How long does TBR actually take to understand?

[pfaction]

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I'm entering the game real, real late, and probably doing this will detriment me more than anything. I feel unprepared from TPR, so I got TBR. Takes me roughly 2 hours to do a single section, without the passages... I understand a majority of it from TPR and it's definitely helping clear up some other stuff. I wish I had started this back in January... I'm in the middle of Physics right now, on CH.3, not sure how long it's gonna take me to finish or even if I can finish OChem and GChem between then.

 

[MedPR]

I'm entering the game real, real late, and probably doing this will detriment me more than anything. I feel unprepared from TPR, so I got TBR. Takes me roughly 2 hours to do a single section, without the passages... I understand a majority of it from TPR and it's definitely helping clear up some other stuff. I wish I had started this back in January... I'm in the middle of Physics right now, on CH.3, not sure how long it's gonna take me to finish or even if I can finish OChem and GChem between then.

Depends how good you are at each topic. Organic book 1 was fine for me, but the second book got really dense and I skipped a lot of the stuff I felt was unimportant. Both gen chem books were pretty straight forward for me since it is probably my strongest subject (usually get 0-1 wrong from gen chem on AAMC FLs).

Physics is definitely tough if you're not good at it (perhaps even if you are good at it, I don't know) but it definitely made me a lot better at conceptualizing and ruling out answers even if I don't know the right one. On AAMC 10 I had no idea on the majority of a physics passage and I basically guessed my way through it using TBR logic and got every question right.

Bio is a joke; don't bother reading it unless you are really weak in bio. The passages are great even if they are ridiculously hard and random sometimes.

tl&dr; physics always took me longer than two hours without doing the passages.

 

[pfaction]

Excellent. I'm doing exactly what they said, using minimal pen and paper, reading what they wrote a few times over, digesting it, visualing it. But you see how I make reading mistakes in questions and such so their turbo solutions occasionally screw me up.

I'm taking a test every Tuesday and Saturday until my exam; my plan is to read each chapter and do the 25 questions untimed, move on to the next chapter and book and just keep up with TPR until my exam. I once again wish you luck on your test soon and hope you'll tell us how easy it was 😉

 

[411309]

Depends how good you are at each topic. Organic book 1 was fine for me, but the second book got really dense and I skipped a lot of the stuff I felt was unimportant. Both gen chem books were pretty straight forward for me since it is probably my strongest subject (usually get 0-1 wrong from gen chem on AAMC FLs).

Physics is definitely tough if you're not good at it (perhaps even if you are good at it, I don't know) but it definitely made me a lot better at conceptualizing and ruling out answers even if I don't know the right one. On AAMC 10 I had no idea on the majority of a physics passage and I basically guessed my way through it using TBR logic and got every question right.

Bio is a joke; don't bother reading it unless you are really weak in bio. The passages are great even if they are ridiculously hard and random sometimes.

tl&dr; physics always took me longer than two hours without doing the passages.

I really wonder how much bio knowledge you actually use on the current mcat. I felt like my real thing required just a very light understanding with the ability to read it like its simple. Super hard version of VR.


I learned physics from scratch with TBR and it was brutal. Now that I think about it, I think physics is prob the toughest science subject to learn from scratch. In my opinion anyways. Just because its hard understanding how certain concepts work sometimes.

 

[UrshumMurshum]

I really wonder how much bio knowledge you actually use on the current mcat. I felt like my real thing required just a very light understanding with the ability to read it like its simple. Super hard version of VR.


I learned physics from scratch with TBR and it was brutal. Now that I think about it, I think physics is prob the toughest science subject to learn from scratch. In my opinion anyways. Just because its hard understanding how certain concepts work sometimes.

Good, because I took biology more than 2 years ago, and I certainly don't remember all the specific stuff.

 

[shoehornlettuce]

I think it will depend on how familiar you are with the material. The physics, gen chem and orgo don't take me very long but the bio takes me forever (my bio II class was very poor). Probably 5+ hours per section. Take however long you need to fully understand the material. As long as you know it for the MCAT, it doesn't matter how long you spent with TBR.

 

[dmf2682]

I suspect it'll be a blend of stuff. Memorized facts plus reasoning. The way I'm thinking about it is vr but the language is biology. You have to know what they're asking in order to figure out how to answer.

 

[411309]

well mine was weird. There were prob only 1-2 physiology questions on the test. The rest was molecular/genetics. if someone just studied those two bio subjects only they could of gotten a high score.