Does anyone think this is a bad idea??

[UCDavisdude]

so, i could follow the exaMkrackers home study schedule, but instead, i am reading one lecture a day, which will take me a month to go through all the books. then ima go back and do all the 30 min exams and start with all the practice testing. this leaves me 3 months to practice and go back through the material as needed. do any of you advise against this?? thanks for the help yall

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[Flooflun]

so, i could follow the exaMkrackers home study schedule, but instead, i am reading one lecture a day, which will take me a month to go through all the books. then ima go back and do all the 30 min exams and start with all the practice testing. this leaves me 3 months to practice and go back through the material as needed. do any of you advise against this?? thanks for the help yall

If you do that, make sure not to do one book at a time. Rather, space it out...for example, do one chapter from each book (bio, phys, orgo, gchem) and then the second chapter from each book.

 

[SensesFail]

so, i could follow the exaMkrackers home study schedule, but instead, i am reading one lecture a day, which will take me a month to go through all the books. then ima go back and do all the 30 min exams and start with all the practice testing. this leaves me 3 months to practice and go back through the material as needed. do any of you advise against this?? thanks for the help yall

Yes, I advise strongly AGAINST this.

I'm no expert, but the first time I wrote the MCAT I did EXACTLY what you've outlined to do (except with Princeton Review books, not EK) and did bad on the MCAT.

The reason I did bad was because by the end of the 1 month of just pure studying without any practice problems, I lost/forgot so much information and got mixed up on a lot of the core concepts because I hadn't done any problems to really drill the concepts in my head.

The 2nd time I wrote the MCAT, I would read a chapter and do the Topical/Subject Tests just relevant to that chapter and I found that strategy to be very helpful in nailing down many concepts.

 

[Lindyhopper]

Practice problems is critically important. You are probably better off working through the 1001 questions books than spending a month just studying.