Berkely Review Psychology

[Clydesdale]

Has anyone used TBR psych book for content review? What do you think about the passages? I am very confused which one to use between Kaplan, TBR, and KA. If you used these resources, please mention how much it helped you and how well you scored. Any help is much appreciated!

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[Clydesdale]

Anyone ?


"What comes easy, won't last,
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[jparsenal87]

I can't be much help here because I am just starting my prepwork, and Psych and Soc is easily my biggest unknown. I think the general consensus is that most of the psych/soc prepbooks have some pretty significant shortcomings. I have heard TPR is worth checking out, but obviously you don't have that.

I have the TBR book, and I will probably do the problems in it just for practice on psych/soc passages, since they are hard to come by. From my perspective, the most widely praised resource for this section is the KA videos paired with the MCAT subreddit notes document which you can find in the sidebar over there. That is what I am focusing my studying on! We'll see how it works out.

 

[Clydesdale]

I can't be much help here because I am just starting my prepwork, and Psych and Soc is easily my biggest unknown. I think the general consensus is that most of the psych/soc prepbooks have some pretty significant shortcomings. I have heard TPR is worth checking out, but obviously you don't have that.

I have the TBR book, and I will probably do the problems in it just for practice on psych/soc passages, since they are hard to come by. From my perspective, the most widely praised resource for this section is the KA videos paired with the MCAT subreddit notes document which you can find in the sidebar over there. That is what I am focusing my studying on! We'll see how it works out.

Thank you so much this helps ! I knew about kA will definitely check out the aamc notes.


"What comes easy, won't last,
what lasts, won't come easy."

 

[Thoroughbred_Med]

I used Kaplan for Psych/Soc and got a 129. It covered enough for me.

Of course, you will learn even more by doing practice passages. So I'd use Kaplan for their content and TBR and TPR for their passages. Also, AAMC P/S section bank... the most important resource.

 

[Clydesdale]

I used Kaplan for Psych/Soc and got a 129. It covered enough for me.

Of course, you will learn even more by doing practice passages. So I'd use Kaplan for their content and TBR and TPR for their passages. Also, AAMC P/S section bank... the most important resource.

Thank you, I will take a look at Kaplan!


"What comes easy, won't last,
what lasts, won't come easy."

 

[DPTinthemaking15]

I was wondering if anyone found TBR for Psychology to be helpful? I am about to start looking over Section I. Also, did you find it helpful to read TBR first and then watch KA videos? Or is it better to just watch KA and skim over TBR?

 

[Poppin]

I was wondering if anyone found TBR for Psychology to be helpful? I am about to start looking over Section I. Also, did you find it helpful to read TBR first and then watch KA videos? Or is it better to just watch KA and skim over TBR?

I used TBR Psych, It was good content wise but I wish it had more passages like the other TBR books. I didn't watch any KA videos but unlike the other TBR books, this one if I remember correctly was not as "dense" to read. It's a pretty thin book too so you could easily just read through it unlike the other subject books.

If it makes any difference, I bought the first edition for their psych book. I don't know if any other editions came out so my experience could be different if they made any revisions obviously.

 

[Thoroughbred_Med]

I like TBR Psych quite a bit. Their passages are on the hard side but really target weaknesses.

This is my second stab at the MCAT so I would maybe recommend Kaplan or TPR if you don't already have a good handle on the P/S section.

 

[DPTinthemaking15]

I am midways through the TBR Psych section... Oh. My.Gosh. It seems so dense with information. I want to jot down everything I encounter, but I am not sure what the "big picture" to take away is. Guess I'll just keep chugging along.

 

[Thoroughbred_Med]

I am midways through the TBR Psych section... Oh. My.Gosh. It seems so dense with information. I want to jot down everything I encounter, but I am not sure what the "big picture" to take away is. Guess I'll just keep chugging along.

are you saying that the content in the chapters is really dense?