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Background:
- Non-Trad
- 2003 B.S. in Clinical Lab Science
- Studied for 5-10hrs per week, mostly content for a few months, then 20+hrs/week over last 6 weeks
Now, I'm trying to navigate through a mine field. My practice test scores are dog poop. I mean not even mid 20's. Good news is that they are not going down, just a little better or worse between sections (I may make 8,6,7 or 7,7,6 or 6,8,7 etc.). I'm confident, and have hope and ambition, but I want to complement this with an effective plan and efficient study. I've got about 6 weeks left, and I've also got Kaplan Q bank and online practice on my side. Should I:
a) Continue the content review, take the subject tests, topical test, section tests and full lengths weekly
b) Give up the full lengths til the final 3 weeks and just do content/concept based questions w minimal book review
c) Scrap the questions and hit the books up again for a few weeks, then return to the full lengths and practice questions
d) Get psycho and attempt to complete (and review) every single question Kaplan has to offer, and screw the books all together.
e) Scrap all of these ideas and get my half refund, use it for next year?😱
I'm actually leaning towards (d) out of desperate frustration, or maybe frustrating desperation... but I wanted some sincere SDN advice first.
I feel like my main problem is timing because after I review a test, it seems like I understand 98% of the reasoning behind the answer choices, wrong and right. I admit that I fall into these crazy traps because I feel like I can reason the problems to a solution (PS and BS), but I'll look up and have <15 min left in a section, and 25 problems to go.
With verbal, I just don't get it. Some seem hard, some easy. I'll get all but one VR questions right for one passage, then only 1 or 2 for the next. I usually get to within 1 passage of finishing though.
I already made the mistake of wasting 3 AAMC Full lengths, I'm taking Kaplan FL from now till the final 3 weeks regardless of my plan.
Any guidance or suggestions?
Background:
- Non-Trad
- 2003 B.S. in Clinical Lab Science
- Studied for 5-10hrs per week, mostly content for a few months, then 20+hrs/week over last 6 weeks
Now, I'm trying to navigate through a mine field. My practice test scores are dog poop. I mean not even mid 20's. Good news is that they are not going down, just a little better or worse between sections (I may make 8,6,7 or 7,7,6 or 6,8,7 etc.). I'm confident, and have hope and ambition, but I want to complement this with an effective plan and efficient study. I've got about 6 weeks left, and I've also got Kaplan Q bank and online practice on my side. Should I:
a) Continue the content review, take the subject tests, topical test, section tests and full lengths weekly
b) Give up the full lengths til the final 3 weeks and just do content/concept based questions w minimal book review
c) Scrap the questions and hit the books up again for a few weeks, then return to the full lengths and practice questions
d) Get psycho and attempt to complete (and review) every single question Kaplan has to offer, and screw the books all together.
e) Scrap all of these ideas and get my half refund, use it for next year?😱
I'm actually leaning towards (d) out of desperate frustration, or maybe frustrating desperation... but I wanted some sincere SDN advice first.
I feel like my main problem is timing because after I review a test, it seems like I understand 98% of the reasoning behind the answer choices, wrong and right. I admit that I fall into these crazy traps because I feel like I can reason the problems to a solution (PS and BS), but I'll look up and have <15 min left in a section, and 25 problems to go.
With verbal, I just don't get it. Some seem hard, some easy. I'll get all but one VR questions right for one passage, then only 1 or 2 for the next. I usually get to within 1 passage of finishing though.
I already made the mistake of wasting 3 AAMC Full lengths, I'm taking Kaplan FL from now till the final 3 weeks regardless of my plan.
Any guidance or suggestions?