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This is from my blog (www.mcatmatt.com).
This was my approximate day-by-day study schedule from last year. You can download my schedule in Excel by clicking here (and a blank schedule template is available by clicking here). In reality I ended up approaching my schedule week-by-week, checking things off as I went, but I think it helps provide structure to list tasks by day. Some days I did slightly more, some days slightly less, and I ended up spending many of my scheduled “break days” playing catch-up. I didn’t stick to this schedule exactly, but by the end I had completed almost all of my scheduled tasks. I spent 15 weeks studying, and I don’t think I would have felt prepared had I condensed that further.
Content Resources (with lots of practice built in)
I relied on The Berkeley Review for the bulk of my content review and practice passages for Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry (organic and inorganic), and Physics. I think the general consensus is accurate that TBR is more detailed and covers more information than is generally covered on the MCAT. However, I was aiming for a top score, and I credit TBR in large part for my success. Their passages in particular are outstanding, providing ample opportunities for practice along with thoughtful and in-depth explanations. I used 2013 editions of TBR’s books, and found them to be great. They have since released updated editions that I’m sure are great as well.
For psychology and sociology, I primarily used Kaplan, and occasionally referenced Princeton Review when I found Kaplan to be lacking in a particular area. I found TPR’s sociology sections to be better than Kaplan’s, but found Kaplan much more readable and engaging otherwise.
I purchased the Examkrackers complete 2015 book set, but I found most of the content to be too superficial for me. I did use EK’s organic chemistry sections, because I knew I only needed a light review. Having gone back now as a tutor, I think that their physics and chemistry books are actually very good, and I probably didn’t need to know much of the material that TBR covered on those topics. Still, I am happy that I was over-prepared for those sections. Overall, I still think that their psychology/sociology and biology sections are too concise. However, the Examkrackers Biology section on Laboratory techniques was excellent, covering topics like NMR, IR, UV, Gel Electrophoresis, and others very well.
The 30-minute exams at the end of each Examkrackers chapter were excellent, and they gave me much-needed practice interpreting graphs and reasoning about experimental design. I think they’re worth purchasing for those passages alone, especially if you need some work in those areas.
Practice Passages and Full Length Tests
In addition to the many Berkeley Review and Examkrackers passages that I used, I did all of the official AAMC materials that were available at the time: the full-length Sample Test (no scaled score), the Official Guide Questions, and the 120 Question packs in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and CARS. They were all great, especially the CARS, since no other CARS resources truly resemble the real thing. Since then, the 300 question Section Bank and the scored Official Practice Test have become available, and like the other AAMC materials, those are essential for anyone studying now.
I also did full-length practice tests from Examkrackers, The Princeton Review, and the Berkeley Review. They are all lacking in certain areas compared to the AAMC’s tests (since then, I have also reviewed Kaplan exams through tutoring, and found those to be overly-detailed as well), but Examkrackers were the best of the bunch, and they are the only exams from third-party companies that I recommend to my students. I discuss my thoughts on these materials in more depth in this post.
I think there are probably only marginal benefits to doing more than 6-8 full-length exams for most students, and the combination of burnout and opportunity costs (in terms of time spent studying) can actually make additional full-length tests a net negative. Spending more time on targeted practice passages and thoughtful review is a better use of time, in my opinion.
Daily approach
My day-to-day approach to studying was pretty simple: read the new content, do 3-5 passages related to the new content, review them in-depth, and address all of my questions and mistakes by re-visiting the content and/or searching online. I discuss my approach to reviewing practice passages and practice tests in more detail in this post. I didn’t take notes on content, but I did log my mistakes and questions in a notebook, where I also logged the relevant explanations and answers for my own reference. I periodically reviewed this notebook to make sure I still understood the underlying concepts.
Each week I would also “loop back” on content covered in previous weeks, doing additional passages to make sure I still understood the material. I didn’t follow a set schedule for these review passages, but I tried to re-visit every content area within 1-2 weeks of initial exposure (with targeted periodic re-visiting after that).
