Don't fool proof in the curriculum and stop doing all the problem sets. Do only enough to get a feel for the topic and then save the rest for your PT phase to shore up any weaknesses.
I'm spending it making a pros and cons list for Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Full-ride Columbia, Chicago, and NYU, fully knowing it will soon become a useless file.
... something simple like 'introduce topic, hypothesis about topic,' next paragraph I would ... how it relates 'argument against topic,' or 'different hypothesis'. This in ...