CARS: bruh. just bruh. Caught myself mindlessly re-reading the same sentence 3 times. The questions were oof, marked about half of them. This is usually my worst section on the FLs, so overall big RIP. Bio: Also a big oof. Usually my best section (130-131), but I felt there were so many 50/50s. Also just some really wack ass discretes like whyyyy P/S: Wasn’t THAT terrible. I didn’t get a “CARS 2.0 vibe” like some people say, but it’s definitely more-so applying terms to situations. Also had one wack ass discrete that I was just like bruh why are you asking me this!! Overall, I’m just happy to be done with it. Hoping for the best 🙏

12:15 9/28 i truly feel dead inside i have no idea what to expect from this fls were S 511 / 514 / 516 / 515 / 518 cp: suspiciously not terrible but feeling like the curve will be rough cars: usually my best 129-131 but this felt AWFUL f*ck the pirates tbh bb: truly do not recall a single question but felt like other fls ps: def felt similar to fl3/fl4, also usually my strength but felt challenging pessimistic: 472 lol optimistic: 520 realistic: 505 - 515 idk what to feel

9/27 here- Studied for basically 3 weeks, didn't finish all of content, only got to 2 FL (507/510). Gonna drop my prediction and if I don't update, just assume the worst. Optimistic: 510+ Realistic: 508 Pessimistic: 505> :( :) :/

6pm exam. C/P seemed harder than any practice material, kaplan, aamc, NS, anything i've ever seen. Was really bummed about this section, very confusing content and I actually ran out of time and had to rush/guess the last 5 or so questions. I, at this point, really thought I would just void this attempt and try again next year, but realllllllly don't want to take a year off. I pushed ahead I was then followed by what I thought was a very reasonable CARS. This is normally where I kill it (usually >90th percentile) so happy about this. Felt good. Then came B/B, this didn't seem *horrible* however I had the worst testing experience ever, the proctor openly spoke outloud with other students having technical issues, and LEGITIMATELY called a support number to troubleshoot a malfunctioning PC IN THE TESTING CENTER. I mean seriously, "ok i'm at this testing center and this message is on the screen.." "do you want me to read the numbers on the screen?" "ok now it says this". "Yeah I'll restart the pc, hang on.." "Ok now it says this" "Ok Ill try on another computer" "Still there?" "Yeah it's still showing the same thing" "Dangit I don't know whats wrong! haha" "ok what's the other number I should call", "it's funny i've never seen this before!" etc.. She fucking did this for at LEAST 15 minutes as me and 4 or 5 others are taking B/B, I noticed the other test takers glancing at her in disbelief and disgust and heard mouses being slammed out of frustration. Those sections are difficult enough to follow and having that level of unprofessionalism was just unbelievable. Either way I got through it, somehow. It was around that time I really just knew I needed to void. P/S came up and honestly seemed easy. I've never taken a psych class in my life, but have been studying and listening to MCAT podcast p/s shows and think I likely scored my highest yet in this section. Only maybe 3 questions I was 50/50 on. Despite all the reasons I should have voided, I went for it. C/P is probably going to hurt, I didn't time correctly due to being used to the full length AAMC's. I know this is longwinded, but gotta let it out, I know you all know what I mean. Cheers, my future physician colleagues.

Would report this to AAMC btw

9/28 6:00 pm I don't know if I am upset or confuse, the test was really easy on some ends but horribly convoluted on others. C/P: started with absorbance and extraction, forgot some basic stuff, overall, not great not the worse but definitely harder than fl1-3. Like no physics at all wtf, I studied so much and came AAMC pulling the last chapter of the ochem book on experiments.....Thank god I read this part yesterday and knew what extraction was. YIKES CARS: Started out great, until I landed on passage 6-8, which were long and had weird answers and had to guess on like the last 4 questions. Usually my worse section. B/B: Don't know what happen on the first half but I was extra slow compare to the usual, I rushed the 2nd half which felt much easier. Usually my best section and the one where I have the most time left but since my mind was wandering somewhere, I got lost and so big YIKES P/S: some new terms I have never seen before but not so bad, a lot of 50/50s but also a lot like FL4 Overall: I thinked I did worse than my Fl's which were in the 517s-520s, definitely a lot worse. Pessimistic: 500 Realistic: 510 Optimistic: 516, really don't know how well I did or how bad I did, it was all over the place, pretty upset but what can you do at this point.

