*The Official January 2016 MCAT*

Same here! I was going to take in September but I'm taking biochem and physiology this fall so decided why not wait and be safe with having all the material down cold.

I've been studying by following the content outline very closely for each section. For biochem, I have Lehninger and my course text. For Psychology/sociology, I've been watching the Khan Academy videos, taking notes on each one and also reading the textbooks in that excel sheet for psych/sociology resources. I'm not studying too much for chemistry and physics because I TA'ed physics the last few semesters and it's not tested that heavily and I took ochem I/II last year so all that is still pretty fresh. The main subjects I'm focusing on is biochem, physiology, psychology and sociology.

I have the Princeton review books and I'm starting to go through those. Honestly, I'm mostly reading and taking textbook and khan academy video notes because I don't want to miss anything but I'm still using PR to see if I did miss something. I'm probably going to order the NextStep books for more practice problems soon and the Kaplan for the sake of reviewing more material and having more practice. Luckily my semester ends in the beginning of december so my goal is to have all the content review and most practice problems done by then and have a month of just full length exams from the AAMC and all the companies.

I'm not really doing much for CARS, I'm a huge reader, I read every night and a lot of classic novels, Dickens, Austen, Melville, Bronte, Hemingway, etc and I've been a subscriber to the Economist and Wall street journal so I'm just going to continue that, reading books and articles. However, I've started to read research papers, one a day, in biochem (from pubmed), various biology papers, and social sciences, mostly psych and sociology papers, to get more practice reading those and analyzing data. I switch fields with every paper, going biochem -> psychology -> immunology -> sociology -> cell biology -> public health -> clinical medicine (from NEJM).

I also downloaded Anki and found that program super useful for flashcards. I have nearly 1000 flashcards so far and use anki for reviewing topics and quizzing myself.

I'm going to use everything that's available, nextstep, AAMC, kaplan, PR, EK, etc. I'll have the time and figure it will only help me to do as many problems and simulated full length exams as possible.

For biochem, besides my biochem course, I'm reading and taking notes from Lehninger. I also got the online access code for Lehninger, which I think is super useful because besides having an online version of the textbook, you also get many practice problems for each chapter and resources like problem solving videos, tips and a ton of supplemental material.

Now with classes started, I'm studying about 3-5 hours on weekdays. I study for 1-2 hours in the morning (from 7-9 am or 6:30-8 when I have an 8 am class), generally just review old material, flashcards and I read the research paper. Then I study for 2-3 hours at night, which consists of taking textbook and Khan Academy notes and/or going through review books. Weekends I put in around 5-6 hours each on Saturday and Sunday.

Some days may might be worse depending on research and how much work I have, heh I'm a BME senior and I'm also taking 2 BME courses this semester so there might be some nights I don't get much studying done but I do always study in the morning.

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*The Official January 2016 MCAT*