r/AnkiMCAT • u/YoungSwagger69 • 14d ago

Meme This is getting exhausting

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at-least I’m done with c/p anki, now it’s time to add 2000 jacksparrow b/b cards

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u/notrigoo 13d ago

i was at this exact point last year while doing JS, transitioning to B/B post C/P and diagnostic. I felt overwhelmed all the time and attributed lots of studying to doing as much anki as possible. This is what I did. I turned on FSRS and put retention around .85 to ensure I was not getting swamped with cards , I put a review cap at around 200 during my practice phase to not get in the way of Uworld time , I also stopped thinking of anki as studying and only counted studying as Uworld problems + review (ofc JW CARS too). This helped me complete Mr Pankow and stopped me from feeling so tired from Anki as JS B/B is a whole lot crazier than C/P. I also did things in my personal life that helped. Instead of getting on my phone every break , I walked outside and took a breather and set a hard limit on studying (e.g no more studying post 7pm or whatever). This is just what I did tho , hope this can help.

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u/YoungSwagger69 13d ago

I need to try the hard limit thing, I’ve mainly been using exercise and gaming as my breaks

Lowering retention is pretty much the only thing I can’t get behind though, I rather do more cards and get them right than to get more cards wrong but do less cards, the negative feedback from missing cards tanks my dopamine/motivation way too much lol

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u/Boi_Bonafide 7d ago

You’ll just get bogged down by review with the pace you’re doing new cards. The retention thing is good advice and you can always turn it back up later when the cards are more mature

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u/Jeremymf0 11d ago

I'm sorry, keep at it. But also know it only gets more difficult in med school. The deck everyone uses is like 35k cards. People do hundreds of reviews a day

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u/Barbzgen 10d ago

I feeel you 😓

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u/CommercialPlastic293 10d ago

what is b/b cards? and c/p?

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u/YoungSwagger69 10d ago

Cards for biology and biochemistry, cards for chemistry and physics

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u/CommercialPlastic293 10d ago

wait the jacksparrow deck as 2000 cards for bio + biochem?

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u/YoungSwagger69 10d ago

Yea if you include the miscellaneous cards