Full Lengths and Burning Out.

[misplacedshadow]

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Hey Yall,

I am getting many feedback from people telling me to not continuosly do full length exams back to back each day without taking a full day to review and a break day. But I feel I can do that since I took a month off from work and I already graduated and dont have to worry about classes. I feel that I shouldn't get burned out for this reason. Also I feel I can take a full length exam and review it right after the exam is done for twice the time it took me to do the exam, say about 10 hours. Has anyone here in these forums been able to continuously do full lengths and review on the same day and do this continuosly for days back to back, and is willing to give me some bit of hope that this is possible. I really look up to you guys and you guys are my only hope. I wouldn't have come this far if it weren't for you guys.

 

[MedPR]

Hey Yall,

I am getting many feedback from people telling me to not continuosly do full length exams back to back each day without taking a full day to review and a break day. But I feel I can do that since I took a month off from work and I already graduated and dont have to worry about classes. I feel that I shouldn't get burned out for this reason. Also I feel I can take a full length exam and review it right after the exam is done for twice the time it took me to do the exam, say about 10 hours. Has anyone here in these forums been able to continuously do full lengths and review on the same day and do this continuosly for days back to back, and is willing to give me some bit of hope that this is possible. I really look up to you guys and you guys are my only hope. I wouldn't have come this far if it weren't for you guys.

I've already given you my input but I'll share a little more this time around. I did this for 6-7 days and was exhausted at the end of it AND I didn't spend anywhere near 10 hours reviewing each FL. I scored them the same day and went ahead and started doing practice passages (TBR) and EK 1001 questions on the topic(s) I saw in the FL that I knew I was weak on. The next day I went through the FL and reviewed each question (right and wrong). This took probably only 4-5 hours. After that I did more passages and practice problems as well as re-reading sections that I wasn't great at.

You're talking about doing 15 hour days back to back to back to back? I wish you luck.

 

[Whomp]

While on the topic... I'm taking the test April 28th, and I have time for approximately 5-6 FLs with my schedule.

I have already taken AAMC #3 and got a 30, and was wondering which of the remaining AAMC's I should take. Should I skip 4 and 5 and go straight to 7-11? I have heard the difficulty varies throughout the 9 and I want to get the best practice I can before April 28th.
I also have several Kaplan tests to take, but I obviously don't have time for all of them and AAMC.

With my remaining 5-6 FL time slots which ones should I take?

 

[typicalindian]

@ OP. Do it. everyone studies differently so do what works for you. If you can't handle it, change it up. Trying wont hurt

 

[mcloaf]

If you think that will work, go for it. I honestly don't understand how you guys spend so long reviewing FL's, what are you looking at/doing? It took me like 20 minutes to look through, see what I got wrong, and figure out why.

 

[typicalindian]

If you think that will work, go for it. I honestly don't understand how you guys spend so long reviewing FL's, what are you looking at/doing? It took me like 20 minutes to look through, see what I got wrong, and figure out why.

thats because you probably got like 4 wrong joking of course but I agree. It only took me like 40 minutes to review my FL yesterday and fully understand why I got things wrong. Dont know how it takes people 10 hours to review it thats just excessive..

 

[MedPR]

If you think that will work, go for it. I honestly don't understand how you guys spend so long reviewing FL's, what are you looking at/doing? It took me like 20 minutes to look through, see what I got wrong, and figure out why.

It took me about the same to figure out all of my mistakes, but I spent a lot more time making sure I wouldn't make the same mistake(s) again; TBR passages, EK 1001, etc.