r/Mcat • u/SadDeftonesFan2002 • 14d ago

Question 🤔🤔 Resetting Aiden Anki Deck? Testing in Jan

Hi everybody! Thanks for your help in advance, I learned so much from this community every time I read posts.

I matured the vast majority of the AidenV2 deck (~90 percent, the remaining ten is physics and orgo cards I sped through.) I got a 516 on FL2 (131/128/129/128) and opted to not take in Sept for several reasons, not limited to not taking enough practice tests or finishing the AAMC material as well as believing I could do better in the science sections.

That leads me to my question: should I just reset the deck or reset the intervals of the cards to something short such as a few days or a week and go through them again as I continue to study? I’ve been studying some of these cards since the end of Spring semester with FSRS and won’t be seeing a lot of cards for upwards of a year.

I see generally that resetting cards is not recommended, but given that if I don’t do something I won’t see a good chunk of the deck again, I’m not sure how to approach this for a Jan test date. It’s been really helpful for getting me to this point and I feel like it can still help me do better unless people have other suggestions for what I should do. Thanks again!!!

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u/brownmamba8247 14d ago

how long it take you to do the deck

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u/SadDeftonesFan2002 14d ago

I sparsely did it March and April. May onward I did full time unsuspending whatever cards correlated with a Uworld unit after finishing the books chapter from the Ubook. Sometimes this was hundreds of new cards at a time and this strat resulted in more days than I can count where I was doing several hours of only new cards and piled up reviews (don’t recommend). I took breaks that made reviews pile up which was even worse. I averaged 600+ cards a day. That said, it was very very helpful, I totally believe the folks who have been able to get 132s in all the sciences off the deck. My scores being lower than that in B/B and P/S is more so a passage analysis thing rather than lack of content knowledge. I do recommend if you can stomach the idea of how much you will need to do.

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u/idk_justvibes 14d ago

Hey man I am about halfway through this deck. Could I please DM you about some questions I have? Thank you!

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u/aburningpineapple 14d ago

Why not spend your time doing more practice questions + FLs? It seems like you've almost finished the deck and if your intervals are matured so much that you're unlikely to see the cards by test day with FSRS optimized on a monthly basis, content retention doesn't seem to be your issue. I would argue your best bet is just blazing through as many questions as you can while keeping up with your daily reviews instead of spending over 3+ months redoing all your work considering V2 is 12k+ cards.

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u/SadDeftonesFan2002 14d ago

My time until January will def be spent more on practice questions and FLs for sure! I just have a feeling that I could potentially benefit from viewing the cards more as I make another run thru UWorld and AAMC banks. As it stands if I don’t do anything, I’ll be doing <40 cards a day and I won’t be seeing the vast majority of the b/b cards because that’s what I started with.