Are the Barron's practice exams good?

[BaseballFan1]

I have made good scores on the practice exams.

Some people say they are easier than the MCAT and others harder.

Anyone know from experience?

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[chemhead123]

*jcutts,

Did you write or edit any of the earlier versions? The reputation of Barron's MCAT material has been hurt by years of putting out very poor material. If you are a change to a new phase, that would be great to have some more material out there.

I will say that I am disappoitned by Barron's efforts to deceive students on Amazon. 8 of the first 11 4 or 5 star posts are by first time reviewers, one of the eight is self-admittedly by an editor (which is not a review at all). All of which were put up within a span of less than a month. I think you should talk to your company jcutts, this alone is enough for me to not want to support a company like that.

 

[MedOldAge]

*jcutts,

Did you write or edit any of the earlier versions? The reputation of Barron's MCAT material has been hurt by years of putting out very poor material. If you are a change to a new phase, that would be great to have some more material out there.

I will say that I am disappoitned by Barron's efforts to deceive students on Amazon. 8 of the first 11 4 or 5 star posts are by first time reviewers, one of the eight is self-admittedly by an editor (which is not a review at all). All of which were put up within a span of less than a month. I think you should talk to your company jcutts, this alone is enough for me to not want to support a company like that.

I second 100% of what chemhead123 said.

I believe we all LOVE to have MORE legit material to use. But please prove to us in SDN that Barron is the real deal from now on 🙂

I can imagine thousands of SDNers will jump to Barron if it becomes a proven GOOD stuff. We want results and not empty advertisement.

 

[SaintJude]

We want results and not empty advertisement.

Yeah, in fact, Jcutts since you're the author of the last Barron's MCAT book could you perhaps tackle a subject I have found all the the other major test preps (and I'm using 3 of them) to be lacking on? : dielectric constants!

Part of what has convinced me that Berkeley Review & Kaplan is good, is one their instructors/writers have consistently provided phenomenal answers. You don't have to, of course, but if you'd like to demonstrate some teaching, please do!

So I am clear on the basics of dielectric constants. The dipole moment of a polar dielectric will induce an electric field in an opposite direction to the field created by the capacitance plates. Basically, a dielectric reduces the effective electric field between the two capacitor plates. Why does the source then need to supply more charge to maintain this reduced effective electric field? ( This added charge supplies = capacitor can "hold" more charge )

Thanks in advance, Jcutts. Also, I'd love to see you in the MCAT SDN q&a forum!

 

[Swagster]

I have made good scores on the practice exams.

Some people say they are easier than the MCAT and others harder.

Anyone know from experience?

The exams are generally thought to be unrealistic. They weren't anything like what I had on my MCAT. Any practice is better than doing nothing, but there are plenty of better exams out there. AAMC should be your first priority.

 

[SaintJude]

I love how Jcutts is jumping around the forum posting essentially the same message in different threads (at what point is it considered spam?)...and yet I wonder if he even wants to demonstrate his explanation skills as I asked in this thread...hmmm. 🙄