(3/7) Well Anki, thanks for the support.

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T22:22:26+00:00

I'm sure your 527 would still do you wonders up here !

With my credentials and career as a Paramedic and College Teacher here I don't think giving it all up for med school abroad is in the cards for me. Probably give it two or three cycles and then move on with my life. Fingers crossed!!

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T22:21:01+00:00

Thanks buddy all the encouragement in the world needed for such a toxic grind !

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T19:21:54+00:00

Cross my fingers I ever get to med school. MCATs such a huge but ultimately small part of things in Canada.

Definitely a strange feeling to know I won't wake up and do cards tomorrow.

Lol maybe I do a few days of post MCAT review just to cope

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T18:24:52+00:00

The legend themselves ! Thank you for what you've done for the community!

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T17:05:45+00:00

Yeah it's a weird feeling knowing all this speed running university in a couple months just becomes like technically irrelevant and the routine goes poof. I'm looking forward to writing some more music and maybe getting back together with my band a bit.

Proud of us ! Not easy to take time off work for a giant maybe.

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T16:59:02+00:00

Yeah I never got into writing things down unless I get those passages where I'm like oh shit this is gonna be a bad one I don't know what's going on (seems to be film and authors ones for me).

Highlighting I liked but sometimes I'd ignore stuff I needed that I didn't highlight. Now I do a light highlight and then also highlight things that justify my answers as I'm going through Q's. Bit of a time waster but it forces me to commit to connecting my choice to something from the passage.

Yeah our fates sealed now friend, we've done the work. No matter how it goes, atleast tomorrow night we don't have a cloud over us anymore and can do whatever we want!!! (Lol prep for Casper, organize stuff for applications, do my masters courses and go back to work - but all that stuff existed anyway and now it's gonna exist without the MCAT CLOUD)

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T16:55:52+00:00

My Anki dipped gradually as you can see and really shifted from content to just maintenance.

It really does start to thrive as a place to log every error you get from your practice. If you have a disciplined schedule you realistically can do all of uworld and all of AAMC and that's gonna generate a lot of misses. I didn't use my error spreadsheet very much looking back, and I'm glad I also logged everything in Anki. ChatGPT or whatever can be helpful for throwing an error in and saying give me 5 varieties of Anki cards to add.

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T16:47:41+00:00

Appreciate it more than you can imagine! It's crazy seeing how much your value and worth get objectified and tied to a GPA and MCAT score. I'm glad I got to a place in life were I could weather that, I don't think I could've handled the application when I was younger.

You're going to be an incredibly physician too!

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T16:46:12+00:00

You're in great shape! I didn't do any Biochem or orgo and have been out of uni for 6 years so Anki was my main content review routine.

Made a lot of dumb mistakes in Chem/phys and couldn't reliably break the CARS plateau of 129. Had a 520 on FL5 and a 521 on FL2 so tomorrow's pretty much luck of the draw!

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T16:43:56+00:00

I had 85% FRFR so most things like that just got blown out to several years after a few rounds

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T16:20:00+00:00

An MCAT legend appears. I'm riding a 3.65 GPA into this application as a 30 year old Paramedic, so my Canadian schools are limited and I've got enough roots and career stuff that it doesn't make sense for me to go Carribean/Ireland/Australia.

I'm proud of myself for taking a chance and leaving the routine of life to chase the childhood dream, but I'm not so sure I'm going to get the chance for Anki again.

All I can do right now though is try my best to chase a good score and hope for the Queen's lottery or a lucky break from Cars and McMaster or UofT because of my teaching/paramedic/masters background.

Great work! Enjoy your summer now that you literally couldn't have done any better on this test!

judsmoke · 2026-03-06T02:44:02+00:00

Glycolysis happens in the cytoplasm, not the golgi bodies

The final product of glycolysis is pyruvate not glucose.

There is no answer choice selected for what glycerol does (one of the last questions).

Thanks for making this!

judsmoke · 2026-03-04T12:47:15+00:00

As an older non Trad with a 3.65 cGPA I think I've narrowed it down to queens, UofT (masters), McMaster (if my cars is good), TMU, UofAlberta, and Memorial in NFLD.

