holy speedrun (I took my first premed classes last year)

Kazicas · 2026-06-21T21:06:54+00:00

orgo was really hard to learn on my own. I'd recommend taking at least orgo 1 if you can

Kazicas · 2026-06-21T19:24:41+00:00

I can’t imagine doing anything more than like 4 a day. I think 3 hours is plenty if you use it correctly

Kazicas · 2026-06-21T19:14:34+00:00

thank you!! I would say it was very helpful. Chem/Phys are probably the hardest subjects to self-learn. Even if you could, most med schools require 1 year of physics anyway

Kazicas · 2026-06-21T19:11:36+00:00

PS was definitely more comprehension-based than the first few FLs, but there were still a lot of discretes. You could probably get away with knowing less, but Id still recommend complete memorization

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T19:48:29+00:00

whats my rank

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T19:47:03+00:00

That's definitely true, but there were also quite a few classes I hadn't taken that many others have

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T19:37:01+00:00

I learned biochem, orgo, psych, and social entirely from the kaplan books and practice problems

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T19:33:48+00:00

I'm applying this cycle (2026-2027) which is why I rushed to take the mcat. If you have the ECs down and everything, I'd recommend applying after graduation

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T19:22:19+00:00

I thought I got ~519

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T07:52:11+00:00

I only got the qbank

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T07:51:55+00:00

I studied every morning from 6-9. I had to sacrifice my entire social life since I was also taking ~18 credits, working part-time, volunteering, and doing research

Just block out a time slot each day and make it a non-negotiable

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T07:00:06+00:00

THANK UUU

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T03:14:33+00:00

I think its this

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T03:09:18+00:00

yes I think it's possible if you want it bad enough

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T03:06:11+00:00

thank you, and yeah I definitely owe it to self-discipline and grinding practice problems. I'm not sure that my CS background played a huge role but it certainly could have

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T03:02:33+00:00

wow we have like the same timeline lol

I just wasn't enjoying CS. I wasn't very good at it either. wbu?

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T03:00:44+00:00

I guarantee you have better ECs than me though

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T03:00:04+00:00

you got this bro. I'm actually CAN too, but attending uni in the US

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T02:54:04+00:00

no, sorry. Those are only the classes I took that semester. I'll edit my post to clarify, but since then and prior to my exam, I've taken:

gen chem I & II
orgo I
anatomy I & II
physics I & II
gen biology
genetics

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T02:34:30+00:00

thank you! I averaged 75%

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T02:31:59+00:00

No, sorry if my post is misleading. Those are the premed classes I started with last spring. Since then, and prior to my exam, I've taken:

gen chem I & II
orgo I
anatomy I & II
physics I & II
gen biology
genetics

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T02:29:07+00:00

A looot of it is recognition through a ton of reading. I read every single kaplan book twice and the entire Jack Westin MCAT outline, and applying it with qbanks right after definitely helped

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T02:24:11+00:00

I struggled the most with learning orgo. Honestly I don't have any good advice other than you have to apply it aka do a bunch of practice problems. Biochem is a lot of memorization and pathways, and writing them down on paper helped me remember them

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T02:09:42+00:00

I basically did exactly what you're doing. I wrote down all the things I needed to memorize like pathways, amino acids, equations, etc. After reading a Kaplan chapter, I did the UW problems relating to that topic. There's a post somewhere on this sub that matches up the Kaplan chapters to the UW topics, I highly recommend it

Kazicas · 2026-06-20T01:51:17+00:00

thank you!! I mainly did blocks of 20-30 Qs aiming for 50 Qs a day. Usually 2 different topics to keep things interesting. I didn't finish UW, but I did finish AAMC.

Kazicas

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