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I want to start studying for the mcat but unsure of what exactly to invest in and what not to. I don't want to go overboard with the spending, and will stay away from high cost stuff such as prep courses and the like as I want to self learn. That said, I don't have much background in sciences, so a lot of the stuff will be new to me.
The materials I'll certainly get are the full AAMC stuff, scored fl, section bank, qpacks etc. Then I will probably buy EK and NS FLs, and then maybe even the Altius and TBR/TPR ones for more practice but for now I'll prob just invest in the first two mentioned.
I'll go over all the Khan Academy stuff too since it's free and see it has near universal acclaim.
Now what I'm not sure in, is what books to get and which editions. The main ones I see are EK, Kaplan, TPR and TBR. Nearly everyone says EK is more succinct and to the point, so unsure if this works for me. Kaplan I've seen it praised for its biology materials, and TBR seems to have the most in depth material and saw a lot of postings praise it in particular. Unsure about TPR. In any case, EK, Kaplan and TPR have their penultimate editions posted online on torrent sites, dropbox etc. and TBR has either the 2011 or 2012 version there as well, which is the old format. So I kinda wanted to get TBR for studying purposes, but it's at 375$ for the new version, plus probably more than 100$ shipping since I live in Canada, making it triple the last EK and Kaplan versions which I can get on amazon.ca for about 225 to 250 CAD. So at this point I'm not sure if I should even invest anything with all the free resources available? I mean I doubt there is that much update in the EK, TPR, and Kaplan final editions compared to the previous, but there might be a significant difference in TBR, which is the one I initially wanted to get. Still, spending $500 seems kind of off putting in this instance, given the free material available. Would love to hear some opinions on this however, and whether I should even spend money in this section or just study with the free/torrented materials.
The materials I'll certainly get are the full AAMC stuff, scored fl, section bank, qpacks etc. Then I will probably buy EK and NS FLs, and then maybe even the Altius and TBR/TPR ones for more practice but for now I'll prob just invest in the first two mentioned.
I'll go over all the Khan Academy stuff too since it's free and see it has near universal acclaim.
Now what I'm not sure in, is what books to get and which editions. The main ones I see are EK, Kaplan, TPR and TBR. Nearly everyone says EK is more succinct and to the point, so unsure if this works for me. Kaplan I've seen it praised for its biology materials, and TBR seems to have the most in depth material and saw a lot of postings praise it in particular. Unsure about TPR. In any case, EK, Kaplan and TPR have their penultimate editions posted online on torrent sites, dropbox etc. and TBR has either the 2011 or 2012 version there as well, which is the old format. So I kinda wanted to get TBR for studying purposes, but it's at 375$ for the new version, plus probably more than 100$ shipping since I live in Canada, making it triple the last EK and Kaplan versions which I can get on amazon.ca for about 225 to 250 CAD. So at this point I'm not sure if I should even invest anything with all the free resources available? I mean I doubt there is that much update in the EK, TPR, and Kaplan final editions compared to the previous, but there might be a significant difference in TBR, which is the one I initially wanted to get. Still, spending $500 seems kind of off putting in this instance, given the free material available. Would love to hear some opinions on this however, and whether I should even spend money in this section or just study with the free/torrented materials.