I haven’t seen anything about this month’s update yet, if there is any. Does anyone have any insight? Curious about the psych khan academy tags mainly

For context I am doing content review currently, reading Kaplan chapters and supplementing them with the deck. I keep seeing comments and posts about how milesdown isn’t “good enough” due to it not being so comprehensive especially for low yield topics, I’m almost half way through my content review therefore halfway through the deck so my questions is should I switch to something like Captain Hook, and if so what tips do u have in terms of how to manage the cards of previous chapters I already learned?

I did not do well on my first MCAT. I want to retake it in about six months, and I have begun content review. I have been using the MileDown Anki deck. Before I move any farther in it, should I stick with this deck? If not, what deck should I switch to? Or should I do multiple decks? HELP.

I just started using uworld, and I'm lowkey confused about how people use anki to review the questions they got wrong.

Im a slow learner/tester so i dont want to spend too much time on making cards - i heard some people just make cards by simply screenshotting uworld explanations.

also i havent used anki till starting mcat so i used anki merely for anking content review with kaplan. can u guys explain me the most efficient way of making those cards

i want some advice from high scorers on this pls :/

I love mnemonics and Reddit has helped me learn some especially for P/S which is definition heavy. I like to try and paint a story while I learn terms so some of these might have analogies.

Types of Capital

Social capital = who you know (ex: you got an internship because of your mom’s friend)

Cultural capital = what you know (ex: accent, behaviors, education)

Types of Stressors

Acute stressors are short-term just like the word acute (ex: an exam)

Chronic stressors are long-term just like the word chronic (ex: unemployment or chronic condition)

Ambient stressors are environmental; think ambient meaning environment (ex: you live downtown where there is lots of noise)

Important People (Piaget, Freud and Erikson)

Silly people chase frogs

Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational

For Freud’s stages, I sound out OAPLG (sounds like OAP LIG)

I don’t have one for Erikson as I think of his stages as a story rather than a mnemonic.

More Terms

Ethnocentrism = my way is the right way

Cultural relativism = let’s understand their way (think of relativism as meaning relating to others)

Parasomnia = Peculiar events during sleep (ex: sleep walking)

Dyssomnia = Duration (as well as quality and quantity) of sleep is affected (ex: insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea)

Nightmares occur during REM and are REMembered while night terror occur during NREM and are NOT remembered 

Class consciousness: people see and question power and inequality 

False consciousness: people Fail to see power and inequality 

Hindsight bias: I knew it all along

Confirmation bias: I want evidence that supports my belief

Social desirability bias: I want to be liked; that’s why people give socially acceptable answers rather than how they actually feel to impress other (hence desirability)

Socioeconomic gradient in health: SES is directly proportional to health (high SES = better health and vice-versa)

Morpheme: M for meaning 

Phoneme sounds like the word phone which is Latin for sound

Absolute poverty: you absolutely cannot meet basic needs

Relative poverty: you’re poor COMPARED to others

Absolute threshold: A for “is there Any stimulus that can be detected”

Difference threshold: D for delta which means change

Parvocellular: P for precise

Magnocellular: M for motion

Middle ear pathway (malleus, incus, stapes)

• MISsion Impossible
• MISs (as in the title for a female teacher)

Brain waves for slowest to fastest: Don’t touch any bad gas

• Delta, theta, alpha, beta, gamma

The central executive = CEO: the boss who coordinates the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad

Sternberg’s Triarchic theory is CAP (creative, analytical and practical)

Broca’s aphasia: I always think speak Broca (but he can’t so that how I remember Broca’s area is for speech)

Central route: C for concrete (evidence based)

Peripheral route: P for pretty (appearance, emotion, status, celebrities, ads)

Mores = Moral norms 

Role strain = ONE role 

Role conflict = 2+ roles

Strain has 6 letters while conflict as 8 so since strain has less letters, it has fewer roles attached to it

For sociology, I think most of the terms are fairly straightforward. 

So I have come to terms with the fact that there is absolutely no way I have time to finish all my news/learn cards or keep up with reviews of all my Anki cards (besides Pankow, that one I keep up with and plan to finish soon) and finish UEARTH practice at the same time. So, I've decided to just try to finish the Qbank and review my incorrects and flagged instead.

I wanted to ask if it's possible that after doing the whole Qbank, the AAMC section banks, and the FLs and reviewing them thoroughly, I'd still have SIGNIFICANT content gaps that would prevent me from achieving a 520+? Currently, I'm doing UEARTH untimed, untutored, unit by unit and topic by topic (E.g, One day I'll do 5 GCHEM Unit 1 Untimed 20Q blocks for a total of 100Q and continue on like this for a month until all questions are done) and I find that this helps me soldify the content a lot better and identify patterns in the content I'm weak at rather than doing blocks of randomized units where there is no pattern to get in terms of content.

I've seen many people achieve high scores without needing Anki and wanted to know if that is representative or if I should sacrifice finishing UEARTH to put more time into the cards?

Thanks for any help!

