Best Practice Exams to Buy?

[aristrutz523]

Hey all!

I am a re-taker and I took the Kaplan course w/ their exams back in 2016. The Kaplan tests basically showed me what I would get. I'm asking to see if there are better practice tests to purchase - I'm not doing another course since my MCAT is in 93 days. I'm considering the Kaplan again. I just took the Blueprint diagnostic last week and am probably going to take the Princeton and Kaplan diagnostics this week (because they're fo FREE).

Does anyone have any suggestions? I want them to be super hard so I'm just surprised at how amazing I do on test day (just kidding, but not really).

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[PlsLetMeIn21]

I took exams from four different commercial sources and can't say that any one of them was noticably better than the others. They each have their strengths and weaknesses. For C/P TBR was best. For CARS, I liked NS. For B/B I liked EK. For P/S, I liked TBR. Don't trust any of their scaled scores.

Nothing is as good as AAMC, but if I had to pick just one, I'd choose TBR because you learn so much from their explanations. Next I'd pick EK. Good luck, you really can't go wrong.

 

[Blueprint Med School]

Agreed that most third party practice exams are more or less the same. I think some of the best third-party material comes from the UWorld QBank. While it's not grouped into full-length exams, the practice is very good in my opinion and worth trying.

Kevin W, MCAT Tutor
Med School Tutors

 

[17181168011]

I definitely agree with Kevin about the usefulness of UWorld's QBank. Their answer explanations are especially worthwhile to study since they act as another layer of content review.