MCAT: The Art of Tracking & Slacking

THE ART OF TRACKING & SLACKING:

So, after weeks of stressing and messing around. I finally got off my lazy butt and update my progress. Let me show you what happened in the last 90 days.

This has been my daily progress in the last 90 days. Instead of "Calories", it was measured in term of my daily percentage of completion.

You can see that during the week of 9/22-10/5, my progressed rating were one of the best. I was kicking ass every single day. But something happen beyond this point, and my progress began to plummit. I believed this is due to several factors.

Let's take a closer look:

Now, we can see that thing started up plummit by 10/6/14,

Error 1: Not Tracking
It also happen that I stopped logging in my daily process info starting 10/4/14. Only 2 days after I stop keeping track of my progress and logging into my database did my productivity began to plummit. It say a lot about "pacing" and having "proper mindset". The more aware and focus I am about my daily productivity, the better my output became. However, if I began to keep daily tab and check-up on my daily tasked, there is a likelihood that my productivity would increase.

Error 2: Verbal Installation
Starting mid october, I changed my studying strategy by emphasizing more on verbal. This plays a partial role in decreasing my productivity because I dread on doing verbal passaged. It always take me 1-2 hours to "get myself tied down" and "set my head into gear". The reason is that I don't find doing verbal enjoying because it required 100% concentration. This is my downfall. I know. I know. I'm screwd. But I can't help feeling that majority of my MCAT score will be dependent on my verbal skill. Whether I retake the test or not, it is the verbal that will be the death of me. So I need to find a way to get verbal productivity increase. I am thinking of adding a whole new catagories to verbal to highlight its importance in my life.

Error 3: Sticking to the rythem
I have not been waking up early to study lately. I have been hanging around too late at night and not getting my self to bed on time. This ruins my track record because I lost nearly 4 potential hours of productivity. I need to sleep early again. Serously.

Error 4: Not taking break
I don't know how to take break and when to take break. So my body automatically takes break for me. This is why my output stick the last few weeks. It took breaks for my. Notice 10/14/14-1/-20/14
That is all the break my body took for me. This is disasterous in term of my productivity.

Overall, it is not just the fact that my producitivty stink, my score is also not improving. I am hitting the lower end of MCAT 20 ranges. This is diasasterous when my test is only 4 weeks ago.
I needed to focus more time and energy on my critical flaw area.

This is diffficult and hard. The MCAT is by far a difficult challenge for me in term of productivity and direction.