Best Study Material

[bjorklund]

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I'm in a bit of a bind. I've just emerged from the fall 2005 late application poopshoot without a single acceptance. However, I've learned from my mistakes and plan on doing as much as I can "right" this year. The problem is that I've already taken all but one of the official MCAT practice exams. From experience, whose material most closely resembles that of the actual test? I'm trying to avoid the exam types that focus on subject knowledge rather than passage inference. Also, are the exams posted on the AAMC website the only official exams in circulation?

 

[dsh]

Your best bet is probably in the MCAT subforum. To answer your question, I thought that Kaplan had exams that were closest in style to the AAMC ones. Princeton Review comes in at a second. Berkeley Review science is very hard and will give you a mental workout, their verbal just plain sucks. I never tried Exam Krackers practice exams.

 

[em232002]

Agree. Kaplan is good.

 

[browniegirl86]

Kaplan has at least 11 good full-length MCATS, the higher-numbered of which are generally a little harder than you can expect from the actual test.

They also have a huge amount of other study materials that work on specific areas (content/critical thinking/timing/focus, etc).

The course is good (at least mine was) but expensive; there is also a cheaper online course that will still give you access to all the materials. Also look into the books.

Good luck!

(p.s. if you have questions about the Kaplan course or materials or anything you can PM me . . . I teach there, which explains the overly-informed post about study materials)

 

[gary5]

Yep, Kaplan. Take the Kaplan tests once per month, and track your scores in each section. Then retake the AAMC tests next year for the weeks leading up to the MCAT. The AAMC tests are a better predictor than the Kaplan tests.

 

[businessguy]

Examkrackers?