For psychology and sociology, I made Anki flashcards and tried to review a batch every day. I did this because there weren’t as many passages available for me to practice, and most of the vocabulary was new to me, so I wanted to at least have the vocabulary down cold. For other subjects, I did not use Anki or any other form of flash cards. I still think flash cards can be a good approach if you are unfamiliar with the psychology and sociology vocabulary, but now there are more practice passages available to integrate as well. Some of the Khan academy passages are good (and they’re free), but they tend to focus on the details covered in the Khan lectures, and they are not very representative of AAMC style questions.
If you look at my schedule you’ll see that I did very little CARS review. Other than the AAMC CARS question packs, I did hardly any CARS practice. I relied on my full-length tests for CARS practice, and supplemented those with the AAMC materials.
Lifestyle
It’s normal to be fatigued by the grueling preparation that is necessary to succeed on the MCAT, so it’s extremely important to make a conscious effort to rest your mind and body in the days leading up to the test. If you’re too tired and stressed on test day, you won’t perform as well as you can. I think an important aspect of my success on the MCAT was being relatively well rested, well fed, and energetic on test day.
However, for the 15 weeks leading up to those last days, I made the MCAT my number one priority, studying for 6-8 hours every day. It was sometimes hard to keep going, but I wanted to be able to look back afterwards and know that I gave it my best shot.
Let me know if you have any questions about my approach or about how to build a custom schedule!
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Update (4-28-16) - I posted my annotated schedule (notes in bold) below so that you don't have to download in excel. Each paragraph is one day.
TBR General Chemistry 1 - Stoichiometry and passages. For all new content (and for subsequent review of that content 1-2 weeks later), I did 3-5 practice passages with in-depth grading/review.
TBR Biology 1 - Nerve and Muscle and passages; make amino acids flash cards. I reviewed amino acids flash cards often until I had memorized structures, three-letter abbreviations, and one-letter abbreviations. Also, I reviewed the TBR Biology books in order, but were I to do it again, I would start with Book 2, which focuses on cell biology and biochem, and then do Book 1, which focuses on physiology.
TBR Physics 1 - Translational Motion and passages. (I did passages on the new content for every section below, so I won't continue to note it below.)
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 1 - Biology and Behavior, Anki for new terms. I reviewed some Anki Psych/Soc flash cards almost every day. If I found a Kaplan explanation to be confusing, I used the Princeton Review to clarify or, more often than not, just used wikipedia. I did the discrete questions for each Kaplan chapter and also mixed in the TPR passages.
TBR General Chemistry 2 - Atomic Theory
TBR Biology 2 - Heart and Lung
TBR Physics 2 - Forces, Circular Motion, and Gravitation
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 2 - Sensation and Perception. At this point I started doing passages on the previous weeks' topics, fitting them in where I could amid the new stuff. I continued this throughout my course of study.
Break Day
TBR General Chemistry 3 - Equilibrium
TBR Biology 3 - GI and Kidney
TBR Physics 3 - Work and Energy
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 3 - Learning and Memory
TBR General Chemistry 4 - Acids and Bases
TBR Biology 4 - Reproduction and Development
Break Day
TBR Physics 4 - Momentum and Torque
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 4 - Cognition, Consciousness, and Language
TBR General Chemistry 5 - Buffers and Titrations
TBR Biology 5 - Endocrinology and Immunology
TBR Physics 5 - Periodic Motion and Waves
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 5 - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
Break Day
Examkrackers Chem Ch. 2 - Intro to Organic Chemistry and 30-minute exam; Examkrackers Chem Ch. 3 - Oxygen Containing Reactions (basically continuation of Organic Chemistry) and 30-minute exam
TBR General Chemistry 6 - Gases
TBR Biology 6 - Structure and Function in Cells and Viruses. This is where I would start with bio now.
