SketchyReviews of sketchy.com

I watched all the Sketchy MCAT videos. I could barely retain anything. Too many symbols in one sketch with poor memory hooks. I did like the carbohydrates sketch and the light spectrum sketch, but honestly, everything else was useless. I really hoped their physics sketches would help me remember the equations better, but it didn’t. Their amino acids video had all the amino acids crammed in one sketch, I’m not sure how anyone could recall the properties or where anything is. I like how its competitor that shall not be named, has a separate sketch for each amino acid. Don’t even get me started on the Anki deck that’s beyond useless. It doesn’t have any of the visual hooks. What’s the point? No one has time to go back and rewatch a video. I just want to retain the information and the visual. Especially if I am on the go. It’s obvious this company is trying to expand with poor planning. Maybe take a step back, research effective teaching and psychology of learning, and innovate, instead of trying to milk every penny and cut corners.

I have been using Sketchy for all of my first year of medical school and it has been instrumental in me passing all my exams. Recently, they have made a massive update that removed access to its thousands-of-questions-sized Q-bank. They took this away from its PAYING members. Massive downgrade. Half of what made sketchy good was the videos and the ability to create your own exams from the Q-bank after watching them. I 100% know sketchy will not be as valuable as a resource to me in the next year of my school because of this. Just stick to AMBOSS and save your money.