1. My routine was waking up early at around 9-10 am and to study the whole day with prayer and food breaks and 5-10 mins break every hour on phone/social media. They say u shouldn’t use any social media at all but u can for atleast an hour everyday. I would study till 2-3 am or even till fajr.
2. My preparation strategy was basically all by myself. I didn’t join any academy. Im an overseas mbbs student and did all my prep from saudi arabia by myself,online. My website was Saeedmdcat. It has the best and all lectures of topics and extensive practice questions and fpls, completely free.
3. Do bio mcqs less and focus on just board books. For me I only had to do federal as I gave Islamabad mdcat (szabmu) in which all mcqs came from federal books. For punjab ik that ptb+federal is mandatory. Do chem half mcqs and half prep from books/lectures/notes. For physics do lots and lots of practice mcqs, like 80% practice 20% prep from book
4.Paper comes much easier then expected. But always prepare for worst. I was always pessimistic but just focus on thinking itll come hard then ull be better prepared trust me. As I thought after giving paper id only score around 150, but got 186 final score.
5. Nums and mdcat were a big success for me. I was a fresher too came top 10 in all countries of overseas pakistanis.