Speed up my content review?

[teenyfish]

I'm taking the June 17th exam, and started my content review about 2 weeks ago, and I'm only about 1/4 of the way through. I'm using EK 9th edition, and it's been pretty good so far. I take pretty detailed notes, I'd say it takes me about 4/5 hours to do one chapter of Chem/Physics, and less for Psych/Verbal, etc. I'd like to be more efficient, but I've always found that writing things out has helped me study. Should I just keep going at the pace I'm doing? I work full time, and study about 3-4 hours a night and more on weekends.

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[DoctorCrush]

If that's what works for you, then why change it? This is not something that you should rush. Solid content knowledge is just as important to practice. One way you can see whether or not your studying style works is to do practice problems. That way you can change your style to speed it up or slow it down depending on your practice score.

 

[teenyfish]

I'd like to have 6 weeks of practice - doing about 1 test per week, do you think that will be sufficient? I've been working through chemistry and physics first, because that's where I have the largest gaps in my knowledge. Hopefully going through bio/psych will be much quicker.

 

[DoctorCrush]

I'd like to have 6 weeks of practice - doing about 1 test per week, do you think that will be sufficient? I've been working through chemistry and physics first, because that's where I have the largest gaps in my knowledge. Hopefully going through bio/psych will be much quicker.

It's so hard to say what's enough because everyone is so different in how they progress and learn. This is a retake for me so take what I say with a grain of salt and hopefully successful applicants can pitch in. I would do practice FL, and other general practice while studying because IMO it's one of the best way to know whether or not your content learning techniques are working. It's one thing to know the material, but can you reason and think the way they want you to. That's the tricky part.