Wow!! I am so glad I ran across your video, thank you for making and sharing this information and these resources. As a first-generation student, I honestly had no idea where to begin but this helps so much!
I am SO GLAD I watched this. I was very much using this deck as a means of "learning" rather than "reviewing" and now I understand how beneficial the suspending and unsuspending are to reviewing. Bless your soul for this 😭🙏
This tutorial is exactly what I needed! As a med student, combining MileDown Anki with Khan Academy is genius. Thanks for sharing these free resources, they're a huge help!
Beat me to it! I've been meaning to make this video for ages! I have to go through this entire process with every single student I teach explaining all the nuts and bolts about how to use Anki. Definitely adding this video to my assignment list for every new student I teach. To your point about pre-made decks versus self-made decks, I don't completely agree. I exclusively used my own flashcards while studying for the MCAT and in med school, but I'm willing to concede that some of us learn differently. I know many students who were helped using pre-made decks. 100% agree that Anki is the way to go. No other platform like Quizlet or the others I've seen students use comes close to Anki does at mastering the spaced repetition algorithm.
That's awesome, I really hope it helps you save some time! As far as the make your own vs. pre-made goes, I agree there's more than one way to skin a cat (or ace a test for this matter)!
Thank you for making this video! I was falling into the memorization of the card visuals not learning like you mentioned and my anki cards weren't always associated with content review. Now, I feel more confident that this flow will help me learn and actually retain the info. Huge thank you dude! :)
The newest Anki release: 2.1.54 has a theme dropdown where you don't have to close the application to get dark mode, it will change when you selecte theme: dark in the dropdown.
Thanks so much for this video! I had been somewhat aimlessly walking through MilesDown's traditional deck but this is a game changer in terms of structured review. Hope all is going well with your studies! What specialty are you thinking of pursuing?
Thanks a lot. As a newbie I've never used any flashcard. Great that you included the workflow and examples. The suspend feature is really useful for self-studying.
Omg, I am not one to usually comment but this video helped me tremendously ! Thank you so much for assisting and providing demonstrations, you are great.
Hi, I cannot access the coffin deck. It says that the organization that owns the item doesn’t allow access. Thank you so much for your video. Super helpful for understanding anki.
Hi!!! this was super helpful thank you so much. I wish I saw this when I first used anki, this was a great refresher and super clear for new and veteran anki users!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I find myself watching Anki videos and remembering things I’m not taking advantage of all the time. Glad I’m not the only one 😂
Personally, I’ve been using anti and if I didn’t know what the card was talking about, I’d use the videos linked in the deck, google and come up with my own mnemonics. I start with the cards since I had a good grasp on content, but I use the cards as a base to see how much content I need to refresh. Once I make that first mistake and see the answer, it clicks back into my brain all of the content I learned over the past few years. Essentially, I use the cards as a sort of key to unlock those old neural pathways that were unused and if I was completely confused on something, I’d look at the videos from the branches to the roots to connect everything. It’s almost like a puzzle. Although, I do believe this strategy is great, the length of khan academy videos for each given subject may not correspond well with tighter schedules and I believe trying to figure out what you do know through the cards as opposed to beginning with relearning through the khan academy videos may be just a bit faster.
That's amazing that one missed flashcard reminds you of all the sciences around a topic! That is definitely not how my brain works lol. I agree there are many ways to go about learning the sciences and even using this deck and it's very possible this isn't the fastest way. This video is a very safe approach and was aimed at more of the average pre-med like myself who didn't truly internalize everything we learned in undergraduate. It's great that you did and I hope your approach works out for you! Thanks for commenting!
@@InformingFutureDoctors LOL it doesn't remind me of everything in the subject altogether, but it typically reminds me of the general topic at a minimum. If I were to remember a subject based on a missed card then I'd only need 6 cards to remember hahaha. I wish! I'll just see something and it'll just be like a reminder. For example, my mind might've blanked when I saw the card about the speed of light in a vacuum, but as soon as I saw the card it was hard to forget. Kind of like muscle memory. However, I got a lot from the video. It's really great and I can tell you put a lot of work into it. I'm still new to anki and searching for specific subjects is extremely helpful especially in taking practice tests. It makes figuring out missed questions much faster. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for creating such a comprehensive video of ANKI ! Could you please share the names of the six add-ons you recommend? For some reason, it is blurry on my end, and I cannot clearly read the names of all of them. I got the special fields, hierarchical tags, and image occlusion.
Been using the milesdown anki deck for 2 going on 3 months now and its wonderful. However if anyone is wondering my biggest critic about the deck is it does have minor errors one should be aware of while using the deck. First it has the incorrect diagram to show the oxidation of phenol to quinone, secondly, it does not have all the formulas one would want to review when studying 'the gas phase' found in general chemistry. Let me elaborate on that, it only has the Ideal gas law and does not have any cards to help you review Boyle's, Dalton's, Avogadro's, Charle's and other gas laws. Lastly, some of the cards required some editing to make more context of the card when its mixed in with so many other subjects e.g. reviewing the endocrine system one card will say ".... is a corticosteroid and contains the hormone ..." well theres 3 types of corticosteroids and each have their own respective hormones the MCAT covers, so I had edited the card to say "Glucocorticoids is a corticosteroid that contains the hormone ...." to better specify whats being reviewed. Nonetheless the deck is well made and I think every premed/MCAT prep student should use.... I am just more frustrated of the limited coverage it has on the general chemistry-gas-section that I just read through and I don't want to forget those details. I do want to note that I have not unsuspended all the flash cards for the Milesdown deck so I can only imagine that there is more errors that I will find in the future. So If anyone knows of an updated deck or some of their own personal solutions to best mediate some of the errors please let me know thanks.
This is an awesome comment. I love how you detailed your issue instead of just saying "this deck is incomplete" or something nonspecific like that. I'm not confident, but the AnKing MCAT deck might have this problem fixed as it uses both the MilesDown deck and the Kaplan books I believe. Don't hold me to that, I'm just regurgitating what I found on Reddit lol. I'll check it out once I finish my testing block and see what we can do with it
IMPORTANT: HI, I just watched your video prepping for the MCAT and I noticed when I set it up your way, my new cards were consistently from MilesDown's "Behavioral" (I'm assuming bc its alphabetically the first subdeck of the entire deck). Do you think the workaround to this would be (under New Decks) NOT to necessarily change the "Insertion Order" to "Random", as it will have no impact, but rather (under Display Options) change "New Card Gather" to "Random cards"? I was considering choosing "Random notes", but I liked your point about not being tested on the flip side of the same card in the same session, but rather use it as a "bonus" review some other time. Looking forward to hearing back from you soon. Thanks. - Aspiring 528'er
I am attempting to do the khan academy videos and follow up by studying with this anki deck however, I notice there are more sections on khan academy than sections on anki. Should I skip over the videos on KA that dont have sections on anki?
Hey, I was just a little confused and had a few questions about the anki review portion. Would I have any anki cards to review when I am just beginning to study using your program or do the reviews come after you've unsuspended a deck? Also, do we leave the decks unsuspended once we've covered a topic or do we suspend them again once we're done with the cards? Is this the deck we are supposed to use for your MCAT study program?
Hello, what other adds-on do you have, since you said you had six of them. I was able to get the two used but its not giving me the subtitles like khan academy does. like when I click behavior in the p/s section, it won't give me the subtitles under that.
