ExamKrackers VS. Princeton Hyperlearning

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Can anyone please tell me what they think of examkrackers as compared to Princeton hyperlearning. I have both sets but don't have the time to go over both of them, so I want to know which set is better to study from, or is there a combination between the two ??

Thanks everyone!!

 

[SN2ed]

EK is okay in terms of content review if you're strong in your pre-reqs and you only need a brief overview to get you up to speed. For the most part, I'd suggest you stick with TPRH for most of the subjects and EK for Bio.


Biology: 1. EK Bio (for content) + BR Bio (for passages and further topic depth if needed) 2. TPR Hyperlearning, detail oriented 3. Kaplan

Physics: 1. BR 2. Nova 3. TPR Hyperlearning 4. EK/Kaplan

Verbal: 1. EK 101 Verbal 2. TPR Hyperlearning Verbal Workbook 3. BR 4. Kaplan (Avoid if possible)

Organic Chemistry: 1. BR, by far 2. TPR Hyperlearning 3. EK/Kaplan

General Chemistry: 1. BR, by far 2. TPR Hyperlearning 3. EK/Kaplan

Extra Practice Material: 1. TPR Hyperlearing Science Workbook, good source of practice passages 1. AAMC Official Guide to the MCAT Exam (most representative material available) 2. EK 1001 series, helps nail down basics

 

[Research3r]

So much difficulty finding the BR materials in Canada 🙁

 

[peinstein86]

I took Princeton Review Hyperlearning Online and just completed the course.

Overall, the instructors were pretty good, but I did email 2 of them and never received a reply. I was most disappointed in the Verbal Instructor. She spent ~45 minutes total over 8 lessons on the Writing Sample and she never graded or returned my writing samples. Unfortunately, I had to take the MCAT without any feedback. Disappointing after spending over $1000.

Maybe the classroom instruction would have been better, but the classroom courses I registered twice were cancelled due to lack of registration.

 

[BA11]

EK is less dense and more to the point on most subjects. TPR is much more in-depth but contains a lot of extra information that is both unnecessary and time consuming IMO, especially when it comes to biology. There are pages and pages of information not tested by the MCAT in TPR bio.

If you're a science major who retains a decent amount of information from your classes, EK should be more than enough.

 

[TheShaker]

I just started studying and I am using both EK and TPR right now. I think people have said that the biology for EK is good but you might want to think about TPR for inorganic chem/physics. Seriously, I am not sure about what they were trying to achieve with EK chemistry but it felt like they were intentionally making it confusing. They basically stated points without explanation and when they do explain, they explain in the most terribly worded sentences possible. I would be happier with just getting a list of things to know over their books. I compared it to the TPR and TPR is just so much easier because they use the English language like a normal person. I like to think that my science background is pretty strong but EK just makes me weep with how little detail it has. This is just my opinion though, it seems to work well for other people.

Anyways, right now I'm just using TPR for the parts where I need more detail and explanation while using EK to see what I need to know (this is something that they do well).

 

[TheShaker]

I just started studying and I am using both EK and TPR right now. I think people have said that the biology for EK is good but you might want to think about TPR for inorganic chem/physics. Seriously, I am not sure about what they were trying to achieve with EK chemistry but it felt like they were intentionally making it confusing. They basically stated points without explanation and when they do explain, they explain in the most terribly worded sentences possible. Most of the time, I would just read an explanation over and over and think to myself, "Why couldn't they just simply state like this...?" I compared it to the TPR and TPR is just so much easier because they use the English language like a normal person. I like to think that my science background is pretty strong but EK just makes me weep with how little detail it has.

Anyways, right now I'm just using TPR for the parts where I need more detail and explanation while using EK to see what I need to know (this is something that they do well). This allows me to not have to study the more useless parts of TPR while not having to deal with EK's terrible explanation skills. It might burn an extra large hole in your pocket, though. I inherited my TPR books so I'm fine.