u/NoNinja5338

I'm like super in need of help with cars. I was cooking hard for a while on CARS in JW, but I fell off and notice that I struggle REALLY badly on reading passages. Does anyone have any advice or resources I could use to help me improve how I read CARS passages and actually absorb what the author talks about in the passage?

I try to do the mapping method but I end up typically writing something too generic to really use it later... Any help is appreciated! 🥲

I feel like what a "bad day" of studying means differs between people, but for me personally, it's just when I feel like my attention span is at a zero after the third of fourth hour. Though, I wanna study some more, but my brain just feels so tapped out for right now 😭

I have about 65% of UWorld done including CARS (Which I'm not planning to do so give or take that's about 80% maybe done?), and as I'm transitioning to AAMC stuff mid June, should I renew my UWorld and use it alongside AAMC or leave it to expire and focus on the AAMC stuff as my new and only practice materials when upcoming to my exam?

Looking at some of the past weeks of people getting their scores back got me feeling a bit anxious (especially since I have terrible pre-test anxiety before tests) and wanted to know with some people who got the score they wanted on the MCAT; what mental strategies did you use to avoid self-doubt or emotional hurdles that kept your test day performance consistent with FLs?

I'm not sure if I should do 1 JW CARS everyday or do 2 every other day. I think that doing 2 every other day is a good idea but I am not sure if I should focus on volume over consistency or vice versa despite it only being a day difference.

Wanted to hear what professors I should pick from since like all the ratings I've seen for them aren't that great really.

There's Alan Reid, Sandra Gillespie, and Alida Janmaat. They're in descending order of their rating out of 5 on rate my prof but like I also want to hear from other people on what prof they had and how good they are. Thanks!

For some reason, when I do any other topic, it's a cake walk, but specifically, when doing the amino acid questions, I get absolutely cooked.

Like, I think I definitely may need more practice on them but the passages feel super confusing and no less it feels like the question is giving something absurdly unknown compared to what the passage provides you. Idk if others feel the same, but it's just that one section that's really getting me hard

I'm testing 7/25 and want to know when should I get the AAMC qbanks and start studying with that instead? As well, are the materials in the qbanks one and done or can you keep reusing the questions to study over them?

I'm assuming with the FLs, the best is to start using them 6 weeks before the actual exam date, right?

Do I need to memorize structures or is their functions and names good enough?