r/Mcat • • 18h ago

Vent 😑😀 breakup during mcat prep

15 Upvotes

my partner of three years broke up with me during MCAT prep (the MCAT breakup curse), and I wanted some advice from you guys if you've had this experience and became an academic weapon because of it. It wasn't anything malicious; I just had too many commitments, and we both wanted to focus on our individual career paths. any advice through this would be helpful since I dont want to drag out my content review


r/Mcat • • 19h ago

Vent 😑😀 how do people do it

5 Upvotes

I am so stressed. I work 40 hours a week. I've "gotten" through content, but have a super high pile of anki from just not having enough time to do it. First did AAMC unscored and got around 503. This was about two weeks ago. Took second FL today which was BP FL 1 and got a 501.

I feel like I'm not improving. All the things I'd want to do to improve I feel like I'm half doing just bc I have limited time / am tired all the time. I can't quit my job unfortunately as it provides my financial means.

I'd lIkE to score at least a 515 by late Jan/early Feb. Maybe im too ambitious or delusional. I just don't know what to do or how to best maximize my crazy schedule.

I feel like I'm constantly battling between "do i practice? do i do anki? or do i go back to content?" and i feel like i can never decide what will help me get better. I try to review my practice and make flashcards out of it, but I haven't touched that deck... haven't finished P/S either.

Was anyone in a similar boat & ended up doing well?? I rlly need to hear from yall that made it work & also ask HOW?


r/Mcat • • 22h ago

Question πŸ€”πŸ€” Cars Tips for Retake

6 Upvotes

Hey, I took my mcat and scored 501 (128/122/127/124). Ik where i have to improve on for CP BB and PS, but cars was always my struggle and i genuinely dont know how to approach this. Planning on retake sometime next summer but i wanna get a headstart on this. I am born here and while i speak another language i can speak very fluent english, so im confused as to why my comprehension is so poor. If you guys have a regiment or tips or something to help me see a boost in my cars score (canada :() then i would much appreciate it!


r/Mcat • • 20h ago

Question πŸ€”πŸ€” How to increase score

4 Upvotes

How to improve a 123 on C/P and a 123 on B/Biochem and a 121 on P/S?


r/Mcat • • 21h ago

Question πŸ€”πŸ€” Is Kaplan good enough for a nontraditonal who needs to β€œrelearn” the material?

3 Upvotes

I took ochem and physics many years ago so I have to relearn most the content. Is kaplan detailed enough if I’m essentially going to be relearning the material again?


r/Mcat • • 13h ago

Question πŸ€”πŸ€” Yo Reproduction has so many terms I’ve never heard of before

2 Upvotes

I took developmental biology in college but that was more focused on non mammalian development (professor was a sea urchin researcher).

This is hard. So many terms and concepts beyond the scope I learned and I also graduated 7 years ago.

Any recommendations how to tackle this?


r/Mcat • • 18h ago

Question πŸ€”πŸ€” Is the pankow Anki deck really enough for psych/soc?

2 Upvotes

I am trying to have an efficient study schedule, and I don’t want to add in extra things. So if I can get by with just doing the whole Anki deck, then I’m going to do that.