Very bad at psych/soc

[deleted647690]

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I have pretty much watched all of the khan academy videos for psych soc, and created flashcards based on the reddit khan academy notes. Once a week for the past few months, I would go through some of the flashcards I created along with all of the other subjects for my mcat study plan.
So basically, I've just been trying to memorize terms. However, I only go through them once a week, because that is how it lines up in my study schedule (using Sn2ed).

I just took the behavioral sciences online chapter 2 passage based questions provided by kaplan, and I scored a 36%. I pretty much didn't know what the heck was going on, it had a bunch of really old stuff that I went over a long time ago.

My exam is on June 30th, what should I do?


I don't really know how effective this is. I feel like I get the terms when I go over them, but I will forget them within 3 weeks or so. I cannot constantly review every term



With the way I studied, I feel like I could accomplish the same thing by sitting in a chair for 3 days straight and going through all of the khan academy videos. I basically did that, except spread out over the course of several months 9 (if that makes any sense, like I just memorized stuff, which I don't feel was effective since I just failed the kaplan practice)



After reviewing the exam, it seems that a majority of the questions I missed were because I just didn't know the definitions of terms. I'm not really sure how to address this, given that there are so many, and I can't just constantly remind myself of all of them


How did you guys prepare for this section?

 

[DoctorCrush]

The problem is you're not doing enough practice problems. Just watching the Khan videos isn't enough, do their passages that they have on the page too. I'm saying this because I was in your position in terms of P/S too and have saw significant increase in my practice scores as I progressed because I incorporated doing one passage a day while I was doing content review.

 

[deleted647690]

The problem is you're not doing enough practice problems. Just watching the Khan videos isn't enough, do their passages that they have on the page too. I'm saying this because I was in your position in terms of P/S too and have saw significant increase in my practice scores as I progressed because I incorporated doing one passage a day while I was doing content review.

I did the khan passages, but they weren't really passages. They were more just questions based off of the videos/some had new information. Did you do other 3rd party passages for this section?

 

[DoctorCrush]

I did the khan passages, but they weren't really passages. They were more just questions based off of the videos/some had new information. Did you do other 3rd party passages for this section?

No not those. There's a specific section of Khan where it strictly has passages that is not based on the vids.

 

[tj123]

I recommend Anki! If you put all of your flash cards on the computer app it will shuffle them according to your ranking of them (hard, good, easy). This way even if you think you know a term, it will come back up in the deck in like 2 weeks. It makes doing flash cards less overwhelming because you only have to do so many a day. I found this way more helpful than making actual card decks

 

[CoffeeintheMorning]

All I had to read was "However, I only go through them once a week..." and "I just didn't know the definitions of terms."

Flashcards! Every day!