Tips on how to study in between AAMC practice exams

[mdr8]

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Does anyone have any advice or tips as to what the most effective ways to study in between practice exams are? I will do an exam one day, then review every question thoroughly the next day. Then I won't do another exam for at least a few more days after that, since there are only a limited number available. I will try to continue to review the topics I messed up on, but feel like I am wasting time for some reason. EK 1001 seems so not representative of MCAT questions, so I have been doing those less frequently. What does everyone else seem to do in between exams?

 

[TheAnonymous]

I personally give 3-4 days between the AAMCs (well due to lack of time I have to take 11 2 days after 10) and then focus on one subject each day. If it's bio, I mostly just read content and do a few kaplan passages, for physics/gchem, I do like 3 passages from each chapter of TBR books (25ish passages). I think doing passages + some content review is the way to go

 

[theparty]

what i'm doing (and i haven't really noticed an improvement in scores thus far [30; 32; 31; 31] althought that is because most of my problems are reading errors) is noting any content categories i've missed multiple questions in (0 out of 1 doesn't worry me too much, 2 out of 5 does) and reviewed that (Chad's videos + my notes from TBR chapters). if a topic repeats itself on that list i review it again and this time do practice passages for it in the TPRH SW, noting my percentage corrrect. i'm taking off 3/4 full days off inbetween FLs, and doing 1 topic on the day i review the exam, and 2 each of the days after. while my scores aren't steadly increasing, i do notice there were things i wasn't 100% clear on that i'm now getting better at.

 

[DaAlienist]

what i'm doing (and i haven't really noticed an improvement in scores thus far [30; 32; 31; 31] althought that is because most of my problems are reading errors) is noting any content categories i've missed multiple questions in (0 out of 1 doesn't worry me too much, 2 out of 5 does) and reviewed that (Chad's videos + my notes from TBR chapters). if a topic repeats itself on that list i review it again and this time do practice passages for it in the TPRH SW, noting my percentage corrrect. i'm taking off 3/4 full days off inbetween FLs, and doing 1 topic on the day i review the exam, and 2 each of the days after. while my scores aren't steadly increasing, i do notice there were things i wasn't 100% clear on that i'm now getting better at.

Would this timeline still work for the new exam, now that it is ~ 3 hours longer?