From your experience, is it more important to do more practice problems or review material?

[mitrieD]

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[Daneosaurus]

Content review is more important, IMO. I think you will not be as successful with your practice problems without reviewing first. For me, content review was about twice as long as the practice stage. I'm still in the practice stage, but it's important to have a strong content review (it's also the worst part, IMO).

 

[DogeDDS]

I would say review but it's hard to flat out choose one. Yes, review is very important but it's also important to practice how to apply that knowledge you've gained through your review.

 

[BrazilianRider]

One of the reasons I loved Qvault/Bootcamp/Destroyer is because they offer a little of both. If you do one Qvault test a day for each subject, then supplement it with some additional Destroyer/ Ferallis' Notes review (dammit, I didn't pay attention in that thread so I dunno if I'm spelling it right), I think that gives you the best of both worlds. If you review the answers to both questions you got right and wrong, you'll be fine. Qvault/Bootcamp/Destroyer all give WONDERFUL explanations to their questions, and I'm sure you'll learn a lot from those three sources (although Bootcamp should be used more as a litmus test on how you're doing! Still, review your answers after every practice exam).

 

[discensdentibus]

There are many studies on this. Study -> Test -> Study -> Test is a really effective way to learn. It greatly beats out Study x4 or Test x4. For ochem glazing your eyes up and down a wall of mechanisms/rxns will not do near as well as writing and practicing, but how can you practice if you were never exposed in the first place? For ochem, if you have a solid base for knowledge I would say flat out practicing problems for that and math would be a bit more beneficial than gen chem or bio. Strengthening those connections are important.

Bio I would say if you could only do one, then review. Only doing practice problems for bio would be like trying to solve a 5000 piece puzzle w/o knowing what your final image is supposed to look like.

Gen chem I couldn't say. It would be most borderline for me.

 

[mitrieD]

Cool thanks for the responses

 

[CustomGrills51]

I think timing is one of the most important things to get down. Other than that however u learn best is the way to go.

 

[Scienceani]

Do a basic review and then start doing practice problems. While you are doing practice problems you are basically doing another round of review in much more detail!