The only ones I use are the ones that I outlined in the video (Hierarchal Tags, Image Occlusion, Review Heatmap, Special Fields, and True Retention). The sixth one I have just changes your background and I don't use it because it got kind of distracting after a minute. I'm not sure how if I answered your question, but if your settings are weird, it may be a good idea to just walk back through everything with me on the video and make sure you've got everything downloaded and settings assigned properly!
@@InformingFutureDoctors Oh okay. I had to reinstall my Anki and that help, I don't need all the extra stuff the two tags from the video are enough. normally I don't like Anki because I felt like it kept giving me cards on topics I haven't even reviewed but your idea is golden. luckly my textbooks are organized almost like Khan academy videos so this deck is helping me a lot. Thank you for uploading this video.
Hi! Love your videos and super grateful for everything that you do for the community. Had a quick question that might be a little nit-picky. How did you go through psych/soc using MileDown and Khan Academy? I say this cuz for P/S specifically, the MileDown deck only kinda follows the KA MCAT playlist (Only for the "Processing the environment" section, rest are somewhat random). Did you experience this issue too when reviewing? Am I reading too much into it? Would maaaaaaaaaaassively appreciate your help :) P.S. Good luck to you and Maggie on starting medical school over these next two weeks! :)
Hey, I was wondering if you think these setting/preferences would work for a 6-month MCAT study schedule. For what duration of studying were these settings intended for? For a 6-month schedule, what settings would you say are most crucial to alter/edit accordingly? Also, this was a very helpful video thank you so much!
These settings will be perfect for a 6-month duration. I use these settings for medical school to remember the material for my block exams (every couple weeks), final exams (every couple months), and board exams (every couple years) so they're great as a memorization tool for any learning length. The idea is that as long as you review them as the algorithm instructs you to, you'll remember the fact ~forever~
Hey! Thank you so much this was super helpful! I just got ANKI and was adding the add-ons and the only one that didn't work for me was the Hierarchical Tags 2 addon, which I saw wasn't working for a lot of people. I am pretty sure I have the latest version since I just downloaded it. I was wondering if there was a new code out there for this addon?
There's not one that I'm aware of but Anki has made of a habit of incorporating commonly used Add-Ons into the stock Anki program that you download. I'm not sure if that's exactly what's going on with the hierarchical tags addon, but that may very well be the case. If that is the case, then you've already got it preloaded into your anki and you're good to go; may just take some googling to figure out!
Super helpful! I was told to use Anki to study but given no instructions on how. When I download the deck and upload it, it shows that I only have one card in there. What could I be doing wrong? Thanks!!
i still struggled to find which cards to study after watching the khan academy videos. i guess i expected it to follow each section of the videos, but it seems like it's more organized based on related content.
So the Coffin deck, to my knowledge, is basically the Miledown deck but organized by Khan Academy videos. You can search for that deck on reddit and the rest of the above video should pretty much work. They'll be organized by via in the tags. Does that help?
Our video above is only for content review - learning the sciences. Passage practice via Uworld, AAMC materials, or other third party resources are a necessary part of your MCAT prep. It will depend on your schedule and what you struggle with. Perhaps 5 passages a week is good enough for you, maybe you’ll need to do 10. We leave that up to you guys, but if you are strictly following our plan detailed in our “Complete MCAT Study Plan” video, it has you doing 3 passages a week:-)
Thank you for your video. I have a question and this might sound stupid but I am fairly new to anki and I don't understant what suspend and unsuspend means or like what is the purpose. I just downloaded JP deck and have not yet started so just trying to understand how does this work for a beginner
is anyone having it where you download the milesdown organized by coffin deck and only the psychological portion shows up, i'm only seeing that and do not know what I did wrong
Hi, can you explain why is it a bad idea to check the "force changes in one direction" option? Will it be helpful if I plan to use Anki on both my computer and phone while I am on the road?
Not forcing them it is really more of a safety net than anything else! If you want to study both on your phone and your computer, you still can and they will keep up with each other seamlessly, you just need to hit 'sync' before and after each study session. I do it as a habit even though I only study on my computer ha. Just speaking from experience, sometimes you'll need to make huge changes to your Anki deck (imagine unsuspending 300+ select cards with images). Your phone doesn't handle that too well and it sometimes takes a minute for the sync to occur. That means, sometimes ppl have ran into the situation of making one of those large adjustments, going and hitting their flashcards on their phone, and then the one that gets synced is the phone progress. So, you'd lose to addition of everything you'd just done on your computer. You'd end up getting a prompt from Anki, that asks if you want to upload or download from AnkiWeb (if you're on your computer, upload. if you're on your phone, download).But what you're trying to avoid by not checking the option is that nightmare situation of spending an hour or so selective unsuspending cards and then your phone autoforcing changes that erase what you did. I hope that answers your question but tldr: I just hit "sync" before and after each study session bc it accomplishes the same thing and you don't have to worry about your phone stepping in and ruining your life on accident ha
Why would you not want to turn on "on next sync, force changes in one direction"? Wouldn't you want your phone and computer ankis to be up to date with each other?
I’ve had students’ phone sync it’s progress metrics that were behind their computer and undo a week or 2 worth of anki when they had it checked. Just kind of a fire I’ve seen ppl get burned on but you’re more than welcome to keep it on if you’d like!
Hey! I've been using all the info from this video for just over a month now and it has been massively helpful for me. KA + Coffin MD deck is a great combo. I was wondering though: Do you think these Anki settings are ideal for someone that has 5 months until their test date? When I started anki a month ago, I had 6 months until my test date. I just wanted to see what your opinion is! Thanks so much for this video -- it gave me hope to carry through. I honestly had zero idea of how to start before because the Kaplan books just weren't for me.
I'm so glad it's been helpful! There are several variations of these settings and actually the guy I got them from (he goes by the AnKing) has changed his recommendation since I made this video. Personally, I don't think it's too big of a deal but if you feel the review intervals are too far or too short for you, you're more than welcome to change them! The only thing I would caution you on is to make sure you trust the Anki algorithm and actually allow it to space the cards out a decent amount. If you try to use Anki like Quizlet, it's not going to work out well because you'll end up with 900 review cards a day.
@@InformingFutureDoctors I believe that these settings are mostly working for me. I have only come across a handful of cards/topics that I had to click "again" or "hard" to try and make sure that I didn't forget them again. My only worry is once the spaces get to multiple months apart! I have changed the "max interval" to 2 month for now instead of 180 days. If it seems like the review count is too massive, I will extend it a bit. But again, thanks so much! I have shared the link to this video a few times. Quick question: Are Anking's new settings slightly less spaced out? No worries if you don't know.
@@codyellsworth7927 Great!! keep sharing it! They're actually more spaced out ha. You'll remember them but I also like the compromise you made with yourself
@@InformingFutureDoctors Oh nice haha! Good to know. I will definitely keep sharing this video. You deserve it, brotha! I hope med school is going well.
Hi, a few quick questions. If I do not use the drop down and just click on the 1st miles down tab on Anki will it give me mix of 100 new cards from each section, since that is the limit it was set to? Or is it 100 new cards per day from each section? Additionally, when you suspend the cards Anki proposed to you for the day and choose relevant cards to study based on Khan videos do you need to make sure you select at least up to 100 cards so you reach your 100 new card limit? Lastly, in the video you say 1st to complete daily Anki reviews how do we make sure that we are only doing our review and not any new cards? Also, will Anki tell us when our daily review has been completed, which I am assuming is when all cards are set to a future date (was confused because the maximum reviews per day was set to 9999 so was not sure if the review would ever end).
