Best study material/methods?

[Pharmypharm]

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I got a 46 on the bio section for the pcat and used only dr. collins to study for it. That and the reading were sections I felt dr. collins did not help me on. What you you all recommend to study for bio and critical reading in order to pull a solid 80-90? or study methods that helped?

 

[clgp23]

For bio use Kaplan. Collins is only good if you already have bio knowledge already

 

[larrylarry]

I used Kaplan for all the review/studying as well as the 3 pearson practice tests. Pearson writes the actually test and they straight copy-paste the format of a good chunk of the questions. Didn't touch collins.
If you can afford to id buy all 3 pearson tests and go over them religiously. Make sure you understand the answers to all the questions or go deep review the topics that you get wrong on those tests. If you understand everything in those practices you shouldn't be surprised at anything on the real thing.

Bio 98
Chem 96
Math 99
CA 96

 

[Pharmypharm]

I used Kaplan for all the review/studying as well as the 3 pearson practice tests. Pearson writes the actually test and they straight copy-paste the format of a good chunk of the questions. Didn't touch collins.
If you can afford to id buy all 3 pearson tests and go over them religiously. Make sure you understand the answers to all the questions or go deep review the topics that you get wrong on those tests. If you understand everything in those practices you shouldn't be surprised at anything on the real thing.

Bio 98
Chem 96
Math 99
CA 96

Would you say it's just the formatting that's the same or is it the questions as well?

 

[larrylarry]

Would you say it's just the formatting that's the same or is it the questions as well?

both. There were a couple repeated questions. I would like to assume they aren't that incompetent and those are the survey ones that don't count, but cant know for sure obviously. It helps alot in the CA because they recycle question types so you can have an idea of what to look for in the passage when you are reading it.

 

[TBTSH12]

i second with going with the Pearson Practice Tests. they are really worth the money. Kaplan is also good for bio, but i would say that the chem section is a bit too detailed and very few of the ochem concepts appeared on my version of the PCAT. the math section is severely lacking

 

[Hillerod]

I think PCAT Achiever is another good source of practice with all the updated sections like Kaplan and Pearson. Has anyone tried out Crack the PCAT ?