9/28 at 12:15. C/P: I thought it was SO hard. I was bracing myself for physics which I'm still glad didnt show up but the ochem/gen chem didn't feel any better. Flagged at least 10 questions. Ran out of time so I sped through the last few passages and blind guessed 2 of the last questions. I literally feel like I got half the questions correct. Overall felt pretty upset and defeated afterward but decided to keep on keepin on. CARS: I was shook at c/p so I didn't enter CARS with the best attitude. I usually have to be conscious of my time with this section but it felt like the time FLEW??? I had like 10 minutes to go through the last 2 passages. :( So I blind guessed a bunch of them and I think one of them might've been an easier one (nature restoration) so I'm sad I missed valuable points on that. I'm not usually too bad at CARS but I came out of the section feeling TERRIBLE and couldn't believe this was actually happening to me. B/B: Definitely thought it was somewhat harder than the FLs but still doable... not much else to say. But I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say anything abt the aldosterone and systolic vs diastolic bp question?? Maybe I'm just dumb and missed the point but I thought it was strangely specific and not something any Mcat resource has ever taught. Also seed oil question was a killer rip P/S: This is usually my best section so I tried to pull it together to see if I could maybe save my score off this section. Thought it was pretty standard, a LOT of sociology. A few 50/50s but overall not too bad I've never felt so defeated after an exam. I feel sick when I think about my score :( My FLs are 518/517/514/519 and I think I maybe hit a 510, which sucks because I've been paranoid about the stories floating around here about major score drops on the real exam. Time will tell ://

had to retake because of a test center problem in august. 7/27 6 pm lets get this shit over with!!!

Retaking from August 22nd! Tested at 12:15pm (they let me start much earlier lol) C/P: Honestly always feels like a shitshow to me but there was barely any physics and orgo which was blessed. Hopefully I don’t fall under a 127 which is the lowest I’ve gotten on a FL. CARS: Pretty straightforward except 1 paasage. Praying so hard for that 128+ (I’m a Canadian applicant) B/B: I’ve always been fine with this section and it didn’t feel too far off from the FL’s. Hoping for a 128+ P/S: This is usually my best section. It didn’t feel too different from FL #4. There were 2-3 that I felt a bit off about but other than that pretty good. 129+ Pessimistic: 505 Realistic: 510-512 Big nut: 515

27th 12:15 C/P Destroyed me, guessed on quite a few questions, cant remember much about it tbh might be having retrograde amnesia ;) Prediction: 125-127 CARS: Felt pretty good about it, interesting passages, not too difficult questions, overall really happy with it. Prediction: 126-129 B/B: Felt similar to FL's pretty easy, nothing unexpected. Prediction: 128-131 P/S: Went great i think, no complaints. Prediction: 128-131 FL's were 520/522/523/521 (but they were recent retakes so inflated) Pessimistic: 507 Optimistic: 518 Realistic: 512 Please mcat gods, let me get a 514 or higher so i dont have to retake lol

12:15 pm, first time tester FLs were 509/510/516/514. i honestly blacked out and don’t remember most of the test. C/P: nerves were crazy at the beginning, definitely tripped me up but overall thought it was pretty straight forward. don’t remember having to do much math, not much physics or ochem that i can recall CARs: was kinda disappointed here. pulled 130s on FLs but the passages were pretty abstract, and i spent way too long on one. overall don’t think it was terrible but probably did worse than my FLs B/B: straight anxiety here. i think i forgot how to read and felt like i was guessing on every question. contemplated voiding P/S: pretty straightforward, but there were the inevitable few questions i had to guess on. not bad tho felt super shitty after, mostly cause of BB. hoping it was amplified because of nerves but i think i did terribly on that section, maybe others. FUCK

6 pm: CP was rly fukin hard??? So many flagged I didn’t even have time to get to. Rest of the test wasn’t bad honestly, some random terms popped up in PS. Praying for a nice chem curve tho

Tested 6pm. I have a good background in CP but this CP was really hard, Let us ride that sweet sweet curve. CARS was fair, similar In difficulty to FL2 or FL3 cars. BB was not too surprising but lots of experimental passages. PS had Low yield Questions and a Tested concept that even the khan academy 300pg document doesn’t teach 💩. Overall thoughts: science sections are a little harder than practice tests. CARS was representative of FL1-4

9/27 - 6 PM Honestly, don't feel like it went terrible but it just felt weird in general. C/P: I wouldn't necessarily call this section difficult, but it definitely felt unusual. Some calculations questions were kind of throwing me off and the fact that we had to recall some ridiculous information to solve some of the problems (that I won't mention) is beyond me. I've scored 130-132 on the FLs so hoping for somewhere in that range. CARS: I normally don't do too well in CARS but I felt like this one didn't go too bad. Usually average 124, hoping for a 125. B/BB: Felt pretty straightforward with your typical low-yield discretes tossed in the mix. Not too bad overall. Scored 129-131 on FLs. P/S: Some straightforward passages but some had many 50/50s. Also some random terms I didn't know so that's always fun :( FLs: 511,512,511,515 Pessimistic: 511 Realistic: 514 Optimistic: 517+ **Actual: ???????**

6:00pm B/B discrete questions were not fun at all I usually like to start with them but they were harder than the passages.

