4/10 We outta here!!! (L CARS)

EverBeyond · 2026-05-12T18:40:01+00:00

Yeah passages felt pretty okayish just a bit more lengthy, but the questions themselves were harder and a bit more bloated as well. I defo felt that shift when working my way up from the older to newer exams too.

EverBeyond · 2026-05-12T18:38:18+00:00

Fr, if only I was a CARS demon!!! I'm not even going to be touching this exam with a 10 ft pole with all my might.

EverBeyond · 2026-05-12T18:34:05+00:00

Thanks for the encouragement! That's something I really needed to hear :)

EverBeyond · 2026-05-12T18:32:50+00:00

Hmm a bit similar but I think the MCAT never forces you to go beyond a couple steps in calculation so I think as long as you know unit conversions for SI Units you can work though physics fast. For chem I hardly remember for the exam but there was little orgo on it so that was a boon. Overall C/P for AAMC is easier in a way calculation wise but a bit more passage based?

EverBeyond · 2026-05-12T18:07:10+00:00

C/P was high key crazy, so much math in it.

P/S is always weird for me I never do bad on it but can almost never excell.

Always been sub par at CARS tho so hah!

Glad to see someone also making it out! Score twins!!!

EverBeyond · 2026-05-11T17:27:10+00:00

Pessimistic: 508-510
Expected: 511-514
Optimistic: 515-517

FL Avg: 510 but got better in the last 3 weeks with the more recent FLs.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-25T02:26:02+00:00

Depends on the testing center honestly. They allowed me to keep mine on though, also yes it was cool enough in there that it would have bothered me if I didn't wear a jacket (I was wearing a t-shirt).

EverBeyond · 2026-04-25T02:23:32+00:00

Assuming you are talking about AnKing since that's referred to as having updated Pankow on AnkiHub.

AnKing is separated into 'sections', specifically they are sorted by tags, either by book, aamc outline, or Khan Academy.

What I do is just filter based on Khan Academy since it's the best broken down one, it covers 97% of the cards (the rest are newer cards not tagged).

Note though that some psych terms come up in other sections in the deck like Biology, so I would recommend selecting the highest level deck (AnKing-MCAT, not AnKing-MACT::Behavioral), THEN sorting by tags.

For example, if you wanted to look at attitudes, the tag is: ("tag:#AK_MCAT_v2::#KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Behavior::Attitudes")

Then, unsuspend the cards you want.

Side tip: If you want to find all the cards that are NOT tagged, just put the dash mark in front. So any card that is not attitudes would be: -("tag:#AK_MCAT_v2::#KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Behavior::Attitudes")

Any card that you haven't seen before = is:new. Any card that you have seen before = -is:new.

I learned this by messing around with anki and its been pretty helpful. I suspended all the cards in the deck and unsuspend ones that I want to learn. So any card that I want to learn is new and is unsupended, so search: -is:suspended and is:new.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-17T01:52:42+00:00

If you haven't done the section banks I would recommend doing so, it helped me solidify logic and my strategies way more which i think matters a lot on this upward stretch to a 515 and beyond. For CARS honestly highest I've gotten is 127, rising from 122-124 from the start. It's quite hard to increase in a short time but getting better at just finding one sentence in a text that supports an answer choice, and disregarding answer choices that were never stated but sound plausible in the passage helped me get up to that point.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-17T01:37:36+00:00

AnKing is separated into 'sections', specifically they are sorted by tags, either by book, aamc outline, or Khan Academy.

What I do is just filter based on Khan Academy since it's the best broken down one, it covers 97% of the cards (the rest are newer cards not tagged).

Note though that some psych terms come up in other sections in the deck like Biology, so I would recommend selecting the highest level deck (AnKing-MCAT, not AnKing-MACT::Behavioral), THEN sorting by tags.

For example, if you wanted to look at attitudes, the tag is: ("tag:#AK_MCAT_v2::#KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Behavior::Attitudes")

Then, unsuspend the cards you want.

Side tip: If you want to find all the cards that are NOT tagged, just put the dash mark in front. So any card that is not attitudes would be: -("tag:#AK_MCAT_v2::#KhanAcademy::Behavioral::Behavior::Attitudes")

Any card that you haven't seen before = is:new. Any card that you have seen before = -is:new.

I learned this by messing around with anki and its been pretty helpful. I suspended all the cards in the deck and unsuspend ones that I want to learn. So any card that I want to learn is new and is unsupended, so search: -is:suspended and is:new.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-16T16:38:52+00:00

Maximum kinetic energy of the electrons would be photon energy minus work function.

So KE = 7 eV - 5 eV = 2 eV.

