BR Timing

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So, for the BR Gen Chem book, there are specific passages that are meant to be harder/untimed for practice, then they tell you to do x,y,z passages timed for X mins, then there's left over passages to reinforce content untimed.

For physics, theres 25 review questions, and then a bunch of passages. However unlike gen chem, there isn't associated groupings of the passages. Has anyone figured out a good system to do the physics passages?

For BR Bio, they just tell you to pick a few passages at random, do them untimed. Then pick another group of passages and time them (1.25 mins per question as a guidline).
 
I don't think there is a magical way to do the physics passages, I am just doing them as SN2ed suggests (meaning do review passage 1, practice exam passage 1, 4, 7) and just try to stick with the timing the best you can. On your real MCAT there are going to be those crazy hard passages, and some slightly easier ones, so just go with the flow.

On a harder passage with more questions, I don't think its terrible to spend 8-10 minutes on it because it evens out in the end and there are easy passages that take 5 minutes. On my real mcat I spent around 15 minutes on one of the experimental bio passages because I wanted to nail it, and then quickly flew through some of the easier ochem passages.
 
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