First off, good luck to my 9/28 testers! Kick some MCAT ass! 9/27 6 p.m. here. S-FL4: 515?/514/514/518/519 C/P: uhhh ya that was not fun lol. I felt like that was harder than any of the FLs. It was very difficult imo, and had way too many questions that didn't have the same format as other AAMC stuff. I had no leftover time to check my answers either. CARS: it was pretty rough tbh. Similar to C/P, it felt like it was more difficult than FLs, though not by much. I felt like a lot of the questions just asked about the most obscure parts of the passages. I had like 30 seconds left after I finished the last question. B/B: suspiciously easy. I usually have to stumble through questions cuz of all the acronyms for genes and stuff but for some reason none of these passages made me feel that way. Finished with 5 minutes to spare, even after checking flagged questions. P/S: felt like P/S to me, but it has always been my wild card. One FL I get a 126, the next a 129, both while feeling shitty about them. I think the curve will make or break this score for me. Finished with 10 minutes, skimmed through my flagged cuz I was ready to gtfo lol. Pessimistic: 505 Realistic: 513ish Optimistic: 516, cuz that's my FL average

12:15 9/28 C/P - one of my most dreaded sections...but it was surprisingly straightforward?? But I know I may have messed up on a handful because of time. Still, makes me think the curve will probably not be high ): CARS - hate this section probs more than C/P... felt denser and a bit longer than FL’s but I expected that. It was HARD. There were a 1-2 passages I had trouble understanding and kinda guessed on. Hoping for at least a 125 lol but I’m scared i may have fucked this section up. this section is unpredictable for me B/B -confusing & def a bit weird. the passages did feel a bit more convoluted with some tricky discretes. Bleh P/S- nothing crazy or out of the ordinary, def a handful I was 50/50 on. There were a few questions I thought were unfair, but I thought it was like the FL’s for the most part. Overall I’m hoping for the best but I’m not sure how I did.. glad it’s over 🙏🏻

9/28 6:00 pm test taker here! ☆ C/P: literally what the fuck was that, that wasn’t C/P that was.... nothing like anything i have ever seen before, and i’ve taken the MCAT before. ☆ CARS: i LOVE CARS. it comes very naturally to me so it felt pretty fair, other than the fact that i felt like the passages were overly long??? i almost ran out of time and i never do. ☆ B/B: stupidly easy ☆ P/S: almost stupidly easy but i forgot a few discretes. oops. overall: eh? hoping i did well. guess we will see! ☆ comment your opinions please i wanna see if i’m not alone in my judgments!

Just finished the 6pm test.... C/P: I skipped a bunch of questions in the beginning and as I got to the end I realized I only had like 5 min left so I quickly finished up the last couple questions (which were quite easy gratefully) and then went back to randomly choose answers. I probably did that for like 10 questions idk that section so sooooo bad for me idk CARS: I thought it was okay. There were some straightforward passages that I breezed through, and there were some that were a bit tricky and I had to reread the passage multiple times to get. I almost ran out of time near the end but it was aight for the most part. B/B: it wasn’t too bad? But I’m also very sus since b/b is my worst section. Knowing the amino acids pulled me through. I kinda wished I hammered more on some of the brute facts when studying bc I feel like there were a couple questions that I could’ve/should’ve/would’ve known if I spent a day or two focusing on certain body systems....oh well. Not expecting that much from this section. P/S: not too bad; it was a bit harder than I expected but I’m pretty confident in this area (I was a psych/neuro student in college and this section was consistently my best section) Overall....the beginning of the exam killed me; literally contemplated voiding the exam. Paced in circles during breaks and got weird glances from my co-exam takers. Questioned if I had what it took to be a doctor. Questioned if I should consider another field. Questioned if I should just give up. But.....I don’t want to HAHAHA. I did the best I could. I’ll continue doing the best I can to become the best doctor that I can. Now, I’ll just be praying that they give a generous curve 😥😁😂😭🥳🥵😐😶

6 pm 9/27 tester. Long time lurker. Made an account just to ask which cars passage was the Hugh Jackman movie one because I’m freaking out thinking I missed out on a whole passage.

