more effective to study each chapter thoroughly and do all problems or...

[sixpence]

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more effective to study each chapter thoroughly and do all problems, for example study one chapter and then do all the EK 1001 problems for that chapter

or

do only the questions at the end of each chapter in EK and then once i finish all the chapters, work the 1001?

maybe its a matter of preference?

 

[sv3]

I'm using TPR but here's what happenned to me:

I did a chapter, then all the problems (Every single one). Now that i've completed two subjects and am on the third, i very much regret going so hard at the practice problems so early on. I mean I'm doing physics and I can't remember the approaches i took to the hard problems back when i did chem or orgo. I wish I had done a small amount of questions to ensure I got the concepts down, and left the majority of them until I completed the content review for ALL 4 subjects. That way, I'm refreshing myself on all subject matter and more important, i'd be doing it closer to my MCAT date. I am seriously regretting my study strategy and now have to tack on two weeks at the end of content review to go back and do even more problems so i can remember what the hell i did in the first place.

jsut my two cents

 

[dundunham]

I like to do problems WITH content review for 2 reasons:

1. helps me to not waste time trying to think about a concept in a certain angle that most likely will not be asked on the mcat. for example, what's the definition of viscosity? but you get my point
2. I find by doing a bunch of problems for like say circuits helps me remember the concepts better than just reading about circuits in the content material.

I like doing it this way because it gives me different ways to THINK about the same thing. So yes, I do believe it's preference but I personally like going back and forth while CONSTANTLY asking myself questions before actually seeing the right answer or the content material.

I don't like the whole idea of doing a set of problems that test the same concepts like I don't like doing all problems from a book about magnetism after finishing up a section on magnetism because it kind of takes away from the random thought process of shifting gears as you go from one problem to another on the real thing. I would only do a whole bunch of problems on one section when I feel like I am really weak in this area meaning I often have no clue how to access the material from my mind. But I do this very carefully in that I try to do them with no help as much as possible so that I can say "this I know" and "this I didn't know."

So I was thinking, What about just doing the content along with their problems at the end of the section right.... and then, save the 1001 problems after you finished ALL of physics or ALL of organic. And then like don't do the problems in order but mix them up. Like do number 3 and then like number 555 and then number 234. Of course when a few questions are testing on a passage then do everything for that passage but you know what I mean.

For me, I'd benefit more by doing this because I feel like i'm cheating when I'm doing all the problems for a section that I just learned since I'll get comfortable knowing that "oh this is another question about acids and bases." But if I mix things up, I would keep my critical thinking skills on active because I not only have to remember what topic and scope that a question is concerned with but also have to answer it correctly using a certain strategy.

what you think?

sv3, Yes I also ran into that EXACT problem~

 

[sv3]

agree fully........paying the price now as the time i put into tons of problems back then could have been avoided and Id have more time near the end of my studies. Now I'm in a time crunch already..............

 

[sixpence]

thanks for the input!