Chores including grocery shopping, food prep, cleaning, and more.
These should include but are not limited to the following: This refers to tasks that MUST get done, but the specific hours can may. Or one schedule for when your kids are in school, and another when they are on winter or summer break. If you happen to know your upcoming schedule, you can create both in advance to help you understand what’s coming.Īs an example, you may have one schedule for the college semester and another for winter or summer break. When things change, create a brand new schedule.
If these change with the season, that’s okay.Ĭreate one now for your CURRENT schedule. Physical activity such as gym, or other workout classes / group sport held at a specific time.Personal & social commitments for example church or even date night (yes, that’s non-negotiable).Family responsibilities, such as picking up kids from school.These activities may include but are not limited to the following: Then, fill in your non-negotiable non-flexible responsibilities. Note your daily wake-up time and bedtime. Next, look for the ‘daily schedule’ template in the Companion Workbook under Step 4, and begin creating your schedule as follows. You need to create study ‘commitments' rather than just thinking “I have x hours to study tomorrow” You can’t explain to your children, or even your loving pets, that there won’t be any food in the house for the next five months because mommy/daddy has to study for the MCAT! Create a ‘Fixed Commitment’ Schedule If you have an older (less dependent) child, and a supportive spouse like this student, you’ll be able to carve out more time during the day.īut no matter what your life looks like, you’ll still need to find a way to balance your MCAT studying with everything else that is going on. If you’re like one of my students, a single mom with a toddler to keep up with, chances are you’re not getting any quality studying time when your child is running around all day. So let’s figure out, realistically, when you can carve out time from your busy schedule to study! School, work, life, friends, family, maybe physical limitations, and more. You’re living with a supportive parent and have zero non-academic responsibilities to distract you from your upcoming MCAT studies… right?Ĭhances are you’re not twenty-one with perfect grades, and you have a million distractions pulling you from all sides away from the MCAT: Oh, then you’re a twenty-one year old junior with perfect grades and an easy semester.
WHEN you’re going to study on a daily/weekly basis.If you haven’t done the above, you may need to go back and be sure you’re ready to begin creating your study schedule.ĭo you start by just reading every MCAT prep book and watching every video?Ī proper MCAT schedule focuses on three components. Stumbled onto the Ultimate MCAT Prep Guide? Click to Start at the Beginning. At this point in the Guide, you should understand the MCAT (Step 1), have begun personalizing your Guide Companion Workbook with your dream school and target score (Step 2), and assembled all of your MCAT resources (Step 3).
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