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[listener23]

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How many practice passages could you do and then review your wrong answers, for TBR physics books and general chemistry. In 45mins?

 

[listener23]

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[1TB4RKSB4CK]

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[listener23]

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I'm saying how many berkley review passage could you get done in 45 mins ( physics) while studying for the mcat? including review your answers after each passage?

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

I would do like 4 passages in a row timed. Then review them after.

 

[listener23]

so 24mins straight then review?

@JohnnyRomanes

 

[E pur si muove]

Give yourself about 60 seconds per question. Using less time helps practice speed so if you get stumped on the real thing you will have time to allow for a little thought.

 

[brood910]

IMO, it is really stupid to time yourself while learning, especially for TBR questions.
They actually require a lot more time than those from AAMC FLs do.

Start timing yourself when you are done with content review.

 

[E pur si muove]

IMO, it is really stupid to time yourself while learning, especially for TBR questions.
They actually require a lot more time than those from AAMC FLs do.

Start timing yourself when you are done with content review.

I believe he is speaking about practice passages, not embedded questions during the chapters. I agree though, timing yourself on concepts or first time knowledge is very dumb. If you want my advice, do the entire book and only a few passages. Then when you have finished the book go back and finish the rest of the passages from each chapter. This helps make sure you retain the knowledge, not just understand it for the day or so you worked on the chapter.

 

[brood910]

I believe he is speaking about practice passages, not embedded questions during the chapters. I agree though, timing yourself on concepts or first time knowledge is very dumb. If you want my advice, do the entire book and only a few passages. Then when you have finished the book go back and finish the rest of the passages from each chapter. This helps make sure you retain the knowledge, not just understand it for the day or so you worked on the chapter.

Yeah, I am talking about their passages.
As a person who did a few AAMC FLs, I can tell you. Some of their questions require way way more time..

 

[E pur si muove]

Yeah, I am talking about their passages.
As a person who did a few AAMC FLs, I can tell you. Some of their questions require way way more time..

AAMC FLs? Sorry what's that? I have taken the MCAT and scored very well, but honestly getting the timing down was the hard part for me. Content wasn't much of a problem and timing myself (giving myself less time) for all the practice passages helped a lot. If you struggle more with content, I am probably the wrong person to give the advice.

 

[brood910]

AAMC FLs? Sorry what's that? I have taken the MCAT and scored very well, but honestly getting the timing down was the hard part for me. Content wasn't much of a problem and timing myself (giving myself less time) for all the practice passages helped a lot. If you struggle more with content, I am probably the wrong person to give the advice.

I am already done with content review lol.
I am just giving my own advice to the OP.

You dont know what AAMC FLs are?..

Anyways, back to my point, I used all TBR passages to just learn how to think critically, even though I used last third passages to practice timing as well.
Timing issues were resolved pretty quickly when I started taking the practice exams from AAMC..

Considering the fact that most of the questions from AAMC dont even go into much detail as TBR does, it doesnt take that much time to do AAMC questions compared to those from TBR.

 

[E pur si muove]

I am already done with content review lol.
I am just giving my own advice to the OP.

You dont know what AAMC FLs are?..

Anyways, back to my point, I used all TBR passages to just learn how to think critically, even though I used last third passages to practice timing as well.
Timing issues were resolved pretty quickly when I started taking the practice exams from AAMC..

Considering the fact that most of the questions from AAMC dont even go into much detail as TBR does, it doesnt take that much time to do AAMC questions compared to those from TBR.

I probably do, but I don't know the terminology... I used pretty much all the material for practice instead of for the content. That might be because I am double majoring in molecular biology and physics though. Yeah I liked the timed AAMC tests too. My average on those tests was my actual score so they are a pretty good indicator of your aptitude.