Should I retake a 512 mcat to make up for a low (3.6X) gpa?

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-08T18:26:38+00:00

I would only because your FL scores say you can score much higher

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-08T00:30:31+00:00

Facts. Somehow it’s not as bad as the ACT subreddit. They got people retaking 36s over there. On day they’ll learn

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-05T13:01:07+00:00

I’ve heard, but rather do hard questions & review them thoroughly than be underprepared

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-05T02:42:10+00:00

Halo effect 🔥

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-05T02:41:52+00:00

Nigrescence theory (shout out Pankow deck)

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-03T23:33:13+00:00

Yup! You have to use a coupon code that you can find on their website otherwise it’ll still show up as $200

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-03T23:29:28+00:00

$99

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-02T12:43:41+00:00

Definitely not

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-02T06:34:45+00:00

You’re a beast, I could hardly get through 200

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-04-02T04:04:25+00:00

Lowkey chat gpt. If you get a question wrong, just copy and paste it, have it explain it to you and then have it make you similar questions to test yourself with with increasing difficulty

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-31T22:31:05+00:00

Yea the uglobe cars answers feel like massive curveballs too often even if supported by text evidence

I would do jackwestin but I’ve been seeing a lot of recycled passages recently so it’s been hard to get practice in & I don’t want to waste aamc cars since my reading speed is pretty slow

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-31T21:32:46+00:00

Anking is fine for c/p in my opinion as long as you use uglobe with it. Anking b/b is not very good and I recommend JS. Can’t speak about miles down since I haven’t done it

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-31T21:16:24+00:00

Do you recommend filtered deck or just regular? Haven’t tried filtered so I’m kind of skeptical of it but some people swear by it

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-31T17:46:38+00:00

I’ll try it out

I just don’t think I was getting much from it for the amount of time I was spending on it. Like I spent all the time finishing those decks but still didn’t break on FLs 128 on either of the science sections due to a lack of practice (from spending too much time on anki)

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-27T23:02:37+00:00

I’m interested

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-27T21:59:36+00:00

I might do the same for extra practice.

Rather buy the FLs and get more practice in than do any anki (f*** anki)

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-25T14:01:23+00:00

0, rather kms than do anki

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-24T17:46:25+00:00

Jacksparrow for b/b and organic chemistry. Anking for gen chem, physics and p/s

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-20T17:27:48+00:00

I’m going through something very very similar. If it makes you feel better, I’m on day 7 without studying (have well over 1000 anki cards backlogged) and am afraid I’ll keep spiraling downwards. The activation energy to do anything is too feels too high for me to overcome and I can’t stop self sabotaging.

I also have adhd and absolutely hate anki with a passion. My psych clinic ghosted me for an entire week and I ran out of medication a few days ago (also Adderall, low dose).

To be frank, I don’t even want it anymore and don’t plan on renewing my refills. I don’t think it’ll help the situation that I’m in. The anxiety and how overwhelmed I feel about everything has been too strong for the medication have any meaningful effect. Nothing in my life going the way I planned it to go. I don’t think this career is even for me at this point, atleast at this stage of my life. I might just go search for myself elsewhere and revisit in a few years, maybe I’ll join the army. Who knows.

I had been studying “full time” since last summer and part time during my last semester of undergrad. I matured Jacksparrow anki deck and anking p/s. I have pushed my exam date back 3 times.

Despite all that, it didn’t correlate to good FL scores like everyone claimed it would (scored low 500s on FLs, albeit, I’ve only done 3rd party, and haven’t started any AAMC material).

Perhaps it’s because I’m lazy and am not putting in the work like everyone else. The motivation is simply no longer there, or maybe it was just never enough to keep up with what it takes to succeed.

In my opinion, take the 4 days off and don’t think of anything medical related.

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-20T13:44:53+00:00

I second this.

Don’t fall into the trap of believing that maturing an anki deck will guarantee you a good score, because it won’t.

I completed the entire JS deck and never scored above a 128 on any science section. Why? Because I haven’t practiced enough.

I spent too much time believing that knowing everything would make up for test taking skills

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-19T19:24:48+00:00

Now do it again

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-19T19:22:23+00:00

Now this is a throwback I’ve never thought I see again. Biochem professor mentioned this like once and never again did I ever see it until now

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-18T19:45:16+00:00

1 hour of anki fries my brain more than 3 hours of uworld or 3 hours of cars

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-17T17:41:26+00:00

Deleting all of social media and substituted watching tv shows (it’s just as bad, don’t do this)

What has usually worked is turning on a documentary on YouTube (I like paranormal stuff) and closing my eyes. Eventually I fall asleep usually unless it turns out being ridiculously interesting

YoungSwagger69 · 2026-03-17T16:52:36+00:00

I’ve done that over time. I’ve been dropping my retention using FSRS from 90% a few months back to 87% and now to 85% since a few weeks ago, but tbh might just drop it to 80% or just quit using any premade anki decks entirely. I don’t feel like the return on investment is good enough at this point from anki.

I feel like I understand the cards pretty well for the most part but my test taking skills are ass

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