TBR Physics 6 - Sound and Doppler
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 6 - Identity and Personality
Break Day
TBR General Chemistry 7 - Phases and Phase Changes
TBR Biology 7 - Metabolic Components
TBR Passages on previous topics and in-depth review
TBR Physics 7 - Fluids and Solids
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 7 - Psychological Disorders
9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Pack; 60 questions, timed, from the AAMC Biology 1 Question Pack. I spent a lot time reviewing the questions I missed, reviewing content I had already covered, and making note of content I had yet to cover. Were it available, I would have started using the AAMC Section Bank (with 300 Qs) around this time in order to practice biochem and psychology/sociology. These are more important questions to do than the other AAMC Question Packs.
Break Day
60 questions from the AAMC Chemistry and Physics Question Packs
TBR General Chemistry 8 - Thermochemistry
TBR Biology 8 - Metabolic Pathways
TBR Physics 8 - Electrostatics and Electromagnetism
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 8 - Social Processes, Attitudes, and Behavior; and 9 - Social Interaction. For all of the remaining Psychology and Sociology sections, I was using Princeton Review in conjunction with Kaplan. Not the most efficient way to do it probably, but by the end I felt pretty good about all the content.
TBR General Chemistry 9 - Kinetics
Break Day
TBR Biology 9 - Genetic Information
TBR Physics 9 - Electricity and Circuits
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 10 - Social Thinking; and 11 - Social Structure and Demographics
TBR General Chemistry 10 - Electrochemistry
TBR Biology 10 - Expression of Genetic Information
AAMC Official Sample Test
Review test and address weaknesses. Please see my post on how to review practices passages and practice tests for more information on my methods.
Review test
Review test
Review test
TBR Physics 10 - Light and Optics
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 12 - Social Stratification; Examkrackers Biology chapter on Laboratory Techniques. I didn't use a lot of Examkrackers content (I did use all of their 30 minute exams), but I thought that their two Organic Chemistry chapters and their Laboratory Techniques chapter were excellent. You can get a lot of easy points on the test just by knowing the lab techniques.
60 questions from the AAMC Biology Question Packs, and 60 questions from the Chemistry Question Pack
Break Day
60 questions from the AAMC Physics Question pack; and 9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Packs
60 Questions from the AAMC Official Guide, with thorough review
60 Questions from the AAMC Official Guide, with thorough review
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness
The Princeton Review Full Length Test. I would not use the Princeton Review full-length tests again. Were I to take the test now, I would do the AAMC Official Practice Test (the scored one) at this point.
Review test. While reviewing, I started working in relevant passages to practice areas of weakness. I did this for subsequent tests as well.
Review test
Review test
60 Questions from the AAMC Biology Question Packs
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics. By the end, I had done all of the Examkrackers 30 minute exams, and I found them all to be really helpful.
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
Examkrackers Full Length #1
Review test
Review test
Review test
Review test
Break day
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
Examkrackers Full Length #2
Review test
Review test
Review test
Review test
Break day
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
Examkrackers Full Length #3
Review test
Review test
Review test
Review test
TBR Biology Practice Test (from the back of the TBR Biology Book I)
TBR Biology Practice Test (from the back of the TBR Biology Book II)
TBR Full Length #1. I found the test to have some good classical science passages, but it lacked newer, research-based passages, which are emphasized on the official AAMC full lengths. The CARS section was terrible, and the psychology section was a mix of re-purposed, psychology-themed verbal passages and new psychology and sociology passages. Overall it wasn't as good as EK, but was probably better than the Princeton review. If I were studying again, I would take Examkrackers Full Length #4 in its place.
Review test
Review test
60 questions from the AAMC Biology Question Pack
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Pack
Review AAMC Sample Test. I re-read all of the passages and reviewed some of the questions/answers.
Continue reviewing AAMC Sample Test
9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Pack
Review big-picture psychology and sociology topics, high-yield physics formulas, and other random topics. No new passages.