1. Depending on whether you have your review order set to "random" or "in order of added", it would feed you cards that were either randomized across the decks, or in the order they were added by the creator. Which means it would probably walk you through one subdeck (ex: biochemistry) before it would allow you to see other cards. 2. No, you shouldn't force yourself to suspend 100 new cards if your Khan videos for the day cover less than that. 100 is just the number I use because it allows me to prioritize retaining and remembering what I've already learned. Works great for students and it's a great barrier for students (like myself) that are deadset on trying to learn everything as fast as possible. 3. Theoretically you should be doing all of your reviews and your new cards every day so it doesn't matter if you see new ones or review ones first, but you can change the settings to make sure you are dealt all your review cards before you are dealt review cards. Click the gear beside your deck name -> Options -> Scroll to display order -> Find New/Review order -> Change to "show after reviews" Yes, Anki will let you know when you've finished all your cards for the day and it's the bessssssttttt feeling. You feel like a rockstar I hope this helps!
While watching the Khan academy videos is it advisable to take notes? Because I am currently doing that and its taking me forever to get through the content
Personally, I would probably have my anki cards up while watching the KA videos so that while I’m unsuspending them, I can add any “notes” while Im watching. Kill two birds with one stone. Actually taking notes isn’t very time efficient
Thank you for the amazing advice. Do you have any opinion on blueprint test prep? I was considering purchasing their MCAT course and using it in conjunction with milesdown deck.
I don't personally have any experience with Blueprint's programs so I can't really advise you one way or the other. I know they have cool analytics on their practice exams and I've reviewed practice exams with a couple of my students, but that's essentially all the experience I have with them, I'm sorry!
Hi Alvin! Did you wind up getting a blueprint course? I'd really love the chance to talk to you about your experience with it because I am currently deciding if this is the route I want to take as well
@@evanierodriguez4264 i have BP and actually love it. def worth the money. Office hours are great, instructors are incredible, videos are professional and to the point. :)
first of all amazing. and God bless you. so when you suspend the cards anki proposed to you for the day and choose relevant cards to study based on textbook reading/ khan videos.. wont anki just pile up everyday of the cards in the other sections that also required 100 cards? or when u suspend does it just overturn that from happening? do you suspend everyday? that was a lot lol... i hope this makes sense, I'm mainly concerned with cards piling up & drowning in em. TYSM!!
So glad you liked the video! The Miledown deck has several “sections”, but our recommendation is to suspend all cards in all sections until you come across that content in your khan videos/content book. Suspending cards essentially makes Anki pretend they don’t exist, so suspended cards will not age like regular due cards. When you unsuspend them, that’s when they start rotating through your new/review decks, depending on whether or not you’ve studied them. Does that make sense?
PsS does seem to be slightly more content based, but it's not nearly as memorization heavy as people act like it is. You still gotta know the content and understand how to apply it and recognize examples so I'd recommend going about it the same way of watching the videos and hitting up the Anki cards alongside some passage practice
HI! I am a little confused by Daily Anki reviews? Do you mean the past cards you reviewed days before? So on Day 1, you would review some cards from different topics, and then the next day, you are able to review those again? When I try to click on the main Milesdown Deck, I only get Behavioral Questions.
Yea your first assumption is correct! When I say "daily anki reviews" i'm referencing the cards that you have already done in your earlier studying that are popping up again for you to review.
Hey, really, nice videos for the MCAT preparation. I have a question which is not related to the MCAT but your health. Your right eye is slightly enlarge than your left eye. Do you have Graves disease?
Hi I stumbled upon y'all's videos when searching for MCAT studying, and now I want to do your free program for MCAT. However, when I import the Coffin Anki deck you provided into my Anki, it gives me a message that all of these notes could not be imported and all of them were [Skipped] instead of [Added] :/ I don't know what to do. Any advice?
Oof I haven't heard that one yet. I'm not sure what to do but if you google the error code usually some kind of forum will pop up. Also there's a TH-camr (less of a TH-camr more of a Reddit legend and dermatology resident) named AnKing that has really helpful advice for that kind of troubleshooting stuff.
@@InformingFutureDoctors Lol. Oh okay cool yes I have heard of AnKing. Thank you for the advice and quick response. I actually have downloaded the MileDown MCAT Decks from reddit and it has 7 subjects of Behavioral, Biochemistry, Biology, Essential Equations, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physics and Math. Each of those decks have 100 cards in them. Is that basically the same thing as the Coffin download or is it different?
Can someone help me out? I got lost on the part with unsuspending cards..is there a way to suspend them all ? because right now it is showing me 100 new cards which I am guessing is because of the setting we put earlier in preferences
I just graduated this semester with my biochemistry degree. I was thinking of hitting all the content books and grasp everything . After I start doing MD decks and practice problems only. Does this sound as a good move?
Congratulations on graduating with your degree!! We have a very "play it safe" approach to the MCAT and try to prep like we're aiming for 515+ scores! With that said, here is a video that contains our recommendations for how to study for the MCAT! th-cam.com/video/Mb8gnD1Xir8/w-d-xo.html
Check out our 4-month plan and complete your content review in 2 months rather than 3 months. This will mean your 3 month plan looks like this: 2 months content review, 1 month practice exam test & review
Bit late, so idk if there will be a response. For the workflow, should i review the corresponding unsuspended cards after i watched the KA videos that same day, or will the cards i unsuspended be my daily anki review for the following day? Thanks a lot for this great video btw
Yes you'll review them the same day you watch the video. Once you get them all correct, you'll also review them the following day per the Anki algorithm. So the answer to both of your questions is yes!
@@InformingFutureDoctors ooh, so i should review them directly before i unsuspend them to make sure i understand it. Then they will pop up in the rotation the following day once they are unsuspended and ill review them again. Thanks so much!
@@chachan6044 well, review them after you unsuspend them, the same day as you watch the video. Anki will make you do them again the next day per its spaced repetition algorithm
@@InformingFutureDoctors oh, now i understand. Ok, i was just a bit afraid anki was not gonna let me review it so soon after, but i get what you mean now
Ive been doing some research and I was wondering if you could speak to the differences between the Coffin deck, and the Anking Overhaul V2 which I understand to also be based off of the MilesDown deck.
I honestly haven't even heard of that one but if it's as good as AnKing's Step 1 deck, I'm sure it's great. I'll try to look into it and see if I can find some more information about it!
The MilesDown Coffin deck has the exact same cards as the original MileDown deck, right? It's just organized into categories to easily see, right? I just want to ask to make sure. Thanks!
@@InformingFutureDoctors Thank you for your replies! :) May I ask you a few more questions? For content review for the MCAT, should I only use the MileDown anki deck? I heard that the MileDown deck is very comprehensive and reliable, but I’m not sure if that’s true. Do you agree that the MileDown deck is very comprehensive and reliable? Like, the deck covers EVERYTHING we need to know for content and the content is 100% accurate. Do you agree? Also, does the 300 page document (created by mcatbos) cover EVERYTHING I would need to know for the Psych Soc section? Like, can I ONLY use this document to study for Psych Soc? Thank you so much for your help!
Hey! I just came across your video and is really good! Thank you so much for breaking it down in such detail. My only question is, do you recommend watching the Khan Academy videos in the order they have them lay out on their website? Or do you look for videos that were related on those first 100 flashcards you studied?
