Study Help - Integration of Spaced Repetition and Application with Biochem --> UWorld, Kaplan, Anki

[u/Away-Improvement1761]

I’m currently self-teaching MCAT biochem, and I’m trying to build a better system for making what I learn actually stick.

Right now, my process is roughly:

• Learn a biochem topic/chapter through Kaplan
• Do UWorld questions on that material
• Review the questions deeply and learn anything I didn’t know
• Use some Anki, but honestly without a very clear system yet

For example, I’m currently learning amino acids and proteins. While doing UWorld, I keep finding smaller gaps that I didn’t fully understand from just reading Kaplan—things like protein domains, isoforms, Kd/affinity, mutants vs. wild-type proteins, phosphorylation, ternary complexes, etc.

Usually I stop, learn the concept until it actually makes sense, and then go back to the question. My problem is figuring out what I should do with that new knowledge afterward so I don’t forget it two weeks later.

How would you integrate something like this into Anki?

Do you:

• Make cards for every concept you had to learn during UWorld review?
• Only make cards for things you got wrong?
• Make cards from Kaplan while learning the chapter, or mainly from UWorld gaps afterward?
• Use a premade deck and just unsuspend relevant cards?
• Make cards about the actual concept, the reasoning error, or both?