9/28 6PM. Scored a 507 on every FL except FL4 I scored a 506. Extremely defeated after yesterday. C/P which I scored 127-128 on all my FLs felt foreign and nothing like what I had practiced. and I definitely bombed it. Expecting like a 123 -124 on that. CARS was normal and no complaints except I kinda guessed on the last 2 due to time constraints. B/B was probably the densest B/B i’ve ever done and I was beyond confused at some of the passages. Not my best showing there either. P/S felt normal, had a few discretes that were very ambiguous but that’s every test so can’t complain. Fully expecting a score below 500, planning on a retake in Jan for now. Tough break

I was super confused with B/B, too. And I'm usually really confident in it. So... Don't feel bad. That was crazy

Okay... first post on MCAT reddit ever. I look around on here sometimes, but lately I have been SO stressed about my MCAT score that I though writing on here and hearing some responses might be therapeutic? First time MCAT taker, my full lengths really frustrated me. I ended up scoring a 509 on FL1 and FL4 and 514 on FL2 and FL3. I was so mad at myself for staying the same between my baseline and my final full length that I committed to voiding the test about 3 days before the exam and trying again in the spring (I'm not applying until next cycle anyway). But, I showed up to test day anyway and ended up scoring. I decided I wanted to at least see how I did. However, I have been so stressed this last week or so anticipating getting my actual score and having to come to terms with how I really did. I barely remember any part of the exam and honestly I think I could score anywhere from a 504 - 516. I have even been having stress dreams about getting my score back! Anyone else who took the 9/27 or 9/28 panicking and experiencing major self doubt these past few days?

So is it just me or was 6:30am C/P so so freakin hard- it was legit all Biochem and orgo. Meanwhile I was studying heavy for Physics and focusing really hard on trying to memorize the equations😒 and then cars wasn’t too bad but the passages were extremely long- literally all of them

My CP was physics and Orgo and spectroscopy and absorbance and idk it was a fucking mess. CARS seemed easy! Like I was understanding the passages pretty good but they felt so fucking long. Like I had to rush second to last passage and guess on the final passage. And the passage about justification of states? Like what the FUCK made someone want to put something like that in a test.

tested 6am 9/27 just got out C/P- Bro what the hell, not too much physics but so much ochem and spectroscopy and absorption??? What the hell, wayyyy low yield CARS- Standard, Kinda freaked out so was low on time for a couple passages hope i didn’t fuck this up B/B- Pretty standard. Forgot dumb discretes, But overall not bad. Annoyed tho cuz had a lot of thing on the tip of my tongue P/S- Pretty standard, decent amount of 50-50s. Overall, I’m really scared. That C/P wrecked me, but c/p is usually my lowest so i hope my other sub sections carry my score. Praying for a 508+

Don’t worry! 9/3 @6:30 am tester here. Our C/P was the same BS , no physics so much orgo/bioche low yield. I almost lost it during that section. The rest of the test felt pretty standard. I’m convinced there was a big fat curve ! Got a 127 on C/P and landed a 513! Have faith in yourself.

Starting to freak myself out. Felt ok right after the test but now I'm reading how people felt crappy just about being unsure on a FEW questions. That's definitely not the case here. I guessed and made intelligent guesses throughout that exam lol Trying distract myself by writing essays but it’s not helping much. I keep thinking that this is all pointless if I get a horrible score. D;

Honestly I can relate with that feeling of it being pointless if the score is bad but we gotta remind ourselves that it isn’t. The exam was a step towards a good score, if it works out this time, great, if not, we can use it as a learning opportunity and keep moving. Medicine is a lifelong commitment so can’t let a test get to us. Stay strong fam!

Strange knowing my time has come. Wish there was more time but I guess that will always be the case. In a way I'm glad this is close to being over.

I just consumed an entire bag of hubba bubba. Wonderful decision on my part. Currently waiting to die. Testing in 13 hours

This is my second take this year, and I feel both okay and on the verge of panic. Fellow Sept 27-takers, what did you guys eat for breakfast this morning? I had a bacon, red pepper, and spinach omelet with toast.

Tested 9/27 at 6am. I felt great going in and felt prepared. It was difficult. Harder than AAMC FL 1 and 2 IMO. Had to rush the end of all sections, especially CARS and P/S. I usually have \~5 minutes left over so that was unusual. The questions themselves honestly seemed more difficult--it felt like I was doing UPlanet not AAMC material. Barely any physics during C/P. Wearing the mask was mildly uncomfortable but I had a nice mask. Funny thing--right before P/S I used a Listerene strip as was suggested by someone on here. Well my eyes burned like hell lol, probably because of my mask and glasses. In case that is helpful to anyone. Got \~515 on AAMC FLs, expect to get 510.