The order doesn't really matter to me. I touch on that a bit in the video, but if it were me, I would probably alternate subjects so I was working in a bit of interleaving.
Hey man. Do you think these settings are good for doing all of MileDown in a month? Goal is 100 new cards a day. I already did all my content review, I just want to make sure I have it all retained before test day.
Yeah it should be fine. Your reviews are going to be monstrous (you'll probably be looking at 600-700 cards/day in like a week) but if you can dedicate 3-4 hours/day to Anki, it can be done. Especially if you're already solid with your sciences
Hey there! I’m testing for the MCAT in a few months and I wasn’t sure how exactly to use Anki, but now that I’ve watched your video, I have a better understanding now! Your video is very comprehensive. Thank you!
Appreciate the video! I started to do content review only with the kaplan books and just found that the info was going right over my head... using KA with the books has been a life saver ... Love the anki guide.
Yeah I tried just reading books when I first started studying and it was so overwhelming that I just skimmed the topic of every subject. I know I'd had the corresponding lectures in undergrad, but having them again via Khan and reviewing that info through Anki is just the move. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
this might have just given me the confidence I needed. as someone who def prefers video over straight textbook AND I loveeeee using anki for gre verbal, this is beautfiul. Hope abound.
This is the only video that has helped me understand how to actually use Anki. Thank you so much for the explanation and demonstrations!! Super helpful!!
I haven't looked too into Sparrow's yet, but I intend on making a video detailing how to use it similar to this video sometime in the future. However, the "Reddit consensus" seems to believe that if you're aiming for a 510-520, MileDown will have you covered and is a lot shorter. But if you're wanting a 528, you'll want one of the larger decks like Sparrow or Ortho528. If you've seen our other videos, you know I'm huge on strategies and think they impact your score just as much if not more than your approach to content. From my limited research into Sparrow, it does seem to contain more sciences which can help you get that coveted 528, but I prefer MileDown over the other ones because spending weeks learning sciences that rarely show up on the exam seems to not be a great ROI. Plus, there is rarely a science discrepancy between students that score a 520 and those that score a 528. TLDR: IDK bc I haven't gone through all of Sparrow, but it seems very accurate as is MileDown. But I'd rather spend more time taking and review practice passages and covering all the High-Yield and most of the low-yield topics with MileDown. My opinion could change as I get deeper into this though!
@@InformingFutureDoctors Thanks for the response. I'm slogging through sparrows right now and it seems like absolute overkill. So I think I'm going to swap over MilesDown and see how that one works. Keep up the good work. The flowchart method has already increased my biology score by four points.
Hey man! I’m currently doing this right now with the miledown deck. If I wanted to for example review enzymes can I do the same process you used and then continue to review those cards up until test day? So essentially I wouldn’t unsuspend them. Please let me know. I hope I make sense
Hey jesus! You should continue to review every card until your test day (that's the power of Anki). When a card is suspended, that means you will not see it, but when a card is unsuspended, you will see it in your rotation. That's why we have you watch the videos (to learn the content) and then unsuspend the cards to throw them in your rotation! Does that answer your question?
Im currently doing content review using the kaplan book and plan on using khan academy vids to help explain topics more. Would you suggest sticking to only 1 deck such as the milesdown deck or I know someone has created a kaplan chapter by chapter corresponding deck to use as well? Any opinions on what might be better or both?
Don’t quote me on this, but I think the Ortho 528 deck used the Kaplan books so that’s what I’d use if you’re set on using those books. I wouldn’t use more than one deck just because each deck should be suffice on its own!
This is one of the best videos ,I have struggled before to work with anki,I quit using it since I couldn’t be able to even download it ! Now I have it ! ❤️❤️
You’ll find Altius is big on you making your own flashcards, so definitely no pre made deck out there that specifically “goes” with Altius. So if you choose to use a pre made deck, any would work!
I believe Anki Universal is just a competitor app to the original Anki. I'm not sure if the algorithm is the same and I'm not confident if the add-ons and pre-made decks work the same or not. I've had a couple students use it before but I always made them switch early on just so there wasn't confusion. If you're early on in your studying, that's probably what I'd aim for, but if you're deep in it, I understand your reluctance to switch! I'd check out Reddit to see if anyone has a better answer!
hi! thank you so much for this video. I am glad I stumbled on it. Is it possible to just watch these videos, practice with the anki deck and be good on content without needing the 3rd party books?
Quick question- i redownloaded anki and the miledown deck. So Anki thinks I am on day 1-I get this. The deck in total said I had to review 30 cards, understood. I started in the behavioral deck and did all 30, but when I returned to the home page to go onto the next deck, they were all at 0. I would click and it says "Congrats you hit your limit..." But I changed my review/day to 9999. Also, on the behavior deck, there were 0 cards being learned. Have you heard of this issue/ any tips on how to fix it, or should I assume its like this because its day one? Thx!
Wow!! I am so glad I ran across your video, thank you for making and sharing this information and these resources. As a first-generation student, I honestly had no idea where to begin but this helps so much!
Stick around and we’ll teach you everything we know! Thanks for watching :)
I am SO GLAD I watched this. I was very much using this deck as a means of "learning" rather than "reviewing" and now I understand how beneficial the suspending and unsuspending are to reviewing. Bless your soul for this 😭🙏
This tutorial is exactly what I needed! As a med student, combining MileDown Anki with Khan Academy is genius. Thanks for sharing these free resources, they're a huge help!
I've been looking for a video this thorough for months. You've really covered it all. Thank you sir!!!
Thanks so much!! There’s more where that came from :)
Beat me to it! I've been meaning to make this video for ages! I have to go through this entire process with every single student I teach explaining all the nuts and bolts about how to use Anki. Definitely adding this video to my assignment list for every new student I teach. To your point about pre-made decks versus self-made decks, I don't completely agree. I exclusively used my own flashcards while studying for the MCAT and in med school, but I'm willing to concede that some of us learn differently. I know many students who were helped using pre-made decks. 100% agree that Anki is the way to go. No other platform like Quizlet or the others I've seen students use comes close to Anki does at mastering the spaced repetition algorithm.
That's awesome, I really hope it helps you save some time! As far as the make your own vs. pre-made goes, I agree there's more than one way to skin a cat (or ace a test for this matter)!
Thank you for making this video! I was falling into the memorization of the card visuals not learning like you mentioned and my anki cards weren't always associated with content review. Now, I feel more confident that this flow will help me learn and actually retain the info. Huge thank you dude! :)
Yes you're so right!! I'm glad it was helpful!
Rebopbebop's is another great deck based off every chapter of Kaplan, and no Uworld? U're wild XD Good job man.
It's like you read my mind... You may want to check back with the channel in a couple weeks and see if you find a new video you like ;)
The newest Anki release: 2.1.54 has a theme dropdown where you don't have to close the application to get dark mode, it will change when you selecte theme: dark in the dropdown.
Thanks so much for this video! I had been somewhat aimlessly walking through MilesDown's traditional deck but this is a game changer in terms of structured review. Hope all is going well with your studies! What specialty are you thinking of pursuing?
As a med student teaching someone what I wish I would've done for the MCAT. This was perfect
be back after I get a 515+
Did U do it Nathan??
When do you plan on taking
I like learning with anki better than blueprint. This video helps me organize anki.
