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If you're like the majority of students studying for the MCAT, you're likely focusing

on content review during the first half of your study period, and practice tests in the

If this approximates your MCAT study approach, you're leaving several points on the table

by not approaching your MCAT studying more strategically.

These are the problems in your study approach that are holding you back, and how to overcome

Despite what people may say, crushing the MCAT isn't rocket science.

It isn't about how smart you are, how hard you study, or even how many hours you put

Doing well on the MCAT comes down to three main factors:

You must first truly understand the material that you're learning.

It's not simply enough to know what pH and pOH are, but also how they relate to each

other, what other factors influence them, and what their significance is.

Next, you must commit important facts to memory.

Last, the MCAT tests your ability to apply your understanding and memorization in a standardized

This is best accomplished through proper use of practice exams.

Ultimately, one can only apply their knowledge on test day if the foundational components

of (1) understanding and (2) memorizing are properly addressed.

Otherwise, there simply isn't anything to apply.

To best address memorization, the scientific literature has consistently demonstrated spaced

repetition with active recall to be most beneficial.

There are a variety of tools, called spaced repetition software (SRS), the most popular

Anki is a powerful tool that has rapidly grown in popularity, but students often completely

Through Anki, they're encouraged to focus on (2) memorizing, without the critical preceding

Without a foundation of comprehension to build a mental scaffolding, it's far less effective

Speaking of Anki, it's a great, free tool that I have used extensively, and users share

pre-made decks specifically for the MCAT.

The problem is that these decks are subpar.

There are issues with the accuracy of facts, comprehensiveness, quality of question stems,

and failing to focus on flashcard best practices.

These best practices are foundational to effective learning and memorization, otherwise your

efforts are wasted on unfruitful pattern recognition that don't help you on test day.

Even within the community of pre-made decks, some decks are better at one section within

the MCAT, and others are better at a completely separate section.

And if you decide to make your own flashcards, there's a massive learning curve, and you

likely won't make good flashcards until years later.

That's how long it took us of making flashcards continuously in medical school to refine the

That time would be better spent actually learning and memorizing content.

While spaced repetition with active recall is an incredibly powerful tool, the quality

of those spaced repetition resources is critically important.

It doesn't matter if you go to the gym 5 days a week if you don't have proper intensity,

There is an upper limit on the amount of information that can be memorized in a given period of

It's maximally beneficial to focus on memorizing high-yield concepts — those which are most

likely to have an impact on your score come test day.

As we only have a limited number of productive hours of studying in a day, that means deprioritizing

Why not just include the low-yield information and study for more days then?

The forgetting curve demonstrates the reality of memory decay, meaning that despite committing

MCAT facts to memory, over time we will forget them.

We can work against this by strategic use of spaced repetition, but this is ultimately

why you don't quite remember what you learned in class a few months ago.

This is why students who spend more than a couple months studying for the MCAT have diminishing

After a certain point, you will learn at a rate nearly equal to the rate of you forgetting

Ultimately, studying high-yield information is the most logical solution, but the issue

is that it's not clear what content is high- or low-yield if you're a student studying

You'd need to turn to the experts for that.

Understanding these shortcomings in the average MCAT test taker's study approach, how can

Luckily, we built an app for that, and it's called Memm, which has been in the making

for the last couple years and I'm so excited to finally announce it to you all.

I'll go over the full story on my personal channel of how the Memm team and I went about

brainstorming, iterating, pivoting, refining, and creating this revolutionary new way to

But in this video, let's focus on how it works and what makes it a unique way to study.

Memm was designed to address the deficiencies in the study tools available for the MCAT.

Rather than relying on wishful thinking, we asked “how can we most effectively and dramatically

improve learning for MCAT test takers?”

Just as we would focus on evidence-based principles when treating our patients, we looked to the

scientific literature for evidence-based best practices for learning and memorization.

We focused on the following four principles when designing Memm to ensure the most effective

Spacing effect - Newly introduced and more difficult pieces of information are shown

more frequently, while older and less difficult pieces of information are shown less frequently.

Testing effect - Information retrieval through active recall is far more effective for memory

Interleaving - Strategic ordering and mixing of subjects and topics while reviewing improves

intersectional learning and overall recall.

Desirable difficulties - Introducing the right kinds of difficulties into the learning process

After months of iterating and sculpting the product, we arrived at Memm.

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