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Day 6

lol completely forgot to update this weekend !

Anyways, here's the deets:

Took Kaplan FL (#1) and scored a....

511!!!

Super duper happy with that. After my 503 diagnostic, I wasn't sure if I had learned enough content to really make any improvement, but clearly I have.

Uhm, content wise I've been getting through chem and physics mostly and got through thermo and bond chemistry with my friend! We're tacking fluids and stoich next!!

I've also been TRYING to do the Aidan deck for psych/soc but it's so harddddd just brute force memorizing psych terms... sighs... I know I gotta do it soooo...

Anyways uh,, that's about where I'm at.

Plan for this week is to review my exam (maybe not B/B cause my content knowledge is too low) and cover fluids, E&M, enzymes, nonenzymatic proteins, and as much gen chem as I can. Is that a lot? Absolutely. But I really need to do it so...

My dream score is a 528 🥺. Let's see if I can achieve it <3

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Day 3!

Lots of work was done today!! I managed to knock out all of the UW Physics:mechanics & energy and Physics:Thermodynamics problems today, and create flashcards for the stuff I missed. My accuracy today was pretty low (80%) but it's mostly cause I'm not great at thermo and there was more wave stuff.

Anyways, I also was taught by my friend again!! She taught me ch 2 for chem (periodic table stuff) and I taught her ch 2 for physics (work and energy). Tmrw we’re gonna do thermo from both the chem and phys perspectives!! It's gonna be fun

I also did the associated anki for the chem ch 2! I... still haven't finish the chem ch 1 anki-- but in my defense there's more than double the cards for that than for ch 2.

I also began reviewing fluid dynamics for physics, cause I'm gonna cover that with (teach it to) my friend on Sunday.

Wow... writing this out makes it seem like I didn't really get much done today-- but it was probably 6-7 hours of dedicated work. Lol. Anyways

Peace out for today 🫡

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End of Day 2

Not much progress... but I tried my best.

A friend taught me all of Ch 1 of chem (and I taught her Ch 1 of physics in exchange). I haven't done the anki for it yet though

I finished two CARS passages (scored 11/13 :( but one was the DREADED Picasso passage where I got 7/7 :D)

I did some UW and scored much lower than I would've liked (80%... it was mechanics & thermo stuff but they were asking questions about waves for some reason, which I haven't covered yet </3)

That's about all I got done today... might try to crank out some of the chem ch 1 anki, but it's already past midnight and I am *exhausted*

G'night

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End of Day 1

Not too much to update, since I wrote my last update only a little bit ago.

I managed to wrap up the thermo chapter and associated anki. Didn't make any headway on enzymes unfortunately.

Hoping I can finish enzymes tomorrow and maybe get some progress in psych/soc. I've been stuck on Sight for the past WEEK now,, so might just skip it and head to auditory system. Hopefully I'll start to make more progress there and just come back to sight later.

Peace out 🫡

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Day 1 (...or 11) of MCAT studying

putting this out into the void i guess.

So, I'm studying for the MCAT, and really need something to hold myself accountable. Hence, this blog.

And I doubt anyone will ever find it, so I'm just writing out my lil updates for me.

Today is day 1 (actually it's day 11, but who's counting?). I've gotten some stuff done already in the past ten days, and some even well before then.

Here's the breakdown:

I took a diagnostic back in October (Kaplan free FL) and scored a 503. It was pretty reflective of my strengths and weaknesses, I would say. I scored highest in CARS and lowest in B/B, which felt pretty accurate.

In January, after having taken Orgo 1, refreshed on Physics 1, and studied amino acids, I took the Blueprint half-length. Scored a 503 again xd. But I'm pretty sure BP is deflated, so maybe it should've been higher.

Anyways, onto now. I test at the end of August and my goal score is a 520+!! Is it possible? Who knows... certainly not me.

Anyways, here is the breakdown by section of what I've done (in the past 11 days)

C/P

Not much in this section

I've taken all these classes, and while I don't remember much, it'll all be mostly refreshing knowledge rather than starting from scratch, so I've been putting it off

I've completed two Kaplan chapters of physics, and am working on the third (physics is my favorite subject ever, so it's been going by relatively quickly)

Also been doing UW questions for physics and acing those B)

Haven't touched chem or orgo yet,,, scared to...

CARS

my best section

did JW, did UW, did well enough on those that I realized they were a waste of time

I need to really learn and internalize AAMC logic, so I have switched over to official material for CARS

Am currently working through the CARS Diagnotic Tool, have finished 62/179 questions and am currently at 82% accuracy. These passages are SO HARD. Definitely harder than JW or UW (where I ranged between 90-95%). I am hoping that by the end I can have around 90% accuracy and really understand AAMC logic better

B/B

my weakest section by far.

haven't taken bio since AP Bio, have never taken Biochem, and being a neuro major means the content I know is only tangentially related at best

I'm working the most on this section right now, especially since I'm in the beginning of studying

I've finished 1 chapter of Biochem and am kinda in the weeds with both Ch 1 for Bio and Ch 2 for Biochem

As in, I've completed content videos and am partway through the textbooks, but need to finish the textbooks and complete my anki so I have it all memorized

I've also been doing UW questions on amino acids since I have those memorized. But, I haven't been performing too well lol... I think I'm learning a lot though

P/S

oooh boy. I don't like this section.

Went into it kinda overconfident cause I'm a neuro major and should (theoretically) know psych, right? WRONG!

Idk anything and the stuff I do know isn't nearly enough

It doesn't help that I SUCK at memorizing and this whole section is just memorization

ughhhhhHhhHhH every day P/S is a struggle cause it's just like brute force feeding information into my brain without really understanding it or caring for it.

I'm using KA vids and Pankow deck, and I'm literally only on Sight.... I lowkey might skip sensory crap and move on to more interesting subjects cause I CANNOT with this T-T

Anyways... that's where I'm at right now. I'm trying to finish Ch 2 of biochem (enzymes) and ch 3 of physics (thermodynamics). Wish me luck, void.