u/ifeyinwa_

I'm trying to figure out how to time my anki. I really really want to use CH but its 7k cards and intensive. I have 3.5 months to study, and here's what I'm leaning to so far

  • 1st month: Content review everything. Kaplan for everything but P/S (KA) and CARS (JW to begin, AAMC later). Start Anki from day one
  • 2nd month: Should be completely done content review, all new cards seen at start of second month. Over this course of the month, almost entirely practice+anki review. Start FL
  • 3rd month: more of second month, more frequent FL.
  • Weeks leading up to test: more of the same, more frequent FL (all AAMC).

I plan to start FL practices in 2nd month, spaced out. I'm just wondering when to start practice/how much practice to do/what practice to do each day in content phase, and whether my anki plan is feasible. Idk if its "wrong" or not of that makes sense, I'm still struggling to understand how to use it properly. I've employed it in undergrad but in the worst way possible I'd do an entire deck of a few hundred in like one day sometime in the 10 days to a test, sometimes without even reviewing the content first. It worked and but was insanely time intensive and obviously wont fly for the MCAT. Insight on how to properly use anki/deck presets and what they mean would be much appreciated.

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u/ifeyinwa_ — 13 days ago

I'm trying to figure out how to time my anki. I really really want to use CH but its 7k cards and intensive. I have 3.5 months to study, and here's what I'm leaning to so far

  • 1st month: Content review everything. Kaplan for everything but P/S (KA) and CARS (JW to begin, AAMC later). Start Anki from day one
  • 2nd month: Should be completely done content review, all new cards seen at start of second month. Over this course of the month, almost entirely practice+anki review. Start FL
  • 3rd month: more of second month, more frequent FL.
  • Weeks leading up to test: more of the same, more frequent FL (all AAMC).

I plan to start FL practices in 2nd month, spaced out. I'm just wondering when to start practice/how much practice to do/what practice to do each day in content phase, and whether my anki plan is feasible. Idk if its "wrong" or not of that makes sense, I'm still struggling to understand how to use it properly. I've employed it in undergrad but in the worst way possible I'd do an entire deck of a few hundred in like one day sometime in the 10 days to a test, sometimes without even reviewing the content first. It worked and but was insanely time intensive and obviously wont fly for the MCAT. Insight on how to properly use anki/deck presets and what they mean would be much appreciated.

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u/ifeyinwa_ — 13 days ago
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I'm trying to figure out how to time my anki. I really really want to use CH but its 7k cards and intensive. I have 3.5 months to study, and here's what I'm leaning to so far

  • 1st month: Content review everything. Kaplan for everything but P/S (KA) and CARS (JW to begin, AAMC later). Start Anki from day one
  • 2nd month: Should be completely done content review, all new cards seen at start of second month. Over this course of the month, almost entirely practice+anki review. Start FL
  • 3rd month: more of second month, more frequent FL.
  • Weeks leading up to test: more of the same, more frequent FL (all AAMC).

I plan to start FL practices in 2nd month, spaced out. I'm just wondering when to start practice/how much practice to do/what practice to do each day in content phase, and whether my anki plan is feasible. Idk if its "wrong" or not of that makes sense, I'm still struggling to understand how to use it properly. I've employed it in undergrad but in the worst way possible I'd do an entire deck of a few hundred in like one day sometime in the 10 days to a test, sometimes without even reviewing the content first. It worked and but was insanely time intensive and obviously wont fly for the MCAT.

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u/ifeyinwa_ — 13 days ago

Hi everyone! I feel like the captain hook deck will work best for me but I have a few questions. First, how do you download? I have the static version but I want the most updated one, but I cant seem to figure out how to download it from ankihub. Secondly, what's the timeline supposed to be? Is review solely by anki meant to bleed into practice phase, because I'd like to do content review in one month but people are making it seem unfeasible for the whole CH deck. Thirdly, has anyone used it? I've heard nothing but positive and it looks good to me but I'm always looking for more reviews.

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u/ifeyinwa_ — 13 days ago
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Hello I'm about to create my schedule for full time study with around 3.5 months until my test and I had a few questions.

  • Do you anki after every chapter? I plan to do 3-4 topics per day in rotation, so if I were to do a chapter of chemistry would I then immediately do my anki for that topic or wait till end of day after I'd reviewed all of the day's topics and then do the anki for all 3 chapters covered+review
  • Thoughts on the 3 topics per day? I wanted to do 4. From what I know there's 12 chapters per kaplan book but it takes varying levels of time to cover a chapter. To avoid boredom I'd prefer to do like 1-1.5 hours daily on each (hoping to do 3 chapters daily) plus anki but idk how feasible this is both due to the time constraints and whether it is ideal.
  • For content review, I plan to use Kaplan for C/P and B/B, KA for P/S, and a combination of AAMC and JW for CARS. Thoughts on this current breakdown? Also am I missing something or is CARS just practice passages daily? If so, how many would you recommend.
  • Edit, forgot to ask: How do you space out practice? I have the UGlobe QB and plan to get the AAMC online bundle. How many questions per day do you aim for, is it feasible to finish both before my test, and how soon do I start practice? Do I do the QB according to topic each day as I go along from the beginning, start after all content is done, or something in the middle? Also, are there any question resources I am missing?

For further context, I have some experience in all areas but predict my P/S and B/B are probably really weak. I know I have the capacity to learn the former more quickly but the latter is my main concern. I'm a total beginner and honestly a little overwhelmed with just starting so any insight would be very very much appreciated.

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u/ifeyinwa_ — 13 days ago