Break day (although I studied a little)
Break day
Test Day
This was my approximate day-by-day study schedule from last year. You can download my schedule in Excel by clicking here (and a blank schedule template is available by clicking here). In reality I ended up approaching my schedule week-by-week, checking things off as I went, but I think it helps provide structure to list tasks by day. Some days I did slightly more, some days slightly less, and I ended up spending many of my scheduled “break days” playing catch-up. I didn’t stick to this schedule exactly, but by the end I had completed almost all of my scheduled tasks. I spent 15 weeks studying, and I don’t think I would have felt prepared had I condensed that further.
Content Resources (with lots of practice built in)
I relied on The Berkeley Review for the bulk of my content review and practice passages for Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry (organic and inorganic), and Physics. I think the general consensus is accurate that TBR is more detailed and covers more information than is generally covered on the MCAT. However, I was aiming for a top score, and I credit TBR in large part for my success. Their passages in particular are outstanding, providing ample opportunities for practice along with thoughtful and in-depth explanations. I used 2013 editions of TBR’s books, and found them to be great. They have since released updated editions that I’m sure are great as well.
For psychology and sociology, I primarily used Kaplan, and occasionally referenced Princeton Review when I found Kaplan to be lacking in a particular area. I found TPR’s sociology sections to be better than Kaplan’s, but found Kaplan much more readable and engaging otherwise.
I purchased the Examkrackers complete 2015 book set, but I found most of the content to be too superficial for me. I did use EK’s organic chemistry sections, because I knew I only needed a light review. Having gone back now as a tutor, I think that their physics and chemistry books are actually very good, and I probably didn’t need to know much of the material that TBR covered on those topics. Still, I am happy that I was over-prepared for those sections. Overall, I still think that their psychology/sociology and biology sections are too concise. However, the Examkrackers Biology section on Laboratory techniques was excellent, covering topics like NMR, IR, UV, Gel Electrophoresis, and others very well.
The 30-minute exams at the end of each Examkrackers chapter were excellent, and they gave me much-needed practice interpreting graphs and reasoning about experimental design. I think they’re worth purchasing for those passages alone, especially if you need some work in those areas.
Practice Passages and Full Length Tests
In addition to the many Berkeley Review and Examkrackers passages that I used, I did all of the official AAMC materials that were available at the time: the full-length Sample Test (no scaled score), the Official Guide Questions, and the 120 Question packs in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and CARS. They were all great, especially the CARS, since no other CARS resources truly resemble the real thing. Since then, the 300 question Section Bank and the scored Official Practice Test have become available, and like the other AAMC materials, those are essential for anyone studying now.
I also did full-length practice tests from Examkrackers, The Princeton Review, and the Berkeley Review. They are all lacking in certain areas compared to the AAMC’s tests (since then, I have also reviewed Kaplan exams through tutoring, and found those to be overly-detailed as well), but Examkrackers were the best of the bunch, and they are the only exams from third-party companies that I recommend to my students. I discuss my thoughts on these materials in more depth in this post.
I think there are probably only marginal benefits to doing more than 6-8 full-length exams for most students, and the combination of burnout and opportunity costs (in terms of time spent studying) can actually make additional full-length tests a net negative. Spending more time on targeted practice passages and thoughtful review is a better use of time, in my opinion.
Daily approach
My day-to-day approach to studying was pretty simple: read the new content, do 3-5 passages related to the new content, review them in-depth, and address all of my questions and mistakes by re-visiting the content and/or searching online. I discuss my approach to reviewing practice passages and practice tests in more detail in this post. I didn’t take notes on content, but I did log my mistakes and questions in a notebook, where I also logged the relevant explanations and answers for my own reference. I periodically reviewed this notebook to make sure I still understood the underlying concepts.
Each week I would also “loop back” on content covered in previous weeks, doing additional passages to make sure I still understood the material. I didn’t follow a set schedule for these review passages, but I tried to re-visit every content area within 1-2 weeks of initial exposure (with targeted periodic re-visiting after that).
