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The MCAT Podcast

254: Active vs Passive Learning

The MCAT Podcast

Ryan Gray

Education, Science, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Hunter and I chat this week about what it means to actively learn and how to identify & avoid passive learning.

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Blueprint MCAT

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The MCAT podcast, session number 254.

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A collaboration between the medical school headquarters and Blueprint MCAT.

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0:55.3

you the skills and confidence to get the score you want on your MCAT test day.

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1:06.1

Welcome to the MCAT podcast. My name is Dr. Ryan Gray, your host here every week.

1:11.7

As always, I'm joined by one of the marvelous members of the Blueprint Live Online team this week, continuing

1:17.2

with Hunter and continuing our learning discussion that we started last week, this time talking

1:23.6

about active versus passive learning. What does that mean?

1:34.3

And how does it affect your ability to learn material so that you can score better on the MCAT?

1:40.5

Before we jump into today's episode, though, if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.

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