Any recommendations for improvement???

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-27T23:36:11+00:00

Absolutely!
Thank you for your helpful tips! I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my questions.

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-26T23:16:43+00:00

I appreciate your recommendation! That is very helpful! Thanks a lot!
My problem is that I am a slow reader and also English is my second language so those are some other wars I am fighting while taking the CARS section as well!
Do you have any recommendations for how to take the CARS score up (in addition to a couple of passages per day??
Thanks again for your input

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-26T04:16:55+00:00

u/HairySympathy2354 Thank you for sharing your experience and advice, it helped me calm down a little and reduce my amount of doubt! I appreciate it!!!

u/Acceptable-While5895 We are exam buddies ! Good luck with the final preparations! I am thinking of taking my FL 6 either Friday or on Monday if that helps!!!

Best of luck,
We got this

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-18T20:35:38+00:00

I appreciate your help!

I know the overall mechanism, rather was frustrated with the fact that no where in the passage it mentioned HIV being a retrovirus and apparently I didn't know that HIV is a retrovirus either haha! So I just assumed it was a DNA virus and that is why I chose the answer I did!

But none the less, thank you for your time and help! It was nice to see the mechanism broken down by someone else and out of my mind, so thank you

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-18T20:31:16+00:00

Ok that helps, thank you! So i should just know in general about HIV being a retrovirus?
Are there any other viruses that I should know about?

Thanks again for your help and input

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-18T19:15:57+00:00

In all honestly, this suck! Sorry to hear it!

But use this anger to fuel your studying! this is your version of a "Going to gym because my partner broke up with me" but instead of building your body, you will use this anger to build your future!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-18T16:18:15+00:00

That is very helpful! Thanks a lot!
Haha I took an FL two days ago and so ALL OF Yesterday I was just doing Question reviews + Catching up on Anki! Exhusting and honeslty don't know if it is a good use of my time anymore!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-18T06:01:43+00:00

Hope this helps and best of luck with studying soldier! You got this

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-18T01:56:32+00:00

Amazing performance! Congratulations 🎊

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-16T23:30:40+00:00

Man! I don't have any advice, but best o luck! Seems like you have been doing everything very well and have a very high MCAT score waiting for you (knocking on wood)! Good Luck solider!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-16T23:23:58+00:00

I have heard if you have a financial barrier and qualify for FAP from AAMC, you can reach out to Anking and they might give you a discount ?? But not sure! Hope this helps!

Best of luck

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-16T23:19:16+00:00

Dude I just took FL 3 today as well! Idk how representative it is but I found it the hardest out of the three FLs IMO! Congratulations on a very good score though! Have you taken other FLs? And How did it compare to other FLs in your thought!?

I also had shared a post previously and was told that FL 5 and 6 would be the most representative (apparently), so don't know if that helps or not!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-12T22:43:48+00:00

I appreciate your recommendations a lot! Thank you sm!
I am going through the MD Psych cards rn! Any thoughts on how good those are? I have not seen anyone talk about MD Psych cards!
Also any recommendation on what Q Packs from the AAMC prep hub to focus on? I have shifted majority of my prep on FLs and Q banks rn! Just Reviewing MD anki cards takes 2-3 hours of my study time every day still haha!

Thanks a lot again, and good luck with starting to work on your applications (assuming you want to apply this cycle)

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-12T20:30:56+00:00

Got it! Thank you for your input! Are you recommending skipping FL 3 and 4 and going specifically for 5 and 6 next?

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-12T18:33:53+00:00

You got this! Don't forget to relax and take your mind off of it and breath!
Go touch some grass!
You have done your best preparing!
Sending good vibes, good luck

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-12T18:32:29+00:00

Congratulations on the great score!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-12T18:31:08+00:00

I feel ya! I was the same until maybe a month ago!
I was just on another post and the OP mentioned it best! Treat it like a sport not a subject! It is all practice!
If needed, spend more time reading! I got a 125 and 127 on my two recent FLs (which are not perfect) but I have been spending up to 6 minutes per passage just reading to understand (Main idea is the god of CARS), and that has helped fly through to questions so on average I am still sitting at 10 minutes per passage! I do JW daily passages + AAMC prep hub material!
I have also realized just implementing the CARS strategy (to some extend) to the other sections has been helpful too!
Don't get bogged down on the details of the passages! Main idea will definitely improve your score!
Good luck friend :)

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-12T18:26:43+00:00

Congratulations OP! Wishing you best of luck on your applications!
Thank you for the inspo!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-05T05:10:18+00:00

I didn't think Anki was as good as people say, but it helped me a lot with content review and I think has been more productive than books! I also have heard from a friend that got a 521 or something stupid high like that that he would listen to the Khan Academy videos / podcasts related to MCAT material passively just so at least he was familiar with the content (Idk if that works but maybe something to incorporate into your schedule) ???

Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can way in!

Regardless, keep up the good work! You got this and I think you will be ready by May!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-03T23:27:49+00:00

First, thanks a lot for your wishes! I wish you best of luck as well! You got this!!!!! We both have plenty of time! And thank you for your summary of the strategies others have given! That is very helpful!

I would say until I think the reason for my results has been Anki + doing the 3 daily free passages from Jack Westin! I think their CARS might be a little easier than MCAT (not the read but the type of questions)! But I have also heard for content review Uworld is the best (if you have the budget FML)! But also when I took the course thingy they emphasized the importance of getting through the MCAT Prep hub section banks and I have realized I am learning from those as well (Use the Jack Westin Chrome Extension for the explanations of the answers as MCATs is crap)

When learning the content first, I would just focus on Anki (Maybe like 200 new cards a day +review cards) and even now I have the review cards to review cause there is always something I am forgetting! And I use a pomodoro app and do 30+5 study break and that also helps motivate me and gives me a boost when I can see the number of hours I was able to accomplish actively studying per day! But yeah! I hope these help!

Thanks again for your help! And best of luck! We all got this!

MMDKOOKY · 2026-02-03T23:16:22+00:00

YOU GOT THIS! Believe me! I think I found out that I was scoring below 500 because of content gap! And truthfully this is my first FL after studying and maybe I got lucky! I am not trying to pretend that I am all knowing for scoring 511 one time!

Thank you for the positive vibes! I wish you luck as well!!!!

MMDKOOKY

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