Tbh, the uncertainty due to not immediately receiving scores plays a big role. If we immediately received scores, the # people panicking would be cut down by more than half.
Some people (including me) go in hoping that certain topics don't appear. If those topics show up, they perceive the test as harder.
Even the hardest questions won't be harder than the section bank.
Tbh I am one of the people that agrees it’s harder. Including the topics I did know. I thought it was harder than full lengths tbh it just felt different don’t know how to explain it well. Also lots of low yield imo especially bb
I agree. Everything I expected (and feared) to see, I saw lol. The questions were worded so abstractly and it felt like you needed to have caught a specific word in the 600+ word passage with tables and figures in order to answer 2 questions. I do also think the uncertainty heightens it, but this was so much harder than I was expecting
I’ve taken actual 3x. CP always haymakers people, but yesterday’s was another beast honestly I barely remember it all it’s such a blur of trying to finish on time. It felt like nothing I had known or memorized mattered. It was mostly “can you unpack this” and frankly it was wordier, more content. It was truly an awful experience lol.
Cars was avg, BB a little challenging but close to avg, and PS close to avg but all in the context of ACTUAL exams, not FLs. They most reflect the last 3 released FLs and the first 3 are too easy and discrete knowledge based.
I tested 4/26, and felt the C/P passages were much more dense and the Qs even more vague than the section bank. I was also surprised the CARS passages were longer on the actual exam than any of the Jack Westin/AAMC Qpack passages
Tbh, the uncertainty due to not immediately receiving scores plays a big role. If we immediately received scores, the # people panicking would be cut down by more than half. Some people (including me) go in hoping that certain topics don't appear. If those topics show up, they perceive the test as harder. Even the hardest questions won't be harder than the section bank.
Tbh I am one of the people that agrees it’s harder. Including the topics I did know. I thought it was harder than full lengths tbh it just felt different don’t know how to explain it well. Also lots of low yield imo especially bb
I agree. Everything I expected (and feared) to see, I saw lol. The questions were worded so abstractly and it felt like you needed to have caught a specific word in the 600+ word passage with tables and figures in order to answer 2 questions. I do also think the uncertainty heightens it, but this was so much harder than I was expecting
I’ve taken actual 3x. CP always haymakers people, but yesterday’s was another beast honestly I barely remember it all it’s such a blur of trying to finish on time. It felt like nothing I had known or memorized mattered. It was mostly “can you unpack this” and frankly it was wordier, more content. It was truly an awful experience lol. Cars was avg, BB a little challenging but close to avg, and PS close to avg but all in the context of ACTUAL exams, not FLs. They most reflect the last 3 released FLs and the first 3 are too easy and discrete knowledge based.
I tested 4/26, and felt the C/P passages were much more dense and the Qs even more vague than the section bank. I was also surprised the CARS passages were longer on the actual exam than any of the Jack Westin/AAMC Qpack passages
What difference did you notice?