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Sep

What preparations should I take for the MCAT?

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I am taking the MCAT this spring, and I am not interested in an expensive Kaplan or PR program. I am generally a excellent test taker and just want to have a excellent thought of what to expect on the MCAT. What resources could help me be as prepared as I can to get a excellent score my at the start try at the MCAT? (examcrackers was mentioned to me but i don’t know much about it)

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  1. Mark says:

    No matter what, you need to get the AAMC exams and do those under timed conditions. They are the best score predictors. You might also want to buy some other CBTs (Berkeley Review and Gold Ordinary are the only ones commerically available on computer).

    The best books are the ones that have a brief review of material and count on people learning how to apply the material when they do the passages and questions. Berkeley Review has text and passages in the same book. Examkrackers and Princeton Review have separate books for text review and passages.

    You should check out StudentDoctor.net and see what people say there. There’s a forum dedicated just to the MCAT. From what I’ve read there, people strongly recommend Berkeley Review materials and Examkrackers materials. The consensus is:

    Verbal Reasoning:
    1) Exam Krackers 2) TIE Princeton Review classroom books and Berkeley Review classroom notes and course book 4) Kaplan

    Physics:
    1) Berkeley Review 2) Nova Press 3) Princeton Review 4) Exam Krackers 5) Kaplan

    General Chemistry:
    1) Berkeley Review (“by far”) 2) Princeton Review 3) Kaplan 4) Nova 5) Exam Krackers

    Biology:
    1) Exam Krackers 2) Princeton Review 3) TIE Kaplan and Berkeley Review

    Organic Chemistry:
    1) Berkeley Review (“by far”) 2) Princeton Review 3) Kaplan 4) Exam Krackers

    Other books (such as Barrons or REA) are not listed in their opinions because they are generally painstaking to not be very excellent. In fact, REA is downright terrible. The best books are associated with companies that also run a classroom course, which makes sense.

    Excellent luck!

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