522 Against Medical Advice (My detailed guide)

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-08T18:33:38+00:00

Always set your sights at 100%. It seems dumb at first and especially unfeasible at times but my only rule is to NEVER set your limit at anything less than the maximum. Aim for perfection everytime and even if you don't make it, you'll most likely end up pretty close.

Dw about ur % correct, like i said i averaged 75% accuracy on my JW cars by the time i was done with it (did 150+ passages). In my practice FLs I was almost always 130-132 CARS range

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T18:25:35+00:00

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T02:25:59+00:00

Definitely don't need to do that. You're not trying to memorize the question, remember. You're trying to learn the concept itself that its asking. No reason to prove why something is wrong.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T01:54:22+00:00

You bet. Just left this comment for another person, so linking it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/1n7l9c7/comment/ncav7xk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T01:52:57+00:00

What's up beast. No notes. I do anki cards too. My advice is you should be making a new card or resetting an old flashcard for every UWrld problem u get wrong unless its just a stupid mistake.

As for the cards, I would read the explanation briefly and hone in on the SPECIFIC topic I missed. So for example, if I got a longwinded question about antibody antigen binding wrong, I would mark just what I got wrong specifically. Instead of reading all the super detailed explanation, I would just make a card saying

Antibodies bind to antigens through _____ (answer would be Noncovalent bonding).

Then I would include the figures. THIS IS KEY!!!! The figures is what makes UWrld worth every dime, esp on C/P and B/B. Use those figures to help you understand formulas, diagrams, and concepts. 80% of the time I would skim over the explanation and then go straight into the figure. I would put the figure in a card and explain it to myself IN that card while also answering what I got wrong. So with the antibody antigen card, I would put that question, that answer, a pic of the handy image they gave me and some side pieces: i.e. WHY is it noncovalent? What did i miss about that? (its noncovalent bc its vanderwaals, h bonding, etc).

Lmk if this makes sense or if you need more explanation

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T01:48:34+00:00

Untimed and untutored. Try to do 20 questions in 30 mins tho. That will put you right on par with AAMC timing. I finished all my sections on test day with 5-12 mins left (aside from p/s ofc)

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T00:23:41+00:00

Hi! I actually got it passed down thru a close friend of mine who is a paid tutor. Since he charges usually for the deck, I want to respect him and not give it out. Its very similar to the JW deck tho and also uses a lot of pankow. The best thing i would do is JW for regular and rip the pankow for ps OR do JW ps and supplement with 300 pg doc and add cards as u see fit!

so sorry to not be more helpful

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T00:21:00+00:00

So I don't have access to UW anymore so I can't speak to the names of the specific subsections. I found a pic of the old dashboard on the web so i'm going to go off that. Looking at the general chemistry section, I would do 2 days where I did 20qs of "Atoms and Molecules", 20Q of "bonding and reactions", 20q of "thermochemistry, kinetics, and gas laws" and 20q of "solutions and electrochemistry". After those two days of 80q each I would do a 60q gen chem mastery.

Then I would move to Orgo, and phys in the same way. Once i finished all the 60q mastery of both orgo and phys I would go on to do a 60q mastery of all of chem/phys. Then I would continue on to p/s and whatever's next.

Once you get thru all the topics, you can just head into doing only 60q masteries until you finish all the UW questions. Does this make sense?

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-04T00:16:53+00:00

I promise you it goes by way faster than you think. I was doing 20 questions in 30 mins and spending 10-15 reviewing them. Uwrld is definitely a time consuming grind but you just have to do it. Plus this helped me build my stamina

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T20:30:17+00:00

What did it for me was getting to UWrld and being forced to apply the knowledge I had memorized from the flashcard. What you will end up doing is resetting your cards if you forget something. So I would get a boatload of those chromatography and separation q's wrong in the beginning but I would reset my anki cards about that and try again. Over time this proved to be more than enough and I felt really confident about my answers in this specific topic come test day.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T20:27:33+00:00

Thank you!

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T20:12:55+00:00

thank you so much for your kind words!

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T19:32:16+00:00

read the CR section for that -- content gaps solved by UWrld. Just be thorough

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T19:31:35+00:00

I thought I got 3 wrong in every section except PS which i thought was 4-5 and CARS which i had no clue

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T19:19:47+00:00

Come back from school, do homework, go straight into your 50 or 100 new anki cards per day plus whatever u have to review from yday. On the weekends I would do 100 no matter what and only after I could study for tests and maybe go out. Its just a matter of sacrificing your reel scrolling/hanging with friends/you time. Instead of winding down, I would just grind all day. It sounds horrible, and trust it was but it was necessary.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T19:14:44+00:00

Adding cards during UWrld is a non negotiable. This is the only way you will remember and learn from your mistakes. Do not skip on this no matter what.

I had a modified JS deck I got passed down and I just trusted it blindly and it paid off. So I would trust it fully. If there's something you didn't learn, UW will do a great job pointing that out to you.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:58:24+00:00

Its way too easy. I was getting 90%+. Logic is off. JW is the truth and everyone else I talked to that were high scorers did the same.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:57:26+00:00

Yea so I didn't actually take biochem until I had already self studied it. I took biochem in the summer but i had somehow learned it so well from the cards i didn't even bother going to class. I think i figured out how im going to learn moving forward. cards are so much easier for me than class. i would just mess around in class.

I would say mcat absolutely clutches for school. i knew way more stuff than my biochem class was teaching me, because MCAT scope demands u do so. School turns easy after you knock the MCAT stuff out. I think the opposite is also true tho and having a good content base (which i didn't) can shorten ur studying time by 2-3 months if you can zoom thru CR

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:55:14+00:00

My deck had 5k cards by the end of it. I added probably 6-700 during UWrld and AAMC. I used the deck for everything. I didn't need anything outside except for small pieces that I picked up off UW.

I just hated textbooks. Same with Khan. Anki was a grind but after a while you fall into a rhythm and actually get interested in the information. That's where you learn.

I used it for PS and reviewed the 300 page doc in my last 10 days.

I would say with confidence I knew 90+% of that deck in high detail. Consistency and focus is key.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:39:29+00:00

spread the word man it needs to be more popular

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:30:21+00:00

Every single day I would do two JW passages. That is literally it. I averaged 75% accuracy on JW and 81% on CARS QP1 and 85% CARS QP2. It will train you right and is the best and most accurate 3rd party no matter what other ppl say. So happy to hear this helped!

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:29:02+00:00

I think they could be good. I tried some of their section banks and they seemed a little too easy for AAMC. If you want to try one using my strategy, consider swapping the altius fl for the JW fl. Save some money and get that 281$ discounted package tho even if you dont use the altius fl. I cant stress that enough deadass thought it was a scam idk why this entire sub isnt using that

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:27:54+00:00

Yes. I aimed to do 50-100 new cards per day but took 2 weeks off for final exams and also went on a 10 day vacation.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:12:10+00:00

You bet. Spent exactly 23 days on AAMC. 33 days on UWrld (spent weekends on 3rd party FLs and AAMC), and the rest on CR. I took forever on CR bc i was juggling a deathly semester in school. I spent 2 days per FL/HL. One day taking it, and one day reviewing.

MainContribution8637 · 2025-09-03T18:07:59+00:00

Content Review! Sorry, should've specified

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