I've found that the anking deck is not very comprehensive and I want to get a high mcat score (at least a 515). By that I feel like it just feels too easy and doesn't cover a lot of the topics that are tested on uworld. Should I switch to JS or aiden with about two months or is it too late? Thanks!

hi sorry I'm new to reddit and it says i don't have karma on r/Mcat yet so i can't comment there but can anyone pls help me out with what we need to know about mass spec for the MCAT, i feel like kaplan barely touched on it and i feel like i just memorized the anki cards and I don't fully understand what is going on...

Hi I recently just got the Aking Subcription to have more up to date cards, I was previously using the milesdown anki deck where content was divided into Kaplan book chapters.

I'm completely knew to tags and I was wondering if some sort of google sheets or doc existed that kind of divided the different topics and the tags related them them. Rather than just reviewing everything at random.

For example, if i wanted to review Embryogenesis and Development it would tell me the tags i should look for would be Fertilization, Cell Signaling, Induction etc (no clue if these are actual tags).

thank uuuuuuu !!!! <33

As title says, I am averaging around 1000 ish cards reviewed by the time Im done with the anking and pankow deck. I only have it set to 45 new per day for Anking and 60 for Pankow and I have been continuously bumping it down because the amount is ridiculous. Is it an anki setting or is it cause Im stupid and press again like 4 times for a new card.

I have my settings for new cards/day limit as 500 (I know this is too high) and my review cards/day limit as 5000 (higher than I'll ever need). I started using this deck about a month and a half ago with these settings, and it was originally giving me 142 new cards a day. While this was less than 500, it was enough for me. Now, it's giving me 60 new cards a day. My review cards are racking up because I'm like 2/3 of the way through the deck, so maybe that has to do with it.

More than anything, I just want to understand the settings.

Planning to test in Jan. I had a diagnostic of 488 and aiming for a 515. Is kaplan truly enough or do I need a denser set like UW or TPR. Plz drop your honest thoughts! Trying to get started soon and debating rn. Thank you!

Hey redditors, I just want to make a post to help people who are struggling now and struggling in the future. I made this post a few days back feeling very helpless:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnkiMCAT/s/05HV1kITZh

In that post, I had a 1000 cards on Anki after a few days of break. I realized that this amount of cards is just gonna keep on going if I don't do something about it, then it is gonna affect me now as a premed and later as a medical student. So here is a breakdown of what you are going to do:

1. Choose a completely free day to finish all the cards in, and sleep 7 - 9 hours before that day. No tips for this part, just do it. Though, I guess eating things like cherries might help since they produce some melatonin. Also, have a big waterbottle filled up at your desk to drink while doing anki.
2. As soon as you wake up, turn the light on, brush your teeth, and drink some caffeine because it will restrict your appetite. Don't drink caffeine if you have heart problems or something lol. Don't take a shower though, and I'll tell you why soon.
3. Start doing your Anki, and make sure that the goal in mind is to memorize and not understand. With Anki's spaced repetition, you have plenty of time to understand, just make sure the goal for now is just to get the memorization in your head. The memorization doesn't have to be perfect.
   1. By hour 2 or so you will start feeling thoughts like "I should just take a break, I did a lot already, and it's not even worth it;" that is when you should push yourself more. Tell yourself that your brain is just playing a circuit to give you rest. Your brain does things to make sure that you are resting and relaxed most of the time, so just tell yourself that this is the brain and not you.
   2. By hour 3 or 4, your brain will also play negative memories at you randomly just to get yourself to stop and doomscroll. At this time, I recommend you take a shower; exactly think about why you are sad or embarassed in that negative emotion, and then go back to studying anki after you are done.
   3. By hour 4, the caffeine's effect will start to wear off kinda, and you will feel hungry. At this time, avoid eating a lot of carbohydrates like rice or bread because they will make you tired. At this time, I crack a few eggs and make scrambled eggs, and then, I eat it with a bunch of grapes or other "berries" (blueberries, strawberries, etc) to feel full. Fruits are goated lol, they fill you up.
   4. Avoid drinking any more caffeine than the one you already drank in the morning throughout your anki journey because it will just make you worried, nervous, tired, and sleepless once you are done.
4. You should be done at this point with your anki deck after a couple of hours.

My rate personally is around 100 cards per hour, and I do it along with a 50/10 pomodoro. It took me 10 hours to finish my anki deck, and it may sound overwhelming but it really is not because doctors probably study more. You just gotta accept that days like these will come one day, just try not to make it too many days.

While doing my anki, I consistently drink water because it is important for many physiological reasons. I like to listen to something with headphones during anki mainly to keep me busy and tune out external noises to prevent my brain from thinking something else, so here are some of my recommendations:

• Deep Brown or Pink Noise with Timer on the Side
• Skyrim Pomodoro
• Hollow Knight Pomodoro
• Ask Gemini to generate you an "epic anime battle" playlist with no lyrics with Timer on the side

So now, I know you premeds don't like to waste time reading reddit posts, so feel free to ask AI and summarize all the tips. If you have a 1000 cards right now, do something else or take a guilt free day for today, and get back up with 7 - 9 hour of sleep tomorrow

Edit: A premed suggested a feature called auto-advance to automatically show the card and answers in short periods of time. I think this is a great feature because it helps you stop wasting time. However, there are cards such as labeling amino acids and drawing out the structure and such, so on those cards, I highly recommend you spend some time and figure out some way to not forget it multiple times.