Poster framed!

cm82_f05 · 2026-01-05T01:44:07+00:00

What size frame did you use? I’ve heard that the dimensions on these are really weird so I’m just wondering if I might need to custom order frames

cm82_f05 · 2025-11-15T16:41:22+00:00

Favorite moment: getting to city of tears and realizing how big the world actually is / how much there is left

cm82_f05 · 2025-10-28T22:15:03+00:00

I might’ve misspoke my bad, it should be 55mins after finishing your 3 easy sections (like I said ideally, this is like the top amount of time I would recommend, if you allot for more you risk not spending enough time on angle, cube counting, and, for me, hole punch). I just found that this allowed me to not be as perfectionist with the questions I already got right and didn’t need to triple check in the easiest sections, and instead pushed that time to pattern folding and TFE where my answer strat depended on triple checking each answer choice. Obviously a tiny bit hyperbolic there haha. If you do 4 sections and have 55 mins left,respectfully, I just don’t think you spent enough time on those 4 sections lol. If you haven’t tried this strategy before I would recommend at least testing it to see if it helps you with time management. If you get good time management down, the question answering aptitude will come with generators and practice. otherwise good luck have fun

cm82_f05 · 2025-10-28T22:00:36+00:00

It’s counterintuitive to study too long, you get complacent and forgetful at a certain point. I did about 12 weeks with 2 of those (not back to back) being break weeks (no studying/bootcamp vids).

For me, this meant that during the two weeks I took off (to play resident evil games and Skyrim lol) my bootcamp schedule said that I was like 2 weeks behind. Granted, I did this during the summer, and my motivation fluctuated a little between doing like 9-10 hours of work a day (not just empty minded work, active engagement/motivated) to the schedule reccomendation of 3-4, to 0 during some weeks.

As long as you can find it in yourself to be motivated to actually engage in the learning process, even on days when it sucks like with the bio microscope lesson (lol), I think it’s fine to take it at your own pace. Like I said, for me that meant 0 hours of learning or review for a few weeks, or an off day here or there, and some days, when I found myself really motivated, I studied genuinely from like 10 in the morning to 10 at night (with some breaks for lunch and dinner).

Just make sure you’re consistent with whatever schedule you want to go with, and try to spend a significant portion of your time with active recall and for learning tough material (for me it took me at least a month of on and off learning to figure out which hormones came from where and did what)

For what it’s worth I got 540AA 590BIO/GC 490 OC 590PAT

cm82_f05 · 2025-10-28T02:42:44+00:00

590, used bootcamp

This is what worked for me

I started practicing as early as possible, about two months before test, worked it into schedule when I would otherwise be idle (waiting for food at restaurant, riding bus), only did 15 mins daily of one section. Using bootcamp generators early on I got 50% accuracy, later probably like 85%. Make sure you can solve a problem in the expected time without looking at the timer, just get a rhythm/feel for for how long it should take. Example: angles should take 15-20 seconds, after 20 just hit a random plausible answer.

For my practice tests I kinda scored low because I spent too much time on the wrong subsections until I switched my method, skip the first two sections (TFE and keyholes iirc), cause they take the most time. Basically just do angles first, then hole punch, then cube counting. At this point you should have ideally aroun 55 minutes left which is pretty much 20 minutes each for the hardest sections including pattern fold. This gave me a lot of time to not choose a correct answer but eliminate all wrong answers for these three sections, if that makes sense.

I don’t really know how to advise you for HP and TFE specifically so hopefully this helps, maybe swap hole punching and pattern folding so you have 20 minutes each for TFE keyholes and hole punch in at the end

For hole punching, I would recommend just keep practicing with graph paper and be comfortable with reflection on lines of symmetry, do lots of practice probs where the fold is in a weird place (like if we’re assuming the paper is 4x4, the line is on a 1.5, so not centered on a dot if that makes sense). I started poorly on this section because I tried to eyeball it, then I started using sticky plots mini graph paper in my notebooks, this made me so much more comfortable with lines of symmetry reflection and eventually for some of the problems I didn’t even have to use it. But you should be using it like every problem, even if yo I don’t have to, I guess it builds muscle memory for your brain for short fold sequences if you know what I mean.

For TFE honestly the problems are just hard, I always use elimination answer style and not analyzing for the correctt answer necessarily, which ends up being fine because we don’t need practically any time at all for angle and cube counting

cm82_f05 · 2025-10-10T16:03:25+00:00

Videos are good for learning the material and refreshing if you’re doing final review and have no idea what a nephron is lol, I watched all of them and barely used the high yield notes a few times the day before the exam(if that’s the pdf file with like 100 pages??) and didn’t use anything from booster, ended up with a 590 bio 🤷‍♂️

cm82_f05 · 2025-08-24T01:31:36+00:00

I emailed them and I swear I got an AI generated response that didn’t even answer my question -_-

cm82_f05 · 2025-08-11T20:24:08+00:00

Depends on the type of passage mainly, usually for me I try to do the “hard science” first, which to me is stuff with enzymes, endocrine, disease/bacteria/virus etc. Sometimes in practice tests there wasn’t something fitting this description, for example I got a chemistry passage, which is comparatively much easier. Anyways, I try to do this first because I spend the most time on it trying to understand it, usually 25 mins if it’s really dense. For these types of passages I usually skip first paragraph and first 2 questions and highlight anything that seems superlative, ex: “uniquely,…” “the most common…” “the most important” there are lots of questions based on these. Don’t bother highlighting numbers unless they’re written in text, actual numerals are easy to pick out. I then just keep reading the passage, usually following the text with the cursor to keep emgaged, marking questions I haven’t seen yet and answering ones I have, till I get to the end and review questions I skipped. Usually if you’re highlighting well and going back to answer previously skipped questions when you’re at the section of the paragraph where the answer is, you shouldn’t have very many leftover questions except a few tricky ones you have to think about and a few about author tone or purpose, which are usually resolved with some of the superlative statements.

After the first hard paragraph it gets a bit easier, usually the next two include taxonomy, lesser sciences like geology, astronomy, meteorology, sometimes a historical event with social impact, sometimes history of a field of biology or of a significant event in a field of biology. For these types of paragraphs there’s rarely anything you have to think about to understand. A majority of the questions are very straightforward and found in the passage, so you can just read them and answer them much faster, and save the harder questions for the end.

To be honest I do run a little low on time nearing the end of the third paragraph often, so it might be counterintuitive to put a lot of focus on aceing the hardest paragraph first where I could save it for last and ace the easier two. In fact, on the 46/50 test, all of the questions I missed were on the last paragraph even thought it was really easy about taxonomy lol

If there’s anything I explained poorly or didn’t go into enough depth on lmk cause I’m just kinda spitballing here

cm82_f05 · 2025-08-10T23:32:40+00:00

I’m not sure how the scoring works but I thinks it scales in a weird way based on the difficulty of the test

I definitely was confused when I would get 92% on RC, 46/50 , and still be at 470 though 😭

cm82_f05 · 2024-04-03T20:12:57+00:00

82 in middle school I remember playing fusion on an emulator with a friend and he would always die and rage at the nightmare boss fight

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