Thanks a lot. As a newbie I've never used any flashcard. Great that you included the workflow and examples. The suspend feature is really useful for self-studying.
This is incredible. Thank you sincerely for what you do.
Glad we can help!
Omg, I am not one to usually comment but this video helped me tremendously ! Thank you so much for assisting and providing demonstrations, you are great.
Can't express how helpful this video was! Thank you SO much!!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for making this super helpful video!
Hi,
I cannot access the coffin deck. It says that the organization that owns the item doesn’t allow access. Thank you so much for your video. Super helpful for understanding anki.
Thank you so much for this video! It covered exactly all of my doubts!!!
I’m so glad it helped! Thanks so much watching the video!
You are literally the best!!! This was exactly what I needed. Sharing it with all my friends :)
please do!
Hi!!! this was super helpful thank you so much. I wish I saw this when I first used anki, this was a great refresher and super clear for new and veteran anki users!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I find myself watching Anki videos and remembering things I’m not taking advantage of all the time. Glad I’m not the only one 😂
Personally, I’ve been using anti and if I didn’t know what the card was talking about, I’d use the videos linked in the deck, google and come up with my own mnemonics. I start with the cards since I had a good grasp on content, but I use the cards as a base to see how much content I need to refresh. Once I make that first mistake and see the answer, it clicks back into my brain all of the content I learned over the past few years. Essentially, I use the cards as a sort of key to unlock those old neural pathways that were unused and if I was completely confused on something, I’d look at the videos from the branches to the roots to connect everything. It’s almost like a puzzle. Although, I do believe this strategy is great, the length of khan academy videos for each given subject may not correspond well with tighter schedules and I believe trying to figure out what you do know through the cards as opposed to beginning with relearning through the khan academy videos may be just a bit faster.
That's amazing that one missed flashcard reminds you of all the sciences around a topic! That is definitely not how my brain works lol. I agree there are many ways to go about learning the sciences and even using this deck and it's very possible this isn't the fastest way. This video is a very safe approach and was aimed at more of the average pre-med like myself who didn't truly internalize everything we learned in undergraduate. It's great that you did and I hope your approach works out for you! Thanks for commenting!
@@InformingFutureDoctors LOL it doesn't remind me of everything in the subject altogether, but it typically reminds me of the general topic at a minimum. If I were to remember a subject based on a missed card then I'd only need 6 cards to remember hahaha. I wish! I'll just see something and it'll just be like a reminder.
For example, my mind might've blanked when I saw the card about the speed of light in a vacuum, but as soon as I saw the card it was hard to forget. Kind of like muscle memory. However, I got a lot from the video. It's really great and I can tell you put a lot of work into it. I'm still new to anki and searching for specific subjects is extremely helpful especially in taking practice tests. It makes figuring out missed questions much faster. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for creating such a comprehensive video of ANKI ! Could you please share the names of the six add-ons you recommend? For some reason, it is blurry on my end, and I cannot clearly read the names of all of them. I got the special fields, hierarchical tags, and image occlusion.
Been using the milesdown anki deck for 2 going on 3 months now and its wonderful. However if anyone is wondering my biggest critic about the deck is it does have minor errors one should be aware of while using the deck. First it has the incorrect diagram to show the oxidation of phenol to quinone, secondly, it does not have all the formulas one would want to review when studying 'the gas phase' found in general chemistry. Let me elaborate on that, it only has the Ideal gas law and does not have any cards to help you review Boyle's, Dalton's, Avogadro's, Charle's and other gas laws. Lastly, some of the cards required some editing to make more context of the card when its mixed in with so many other subjects e.g. reviewing the endocrine system one card will say ".... is a corticosteroid and contains the hormone ..." well theres 3 types of corticosteroids and each have their own respective hormones the MCAT covers, so I had edited the card to say "Glucocorticoids is a corticosteroid that contains the hormone ...." to better specify whats being reviewed. Nonetheless the deck is well made and I think every premed/MCAT prep student should use.... I am just more frustrated of the limited coverage it has on the general chemistry-gas-section that I just read through and I don't want to forget those details. I do want to note that I have not unsuspended all the flash cards for the Milesdown deck so I can only imagine that there is more errors that I will find in the future. So If anyone knows of an updated deck or some of their own personal solutions to best mediate some of the errors please let me know thanks.
This is an awesome comment. I love how you detailed your issue instead of just saying "this deck is incomplete" or something nonspecific like that. I'm not confident, but the AnKing MCAT deck might have this problem fixed as it uses both the MilesDown deck and the Kaplan books I believe. Don't hold me to that, I'm just regurgitating what I found on Reddit lol. I'll check it out once I finish my testing block and see what we can do with it
@@InformingFutureDoctors Hi! Is there an update for this question? Thank you so much for all you to do!
IMPORTANT: HI, I just watched your video prepping for the MCAT and I noticed when I set it up your way, my new cards were consistently from MilesDown's "Behavioral" (I'm assuming bc its alphabetically the first subdeck of the entire deck). Do you think the workaround to this would be (under New Decks) NOT to necessarily change the "Insertion Order" to "Random", as it will have no impact, but rather (under Display Options) change "New Card Gather" to "Random cards"? I was considering choosing "Random notes", but I liked your point about not being tested on the flip side of the same card in the same session, but rather use it as a "bonus" review some other time. Looking forward to hearing back from you soon. Thanks.
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this saved my life!!! no offense to anking guys but their stuff was a little too complicated for me. looking forward to more from you!
I'm no where near as smart as AnKing so you can always count on me to dumb it down 😂
But I'm stoked it helped you!!
Bruh your accent is chef’s kiss 😍
Thank you so much!! this has been so HELPFUL
I'm so glad!
Thank You so much!!! do you recommend seeing the videos in any order? Or should I mix up the subjects?
Is someone having trouble downloading or opening up the khan academy Anki cards?
Yes. Says I don't have access
I am attempting to do the khan academy videos and follow up by studying with this anki deck however, I notice there are more sections on khan academy than sections on anki. Should I skip over the videos on KA that dont have sections on anki?
how do i add my own cards to the anki deck?
Hey, I was just a little confused and had a few questions about the anki review portion. Would I have any anki cards to review when I am just beginning to study using your program or do the reviews come after you've unsuspended a deck? Also, do we leave the decks unsuspended once we've covered a topic or do we suspend them again once we're done with the cards? Is this the deck we are supposed to use for your MCAT study program?
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ima little confused about how long each day you should spend on anki in order to get through all the decks in about 5 months
Hello, what other adds-on do you have, since you said you had six of them. I was able to get the two used but its not giving me the subtitles like khan academy does. like when I click behavior in the p/s section, it won't give me the subtitles under that.
The only ones I use are the ones that I outlined in the video (Hierarchal Tags, Image Occlusion, Review Heatmap, Special Fields, and True Retention). The sixth one I have just changes your background and I don't use it because it got kind of distracting after a minute. I'm not sure how if I answered your question, but if your settings are weird, it may be a good idea to just walk back through everything with me on the video and make sure you've got everything downloaded and settings assigned properly!
@@InformingFutureDoctors Oh okay. I had to reinstall my Anki and that help, I don't need all the extra stuff the two tags from the video are enough. normally I don't like Anki because I felt like it kept giving me cards on topics I haven't even reviewed but your idea is golden. luckly my textbooks are organized almost like Khan academy videos so this deck is helping me a lot. Thank you for uploading this video.
do you leave everything unsuspended once you review it on Khan?
