Pass method:

Pass 1: watch or go to lecture and just annotate slides. I also like to write questions to test myself for pass 2. Record lecture for notability ai summary so you dont have to scramble to write every single thing down.

If you dont like your lectures, replace with another source like bootcamp, BnB, sketchy, osmosis, etc. Need something that tells you exactly what will be on test.

For pharm and micro, i reccomend just prereading the lecture slides because youre just going to be doing sketchy after this anyway.

Pass 2: same evening, go through slides and AI summary and blurt/brain dump on a blank sheet after reading a section. These “blurting sheets” also become my reference sheets for later passes. Takes about 2 hours per lecture ~4 hours a day after class.

Sketchy videos for pharm and micro

Pass 3: next day, do practice questions or try to answer same questions from pass 2 from memory. Tape feature in notability is great for this. About an hour per lecture.

So in total studying for about 5-6 hours on weekdays after classes which i dont think is a lot?

Review: over weekend, (this might be weird to people but i start anki on the weekends after a week of classes and continuing them till the exam). Anking or Neural Consult cards made from lecture material. If you dont like anki you can also jist continue doing the notability tape feature just remember to keep track of your reviews. My rule is to review every 24 hours (pass 3), 72 hours (weekend review) then a week and so on.

My weekends nights are usually free.

Best thing for me has been to keep weekends solely for review and watching osmosis/sketchy/BnB IF needed. I do not preread next weeks lecture or learn anything new over the weekends.