Busting 5 LIES about the MCAT

[@KoiDoesMed]

Thanks

[@purpleviolinist184]

You said "people think that of something works for someone, it must work for everyone" in the beginning of the video. Then the whole next 10 minutes is a bunch of "this is what we did and it's the only way and correct way." Judging from all of your other content, it seems like none of you can grasp that idea truly. It's just a bunch of lifeless, self-centered, almost demeaning content that is not of any use. My personal favorite is the titular "3 month MCAT Schedule to ACE the MCAT (520+ MCAT Score)". With this title, and from a brief scrubbing through the video, you're implying that every should use the methods you used when you studied for the MCAT to guarantee a 96+ percentile score. Beyond me that you can say some of these things. Just a few critical thoughts can make these videos a waste of breath. "What if someone has a kid?" or "What if someone is coming from another field of work" or "What if someone didn't properly learn topics before?" Beyond me though. But hey, why not continue to make this oversaturated, useless content and attempt at making some kind of social media following. It's something to display your unwarranted egos and lack of critical thinking. My advice, have a reality check and find something better to do with your time.

[@litaz4378]

hey i just had my first day of prep101 biochem and ngl would your 3 month schedule help because my mcat is aug 30, and I just did the practice questions on examkrackers and the passages seem super hard ; I don't have any basis tbh and think my first diagnostic will be super low . I wanted to know how I should incorporate anki as well, I want to implement active learning as soon as i can

[@themedboys]

The 3 month schedule can absolutely work for you. Examkrackers is known to be a lot harder than AAMC, so don’t worry too much about your score! Just make sure you stick to a schedule in order to get the necessary content review in to start scoring well on FLs. Wit regards to how early to incorporate Anki, it is ideal to start using it as early as you can. To see whether or not you have time for it, I would recommend scheduling out every hour of your studying every day. I know it’s tedious, but it’ll give you a very good idea of how much work you can realistically accomplish in a day. Hope this helps

[@litaz4378]

@@themedboys thank you very appreciated I respect it

[@litaz4378]

@@themedboys in the three month schedule it was advised to do uworld questions for 2 hours during the first month. I may not have access to it now but rather in around july (1 month prior) -- I've never used uWorld but is it fantastic compared to other third party resources of passages

[@litaz4378]

@@themedboys and lastly do you have a google drive with all your mcat resources like the 55 page psych and biochem etc.

[@vicachekhovskiy]

Would it be useful to slowly start going over content if I know my MCAT will be taken roughly 2 years from now, just to make sure it makes sense to me (and so I can really learn the pathways/concepts that are more confusing to me), and then when I’m closer to test day I can focus on practice questions?

[@KoiDoesMed]

Do the daily jack Westin cars passage

[@themedboys]

Not necessary in our opinion. You go over MCAT content as part of certain undergrad courses like general chemistry. We would recommend building those reading comprehension skills by reading for fun and potentially doing CARS practice passages on Jack Westin

[@jameso8711]

If you can manage to do it without hampering your GPA, it might not be a bad idea. But make sure you prioritize GPA. MCAT can always be taken in life. Another thing is some people genuinely only perform when they are forced to and have some sort of pressure. Doing MCAT without someone forcing you to be on time and perform, like a professor would in an undergraduate class, can be tricky for some people because studying on your own needs a ton of motivation. IT might be hard to generate that if you are the type of person that needs the stress of deadlines to perform. Keep that in mind - a solution is often enrolling in a MCAT class or something. Many have said the class itself didn’t help them too much, but just having the accountability aspect I’m talking about helped them to stay on track and motivated to go full speed at the content.

[@NickSunuwar-w8g]

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