Hi! Love your videos and super grateful for everything that you do for the community. Had a quick question that might be a little nit-picky. How did you go through psych/soc using MileDown and Khan Academy? I say this cuz for P/S specifically, the MileDown deck only kinda follows the KA MCAT playlist (Only for the "Processing the environment" section, rest are somewhat random). Did you experience this issue too when reviewing? Am I reading too much into it? Would maaaaaaaaaaassively appreciate your help :)
P.S. Good luck to you and Maggie on starting medical school over these next two weeks! :)
also wondering about this Q, thanks in advance
I will share the videos , that’s the Least I can do!
Please do!! Sharing our videos is one of the best ways you can support this channel!!
Hey, I was wondering if you think these setting/preferences would work for a 6-month MCAT study schedule. For what duration of studying were these settings intended for? For a 6-month schedule, what settings would you say are most crucial to alter/edit accordingly? Also, this was a very helpful video thank you so much!
These settings will be perfect for a 6-month duration. I use these settings for medical school to remember the material for my block exams (every couple weeks), final exams (every couple months), and board exams (every couple years) so they're great as a memorization tool for any learning length. The idea is that as long as you review them as the algorithm instructs you to, you'll remember the fact ~forever~
Can you update the Add-ons list to match the New Version of ANKI 2.1.62
Some of the add-ons no longer work with the new version of ANKI
Hey! Thank you so much this was super helpful! I just got ANKI and was adding the add-ons and the only one that didn't work for me was the Hierarchical Tags 2 addon, which I saw wasn't working for a lot of people. I am pretty sure I have the latest version since I just downloaded it. I was wondering if there was a new code out there for this addon?
There's not one that I'm aware of but Anki has made of a habit of incorporating commonly used Add-Ons into the stock Anki program that you download. I'm not sure if that's exactly what's going on with the hierarchical tags addon, but that may very well be the case. If that is the case, then you've already got it preloaded into your anki and you're good to go; may just take some googling to figure out!
@@InformingFutureDoctors I had the same issue, and it is included with the latest update!
Super helpful! I was told to use Anki to study but given no instructions on how. When I download the deck and upload it, it shows that I only have one card in there. What could I be doing wrong? Thanks!!
i still struggled to find which cards to study after watching the khan academy videos. i guess i expected it to follow each section of the videos, but it seems like it's more organized based on related content.
So the Coffin deck, to my knowledge, is basically the Miledown deck but organized by Khan Academy videos. You can search for that deck on reddit and the rest of the above video should pretty much work. They'll be organized by via in the tags. Does that help?
If we wanted to pair this strategy with another resource, say Uworld or another question bank, how would that factor into the workflow?
Our video above is only for content review - learning the sciences. Passage practice via Uworld, AAMC materials, or other third party resources are a necessary part of your MCAT prep. It will depend on your schedule and what you struggle with. Perhaps 5 passages a week is good enough for you, maybe you’ll need to do 10. We leave that up to you guys, but if you are strictly following our plan detailed in our “Complete MCAT Study Plan” video, it has you doing 3 passages a week:-)
Thank you for your video. I have a question and this might sound stupid but I am fairly new to anki and I don't understant what suspend and unsuspend means or like what is the purpose. I just downloaded JP deck and have not yet started so just trying to understand how does this work for a beginner
Could you do one for Anking Mcat deck?
really helpful. thanks!
is anyone having it where you download the milesdown organized by coffin deck and only the psychological portion shows up, i'm only seeing that and do not know what I did wrong
why do the anki review before watching the khan academy videos?
Hi, can you explain why is it a bad idea to check the "force changes in one direction" option? Will it be helpful if I plan to use Anki on both my computer and phone while I am on the road?
Not forcing them it is really more of a safety net than anything else! If you want to study both on your phone and your computer, you still can and they will keep up with each other seamlessly, you just need to hit 'sync' before and after each study session. I do it as a habit even though I only study on my computer ha.
Just speaking from experience, sometimes you'll need to make huge changes to your Anki deck (imagine unsuspending 300+ select cards with images). Your phone doesn't handle that too well and it sometimes takes a minute for the sync to occur. That means, sometimes ppl have ran into the situation of making one of those large adjustments, going and hitting their flashcards on their phone, and then the one that gets synced is the phone progress. So, you'd lose to addition of everything you'd just done on your computer. You'd end up getting a prompt from Anki, that asks if you want to upload or download from AnkiWeb (if you're on your computer, upload. if you're on your phone, download).But what you're trying to avoid by not checking the option is that nightmare situation of spending an hour or so selective unsuspending cards and then your phone autoforcing changes that erase what you did.
I hope that answers your question but tldr: I just hit "sync" before and after each study session bc it accomplishes the same thing and you don't have to worry about your phone stepping in and ruining your life on accident ha
Why would you not want to turn on "on next sync, force changes in one direction"? Wouldn't you want your phone and computer ankis to be up to date with each other?
I’ve had students’ phone sync it’s progress metrics that were behind their computer and undo a week or 2 worth of anki when they had it checked. Just kind of a fire I’ve seen ppl get burned on but you’re more than welcome to keep it on if you’d like!
Hey! I've been using all the info from this video for just over a month now and it has been massively helpful for me. KA + Coffin MD deck is a great combo. I was wondering though: Do you think these Anki settings are ideal for someone that has 5 months until their test date? When I started anki a month ago, I had 6 months until my test date. I just wanted to see what your opinion is! Thanks so much for this video -- it gave me hope to carry through. I honestly had zero idea of how to start before because the Kaplan books just weren't for me.
I'm so glad it's been helpful! There are several variations of these settings and actually the guy I got them from (he goes by the AnKing) has changed his recommendation since I made this video. Personally, I don't think it's too big of a deal but if you feel the review intervals are too far or too short for you, you're more than welcome to change them! The only thing I would caution you on is to make sure you trust the Anki algorithm and actually allow it to space the cards out a decent amount. If you try to use Anki like Quizlet, it's not going to work out well because you'll end up with 900 review cards a day.
@@InformingFutureDoctors I believe that these settings are mostly working for me. I have only come across a handful of cards/topics that I had to click "again" or "hard" to try and make sure that I didn't forget them again. My only worry is once the spaces get to multiple months apart! I have changed the "max interval" to 2 month for now instead of 180 days. If it seems like the review count is too massive, I will extend it a bit. But again, thanks so much! I have shared the link to this video a few times. Quick question: Are Anking's new settings slightly less spaced out? No worries if you don't know.
@@codyellsworth7927 Great!! keep sharing it! They're actually more spaced out ha. You'll remember them but I also like the compromise you made with yourself
@@InformingFutureDoctors Oh nice haha! Good to know. I will definitely keep sharing this video. You deserve it, brotha! I hope med school is going well.
@@InformingFutureDoctors Just realized I wasn't subbed to your channel yet -- I am now. I will take a look at your other content as well. 🙂
how many cards should we aim to do per day and per section?
Thank you so much!
Hi, a few quick questions. If I do not use the drop down and just click on the 1st miles down tab on Anki will it give me mix of 100 new cards from each section, since that is the limit it was set to? Or is it 100 new cards per day from each section? Additionally, when you suspend the cards Anki proposed to you for the day and choose relevant cards to study based on Khan videos do you need to make sure you select at least up to 100 cards so you reach your 100 new card limit? Lastly, in the video you say 1st to complete daily Anki reviews how do we make sure that we are only doing our review and not any new cards? Also, will Anki tell us when our daily review has been completed, which I am assuming is when all cards are set to a future date (was confused because the maximum reviews per day was set to 9999 so was not sure if the review would ever end).
