focusing on practice questions/ passages instead of reading

[study pray love]

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hey guys,

I cannot stand reading TBR physics. I feel like reading is an absolute waste of my time and stamina. I retain maybe 20% of what i read. When i do passages/ practice probs tho I learn sooo much more from the explanations than i do in 20 mins of reading. I'm this close to ditching TBR physics reading and just going straight to passages and learning backwards. (i'll go back and read the specific areas i am confused in after i do the pratcie qz/passages)

do you think this is something that will totally undermine my following the 3 month sn2ed study sched?

***disclaimer: i thoroughly read through and annotated TPR physics over the last 2 months before starting the 3 month sn2ed sched bc physics has always been my greatest weakness

thanks for your input 🙂

 

[MedPR]

hey guys,

I cannot stand reading TBR physics. I feel like reading is an absolute waste of my time and stamina. I retain maybe 20% of what i read. When i do passages/ practice probs tho I learn sooo much more from the explanations than i do in 20 mins of reading. I'm this close to ditching TBR physics reading and just going straight to passages and learning backwards. (i'll go back and read the specific areas i am confused in after i do the pratcie qz/passages)

do you think this is something that will totally undermine my following the 3 month sn2ed study sched?

***disclaimer: i thoroughly read through and annotated TPR physics over the last 2 months before starting the 3 month sn2ed sched bc physics has always been my greatest weakness

thanks for your input 🙂

If your time is really better spent working through problems, then I would ditch the reading. Personally I get a little out of the reading, but I feel like I would spend a lot more time going back and forth between problems if I hadn't read the chapter beforehand.

 

[study pray love]

thanks for the feedback, medPR 🙂

 

[Corpsman Up]

I think with Physics you can probably get away with that. With conceptual problems, I learn better (and faster) by getting it wrong initially and reading why it was wrong than if I just spent a lot of time reading the chapter and trying to reason through the problems.

 

[411309]

hm I actually got a lot out of reading the chapter from TBR physics. Personally I thought they were great. The only chapter I didnt was the optics chapter and maybe the magnetism chapter, they could have been a little more clear and a little less detailed on a couple concepts but other than that I thought it was great overall.

 

[cutandpaste]

I think with Physics you can probably get away with that. With conceptual problems, I learn better (and faster) by getting it wrong initially and reading why it was wrong than if I just spent a lot of time reading the chapter and trying to reason through the problems.

Glad im not the only one who learns this way with TBR. I find TPR uses a simpler approach with physics equations.

 

[study pray love]

I think with Physics you can probably get away with that. With conceptual problems, I learn better (and faster) by getting it wrong initially and reading why it was wrong than if I just spent a lot of time reading the chapter and trying to reason through the problems.

Glad im not the only one who learns this way with TBR. I find TPR uses a simpler approach with physics equations.

do you guys feel this way about TBR ochem& gen chem, as well?

 

[johnisles2011]

Dude you have done something very important on your road to the MCAT, you have discovered a studying method that works for you and one that doesn't. Screw what doesn't work and stick to what does. You can always go back to reading to refine SPECIFIC points of knowledge that you struggle with the questions for.

Sounds like you're making good progress and have a good plan. Good luck!