No idea on how to study for the OAT.

[sosh2dok2]

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I'll be honest here. I have been lurking around the forums for a couple of months now on how I could tackle the OAT and I have some idea. I bought the big blue Kaplan book a while back and I'm reading through it chapter by chapter. Also, I just bought the OAT Destroyer for OCHEM, Gen Chem, bio, math, and reading. I haven't touched it yet because it's pretty intimidating. The idea that I get from it is that people would grind through every problem in the book, and whatever they get wrong, they learn from it through the explanation in the solution section. I'm planning to take the OAT in 3 months and I feel like I am going no where with my studies.

I feel that I need advice on how to study for this exam. I know how to study and I do have the endurance to sit for 6-7 hours and study. But, I feel lost studying for the exam because I have no game plan. I'm just reading the Kaplan chapters and testing myself on those, as of right now.

 

[dp44]

It can be overwhelming to study when you don't have a game plan. What I found to be helpful was to use the ADA OAT Guide as a reference for everything I needed to know. They give a list of the topics you need to know and so I used that as a checklist for the topics I studied. For me, Chad's videos were the most helpful. His videos actually cover most of the topics on the guide so I'd watch those and coupled it with Kaplan's book to thoroughly educate myself on each topic.

Also, the doctor I work with gave me this bit of advice: don't get caught up on the difficult subjects, make sure you have the basics down since each question has the same weight. Hope this helps!