Beginning MCAT prep: help

[Caecilius11]

Hi everyone!
I am a sophomore in college and I wish to take the MCAT January of my Junior year (2021) with a goal to apply to medical school summer of 2021. I have all the Kaplan 8 series and I have registered for the Princeton Review 510+ online course during this summer. I was wondering what additional materials I should be considering? For the AAMC practise exams, do those need to be purchased or are they free as I cannot seem to find them? Any other tips/advice will be great! I wanted to get a head start so I have time to figure everything out! Thank ypu!

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[pms_testosterone]

You need to purchase the AAMC practice materials, but first double check if your course provides them as part of the course fee, as some courses do.

AAMC practice materials

 

[Medical Muse]

I highly recommend taking a critical thinking course while you have the time. You may also want to take some courses in history, political science, economics, etc. to get some of the reading skills in place. It will help you later for CARS.

 

[JimKimSlim]

In addition to the practice tests, it might be a good idea to also purchase AAMC Question Packs and the AAMC Section Banks. Of all the Q Bank sections, you should get the CARS 1 & 2 QPacks, since they’re the closest CARS resource to the real test, and you can analyze what kind of logic AAMC requires you to think.

 

[Caecilius11]

Thank you all!