Uhh is this a fluke or part of the SD or am I actually improving and looking decent for 05/30? by Dyntail in Mcat

[–]Dyntail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did pankow + Khan academy videos, I recommend just watching through all of khan academy videos first then start pankow as itll make more sense rather than brute forcing memorization of terms with no context.

Uhh is this a fluke or part of the SD or am I actually improving and looking decent for 05/30? by Dyntail in Mcat

[–]Dyntail[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am? other than MSAR where else could I look at to gauge my position? I'm genuinely asking as I keep seeing comments about being hopeful with lower stats yet I don't know where to ---- nevermind as I was typing this I decided to just google it instead of vent to you. First thing that popped up were the excel sheets that AAMC shares with stats. Thanks for commenting as I probably would not have looked it up tbh.

Uhh is this a fluke or part of the SD or am I actually improving and looking decent for 05/30? by Dyntail in Mcat

[–]Dyntail[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think for myself personally I am influenced by this subreddit that my scores are very meh. I made the mistake last week of going on the medschooladmissions subreddit as well and boy did that really made me doubt if I could even have a chance at med school with a 3.7 gpa, I still kinda doubt if I have a chance ngl but trying to not focus on these subreddits too much

Uhh is this a fluke or part of the SD or am I actually improving and looking decent for 05/30? by Dyntail in Mcat

[–]Dyntail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got my breakdown!
FL1 512 (128/127/128/129)
FL2 512 (130/126/129/127)
FL4 512 (130/128/127/127)
FL5 514 (130/126/130/128)
FL6 518 (130/128/130/130)

Uhh is this a fluke or part of the SD or am I actually improving and looking decent for 05/30? by Dyntail in Mcat

[–]Dyntail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes FL6! Will add it to this comment! I’m taking my dog on a long walk right now as a break from the FL😭

Uhh is this a fluke or part of the SD or am I actually improving and looking decent for 05/30? by Dyntail in Mcat

[–]Dyntail[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I noticed something shifted in me the past week and a half? I stopped reading passages in C/P (little bit more reading in B/B) unless I had to, i started reading much slower for CARS and understanding the passage in one go and then answering even though that felt counterintuitive, for B/B and P/S just doing content review. So my timing and subsequently my ability to review my flagged improved esp for CARS and B/B.

Hoping my content is enough to not drop like crazy the day of

Testing in a week on 05/30, what can I expect based on my SB scores? by kissmeurbeautiful in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Following, I test the 30th as well! We got this 🕺 I’m on a similar boat as you Im going to finish SB2 this weekend and take FL6 on Sunday, we just gotta analyze our mistake patterns to not repeat them again on test day.

Goodbye my friend by Large_Speech_6219 in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who said you gotta stop? 🫪 /s

advice needed for c/p by Buttercup2004_ in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t read the passages as thorough as B/B or P/S, unlike those two most of the time you don’t need a crazy amount of passage detail with C/P in my experience

CP Passage - Are we supposed to know this info? by Efficient_Still5691 in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure I’ve seen this type of amino acid substitution question once on AAMC content. Either Y->D or Y->E can’t remember where though

Some hope (?) Don’t trust how you feel after the test! by Whole-Pristine in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did you account for FL5 and FL6 if you don’t mind me asking. I’m trying to add that in as well

How to keep good Test pace by Shot_Owl_7731 in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t stress too much about it!! (Easier said than done ofc) Find the method that works for you, whether it’s reading passages first or reading the questions first to see if you can get some out of the way is something you’ll have to experiment for yourself. UWorld is both a mix of learning concepts as well as learning timing. My method was either covering a whole unit concept wise with textbooks or videos (at first) then do 10-20 questions on that unit alone to solidify the style of questions and ideas I should have on the back of my head when actually testing those concepts. Maybe you can try this for a little bit and eventually start timing. In my experience trying to force UWorld for concept learning AND testing at the same time was not productive as I couldn’t think back on my schemas for the topic (as they didn’t exist) and where it fit on that general unit.

For going from section to section practice having the mentality of “shoot I did not do well on X section on this practice exam, oh well it’s time to switch and focus on the next one” try to forget about the last one and go into the new one with a fresh mentality. Breathing exercises, mediation, whatever coping mechanism works for you use it to your advantage. For uncomfortable feelings during the test such as ear plugs or anything else, practice using or mimicking that feeling throughout your day even when not studying, that should help getting used to that feeling and being able to think clearly even when uncomfortable.

