EK 1001 vs. TPR Science Workbooks?

[mr chievous]

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In addition to TBR passages, which would you guys recommend? Going through the EK 1001 series or doing more practice passages through TPR Science Workbooks? Looking to get a 12 in both sciences. Thanks!

 

[brood910]

Do both?

 

[PocketJacks]

IMO, TPR SW by far. It has both discretes and passages. If you have enough time you can do 1/3 of all the EK1001s. If you don't have that much time, you can just do the EK1001s sections in which you're weak (after having done TBR's and TPR's questions).

 

[OCDOCDOCD]

EK1001 and TPRH can't even be compared. TPRH SW is essentially TBR without any of the content chapters. EK1001 is something you use when you need to drill a weak concept.

If you have all three my recommendation would be to use TBR for gen chem, orgo, and physics, and to use TPRH for biology (and verbal if you have the verbal workbook). Use EK1001 to go over concepts that you think you may be weak on. If you have time, do the EK1001 problems for a chapter before you do any practice passages; this should let you retain the info better.

Also, my recommendation for EK1001 is to do a "first pass" where you do every fifth problem. Then when you're done you look back to see if there are any topics you got a large percentage wrong on. If so, go back and do another 1/5th of the questions for that topic. Repeat this until you're happy with your performance. Then do practice passages for those topics, although I would wait at least several hours (ideally a day) before doing them.

 

[mr chievous]

Thanks for all the advice guys. I also have Kaplan subject tests and topical tests. Are those any good? I tried used search function but I saw mixed reviews about them. What do you guys think?

 

[mr chievous]

Bump. Anyone? 🙁

 

[PocketJacks]

It'll probably be pretty hard to find someone who has used all of those resources just because there isn't enough time xD. You probably won't have enough time to do all 4, anyways. So just do some research on which is better EK or Kaplan and choose one. Kaplan is probably better overall because (I'm assuming) they have passages. IMO, EK is just really good for topics you're weak in.

You should probably do TBR --> TPR --> Kaplan (if you have time) and use EK for weak points..