how much practice a day?

[jintonic5]

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so i'm spending a good amount of time studying each day, but i'm curious as to how much practice everyone is doing. i find that i'm splitting up my time where ~60-70% of my time is spent reviewing material, and 40-30% of my time is spent actually doing passages and problems.

also, how many problems/passages do you guys do everyday on avg?

thanks!

jt5

 

[tik-tik-clock]

so i'm spending a good amount of time studying each day, but i'm curious as to how much practice everyone is doing. i find that i'm splitting up my time where ~60-70% of my time is spent reviewing material, and 40-30% of my time is spent actually doing passages and problems.

also, how many problems/passages do you guys do everyday on avg?

thanks!

jt5

The best method I hear, is to spend AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE on doing problems and passages. The moment you hit something you can't comprehend well enough, then you go look up the material in your texts or your review notes.

 

[USArmyDoc]

I did the samething for the April exam as the OP is doing. I did not fair to well. I would practice more. I say 80% practice, 20% review. Now I spend my days just doing practice problems and passages. I do about 100-200 per day.

 

[Will Ferrell]

so i'm spending a good amount of time studying each day, but i'm curious as to how much practice everyone is doing. i find that i'm splitting up my time where ~60-70% of my time is spent reviewing material, and 40-30% of my time is spent actually doing passages and problems.

also, how many problems/passages do you guys do everyday on avg?

thanks!

jt5

About 1 hour timed doing 70-80 question problem sets in the PR Science Book (good stuff) or EK Bio 1001 (so-so, but I need biology help)
<30 minutes going over it (which i do a half-asses job on)
About 2 hours going over 2 chapters in the EK books (not learning anymore, im comfortable with all it, just to refresh it in my head)...

About 3.5 hours/day

 

[tik-tik-clock]

About 1 hour timed doing 70-80 question problem sets in the PR Science Book (good stuff) or EK Bio 1001 (so-so, but I need biology help)
<30 minutes going over it (which i do a half-asses job on)
About 2 hours going over 2 chapters in the EK books (not learning anymore, im comfortable with all it, just to refresh it in my head)...

About 3.5 hours/day

wow, that sounds like a very good and organized plan. I might adopt the same setting when I study for the MCAT. I just wanted to know the rate of its efficiency? Are you scoring satisfactorily on your practice full lengths?

 

[el.harpo]

I've been mostly reviewing until now along with Verbal practice. It helps to do the examples in the TPR PS Review book before looking at the solutions. Its coming along fine but now its my practice/review phase where I plan on doing 2-3 practice tests a week and reviewing them in excruciating detail and pound any weak topics with 2-3 hours or review or practice per topic each time I go over the practice tests. I'm going to start out with topics where I get 4-5 wrong on PS and BS (like Gases and Phase Changes, Waves and Harmonic Motion, Digestive Tract, etc.) and move down to the topics where I get 2-3 wrong, etc. Hopefully this will minimize any weak areas.

 

[jintonic5]

good calls everyone-- i guess i was right in thinking that i haven't been efficient in my approach. thanks for the insight.

 

[MrTee]

I spent probably about 60% of my time doing problems, 40% reviewing wrong answers and questions I got right, but wasn't sure about. It is important to do a lot of practice passages, but if you don't review what you got wrong, all the practice passages in the world won't help you. At this stage in the game, you should only be doing passages and reviewing stuff. You should spend ~4-5 hours a day doing these things.

 

[Will Ferrell]

wow, that sounds like a very good and organized plan. I might adopt the same setting when I study for the MCAT. I just wanted to know the rate of its efficiency? Are you scoring satisfactorily on your practice full lengths?

hey, i'm averaging 34 on the AAMCs (~12P,10V,12B). It works great, I'm knocking down the PR Science Book (75% done),EK Bio1001 (90% done), and I don't feel burnt out. 4 hours/day is very easy to do. I alternate week to week with Bio Sci, Phys Sci, and Verbal (3 week cycles). On verbal week I usually do a couple EK Verbal 101s, read magazines, do a set of aamc practice items, and relax. Each week I take a FL practice exam.

That PR Science book is crack. I got it for free from someone who took the course. I broke down (in random fashion) the Physics+Chem into thirteen 11 passage practice sets and the the Bio+Orgo into eleven 11 passage practice sets. I wrote out all the answer sheets before I started studying in early june and it's all real organized. After continuously doing these timed sets I feel my speed and stamina going up. I usually finish with at least 15 minutes to go on the science sections on my full lengths. Definitely check that book out.

 

[Scotty_G]

Which PR book are you referring to will?

hey, i'm averaging 34 on the AAMCs (~12P,10V,12B). It works great, I'm knocking down the PR Science Book (75% done),EK Bio1001 (90% done), and I don't feel burnt out. 4 hours/day is very easy to do. I alternate week to week with Bio Sci, Phys Sci, and Verbal (3 week cycles). On verbal week I usually do a couple EK Verbal 101s, read magazines, do a set of aamc practice items, and relax. Each week I take a FL practice exam.

That PR Science book is crack. I got it for free from someone who took the course. I broke down (in random fashion) the Physics+Chem into thirteen 11 passage practice sets and the the Bio+Orgo into eleven 11 passage practice sets. I wrote out all the answer sheets before I started studying in early june and it's all real organized. After continuously doing these timed sets I feel my speed and stamina going up. I usually finish with at least 15 minutes to go on the science sections on my full lengths. Definitely check that book out.

 

[frany584]

i think practicing passages is sooo important. i feel comfortable with all of the material, but its the critical thinking skills and application skills i need to work on, which practicing passages helps me strenghten those skills. 🙂