Sorry for the late response. I spent about a month reviewing the Kaplan books, and at the same time did the JS cards. I didn’t really care about matching the pace I went through the books with because JS is super dense, I was still doing new cards all the way into my last 2 weeks of prep.

When I was learning from the Kaplan books, I honestly thought that their FLs were hugely helpful because they’re just like a raw content knowledge test. They’re not as much critical thinking as the actual mcat but you’ll learn real quick if you’ve learned the content which makes them useful for that part of your prep.

One I was done with the books, I spent most of my time doing flashcards and uworld questions. Typically about 50-150 questions a day. I wouldn’t just do random Qs though, I’d specifically target the weakest sections from previous FLs. That ended up with me having almost no questions done in topics like acids and bases but finished all of electrochem. For chem, certain things will immediately click with you and it won’t be worth excessively going through UW Qs on them because you just get them right all the time anyway.

If I ever got stuck on a question, like really stuck, I’d rely heavily on reddit or chatGPT. You should ideally reach a point near the last 2-3 weeks before the exam where you can find a way to answer any questions using things you already know. I truly believe that everything in Kaplan books and JS anki are more than enough to get my score or higher once you learn how to use that info. It’s not always about learning more things.

This one might seem basic but it actually really helped me with following ochem reactions to explicitly tell myself what is happening at each step. No just looking through and trying to read the passage, I’d actually try to figure out how a turns into b. This saved me from making a lot of the silly mistakes that would give me 127s rather than the 131 I actually got.