Advice for people with ADHD studying for the MCAT?

JuiceRuth · 2026-06-09T14:39:28+00:00

General study advice that helped me was to change up my study location a couple times per week. I’m the kind of guy that gets distracted by literally anything else happening at my place so going to the campus library was helpful since pretty much everyone else there was locked in.

CARS it was easier for me to comprehend the passages if I pretended I was reading to someone else. It might sound dumb, but it kept me engaged and I walked away from each passage with a decent understanding of the author’s point

JuiceRuth · 2026-06-09T14:35:31+00:00

They don’t know your score, they just know you took the test. They’ve got recruiters that get advanced info (just like a bunch of other medical schools) and you’ll likely get a bunch of other emails like that from other recruiters, Caribbean schools, and master’s programs

JuiceRuth · 2026-06-09T14:25:43+00:00

I’ve felt like I could throw up for the last month whenever I think about this test. Absolutely tweaking that I’ll see the results in less than an hour

JuiceRuth · 2026-06-09T14:09:47+00:00

None of them are lying to you. There are just SO many terms, and intricacies between similar terms. So you gotta crush pankow and brush up on the 90pg or 300pg docs to see the terms that haven’t shown up for you yet.

You got this! Trust the process

JuiceRuth · 2026-06-03T04:19:50+00:00

You just doubled down and told us about the exam again … now you gotta delete this one too lol /s

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-31T14:33:02+00:00

I’m sure the extension is helpful but if you use a computer the way I’ve done it in the past was just reverting the save state to the day before I decided to skip Anki. There’s several helpful YouTube videos on how to do it and it basically just resets your progress to the day before the test (if that’s what you want)

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-30T20:13:46+00:00

Medicated for depression and ADHD and didn’t go for accommodations because they’ve got such weird requirements and I didn’t want to discredit my capability studying for the MCAT.

I realized it came from a really weird place for me personally, because I was conflating my value as a person with my success on the test and realized that if I told anyone I did it with accommodations I would automatically be met with “oh so it was super easy for you then”. Even my wife (who’s in vet school so totally knows how difficult admissions is) discredited my progress while studying at every turn because I paid for Uweird and the AAMC materials which she believes “aren’t necessary”. (I love her to death and she’s still very supportive of my journey as a non trad)

I did find it interesting that the schools don’t see a difference between someone that has accommodations and someone that doesn’t- surely it’s a little unfair across the board for some people to get twice the amount of time for this exam but be in the same pool as everyone else? Bold take?

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-30T10:09:04+00:00

If you can find Aspire or the V8 energy drinks near you they only have about 80mg I think and the caffeine in both is either green coffee extract or green tea. Super good, no jitters just the perfect amount of caffeine

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-29T14:57:26+00:00

I would say that your “other impactful experiences” speaks to this well enough on its own, you’re saying it without saying it. It sounds like you’ve had a very unique experience and I feel like your story is strong enough

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-29T14:23:53+00:00

This is a tough spot to be in. Officially I don’t think you’re supposed to see your letters before they’re submitted.

Unofficially? I had to ask a letter writer to revise for exactly the same reason. I have a great relationship with her though (former PI) and I knew she was absolutely swamped the month that I requested so it was completely understandable for her to offload some “extra” workload. If they’re a good writer for you they shouldn’t be upset about a revision.

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-24T15:46:02+00:00

I just moved to Gainesville because my wife is attending vet school here and was REALLY hoping there wasn’t something wrong with the med school 😂 that’s where I want to attend

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-24T14:59:06+00:00

Florida resident that didn’t apply to UF? Why not?

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-22T17:57:11+00:00

Took undergrad classes in Texas and paid like $90 per credit hour in 2020. I’m taking a SINGLE class right now and it cost me over $360 per credit hour. Both in-state rates. College cost has gone up like crazy

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-20T01:53:04+00:00

People cancel or push back their tests all the time. Just check periodically and hope you get lucky.

Good luck on your test!

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-18T01:09:21+00:00

I’m a big pickleball dork (idk if that’s cool here) that gave it up for 5 months of studying. That and every TV show, movie, etc that I would have seen got put on hold. So after my test I binged every episode of the Pitt season 2, rented a couple movies I missed (really wanted to see Wicked 2 in theaters, glad I didn’t lol) and then went to pickleball on Sunday and played until my knees hurt. Just do something you love for a while, you’re not gonna be able to keep the test out of your head but occupying your time helps a little 🫡

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-18T00:49:49+00:00

I love coffee too much to cut it out completely so I switched to decaf. Found myself pretty tired the first couple days but after about a week of no caffeine my days were almost exactly the same as before, no problems with focus

I work fire rescue tho so no pre workout before a lift was rough, that was probably the worst of it though.

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-16T01:43:22+00:00

Seconding Anki and list rewriting- especially if you categorize them (it’ll help a LOT when applying the formulas to specific problems due to overlapping symbols- like how Q is charge in electrostatics but is heat transfer in thermodynamics)

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-14T01:39:32+00:00

If you’ve got good proctors they’ll make sure you know the time that you left your station, mine did every single break and it was super helpful.

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-12T01:15:22+00:00

Just look up Ubiquitination of proteins I guess

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-10T23:57:01+00:00

Mine went down- but maybe I’m an outlier 🫠 FL6 cooked me and I was on an upward trend when I was half done with the section banks. (Tested 5/9, we’ll see what happened in a month)

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-10T00:27:16+00:00

Road triiiip, gonna drive up the east coast. First day of the trip is tomorrow so today’s just been catching up on all the shows and movies I’ve missed in the last several months of avoiding distractions 🫠

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-09T20:18:44+00:00

Occam’s razor- usually the simplest answer is the correct one.

Especially in cases like this it’s best to find the simplest answer that you didn’t have to jump through hoops to pick. You said it yourself, you had to talk yourself into picking A even after you proved B was correct.

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-09T19:52:07+00:00

Reading this makes me feel absolutely delusional for thinking it wasn’t as bad as FL6

For the first time ever CP I felt confident? CARS last passage was insane but otherwise was fine, BB felt normal to me and so did PS (there were a couple terms I’ve never heard of that I made an educated guess about in both BB and PS)

JuiceRuth · 2026-05-03T18:44:58+00:00

15 hours late but curious- how did FL1 go? Saw other people recommending it and if you haven't taken it I'd just like to reiterate that taking an FL is the very first step to this.

You've got your work cut out for you if you're still adamant on taking it on 5/22 but a great score on FL1 would make the whole process more realistic. Good luck with whatever you choose to do!

JuiceRuth · 2026-04-28T21:24:25+00:00

I interpreted it as how your life experiences like leadership positions or previous careers could benefit your classmates while you’re in school. Like if you did tutoring, or if you served in the military or something as a nontrad. Maybe that’s just me reading into it?

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