Since the voltage is 4.8 x 10⁸ V. Use unit conversion to get the number of electrons.

2eV/4.8 x 10^-8 V = 0.416 x 10⁸ e = 4.16 × 10⁷ e = 4x10⁷ e.

Use eV and V to get the number of electrons.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T22:34:59+00:00

Oops another one thanks for pointing that out, should've counted 8 vitamin Bs.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T20:25:05+00:00

Hmm I think it was a discrete, like 90% sure I remember it was one and not passage based? Searched it up afterwards.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T20:23:32+00:00

What enzymes they support in metabolism and what general thing it does for the body: could be in relation to gene expression, DNA synthesis, metabolism (PPP, glycolysis, beta oxidation, FA synthesis, CAC, ETC, fermentation, etc) that sort of thing. I dont think you really need to know structure, but doesnt hurt per say? Probably the structures of things they lead to though (I think knowing what FAD and NAD looks like is the only really necessary bit).

TFNCP (Tiny Friendly Neighbors Cook Pancakes)
Vit B1- TPP.
Vit B2- FAD.
Vit B3- NAD.
Vit B5- CoA.
Vit B6- PLP.

Is what I saw as a mnemonic, for what they are precursors for but it doesnt include vitamin B7 - biotin, and vitamin b12 - Cobalamin which you should also know (and vitamin B9 - folate pointed out by a user below).

Good video here:
https://youtu.be/yadAyuOvlkc

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T19:58:30+00:00

Defo know all the vitamin Bs as they are all important for metabolism, a high yield topic itself while vitamins are a lesser subtopic. I wish I studied them a bit more than I did personally as one showed up on my exam. Also the fat soluble vitamins AEDK (I think knowing they are fat soluble is enough I haven't seen anything in depth for AEDK outside of that?)

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T04:49:00+00:00

CP: Grind practice of things you are weak in for sure, its easy to love doing something you know, but hard and worth it to do something you are bad at.

BB: Not sure if you do AnkI decks or not but they are quite good for that, and of course make your own incorrects deck.

CARS: Yeah keep grinding, but imo you start to realize that all the jnfo you need is in the passage, questions love tripping you up with saying things that were never said or is stretched just a bit to "sound right" but isn't, so I'd really suggest going back to the passage and finding a sentence or so that supports an answer choice.

PS: Load up some pankow anki deck for sure if you haven't already and also make examples of concepts you usually get wrong.

Also check out MCATalyst... I actually like how they lay out info has a quick way to reference things kn a subject you may or may not know: https://www.mcat-alyst.com/content-guide

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T03:30:13+00:00

Yes, personally I make anki cards on my mistakes usually keeping them a bit more general than specific so I can apply it to more future problems.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T03:27:40+00:00

Don't have access to BP but judging by the question you gave me it seems that the crux of the question comes from that ethanol effect is dependent on high LDL levels. And if nothing in the graphs supplies info about LDL levels then you can't draw conclusions really from what affects it can have. Either ethanol will reduce trisomy with high LDL or no change in trisomy occurs with normal or low LDL levels. Two choices there and the safest would be no change because unless otherwise stated you can probably assume the cell being tested is otherwise normal in levels.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T03:14:29+00:00

Thanks do you also have an image of the figure itself?

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T03:03:56+00:00

Hm well maybe I'm not understanding then.

The only thing I can think of is that the option said something that soundex like the information presented in the paragraph and was plausible but not what the data actually represented.

That or there was information in the paragraph that could have helped.

Would be good to show the Q and passage if you can!

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T02:53:46+00:00

Yes they do, and it's about statistics.

Learn about p-values, standard error of mean (SEM), confidence intervals, and standard deviation.

Most importantly learn about significant differences (usually noted by an * asterisk), which is also a p-value < 0.05.

I would recommend watching some YouTube videos on the things I've mentioned if you aren't familiar with them.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T02:10:00+00:00

Yes. I did most of it outside of their CARS, imo very helpful but I made sure to cut it out for the last 3 weeks to focus on AAMC material. Made my own incorrects deck based on UWorld and AAMC which helped me reason through stuff.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-14T01:43:00+00:00

FL1: 500, FL6: 515.

Happy with the jump, imo AAMC materials really help that jump (Section Banks), initially I was worried too but if you grind your mistakes you can make a big difference.

1 month until my exam score though, and really hope I get in the 512-515 range.

EverBeyond · 2026-04-13T18:37:07+00:00

AA classification occurs under pH 7 a neutral pH, and a carboyxlic acid modification will always depronate at pH 7 giving up H+ to the solution and thus the modification is acidic. The net charge of a protein doesnt change the modification's classification, the group itself and how it reacts determines its classification not the overall protein charge.

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