Berkeley review difficulty for MCAT 2015

[655703]

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I've been using some of the Berkeley Review practice passages to study, particularly for Biology I and II (and Physics on high-yield topics like Fluids). I've also been using EK and TPR practice passages. I've been finding Berkeley Review to be incredibly difficult, MUCH more difficult than EK and TPR.

If you've taken the MCAT 2015 and used Berkeley, what is your opinion on the difficulty of Berkeley's materials versus the real thing?
If you're currently studying using Berkeley and have used other resources as well, do you find Berkeley to be significantly harder?

 

[chaii]

Im getting owned by berkley and its extremely discouraging...havent done EK or TPR passages.

 

[655703]

I should add also that since Berkeley's questions usually involve a LOT deeper level of thinking, I find that I'm getting into the habit of over-thinking a lot of the easier questions from other test prep companies so I end up getting easy questions wrong because I'm thinking too much about it.

 

[surfguy84]

I used Berkeley last year and took the mcat last summer.

Berkeley was much more difficult than the real test. I was getting 60 to 70 percent right on passages and wound up with a low 30s score.