I remember working my way up from barely being able to look at a computer screen for a few hours to taking the actual exam without feeling too tired at the end. Sit down and take the whole exam with the same timings to build your stamina, since it takes a while to keep your brain on for nearly seven hours to constantly process information. One thing that is essential to do well on the actual exam is taking as many full length exams as possible – first focus on material like Blueprint, Altius, Kaplan, or the Princeton Review, and then transition to AAMC exams a month before the real deal. Knowing every little obscure fact won’t help you get a perfect score, so spend time thinking like the AAMC test makers and do as many practice questions as you can to get good at interpreting the information in passages and answering questions based off of them in the time given. Half of the exam is about knowing the content and the other half is being able to think critically and process and apply the information presented on the exam. Some great resources for practice questions are Khan Academy and UWorld (while it is pricey their explanations are amazing – I personally learned so much through doing UWorld practice problems). Instead of spending a ton of time on content review, start doing practice questions, as this really helps to reinforce topics and will help you know what you don’t know so that you can study more effectively. Part of the studying process is learning what you do and don’t know and focusing on improving. Do NOT try to memorize everything and spend too much time on content review! There will be things that you will not know on each practice exam or the actual exam. In terms of studying, pick a few resources and stick to them – it is much easier and cost effective since there’s only so many ways you can explain the same topic! I used the Kaplan 7-book set to start.
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