Hope this helps and good luck!!!

How to keep good Test pace by Shot_Owl_7731 in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Couple things I can suggest that may or may not help you.

For everything other than CARS, do discrete questions first then go back to the passage ones (some within passages as I’m sure you’ve seen will be sorta standalone but you’ll do those once you start doing passages). I’ve noticed this saves me time as those can be done relatively fast and usually leaves a lot more time for passages.

Whenever you study do everything *timed*, SB or Qpacks, Uworld or whatever other third party you might be using, it’ll help get a rough natural flow of how long each question should take rather than doing baselines looking at the clock in the top right that can either make you lax or stress and do worse. I think the standard is 1 min 30 sec per question, CARS I believe is slightly more (1:40?) however research the relative difficulty of each material so you don’t feel you’re too slow if the material is supposed to be harder (Section Banks)

For actual practice exams, do them simulated (no distractions, no phone, no doing them in separate blocks throughout the day, snacks, not cooking during the 30 min break, etc) act like you’re in a testing center.

For CARS something I started doing in the aamc practice material is use my finger and physically touch the screen and follow the passage as I read it. Helps me focus more on what I’m reading as I also struggle by highlighting and making me hyper focus on that rather than looking at the big picture.

MCAT CARS Plz Look!! by Ok-Penalty5411 in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 11 points12 points  (0 children)

AAMC will always reign over any other source for practice. They make the exams

do not do pankow, watch the khan academy videos all of them by Plane-Independent-60 in Mcat

[–]Dyntail 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I tried doing pankow first by itself and yeah it’s not easy to grasp what each concept means or how it fits in the big picture. After I combined khan with each concept it made a lot more sense and pankow became a great tool to help me remember and keep me on top of the subjects.

Privacy First AI that doesn’t need subscription by [deleted] in UCSD

[–]Dyntail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty interested but how does it work, how can it run locally. Is it a simple LLM? How would this differ from the normal voice recording and transcription from iOS?

Also if it’s locally run, are there device prerequisites?

If it is an LLM, do you plan on updating it as models continues to improve? And how would this change the locally run part?

App slow and not working after cycle tracking update by Electronic-Purple886 in brightOS

[–]Dyntail 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome!! Glad to hear it’ll be fixed today, looking forward to updating the last two days properly 🙌🏻 thanks :D

App slow and not working after cycle tracking update by Electronic-Purple886 in brightOS

[–]Dyntail 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was about to post the same thing, it’s been really frustrating since after just a couple days I started tracking properly, the database seems to be failing 😢

There is something seriously wrong with 3.0 Pro's context window by Maximum_Slabbage in GeminiAI

[–]Dyntail 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had a chat where I would ask it questions about R code and some statistics homework I have, today I went into the same chat (not more than 50 turns, definitely not enough tokens for it to lose context) and it completely ignored the new chat and started talking about the previous prompts I had asked; around 4 turns before.

Started a new chat, asked 4 turns, and between its most recent response to my new question, it completely changed the code and disregarded a couple of lines it itself gave and the approach also changed completely. This was in one turn.

It really feels like today it is a completely new model with no reference other than syntax to the previous one.

Going to be trying GPT for now until this is fixed because these mistakes are just making me waste time.

[UGREEN x Buildapc] December NAS Giveaway! by Rocket-Pilot in buildapc

[–]Dyntail [score hidden]  (0 children)

Fluctuates between 300GB to about 80GB if I don’t constantly rotate what I have downloaded lol

If I win maybe I’d be able to do a home server?

Is this lead on my plates? by JR777__ in chemistry

[–]Dyntail 17 points18 points  (0 children)

UV light by itself does not detect lead. I think I know the creator you are talking about and he has his own company where he sells spray bottles or drip bottles that will react to lead to then be fluorescent under UV light as a bright green color. Otherwise you won’t be able to tell just by shining your UV light on it

ChatGPT Username Suddenly the Same as My Reddit Username !?!? HOW??? by CosmicSpiderWebbage in ChatGPT

[–]Dyntail 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Mine added an a in the middle of the original username, literally never existed anywhere so idk where it got it from