I just bought the Kaplan self-study books. It seems like most people on SDN think that's a bad idea, that it's better to buy individual books, and I'm starting to agree. I bought them on impulse without really thinking about it. Yes, I know that was stupid. Does any one have an opinion either way? And are those books returnable if I decide not to keep them? Thanks for your advice!
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They have some really good condensed info in the books. Their path sucks. I have them. I do find their books hard to read. The kaplan books are designed to be used in conjunction w/their lecture series. They are sort of incomplete because you have to annotate them from the lectures for clarity.
Hope this makes sense.
Hope this makes sense.
Kaplan has a series of books designed for self-study, the organ system books, in addition to the ones that come with the online lectures. Are you talking about the white books or the black ones being hard to read?gbono2 said:
A lot of high scorers have primarily used the Kaplan books to study for the USMLE. Do most people here on SDN really think it's a bad idea?
Biochem is EXCELLENT.
Immuno, Behavioral, and Micro are all GOOD.
Path, Gross, Pharm are all FAIR.
I used a buddy's books which were not annotated. Maybe that's why path and the rest sucked, but I honestly thought it was more because their path book was just a dense, poorly-worded form of BRS. Definitely keep the Biochem book if you can though. Biochem, immuno, and Behavioral/Biostats in hindsight would be enough for me to justify buying the whole set. If you get a good score from it, you won't care about the pricetag.
HamOn
Immuno, Behavioral, and Micro are all GOOD.
Path, Gross, Pharm are all FAIR.
I used a buddy's books which were not annotated. Maybe that's why path and the rest sucked, but I honestly thought it was more because their path book was just a dense, poorly-worded form of BRS. Definitely keep the Biochem book if you can though. Biochem, immuno, and Behavioral/Biostats in hindsight would be enough for me to justify buying the whole set. If you get a good score from it, you won't care about the pricetag.
HamOn
