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Is it possible to speed up the wikipremed lectures? I'm trying to watch them, but they go so slow and I was wondering if it was possible to watch them on 1.5x speed or something.
Is it possible to speed up the wikipremed lectures? I'm trying to watch them, but they go so slow and I was wondering if it was possible to watch them on 1.5x speed or something.
Especially the first videos are too slow. They get a lot more interesting, so try to make it through! (Some of the students I was working with didn't have the strongest background so we had to take our time at the start.)
I really need to re-cut those.
Contact me and I'll be happy to send them to you in Quicktime format and you can speed up the playback using Quicktime if you think that will help.
Especially the first videos are too slow. They get a lot more interesting, so try to make it through! (Some of the students I was working with didn't have the strongest background so we had to take our time at the start.)
I really need to re-cut those.
Contact me and I'll be happy to send them to you in Quicktime format and you can speed up the playback using Quicktime if you think that will help.
All those videos are really free of charge? How have they been for you, MedPR? I'm going to run through the ochem and genchem this weekend.
I don't think he only "help" creating them. He actually created the whole wikipremed thing, it's his baby. That guy in those videos is John..Hey John, did you help create those videos? Thanks in advance before I view some of them over the weekend. Time to start the studying if I want to be ready by the upcoming summer exam.
Honestly I haven't watched very many, primarily because there has been a long non-content related introduction to the ones I've tried to watch.
I am grateful for your honest reporting of your experience. I get really great feedback from folks who complete the course but don't necessarily hear very often from those who don't make it far with the course and move on.
There are several idiosyncratic aspects to WikiPremed, I think, that could be better explained on the site involving the structure of the program. There is also the fact that the videos were captured from live small group teaching, so there is a bit of a relaxed manner and responding to social cues that gives the videos a different feel than similar work out there where students aren't present.
Regarding the structure, the sequence is designed so that the vocabulary of each topic builds into the next topic in an interdisciplinary way. I do often step back to give a sense of the bigger picture. These moments are not 'non-content'. It really is important to ultimate success on the MCAT that the knowledge base have a good accessible structure from beginning to end, and that you achieve this sense of things as early as possible, long before main content review is complete. You can review everything in depth, but if you start at page 1 of content review and divide it by the time you have to get to the end in one careful sequence, without stepping back often, the result is poor understanding and retention.
So a big difference with the WikiPremed videos is that everything fits together as a unified course with a curriculum, not simply content review. You are responsible for all the disciplines of general science on the MCAT, so WikiPremed takes advantage of the full content to build a deeper understanding of science than is possible through discrete undergraduate level coursework. It's a lot of work, but it really pays off on the MCAT. However, because the conceptual vocabulary in the course builds in a spiraling way, if you drop in on videos randomly out of sequence you will not have the thread and some of the manner of teaching will seem a bit odd. At the part of the course you are mentioning, the third module, we are preparing to unite the mechanics from physics with electrostatic force to have a clear idea of binding energy right at the beginning of chemistry. To achieve the conceptual breakthroughs to then take into chemical thermodynamics later in the course, it takes a kind of self-conscious attention to the structure of the syllabus. It isn't 'non content' at all, but about building the underpinnings of a set of sophisticated mental performances.
That being said, the videos could definitely be faster paced. I definitely say 'umm' way too much, but they are the best I could do at the time, and I think they represent the best approach to MCAT review. I do need to re-do a number of them, especially cutting down the time it takes to get through the mechanics, because there is a definite drop-off in viewership through the first couple of modules. I hope folks will forgive their lack of polish and at least accept that what is idiosyncratic about the videos is not through carelessness or lack of experience.
All those videos are really free of charge? How have they been for you, MedPR? I'm going to run through the ochem and genchem this weekend.
Also, I'd suggest you put a donate option on your site if you haven't yet (if it's there, I couldn't find it when I was using your site last month). I already had a full set of study materials from TBR and didn't want to wait to get the WikiPremed materials, so I didn't purchase them and instead just used the vids. But I would love to compensate you for all of your work on the videos and the site!
Also, I'd suggest you put a donate option on your site if you haven't yet (if it's there, I couldn't find it when I was using your site last month). I already had a full set of study materials from TBR and didn't want to wait to get the WikiPremed materials, so I didn't purchase them and instead just used the vids. But I would love to compensate you for all of your work on the videos and the site!