Are two days enough to thoroughly go over one full-length?

[ManimalJax]

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I will be working full time starting in the fall, standard Monday to Friday, 9 to 5 job (medically-related though, so it's an application booster 🙂). I will have off on Saturday and Sunday. Now, if I schedule all my of practice exams for Saturday morning, will the remainder of Saturday and all of Sunday be enough for me to thoroughly review the exam? Please let me know.

 

[dhbighit]

Honestly, it never really took me more than a couple hours, if that, to go over a full length, but thats just my study method, I guess you could take longer, I don't know?

 

[engineeredout]

Yeah I don't even know how you would take that long an amount of time. I don't typically analyze them that carefully. I'll look at it and go "Okay I got this question wrong because I didn't know this..." or "I got this question right from reading the passage, okay".... and move on.

 

[ManimalJax]

Honestly, I thought it may take up to three days before I put up this thread. I thought that after reading the strategy found in the post of one of the highest scorers in the "30+ MCAT Study Habits" thread.

 

[engineeredout]

Honestly, I thought it may take up to three days before I put up this thread. I thought that after reading the strategy found in the post of one of the highest scorers in the "30+ MCAT Study Habits" thread.

Its all about whatever works for you. People are going to use wildly different study methods in order to achieve their desired results. You've got to find what works best for you and what is the most efficient use of your time.

 

[futuredoctor10]

Yeah I think people say (as a general rule, may vary) that you should spend as much time taking the FL as you spend reviewing the FL.

As long as you review the FL and see why you missed what you missed, I think you'll be fine. For most people I would guess this can be done in a few hours or less, usually the day they took the FL or the day after. That's what I did at least.

 

[Vihsadas]

Depending on how far along you are in your studying, futuredoc is more or less right. If you know the material well-enough reviewing and even analyzing the exam shouldn't take you much longer than 3-6 hours.

 

[StayingSteady]

and the higher you score, the less time it should take to review 😉

 

[student1799]

Two days? I'd say more like two hours. And your review will be more efficient if you use the features available on the AAMC practice exams. On your score report, they group the questions in each section into subtopics (such as acid/base problems, gravitation, cell biology, etc.), and give a tally of how many you got right in each subtopic. So if you have an area of glaring weakness (like magnetism problems in my case), it will stand out right away. Plus, if you click that answer tally, you'll go straight to the WRONG answers you got in that category, which saves time. Finally, AAMC offers you a drop-down menu of reasons why you got a question wrong, and the score report keeps a running tally for you of each kind of error. This helps you analyze mistakes you made which may not have to do with the test content, such as changing right answers to wrong ones or misreading a question. (For example, on one test I found that 20% of my errors were due to changing right answers to wrong ones! That was quite an eye-opener.)

The Kaplan score reports don't have any of those fancy features, so it takes longer to review one of their tests. But even for those, 2-3 hours should be sufficient.