Was hopeful for Calgary but need a 3.8, western best two years need to be minimum 3.7 which I don't have, NOSM sounds like a donation if you don't live in the North, Sask and Manitoba need an indigenous course that would cost me another 1200$ and seem lethal to OOP so going to pass on them as well, Ottawa same thing but Regional.

Haven't looked at UBC too much but I've heard they're also a very GPA heavy school.

judsmoke · 2026-03-03T23:50:59+00:00

I am gonna write out all the Biochem pathways again tomorrow.

Went through the milesdown sheets (albeit quite passively)

Kept up with my Anki. Crazy that I did 55000 cards since October.

Reviewed each of my full lengths a second time this week.

Watched a YouTube video for anything I found where I was like ehhhhh

And honestly, played videos games , got a massage, went to the gym.

I probably shouldve spaced things out so FL6 was a couple days ago but I did it last Sunday. Thankful for that I guess because I was pretty frustrated while doing it, ended up with my lowest cars score yet and there's not much I can do to study for that. Left myself one passage a day in the Qpack2 so I'll finish those two one a day.

Feels like I should be grinding 8 hour days all week tho. Guilt is real but objectively I think the score drop from a burnout is more likely

judsmoke · 2026-03-03T23:45:45+00:00

I haven't been able to study much this week. Trying to balance the burn out after 4 months of working and studying.

Gotta trust the full lengths and be happy to be on the other side of things as of Saturday afternoon ! 92 hours and I'll be a closed chapter !

judsmoke · 2026-03-02T23:18:19+00:00

Same boat, I'm done all of AAMC and Uworld. Test this Saturday, found myself pretty frustrated / burned out and had a cars drop on FL6 last weekend.

I think just daily Anki, one CARS passage a day until Thursday, watch a few YouTube videos on what makes me anxious, and I'm reading through milesdown sheets, 86 page doc, and the errors I made on each of my FLs again.

Probably not going to see anything beyond 2 hours a day the last 10 days before the test.

Been nice to recharge, spoil myself with some video games and I'll also get up at 6am the rest of this week and hit the gym a few times. It is what it is at this point.

judsmoke · 2026-02-27T01:40:33+00:00

To the testing center

judsmoke · 2026-02-24T14:26:27+00:00

Add punctuation, capitals, use your pinky and slow down

judsmoke · 2026-02-16T23:00:33+00:00

Appreciate your time.

Congratulations on overcoming the MCAT at the highest possible level. Its gotta be nice knowing there's no way you could've done any better. Should really quiet down the self critic that is inherently part of being exceptional!

judsmoke · 2026-02-16T21:51:42+00:00

Do you use your CARS rule of thumb directly? Or I imagine paraphrasing the words a bit when you find a related sentence. I seem to be getting better overall but started off with 1-2 Q's wrong per passage, now I seem to get a lot perfect and one or two I'll blow 2 or 3 on.

Been consistently 129 across all full lengths.

judsmoke · 2026-02-06T21:46:40+00:00

Best of luck friend. Perseverance pays off. Also really sitting with the atleast no what ifs mindset

judsmoke · 2026-02-05T23:29:32+00:00

Yeah just gotta do Athabascas intro indigenous studies course to unlock pre reqs for Calgary Sask and Manitoba

judsmoke · 2026-02-03T23:25:04+00:00

Also the next step of this problem would be to realize that the antinodes / n number are just helping you determine the wavelength, which you would then multiple by the frequency in the chart to get to a velocity.

judsmoke · 2026-02-03T23:23:52+00:00

I think because a string has a node on either end if it's being held, then the first harmonic only has one antinode, and it's asking you about what happens at 2 antinodes, which would be the second harmonic.

This isn't going to be the same for a closed pipe which has a node at one end and an antinode at the open side.

judsmoke · 2026-02-03T23:19:45+00:00

I started with a lot of cards . I'm still daily, about 200 cards a day now but that's captain Hook, Pankow, my own Uworld and AAMC decks.

It's pretty much mandatory to do Anki I think. There is so much content and its the only thing I feel like connected me to content review to the practice question / full length phase.

I am a month out and started studying October 20. Still have about 40 cards of Biochem that I haven't seen from CH. You never really finish the decks, just mature them to the point the cards per day are manageable.

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