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Leah’s Note: Use Active Writing to help build your long-term memory I didn’t know you can't use a calculator on the MCAT

After making my way through all of my review books/videos, I returned to each of those topics to find new resources, do more practice questions, etc. If I missed a practice question, I wrote it in a word document. I made a flashcard of every single P/S person or term mentioned by Khan Academy. I wish I had also interspersed AAMC Q-packs at that point as well. As I worked my way through my books, I did all the in-chapter and end-of-chapter questions. Never watch a video and think you are doing review–you have to be ACTIVELY studying, doing practice questions, etc. My take is that the entire study period should be BOTH. People like to go through and say they're done with ‘content review' and ‘moving on' to practice tests/other review. Use AAMC exams to ultimately help you determine readiness to test.

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The goal of your full lengths are to help you identify weaknesses and prepare you for the AAMC full lengths. Leah’s Note: Every prep course is different. Taking an overly hard FL when you're about to test is only going to freak you out. The other companies tend to have lower scores because they want you to buy their prep course. I very strongly recommend taking AAMC FL 2 as your last-ever practice exam. It really freaked me out each time, but obviously did much better on the AAMC tests. I got a 502 and a 505 on the TPR exams, respectively. I took the TPR FL Demo pretty early on in my studying and I felt like it helped me focus/know what the test was like before I was ready content-wise to ‘waste' one of my AAMC takes.ĭO NOT pay attention to your score on those (TPR). Leah’s Note: Which full lengths are best? Read about them on the MCAT Resources Page I only recommend them as far as getting a feel on timing and what the MCAT is like.

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Honestly, I only did the TPR because they came free with my book. I used the Princeton review and AAMC Full Length practice tests.ĪAMC full lengths were the best, just most similar passage-wise. Go into your exam prepared for every topic. Some students report very high biochem, others report very low.

Leah’s Note: The actual MCAT fluctuates from exam to exam.

I'd say it's helpful in terms of just more AAMC passages, tough questions, especially if Biochem and experimental methods questions are tough for you.ĭON'T treat it as equivalent to a full length test because the proportions of the Section-Bank type questions to what's on the actual exam is just not similar. Leah's Note: This is great given the new direction of the actual MCAT The Section Bank is also VERY skewed toward questions about experimental methods and tests. I haven't taken Biochem so this definitely threw me a bit and made me pretty nervous about whether I had prepared for those sections correctly–was this whole exam Biochem?! The section bank Chem/Phys and Bio/Biochem sections are BOTH about 60% Biochem. I took the Official AAMC Section Bank near the end of my prep. (practice CARS passages) The AAMC Section Bank There's no better way to practice CARS than to just do it. However, I found them to be much more wide-ranging in terms of topics than the more recently released Section Banks and therefore more representative of whether you are studying the right stuff/generally prepared.Īlso, CARS has not changed much so they are a great resource to get up to 240 CARS questions. Some people are skeptical of the Q packs because they are technically questions from the old exam. TPR passages are not similar to AAMC passages but they do test if you know the topic and are ready to move on or not.

As I worked my way through my TPR books, I also completed all the practice passages they had at the end of each chapter. I found it especially helpful for CARS because it gives a LOT of passages to practice on. I used the AAMC Section bank and Question Packs. Read more here: Ultimate MCAT Prep Step 3 – MCAT Resources What About Practice Passages? Leah's Note: It's less about WHICH resources you use and more about HOW you use them. The Biochem book is a little thin, especially since I don’t have a biochemistry background not having taken the course. The Physics book is quite long but it's mostly practice problems, so some people find it to be too much focus on Physics but I'd say just do fewer of the practice problems if you know the material.

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I watched EVERY SINGLE Khan P/S video, plus some of the biology and Biochem. Although I heard that TPR was weak on P/S so I switched over to Khan academy for all my P/S review. Which books did you use to prepare for the MCAT? Please only use this interview as insight into this particular student's experience as you work to craft your own MCAT prep journey. By popular demand, here is another MCAT prep + testing experience interview. When it comes to the MCAT, every student is different making every journey different.