For psychology and sociology, I made Anki flashcards and tried to review a batch every day. I did this because there weren’t as many passages available for me to practice, and most of the vocabulary was new to me, so I wanted to at least have the vocabulary down cold. For other subjects, I did not use Anki or any other form of flash cards. I still think flash cards can be a good approach if you are unfamiliar with the psychology and sociology vocabulary, but now there are more practice passages available to integrate as well. Some of the Khan academy passages are good (and they’re free), but they tend to focus on the details covered in the Khan lectures, and they are not very representative of AAMC style questions.
If you look at my schedule you’ll see that I did very little CARS review. Other than the AAMC CARS question packs, I did hardly any CARS practice. I relied on my full-length tests for CARS practice, and supplemented those with the AAMC materials.
Lifestyle
It’s normal to be fatigued by the grueling preparation that is necessary to succeed on the MCAT, so it’s extremely important to make a conscious effort to rest your mind and body in the days leading up to the test. If you’re too tired and stressed on test day, you won’t perform as well as you can. I think an important aspect of my success on the MCAT was being relatively well rested, well fed, and energetic on test day.
However, for the 15 weeks leading up to those last days, I made the MCAT my number one priority, studying for 6-8 hours every day. It was sometimes hard to keep going, but I wanted to be able to look back afterwards and know that I gave it my best shot.
Let me know if you have any questions about my approach or about how to build a custom schedule!
-------------------
Update (4-28-16) - I posted my annotated schedule (notes in bold) below so that you don't have to download in excel. Each paragraph is one day.
TBR General Chemistry 1 - Stoichiometry and passages. For all new content (and for subsequent review of that content 1-2 weeks later), I did 3-5 practice passages with in-depth grading/review.
TBR Biology 1 - Nerve and Muscle and passages; make amino acids flash cards. I reviewed amino acids flash cards often until I had memorized structures, three-letter abbreviations, and one-letter abbreviations. Also, I reviewed the TBR Biology books in order, but were I to do it again, I would start with Book 2, which focuses on cell biology and biochem, and then do Book 1, which focuses on physiology.
TBR Physics 1 - Translational Motion and passages. (I did passages on the new content for every section below, so I won't continue to note it below.)
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 1 - Biology and Behavior, Anki for new terms. I reviewed some Anki Psych/Soc flash cards almost every day. If I found a Kaplan explanation to be confusing, I used the Princeton Review to clarify or, more often than not, just used wikipedia. I did the discrete questions for each Kaplan chapter and also mixed in the TPR passages.
TBR General Chemistry 2 - Atomic Theory
TBR Biology 2 - Heart and Lung
TBR Physics 2 - Forces, Circular Motion, and Gravitation
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 2 - Sensation and Perception. At this point I started doing passages on the previous weeks' topics, fitting them in where I could amid the new stuff. I continued this throughout my course of study.
Break Day
TBR General Chemistry 3 - Equilibrium
TBR Biology 3 - GI and Kidney
TBR Physics 3 - Work and Energy
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 3 - Learning and Memory
TBR General Chemistry 4 - Acids and Bases
TBR Biology 4 - Reproduction and Development
Break Day
TBR Physics 4 - Momentum and Torque
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 4 - Cognition, Consciousness, and Language
TBR General Chemistry 5 - Buffers and Titrations
TBR Biology 5 - Endocrinology and Immunology
TBR Physics 5 - Periodic Motion and Waves
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 5 - Motivation, Emotion, and Stress
Break Day
Examkrackers Chem Ch. 2 - Intro to Organic Chemistry and 30-minute exam; Examkrackers Chem Ch. 3 - Oxygen Containing Reactions (basically continuation of Organic Chemistry) and 30-minute exam
TBR General Chemistry 6 - Gases
TBR Biology 6 - Structure and Function in Cells and Viruses. This is where I would start with bio now.