1. Depending on whether you have your review order set to "random" or "in order of added", it would feed you cards that were either randomized across the decks, or in the order they were added by the creator. Which means it would probably walk you through one subdeck (ex: biochemistry) before it would allow you to see other cards.
2. No, you shouldn't force yourself to suspend 100 new cards if your Khan videos for the day cover less than that. 100 is just the number I use because it allows me to prioritize retaining and remembering what I've already learned. Works great for students and it's a great barrier for students (like myself) that are deadset on trying to learn everything as fast as possible.
3. Theoretically you should be doing all of your reviews and your new cards every day so it doesn't matter if you see new ones or review ones first, but you can change the settings to make sure you are dealt all your review cards before you are dealt review cards. Click the gear beside your deck name -> Options -> Scroll to display order -> Find New/Review order -> Change to "show after reviews"
Yes, Anki will let you know when you've finished all your cards for the day and it's the bessssssttttt feeling. You feel like a rockstar
I hope this helps!
While watching the Khan academy videos is it advisable to take notes? Because I am currently doing that and its taking me forever to get through the content
Personally, I would probably have my anki cards up while watching the KA videos so that while I’m unsuspending them, I can add any “notes” while Im watching. Kill two birds with one stone. Actually taking notes isn’t very time efficient
Thank you for the amazing advice. Do you have any opinion on blueprint test prep? I was considering purchasing their MCAT course and using it in conjunction with milesdown deck.
I don't personally have any experience with Blueprint's programs so I can't really advise you one way or the other. I know they have cool analytics on their practice exams and I've reviewed practice exams with a couple of my students, but that's essentially all the experience I have with them, I'm sorry!
Hi Alvin! Did you wind up getting a blueprint course? I'd really love the chance to talk to you about your experience with it because I am currently deciding if this is the route I want to take as well
@@evanierodriguez4264 i have BP and actually love it. def worth the money. Office hours are great, instructors are incredible, videos are professional and to the point. :)
@@Tlocf this is so helpful! thank you
first of all amazing. and God bless you. so when you suspend the cards anki proposed to you for the day and choose relevant cards to study based on textbook reading/ khan videos.. wont anki just pile up everyday of the cards in the other sections that also required 100 cards? or when u suspend does it just overturn that from happening? do you suspend everyday? that was a lot lol... i hope this makes sense, I'm mainly concerned with cards piling up & drowning in em. TYSM!!
So glad you liked the video! The Miledown deck has several “sections”, but our recommendation is to suspend all cards in all sections until you come across that content in your khan videos/content book. Suspending cards essentially makes Anki pretend they don’t exist, so suspended cards will not age like regular due cards. When you unsuspend them, that’s when they start rotating through your new/review decks, depending on whether or not you’ve studied them. Does that make sense?
thank you sir!
I hope it helped!!
Thank you 🙏🏾
What about psych/soc ? Learn material through Anki I thought it’s more mem based
PsS does seem to be slightly more content based, but it's not nearly as memorization heavy as people act like it is. You still gotta know the content and understand how to apply it and recognize examples so I'd recommend going about it the same way of watching the videos and hitting up the Anki cards alongside some passage practice
HI! I am a little confused by Daily Anki reviews? Do you mean the past cards you reviewed days before? So on Day 1, you would review some cards from different topics, and then the next day, you are able to review those again? When I try to click on the main Milesdown Deck, I only get Behavioral Questions.
Yea your first assumption is correct! When I say "daily anki reviews" i'm referencing the cards that you have already done in your earlier studying that are popping up again for you to review.
THank you so very much
Hey, really, nice videos for the MCAT preparation. I have a question which is not related to the MCAT but your health. Your right eye is slightly enlarge than your left eye. Do you have Graves disease?
No just ugly
Hi I stumbled upon y'all's videos when searching for MCAT studying, and now I want to do your free program for MCAT. However, when I import the Coffin Anki deck you provided into my Anki, it gives me a message that all of these notes could not be imported and all of them were [Skipped] instead of [Added] :/ I don't know what to do. Any advice?
Oof I haven't heard that one yet. I'm not sure what to do but if you google the error code usually some kind of forum will pop up. Also there's a TH-camr (less of a TH-camr more of a Reddit legend and dermatology resident) named AnKing that has really helpful advice for that kind of troubleshooting stuff.
@@InformingFutureDoctors Lol. Oh okay cool yes I have heard of AnKing. Thank you for the advice and quick response. I actually have downloaded the MileDown MCAT Decks from reddit and it has 7 subjects of Behavioral, Biochemistry, Biology, Essential Equations, General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Physics and Math. Each of those decks have 100 cards in them. Is that basically the same thing as the Coffin download or is it different?
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@@sarahgutierrez5628 exact same cards, just the coffin deck has them organized by Khan Academy subject
@@InformingFutureDoctors Okay great. I'll try to get coffins version, but if not I'll use the one I have already. Thank you, I appreciate it.
Can someone help me out? I got lost on the part with unsuspending cards..is there a way to suspend them all ? because right now it is showing me 100 new cards which I am guessing is because of the setting we put earlier in preferences
You should be able to go to Browse, click on your entire deck, highlight all the cards, right click, then “toggle suspend”
I just graduated this semester with my biochemistry degree. I was thinking of hitting all the content books and grasp everything . After I start doing MD decks and practice problems only. Does this sound as a good move?
Congratulations on graduating with your degree!! We have a very "play it safe" approach to the MCAT and try to prep like we're aiming for 515+ scores! With that said, here is a video that contains our recommendations for how to study for the MCAT! th-cam.com/video/Mb8gnD1Xir8/w-d-xo.html
I'm currently using the Coffin Deck, could you do a separate schedule that incorporates the Coffin Deck instead of MileDown?
This video is for the Coffin iteration of MilesDown's deck!
@@InformingFutureDoctors Perfect 🤩, thank you
Hey. I am desperate and I am wondering how would I have a plan for 3 months. Could you help me?
Check out our 4-month plan and complete your content review in 2 months rather than 3 months. This will mean your 3 month plan looks like this: 2 months content review, 1 month practice exam test & review
Bit late, so idk if there will be a response. For the workflow, should i review the corresponding unsuspended cards after i watched the KA videos that same day, or will the cards i unsuspended be my daily anki review for the following day? Thanks a lot for this great video btw
Yes you'll review them the same day you watch the video. Once you get them all correct, you'll also review them the following day per the Anki algorithm. So the answer to both of your questions is yes!
@@InformingFutureDoctors ooh, so i should review them directly before i unsuspend them to make sure i understand it. Then they will pop up in the rotation the following day once they are unsuspended and ill review them again. Thanks so much!
@@chachan6044 well, review them after you unsuspend them, the same day as you watch the video. Anki will make you do them again the next day per its spaced repetition algorithm
@@InformingFutureDoctors oh, now i understand. Ok, i was just a bit afraid anki was not gonna let me review it so soon after, but i get what you mean now
Ive been doing some research and I was wondering if you could speak to the differences between the Coffin deck, and the Anking Overhaul V2 which I understand to also be based off of the MilesDown deck.
