I started studying 3 days ago on 11/5/24 and my test date is 4/5/25.

I am using Kaplan books to do content review. I am starting with Physics, then will move to Gen Chem, then O Chem, then Biology, then Biochemistry. Then I plan to use the 300 page P/S document and skip the P/S Kaplan book.

I am planning on doing 1 chapter of Kaplan per day, as well as the daily Jack Westin CARS passage. I plan on using Anki after finishing each chapter and review consistently. I plan to do UWorld questions after finishing each Kaplan book. After finishing all of Kaplan review, I plan on taking one of the Kaplan FLs.

After Content Review (Estimated 2 months?) I plan on fully going into practice questions with UWorld and AAMC questions (Estimated 1-2 months?)

After finishing those, I plan to take the AAMC FLs (Estimated 1 month?)

Should I do 2 chapters a day instead? Start UWorld earlier?

Any advice on this plan would be appreciated.

Hi all! was wondering if anyone had a Notion template for content review. Thanks in advance!

Is the free Altius FL a half-length or full length? I thought the free exam was a full length but the website only emailed me a half-length

Title. I don’t have the money to reschedule :( how do you all suggest going about studying for this exam?? I would love to be able to earn a 515+, but is this even possible to achieve in 2.5 months? any advice would help, thank you. Especially if you were in a similar boat and ended up doing great on the exam, how did you cram in this period of time??

Just want to know if UW B|B is representative of the real MCAT or not for those who took it. On what I’ve seen thus far of the AAMC material, nothing compares to the level of difficulty of UW, imo. UW biology wrecked my balls 💀 it was my lowest average (probably didnt help that I havent taken A&P), and now on AAMC shit it’s suddenly become the second easiest section.

Should I rest easy on AAMC material or should I actually memorize everything UW has to offer? How was yall’s experience on the actual thing?

Other than memorizing the formulas thru anki, is the best tip for improving physics just practicing uworld?

Hey everyone. I am currently doing practice problems on Uworld and I’m finding it so difficult to get questions correct. I feel like I didn’t do enough content review but at the same time I feel like I probably did so my question is how do you guys end up getting upwards of 80% correct??? Like I find them super difficult. Is there a secret I don’t know of?

first ever diagnostic, taken in blueprint. Haven’t started prep, I am looking to test in July. Should I worry about my score? Is it an OK score? Recommendations for cars please?

i just got Gizmo and i really like it and i was wondering if any of you guys have like notes or something that I can put into Gizmo to help me study for the MCAT?

My PR on practice exams is 508, scored a 505 in Aug. I finished all of uworld and put in so much practice and learned so much and felt like I was going to do great and crush my record, but today I wrote an exam and didn’t, does anyone have tips for me, idk if it’s how I’m going about my FLS or what……

Hey guys, so I have a request. I need some accountability partners/study buddies/ people who I can talk with briefly about goals and strategies moving along through this journey. Here’s the kicker: we would meet to meet virtually at 3:30 am New York Time. Crazy, I know, but that’s exactly why this would help me out a ton.

To those who have the impulse to say just be more disciplined, I get it, I appreciate the sentiment, but this is me being more disciplined. I am manipulating myself through you guys 🤗.

Lmk if you’re available even if it’s only for one day a week. I’m looking for as many pre med buddies as I can get. Posted on r/premed too btw.

Thanks!

Before the MCAT I’d study like 4-7 days in advance for most of my difficult tests. Now after the test I procrastinate all the way until the day before tests. I keep telling myself I will stop but I don’t. Anyone else dealing with this? I’ve got a friend in the same boat. Not doing bad on my tests or anything but I just have to stay up all night

Just finished my first full length (blueprint exam 1). I got a 507 (125/128/124/130). Honestly satisfied with it as my goal score is 505 but at the same time I want to improve the b/b section. Some passages on the blueprint B/B section were very confusing so I didn’t understand what was going on so I ended up guessing. I am almost done with Uworld (458 questions left in total). Should I start doing aamc question pack for now?

