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Hi all,
I'm currently in TPR's live online course and just took my first FL (which was AAMC Practice test 1 because I screwed up and took the first TPR FL prior to the program as a diagnostic and they recommend taking the AAMC FL 1 prior to starting so I just switched the two) Anyway, I'm 4 weeks into the program and roughly 30% through content review. My score today was 497 with a breakdown of 124/122/126/125. My diagnostic was a 497 as well with a breakdown of 123/124/126/124. I did take this diagnostic over 2 days because I was in the process of helping my family move. But still, pretty discouraged.
This is my current schedule: I have new lecture content from 12-3 Monday - Thursday, Friday 1-4, and Saturday 9-11:30am. At 7:30am, I'm at the library and pre-reading the chapters for lecture. Depending on the amount of content which is roughly 2 chapters (avg 60 pages total sometimes more), this takes me roughly 2 hours. I then complete the end of chapter questions and passages. If I'm still iffy on content, I'll watch the related videos. After I've read the chapters, I'll go back through and make Anki notecards which takes me up to around 11-11:30. I then take a 30 min break to eat and relax before lecture.
After lecture, I start working on the assigned passages until about 5 and then I leave to relax for a few hours. At around 8, I either do more passages, finish making notecards, or do a CARS passage or two. I feel like I'm not solid on content because every day, there is new content that I have to review and study. I also feel like anki notecards can only do so much to review periodically.
With my given schedule, should I just skip the live lectures and spend those 3 hours doing more practice and if I'm struggling with a topic, I can go back to the books, use KA, or the medflix videos?
Sorry for the extremely long post, just need some guidance on how to change up my schedule so that I can improve my scores. Thanks for any help!!!
I'm currently in TPR's live online course and just took my first FL (which was AAMC Practice test 1 because I screwed up and took the first TPR FL prior to the program as a diagnostic and they recommend taking the AAMC FL 1 prior to starting so I just switched the two) Anyway, I'm 4 weeks into the program and roughly 30% through content review. My score today was 497 with a breakdown of 124/122/126/125. My diagnostic was a 497 as well with a breakdown of 123/124/126/124. I did take this diagnostic over 2 days because I was in the process of helping my family move. But still, pretty discouraged.
This is my current schedule: I have new lecture content from 12-3 Monday - Thursday, Friday 1-4, and Saturday 9-11:30am. At 7:30am, I'm at the library and pre-reading the chapters for lecture. Depending on the amount of content which is roughly 2 chapters (avg 60 pages total sometimes more), this takes me roughly 2 hours. I then complete the end of chapter questions and passages. If I'm still iffy on content, I'll watch the related videos. After I've read the chapters, I'll go back through and make Anki notecards which takes me up to around 11-11:30. I then take a 30 min break to eat and relax before lecture.
After lecture, I start working on the assigned passages until about 5 and then I leave to relax for a few hours. At around 8, I either do more passages, finish making notecards, or do a CARS passage or two. I feel like I'm not solid on content because every day, there is new content that I have to review and study. I also feel like anki notecards can only do so much to review periodically.
With my given schedule, should I just skip the live lectures and spend those 3 hours doing more practice and if I'm struggling with a topic, I can go back to the books, use KA, or the medflix videos?
Sorry for the extremely long post, just need some guidance on how to change up my schedule so that I can improve my scores. Thanks for any help!!!
