Changes in MCAT material over 4 years?

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I was wondering how much material changes over a period of time on the MCAT, especially the biology.

Is it worth it to keep my biology book to use as reference book for questions and overall review? I know many aspects of biology change with research very frequently, and it may even be out of date now. I just want to try and go over the topics on the MCAT for physics and biology, the classes I've taken this year, little by little so I don't have to spend nearly as long reviewing and so that I will have had more exposure to the material than just this year.

 

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I was wondering how much material changes over a period of time on the MCAT, especially the biology.

Is it worth it to keep my biology book to use as reference book for questions and overall review? I know many aspects of biology change with research very frequently, and it may even be out of date now. I just want to try and go over the topics on the MCAT for physics and biology, the classes I've taken this year, little by little so I don't have to spend nearly as long reviewing and so that I will have had more exposure to the material than just this year.

The biology tested on the mcat is so basic, that it is unlikely to be altered in such a short time span (if at all) by advances in science. This is not true of other (newer) disciplines in the biological sciences (one thinks of immunology) where text books are out of date by the time they are published.

So yes, i would probably hang on to your biology textbook as a reference material, although i dont know how much it will assist you in studying for the bs section of the mcat.