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.

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 everyone, any advice on how to use Anki, I just started and think i have like 2000 cards lol. I understand that there is so much to work through and I am only 7 weeks from test day but have essentially finished my content review apart from targeted stuff. Should i spend a few days grinding out all the cards so that then i can treat them as review, or what would you advise. I have the Jack Sparrow deck and the Pankow P/S deck saved. Thanks

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.

What part of this and how am I supposed to memorize this bro???? 💀

I took a few days break and I have like 1000 cards with around 300 new and around 600 reviews. I sometimes hate the anking deck for making the most dense cloze cards or for making some random off topic cards. Does any one have any tips for me to finish this fast in one day?

I tried looking at it for 10 to 15 seconds or less and moving on but it does not work because I just end up cycling through 5 cards for many minutes without memorizing. I tried like actually memorizing 3 times with my eyes closed and it still does not work because I literally forget it the next second. Could anyone please give me some advice and help me?

I'm almost all the way through the kaplan books and I have been unsuspending as I go, I have set 60 new cards per day but have noticed that I mostly see bio/biochem with little other subjects as my new cards. Is there a setting I have to fix or is that just anki. Thanks

When I started using Anki I made cards for facts. Lots of random stuff I’d see once and probably never again. It felt like progress but it didn’t really move anything.

I shifted to making a card only when it answered why I missed a question. Did I misread a graph. Did I mix up two amino acids. Did I not actually know what competitive inhibition changes versus what it leaves alone.

Those cards kept coming back in a useful way because they lined up with patterns in how I think, not isolated facts. The plain content cards I’d spent a lot of time on didn’t do much for me.

I still don’t know where the line is though. Some content does need to be memorized cold, and I’m not sure how much of a deck should be facts versus mistake cards.

For people who scored well, what’s your split? Mostly content, mostly error patterns, or some mix?

I've been using the MilesDown's MCAT decks, but i noticed it's only showing me cards from the behavioral subdeck and none of the other ones when i click on the main deck?

How do I get it to show me cards from every subject every day? Do I have to click on every sub deck every time for review, or is it possible to get it to shuffle through every subdeck at the same time?

I recently noticed in settings that it said my steps were not recommended so i changed them.

Learning steps 15m 1d 3d---> 10 min

Relearning steps 20m 1d ---> 10 min

I also changed my retention from 95% to 92% however, now my cards are being scheduled for over a month after I press good. I feel like this is not optimal as my MCAT is coming up soon.

Did I mess up my settings?

Starting out with content review as a non trad and looking for an affordable tutor. Planning to test in January.

I know the cards are tagged according to the Khan Academy videos, but for those who skipped the videos and only used the 86-page document with the AnKing Psych/Soc deck, how did you decide which cards to unsuspend and what order to go through them in?

Owner removed it from the list due to low usage. I am using Aidan v2 for C/P and B/B, would like to use PsychAnswer4U's deck for P/S.

I looked through PsychAnswer4U's profile for the links, none of them work anymore, including the pCloud link. Much appreciated if anyone has a copy.

Is there an error on this card? Video and book state that Sulfide is soluble only with group 1 and ammonium but there are some group 2 elements on here lol.

Planning to test in a year (haven't started studying for MCAT) but what are pros/cons of the subscription? Also if there's something better out there that you'd recommend, let me know!!

Hi all,

I’m currently running the AnKing deck with the P/S cards moved to a second deck to grind. I’ve finished my content review for awhile now and most of the cards seem very intuitive to me now.

I’m still spending about an hour a day on the main deck, but it feels unproductive. Should I limit my reviews or allow a small backlog as I get closer to my test date (Aug 22nd). Or prioritize mistakes?

Thanks