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So I'm on week 5 of Examkrackers 10 week program and I'm feeling a little frustrated. I'm spending 3-4 hours taking notes on each topic lecture, listening to the audio osmosis, taking the practice test at the end, and then getting 9-12. Which is guess isn't that bad, but its taking me 4-5 hours for a total study session when apparently it should only take 2-3 hours!
A huge part of my problem is that how I've learned in college is by taking detailed notes on the book for my classes, which doesn't seem to be feasible timewise here. By the end I'm frustrated because I've used up so much time when it shouldn't be taking me this long, and by the end I'm exhausted because I've spent a total of 5 hours covering a biology lecture! I guess my question would be, how exactly do you study the lectures? Would it be better if I took the 30 minute exam at the end of the chapter first, then took the problems inside the chapter and did those, then see what I did wrong and then study that?
Another problem is that for the Saturday stuff (which should take 3-4 hours total). Realistically, its taking me an hour to an hour and a half to do and answer every third problem in the physics and chem books and every third passage in the biology book (coming out at around 4 and a half hours). On top of that (which I haven't even attempted because by the end of that four and a half hours I'm exhausted) we're supposed to do a full length verbal reasoning test (85 minutes)! Is it normal for people to take this long?
Obviously I'm using this material incorrectly, so what should I do to correct this?
A huge part of my problem is that how I've learned in college is by taking detailed notes on the book for my classes, which doesn't seem to be feasible timewise here. By the end I'm frustrated because I've used up so much time when it shouldn't be taking me this long, and by the end I'm exhausted because I've spent a total of 5 hours covering a biology lecture! I guess my question would be, how exactly do you study the lectures? Would it be better if I took the 30 minute exam at the end of the chapter first, then took the problems inside the chapter and did those, then see what I did wrong and then study that?
Another problem is that for the Saturday stuff (which should take 3-4 hours total). Realistically, its taking me an hour to an hour and a half to do and answer every third problem in the physics and chem books and every third passage in the biology book (coming out at around 4 and a half hours). On top of that (which I haven't even attempted because by the end of that four and a half hours I'm exhausted) we're supposed to do a full length verbal reasoning test (85 minutes)! Is it normal for people to take this long?
Obviously I'm using this material incorrectly, so what should I do to correct this?