The question is the title. Is this something we are supposed to know? I’m not sure

I get why this is wrong (kind of petty cuz it seems correct right off the bat but sneaky wording of “chemical” vs “physical” properties).

But if B actually said “physical” properties at the end, that would be a correct answer right? I thought you can absolutely use a resolving agent to create diastereomers to separate a racemic mixture of enantiomers.

So basically you can use both resolving agent OR a chiral column chromatography to separate a mixture of enantiomers? The Uglobe explanation said you’d use chiral chromatography only if you weren’t able to separate with a chiral catalyst earlier or use a resolving agent.

Anyone else’s try this method? Feels like I’m comprehending the information better.

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I took the AAMC scored FL back in September and got a 497 on it. That was with minimal content review (only went over Biochem and Physics Kaplan books, was starting Gen Chem around that time). I've now finished all of the Kaplan books besides the Behavioral Science one and I'm halfway through the 300pg Khan Academy PS document. I've been doing Anki daily since the first day I started studying. I'm just now incorporating 40-50 mixed content UGlobe Questions into my study schedule everyday (I try and do 1 UGlobe CARS passage a day if I have extra time). In those 40-50 questions, I usually average around 70% and it probably takes me around 2 hours to do all of them.

I just took BP Half-length to see where I stand in taking the actual exam and to also simulate testing conditions. However, I scored lower than expected. Any thoughts on how I should proceed with studying for the exam? My test date is in March.

Hello, I am seeking advice on whether it would be worth it to take the MCAT a 4th time? My score history is 506 -> 509 -> 509, with the two 509s only a couple of months in between. I am currently applying this cycle and I'm sure my MCAT history is a bit of a red flag to the adcoms, as my cycle has not been too successful thus far. To note, I am Asian ORM, so I was wondering if bringing my score up to the matriculant average of ~514 outweighs the number of attempts I have. Thanks!

did i experience a really weird glitch or was the CARS section the exact same as JW FL 3?

I decided to just do it anyway (because of course I didnt even remember what i got right an wrong the first time RIP)

I am currently doing UEarth B/B problem sets and they are kicking my ass.

I take way too long on each question, which causes me to lose my focus for the rest of the problem set. Not only that, but I have no idea how to properly review the B/B questions I got wrong. I usually go through them and see what caused me to get it wrong, but I can't really make Anki cards based on whether I got the questions wrong due to flawed logic or whatever or if I didn't understand the question—I really only make cards if I did not know a certain piece of content. Therefore, I usually end up just skimming over the explanations for UEarth B/B.

Testing around March/April. Any advice would be appreciated.

I'm just wondering if any of you have an idea on MCAT percentile and accuracy, particularly for CARS (other sections too if you know).

For example, of the 53 questions, if you were to get 52/53 right, would that be 131 or 132 likely? I just want to gauge myself when doing QBanks later or anything without a percentile. I know it's not completely necessary, but it doesn't hurt if you guys know any information.

Thank you :)

Curious for those of you who have used any of the 4 free JW full lengths. How do you think they were? I only need two non AAMC full lengths for my study schedule so I’m in between just using these free ones or dropping some cash on another third party

Been doing jack Westin+uworld cars, I feel like I’ve made progress in every single subject except cars. Idk why it won’t go up, what do you guys do about this? I did a practice test got 124, then did another one after so much practice 125 then did another, 125. How do I go up? I’ve tried to review but cars just doesn’t stick to me. Help.

Saw an anki card with “sin is sliding down the slide” to remember this but something else popped into my head. If it helps anyone else, sweet.

“My God… Sin is sliding down to hell.”

mgsin0<—- not zero, don’t know how to make theta sign on here lol

Someone be real with me, do I have to thoroughly memorize the entire freaking hill criteria?

Need to conserve space where I can, there’s only so many words that will fit into my brain.

My family/friends after I finish answering their medical question with an in-depth explanation of glycolysis:

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Anyone have any good links or resources they recommend with the concept I listed above. These seem to be the questions I always get wrong on UWorld. Anything helps please!

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a bit offended lol