Last two weeks?!

[aspirant]

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Hello.

I sometimes get scared when I look at my admission ticket. Does this happen to anyone else?

That is not my real question.

My real question is, I've seen people on here talking about saving most of their practice tests for the last two weeks. This seems to fly in the face of the 'EK Zen' thing, as well as conventional wisdom that one should prepare early. (Like I've ever done that.)

Seems actually like not too bad of an idea to me. Is the rationale to just get so used to taking the MCAT that it is easy on Sat morning? Does this build endurance? How the *&%# are you not banging your head on the table by halfway through BS?! Why must there be a writing sample?! Why does God hate me?!

OK, that will do it for today.

Sincerely,
-asp

 

[ut_stephen]

I'm not sure if you wanted advice...or if you were just venting...but if you wanted some advice, here is mine: 🙂

I agree that it helps to mainly run through full-length tests and lots of passages as you approach the day of the test. Most of your studying earlier this summer should have focused on content, because content-oriented studying generally involves long-term memory. So yes, now is the time to start doing lots of tests and passages...I don't know if people should be "saving" them to the last two weeks...as this seems to imply that they weren't doing them all along...which definitely would not be good. The week before I took the MCAT last year, I found all the practice material that I could and mainly worked on that and didn't really study any content. This seemed to help because my score went up a couple of points between a practice test the week before the real thing and the actual test.