How to use AAMC question packs Reddit

I recently AAMC's question packs and finally went and did one of them. When I went to open the CARS one, it was pretty much 120 questions, 18 passages with the inability to break them up into separate passages. My question is how do you formally use the question packs? Do you just do a couple of passages and then score it out of that? Considering you only get 5 tries, would you do 4 passages score yourself on how you did on those and then on your next try you do 4 more until you use up all your tries?

I went and ran through the entire CARS question pack, which was very exhausting.

Testing 3/29 So I'm going to finish wrapping up all the AAMC QPacks today. I've been making anki cards of the questions I got wrong that were plain content gaps. Is it a good idea to go through the questions I got wrong, again? My % correct isn't as high as I want it to be, but I'm also only 600 q's into UWorld and I know I have some things to go over.

I guess I'm just asking, how do people use these packs efficiently? I know the section bank is more representative so I want to be ready before doing that.

Hey all, I'm just trying to put together a study schedule and when it came to incorporating AAMC's materials, I found myself at a loss with the question packs and sample bank. I know from hours of lurking and googling that question packs are from the old MCAT and Sample Banks are hard but good representations of the test, but that's about it. Like, are they just a bunch of passages? How are they structured? Can I do one 'section pack' at a time or is there an easy way to split them up? Should I do one a day? Do I even know what I'm doing???? (probably not). I know variants of this question has been asked before but I just spent a good hour searching through this sub and couldn't find an answer that gave me the "ah ha!" moment I'm looking for. I don't fully understand their structure or how to use them. Of course, this may be because I haven't bought them yet and had a chance to play around with them (can't afford AAMC's bundle rn - Jesus this test is expensive), however any explanation in the meantime on what they are or insight on how to use them for content review so I can incorporate them into my study schedule (and relieve SO MUCH ANXIETY) would be greatly appreciated.

tldr; help I don't know what the section bank or q-packs really are or how to use them pls help am stressed

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Hey guys!

I’m testing on September 13 and will be finishing up content review on July 19th. I have a few questions about the AAMC Q-Packs:

1. When is a good time to start the AAMC Q-Packs?

2. How many times do you think I should go through them?

3. How should I separate them because I doubt I can sit through a whole Q-Pack at a time.

4. How much did the Q-Packs help you?

Side-note: I also have Kaplan’s section tests, their Qbank, and UWorld, so how should I integrate theses resources in as well to make sure my score is the best it can be?

Thanks for your help!

from what I've heard:

official guide questions are the closest thing to the real deal

q pack is more of a knowledge test, but very useful to gauge what you do and don't know (or honestly, it's a great confidence booster when you reach the topics that you *do* know)

what I did:

start with a few passages from each official guide

shuffle through q pack to review topics I was shaky on (or confident on to feel good about myself tbh!)

repeat the above two until enough time has passed that you can go back to the official guide passages you didn't do as well on and see if you do better!

it's important to really over explain every single part of your reasoning as to why a certain answer is correct before you choose it.

That way if you get an answer wrong, you will know exactly which part of your answer was wrong.

even if you have insane memory and remember that the answer to Q1 passage 3 is C, you should still be going through this reasoning and logic in your head to make sure that you actually know what you think you know.

(an obvious point but) it's good to keep track of topics that you tend to get wrong AS WELL AS question types that tend to trip you up. if you notice that you keep forgetting to read "except" or "not", fix it and you could seriously save yourself a few points!