TBR Physics 6 - Sound and Doppler
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 6 - Identity and Personality
Break Day
TBR General Chemistry 7 - Phases and Phase Changes
TBR Biology 7 - Metabolic Components
TBR Passages on previous topics and in-depth review
TBR Physics 7 - Fluids and Solids
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 7 - Psychological Disorders
9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Pack; 60 questions, timed, from the AAMC Biology 1 Question Pack. I spent a lot time reviewing the questions I missed, reviewing content I had already covered, and making note of content I had yet to cover. Were it available, I would have started using the AAMC Section Bank (with 300 Qs) around this time in order to practice biochem and psychology/sociology. These are more important questions to do than the other AAMC Question Packs.
Break Day
60 questions from the AAMC Chemistry and Physics Question Packs
TBR General Chemistry 8 - Thermochemistry
TBR Biology 8 - Metabolic Pathways
TBR Physics 8 - Electrostatics and Electromagnetism
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 8 - Social Processes, Attitudes, and Behavior; and 9 - Social Interaction. For all of the remaining Psychology and Sociology sections, I was using Princeton Review in conjunction with Kaplan. Not the most efficient way to do it probably, but by the end I felt pretty good about all the content.
TBR General Chemistry 9 - Kinetics
Break Day
TBR Biology 9 - Genetic Information
TBR Physics 9 - Electricity and Circuits
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 10 - Social Thinking; and 11 - Social Structure and Demographics
TBR General Chemistry 10 - Electrochemistry
TBR Biology 10 - Expression of Genetic Information
AAMC Official Sample Test
Review test and address weaknesses. Please see my post on how to review practices passages and practice tests for more information on my methods.
Review test
Review test
Review test
TBR Physics 10 - Light and Optics
Kaplan Behavioral Sciences 12 - Social Stratification; Examkrackers Biology chapter on Laboratory Techniques. I didn't use a lot of Examkrackers content (I did use all of their 30 minute exams), but I thought that their two Organic Chemistry chapters and their Laboratory Techniques chapter were excellent. You can get a lot of easy points on the test just by knowing the lab techniques.
60 questions from the AAMC Biology Question Packs, and 60 questions from the Chemistry Question Pack
Break Day
60 questions from the AAMC Physics Question pack; and 9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Packs
60 Questions from the AAMC Official Guide, with thorough review
60 Questions from the AAMC Official Guide, with thorough review
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness
The Princeton Review Full Length Test. I would not use the Princeton Review full-length tests again. Were I to take the test now, I would do the AAMC Official Practice Test (the scored one) at this point.
Review test. While reviewing, I started working in relevant passages to practice areas of weakness. I did this for subsequent tests as well.
Review test
Review test
60 Questions from the AAMC Biology Question Packs
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics. By the end, I had done all of the Examkrackers 30 minute exams, and I found them all to be really helpful.
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
Examkrackers Full Length #1
Review test
Review test
Review test
Review test
Break day
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
Examkrackers Full Length #2
Review test
Review test
Review test
Review test
Break day
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
Examkrackers Full Length #3
Review test
Review test
Review test
Review test
TBR Biology Practice Test (from the back of the TBR Biology Book I)
TBR Biology Practice Test (from the back of the TBR Biology Book II)
TBR Full Length #1. I found the test to have some good classical science passages, but it lacked newer, research-based passages, which are emphasized on the official AAMC full lengths. The CARS section was terrible, and the psychology section was a mix of re-purposed, psychology-themed verbal passages and new psychology and sociology passages. Overall it wasn't as good as EK, but was probably better than the Princeton review. If I were studying again, I would take Examkrackers Full Length #4 in its place.
Review test
Review test
60 questions from the AAMC Biology Question Pack
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
TBR Passages on earlier topics and areas of weakness; Examkrackers 30 minute exams on various topics
9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Pack
Review AAMC Sample Test. I re-read all of the passages and reviewed some of the questions/answers.
Continue reviewing AAMC Sample Test
9 passages, timed, from the AAMC CARS Question Pack
Review big-picture psychology and sociology topics, high-yield physics formulas, and other random topics. No new passages.
Break day (although I studied a little)
Break day
Test Day
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