Practical 3 week schedule for all 8 AAMC practice tests

[bea524]

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Test is on May 18th. Due to other obligations I will not be able to do anything MCAT-related until April 26th. But from then until May 18th I have all day, every day to devote to the MCAT (roughly 3 weeks). I've already completed content review.

How does this look:

Day 1: 8 am – 12 pm take AAMC 3, 2 pm – 11 pm review PS and BS section
Day 2: Review VR section all day
Day 3: discretes/passages from secondary sources for weak areas
Day 4: 8 am – 12 pm take AAMC 4, 2 pm – 11 pm review PS and BS section
Day 5: Review VR section all day
Day 6: discretes/passages from secondary sources for weak areas

And basically continue this schedule until May 18th. For those of you who've taken AAMC's, what do you say? Does it look reasonable? Does it even take 9+ hours to review the sciences and do you not need all day to review verbal? Input is appreciated.

 

[OneTwoThreeFour]

If you haven't already reviewed material, that seems like a really, really dumb plan.

 

[bea524]

Expand on your comments. What changes should be made to the schedule?

Keeping in mind this part in my OP:

I've already completed content review.

 

[tvelocity514]

This is a good plan, my advice though is to do the test and the next day go over the entire test ... not just verbal and understand why the wrong answers are actually wrong. Then I would take the third day off with minor content review in the areas that you didn't understand for the test ( go over the parts you really had a tough time with on the test...should be maybe one or two topics hopefully ). Then restart. My .02. Good luck!

 

[Yankees24]

Yeah it seems like it would make sense to focus on a decent amount of content first, right? Cause some of the stuff I probably barely remember...

 

[TopTomato]

Test is on May 18th. Due to other obligations I will not be able to do anything MCAT-related until April 26th. But from then until May 18th I have all day, every day to devote to the MCAT (roughly 3 weeks). I've already completed content review.

How does this look:

Day 1: 8 am – 12 pm take AAMC 3, 2 pm – 11 pm review PS and BS section
Day 2: Review VR section all day
Day 3: discretes/passages from secondary sources for weak areas
Day 4: 8 am – 12 pm take AAMC 4, 2 pm – 11 pm review PS and BS section
Day 5: Review VR section all day
Day 6: discretes/passages from secondary sources for weak areas

And basically continue this schedule until May 18th. For those of you who’ve taken AAMC’s, what do you say? Does it look reasonable? Does it even take 9+ hours to review the sciences and do you not need all day to review verbal? Input is appreciated.

Seems doable in my opinion, but in reality I think that comes down to how much content review you actually have done and retained, if we're talking like 70% info retained, you're looking good, just do passages and practice tests and you'll be fine. You're schedule looks good provided you don't have any kinks along the way. For instance if you have a gf/bf it could be rough. For me MCAT and gf do not mix well. Not so much that it can't be done, it's just hard for the people on the outside to realize how much devotion this test will suck out of your life.

 

[OneTwoThreeFour]

Expand on your comments. What changes should be made to the schedule?

Keeping in mind this part in my OP:

Must have missed that part.
Anyway, I only have been taking 1 FL a week, and reviewing it the next day. I fill in the weeks with material I was not as comfortable with. If you're ok with picking out 4-5 hours of weak-spot material work for a given day, then you could be fine. That would be exhausting for me, though.
I think that, at a certain point, doing full lengths just so that you can do ALL of them isn't a good strategy. If I were you, I would do 2 a week at most (like you have listed), but don't stretch yourself just so that you can do all 8 AAMC tests. Don't do 3 & 4 (or 3 & 5) so that you can make sure you do 10 & 11.
Sorry for the short comment yesterday. I was on my phone!