I honestly haven't even heard of that one but if it's as good as AnKing's Step 1 deck, I'm sure it's great. I'll try to look into it and see if I can find some more information about it!
The MilesDown Coffin deck has the exact same cards as the original MileDown deck, right? It's just organized into categories to easily see, right? I just want to ask to make sure. Thanks!
@@anthonynguyen6636 Yes that is my impression
@@anthonynguyen6636 That is my understanding, yes!
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Thank you for your replies! :)
May I ask you a few more questions?
For content review for the MCAT, should I only use the MileDown anki deck?
I heard that the MileDown deck is very comprehensive and reliable, but I’m not sure if that’s true. Do you agree that the MileDown deck is very comprehensive and reliable?
Like, the deck covers EVERYTHING we need to know for content and the content is 100% accurate. Do you agree?
Also, does the 300 page document (created by mcatbos) cover EVERYTHING I would need to know for the Psych Soc section? Like, can I ONLY use this document to study for Psych Soc?
Thank you so much for your help!
Hey! I just came across your video and is really good! Thank you so much for breaking it down in such detail. My only question is, do you recommend watching the Khan Academy videos in the order they have them lay out on their website? Or do you look for videos that were related on those first 100 flashcards you studied?
The order doesn't really matter to me. I touch on that a bit in the video, but if it were me, I would probably alternate subjects so I was working in a bit of interleaving.
Hey man. Do you think these settings are good for doing all of MileDown in a month? Goal is 100 new cards a day. I already did all my content review, I just want to make sure I have it all retained before test day.
Yeah it should be fine. Your reviews are going to be monstrous (you'll probably be looking at 600-700 cards/day in like a week) but if you can dedicate 3-4 hours/day to Anki, it can be done. Especially if you're already solid with your sciences
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Hey there! I’m testing for the MCAT in a few months and I wasn’t sure how exactly to use Anki, but now that I’ve watched your video, I have a better understanding now! Your video is very comprehensive. Thank you!
How’d it go?
So grateful that I came across this channel! Thank you so much for putting in so much hard work to help others!
When i click on the deck link it says i dont have access? Help plz im so frustrated
Appreciate the video! I started to do content review only with the kaplan books and just found that the info was going right over my head... using KA with the books has been a life saver ... Love the anki guide.
Yeah I tried just reading books when I first started studying and it was so overwhelming that I just skimmed the topic of every subject. I know I'd had the corresponding lectures in undergrad, but having them again via Khan and reviewing that info through Anki is just the move. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
this might have just given me the confidence I needed. as someone who def prefers video over straight textbook AND I loveeeee using anki for gre verbal, this is beautfiul. Hope abound.
Thank you so much man, this video just singlehandedly made me 100x comfortable with Anki.
So glad it helped! Check out our other videos if you're an MCAT-er ;-)
Oooo Lord this helped so much. You're a God send! Thank you!
Great comprehensive video. I def hadn't been using all of these features of Anki. Thanks a ton!
This is the only video that has helped me understand how to actually use Anki. Thank you so much for the explanation and demonstrations!! Super helpful!!
I know you said Sparrow's deck is fine and all but would you suggest Miles' over Sparrow's?
I haven't looked too into Sparrow's yet, but I intend on making a video detailing how to use it similar to this video sometime in the future. However, the "Reddit consensus" seems to believe that if you're aiming for a 510-520, MileDown will have you covered and is a lot shorter. But if you're wanting a 528, you'll want one of the larger decks like Sparrow or Ortho528. If you've seen our other videos, you know I'm huge on strategies and think they impact your score just as much if not more than your approach to content. From my limited research into Sparrow, it does seem to contain more sciences which can help you get that coveted 528, but I prefer MileDown over the other ones because spending weeks learning sciences that rarely show up on the exam seems to not be a great ROI. Plus, there is rarely a science discrepancy between students that score a 520 and those that score a 528.
TLDR: IDK bc I haven't gone through all of Sparrow, but it seems very accurate as is MileDown. But I'd rather spend more time taking and review practice passages and covering all the High-Yield and most of the low-yield topics with MileDown. My opinion could change as I get deeper into this though!
@@InformingFutureDoctors Thanks for the response. I'm slogging through sparrows right now and it seems like absolute overkill. So I think I'm going to swap over MilesDown and see how that one works. Keep up the good work. The flowchart method has already increased my biology score by four points.
@@Lumpycheeses 4 points, that’s huge!!!! Let’s go get a few more!
thank you SO MUCH for this video!!!
This was SO helpful! Thank you!
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Hey man! I’m currently doing this right now with the miledown deck. If I wanted to for example review enzymes can I do the same process you used and then continue to review those cards up until test day? So essentially I wouldn’t unsuspend them. Please let me know. I hope I make sense
Hey jesus! You should continue to review every card until your test day (that's the power of Anki). When a card is suspended, that means you will not see it, but when a card is unsuspended, you will see it in your rotation. That's why we have you watch the videos (to learn the content) and then unsuspend the cards to throw them in your rotation! Does that answer your question?
wow i never knew these thank you so much
Im currently doing content review using the kaplan book and plan on using khan academy vids to help explain topics more. Would you suggest sticking to only 1 deck such as the milesdown deck or I know someone has created a kaplan chapter by chapter corresponding deck to use as well? Any opinions on what might be better or both?
Don’t quote me on this, but I think the Ortho 528 deck used the Kaplan books so that’s what I’d use if you’re set on using those books. I wouldn’t use more than one deck just because each deck should be suffice on its own!
This is one of the best videos ,I have struggled before to work with anki,I quit using it since I couldn’t be able to even download it ! Now I have it ! ❤️❤️
I’ll come back when I make a 523+
I will be taking the Altius MCAT program. Any deck out there that is aligned with the Altius MCAT curriculum ?
You’ll find Altius is big on you making your own flashcards, so definitely no pre made deck out there that specifically “goes” with Altius. So if you choose to use a pre made deck, any would work!
Hey! So I took the baseline exam should I review it or follow the week 0/1 schedule ?
Reviewing your diagnostic is not super important but you always could!
Thanks for the vid. I just noticed that I was using Anki universal instead of Anki. What is the difference?
I believe Anki Universal is just a competitor app to the original Anki. I'm not sure if the algorithm is the same and I'm not confident if the add-ons and pre-made decks work the same or not. I've had a couple students use it before but I always made them switch early on just so there wasn't confusion. If you're early on in your studying, that's probably what I'd aim for, but if you're deep in it, I understand your reluctance to switch! I'd check out Reddit to see if anyone has a better answer!
This is the most useful video on TH-cam. Thank you so much!!
hi! thank you so much for this video. I am glad I stumbled on it. Is it possible to just watch these videos, practice with the anki deck and be good on content without needing the 3rd party books?
Yes I believe so! In all honesty, these videos will teach you more than you'll have to know to make a 515+, but just to be safe, I'd learn it all!
@@InformingFutureDoctors thanks a lot
Quick question- i redownloaded anki and the miledown deck. So Anki thinks I am on day 1-I get this. The deck in total said I had to review 30 cards, understood. I started in the behavioral deck and did all 30, but when I returned to the home page to go onto the next deck, they were all at 0. I would click and it says "Congrats you hit your limit..." But I changed my review/day to 9999. Also, on the behavior deck, there were 0 cards being learned. Have you heard of this issue/ any tips on how to fix it, or should I assume its like this because its day one? Thx!