mcat blues

MastaTam

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So, this whole week I've been having problems sleeping due to the mcat test this saturday. While I've been studying the whole summer for it, I, like many others, still feel wholefully unprepared. I think the stress totally got to me last night and manifested itself in the worst nightmare I've ever had. I dreamt that my gf went rock climbing without any support cables. All out friends were there to watch her. For some reason, she decided to do some showing off, lost her grip, and fell to her death right before our eyes....

So, anyone else suffering from mcat induced stress?
 

bleeb

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Don't be a WUSSY!!...

MCAT is just another standardized test, only 1 in a thousand other tests you will take in your life! Think like a PORN STAR and POUND this test like you PWN IT!

BTW: Good Luck, Have Fun, No CHEATING!! =)
 

glen

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EVERYONE gets really stressed about the MCAT.
It is ok. Go do your best.
 

MacBaine

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Jesus christ dude, I don't think I've ever lost sleep, much less freak out, over a test like this. The ONLY test that will ever effect your future is the ACT/SAT (whichever you need to take, most likely ACT), and you can retake it and get a better score as many times as you need. Chill out dude.
 

glen

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
Jesus christ dude, I don't think I've ever lost sleep, much less freak out, over a test like this. The ONLY test that will ever effect your future is the ACT/SAT (whichever you need to take, most likely ACT), and you can retake it and get a better score as many times as you need. Chill out dude.

having taken both, I can assure you the MCAT is a hell of a lot bigger deal, and you can't retake it as much as you want.
 

MastaTam

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Honestly, I didn't stress 1/4 as much over the the SATs than I am over the MCAT. Maybe it's because I'm older now, and realize the importance of this test. Or, it could possibly be because there's so much prerequisite knowledge required to do well on the MCAT.
 

Feldenak

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Originally posted by: MacBaine
Jesus christ dude, I don't think I've ever lost sleep, much less freak out, over a test like this. The ONLY test that will ever effect your future is the ACT/SAT (whichever you need to take, most likely ACT), and you can retake it and get a better score as many times as you need. Chill out dude.

Do you even know what th MCAT is?
 

bleeb

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Just become a porn star.... its a different kind of "hard" work...but I believe has MUCH better "satisfaction"
 

MacBaine

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Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: MacBaine
Jesus christ dude, I don't think I've ever lost sleep, much less freak out, over a test like this. The ONLY test that will ever effect your future is the ACT/SAT (whichever you need to take, most likely ACT), and you can retake it and get a better score as many times as you need. Chill out dude.

Do you even know what th MCAT is?

Obviously not!
 

mdbound

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The MCAT is a fvcking scary test.

With that out of the way, there are a number of ways to deal with it. I taught Kaplan MCAT prep classes for about 3 years, so I'm well aware of the stress that people face. A couple of bits of advice:

1. Relax.

2. Relax.

3. Relax.

4. Remember, you have studied all summer. Also remember that you've taken classes in those subjects before. You know the stuff....trust me you know the stuff.

5. The most difficult part of the test is application of the stuff you know. Try to remember...the test is testing critical thinking, NOT memorization and recall of facts. So, you get a passage, you read it, and look at the questions. Try to figure out what abstract idea the question is trying to get you to think about. Just try to sit back and think about it; remembering that most likely you've never seen the passage contents before. But you have 2 things that the test makers are testing....a) a baseline level of science knowledge, and b) critical thinking ability.

5. continued...So, you face a passage you know nothing about...then you get a question which you know even less about. Don't panic. Read the question while you cover up the answer choices. Think about what the question is asking. What part of the passage are they referring too. Try to answer the question (very generally). Look at the answer choices and see if you find something that make sense with your answer. Also, eliminate answers that are unreasonable. Remember, the test makers DO NOT EXPECT you to know the contents of the passage before hand; thus extensive knowledge of science will not help you in this regard (it will help you think better though). So, think about what is being asked, eliminate answers that you realize are unreasonable given your knowledge of science and what was given in the passage (and common sense), and you should have it narrowed down to some pretty reasonable choices. It's really that simple. Now I know that its a bit late to change your entire thinking process, but again, simply approaching each question like that may help.

Given that the test is on saturday...here's what I'd do. Rest of today...study some high-yield type facts, flash cards, or whatever. Thursday: do one entire practice test and go over the questions, perfecting speed and timing, and going over any questions on which you've made fundamental mistakes...but don't get caught up in small details. Friday AM: take ONE practice section. Chill. Friday PM: take another practice section. Chill. Get all of your stuff ready. Whatever you need. Magic rub eraser (best eraser period for test forms), get your lunch (or lunch plans) ready, get the location and parking scoped out, and chill again. Watch a movie, whatever. Go to sleep early if possible (also do that the next couple of days, getting up at test time). Get to the test center 10 mins before they say, otherwise you'll be really nervous for no reason.

If you go in with the right attitute, you'll do fine on the test. Again, trust me...i've seen lots of people go in with a good attitude, after a summer of hard work, and do fine on the test. So, I think you can to.

PM me if you have any more questions!

Good luck...you'll do fine.

MD.

BTW: the SAT/ACT are useless, virtually meaningless tests. With grad school tests like the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, you can't take them as often, schools usually look at all results, and things are competitive on a much higher level (remember, they are standardized, and thus, bell-shaped....also remember that fewer dumb fvcks take those tests vs. the SAT, thus making the test much harder to do well on).
 

Whisper

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The only advice that I can offer is to try your best to relax before the test. Be sure to get soem sleep the night leading up to the exam, and eat a healthy breakfast the morning of. I'm sure you've been preparing your balls off, so don't stress (well, at least try not to). You've studied all that you could, and at this point just let your preparation and brain do their thing. Go into it with confidence, knowing that you DESERVE to do well, and remember that if you don't do well you can always get at least one retest in before it starts looking bad to med schools.

Also, if there's anything from home that you can somehow bring with you to the test, do so. I'm not sure what all they let you carry in, but I do know that people do their absolute best on an exam when the conditions in which they're trying to recall information match those present when the information was chunked into memory. And it's also been proven that giving yourself extra time at the end of a section to try and redetermine an answer that you couldn't previously recall can be effective. Extra time means you'll come up with different strategies for retrieving the memory, and different strategies usually mean that at least one will end up working somewhat.

Good luck, spank dat academic azz, and know that the world will go on one way or another

Edit: And btw Macbaine, the MCAT stands for Medical College Admissions Test. One of THE most brutal standardized tests given. Can't think of another graduate-type entrance exam that matches it.
 
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