going through the AAMC Outline with khan academy and Kaplan for content review?

[OneGoal]

Is this a good idea? Just taking notes on every bullet point from the outline using khan academy and the Kaplan 7 book set for getting to know the content? After this, just take a butt load of practice tests and questions from different sources like TBR?

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[Dr. Trenb]

Just taking notes on every bullet point from the outline using khan academy and the Kaplan 7 book set for getting to know the content?

I don't believe that would be a good idea. Doing practice tests and going over the explanations should be enough to refresh your memory on most of the material. I would only make note cards for psychology theories and amino acids.

 

[To be MD]

Is this a good idea? Just taking notes on every bullet point from the outline using khan academy and the Kaplan 7 book set for getting to know the content? After this, just take a butt load of practice tests and questions from different sources like TBR?

Hey, OneGoal

I just logged into SDN today to post the exact same question! Trenb, I think you misunderstood the general idea of what we're asking.

Restated: Can one adequately prepare for the MCAT with the Kaplan 7 book set & Khan Academy (& maybe another 1/2 sets of books as outlined by the 509+ thread), along with taking practice exams & reviewing them?

My biggest concern as I gear up to study is that there is something "extra" in the review courses by Kaplan/TPR that I won't get out of the review books & Khan Academy. Is that true?

Help, SDN 🙂.

 

[Brah of Science]

Do you have the AAMC Official Guide? I would just make sure you hit everything that is outlined in there.

 

[PhiGammaDocta]

Hey so what I found helpful was print the 120+ page AAMC Outline, divide it up into the 4 sections and attack each book or books with the outline. As you'll see Kaplan does not have all the material and is also in a slightly different order than how the AAMC set it up.

This being my second time around studying, I can't tell you how invaluable it is to actually see these topics from the AAMC outline and then study it (makes you feel like what you're studying is definitely important..as after all it's from the test maker)

 

[ready2go2]

Is this a good idea? Just taking notes on every bullet point from the outline using khan academy and the Kaplan 7 book set for getting to know the content? After this, just take a butt load of practice tests and questions from different sources like TBR?

exactly what i did and got a 514. except for practice I only used 3 of kaplan's test and the 1 official test (aye you get two so that's sweet lol)- along with all AAMC material

 

[HopefulUnderdog]

exactly what i did and got a 514. except for practice I only used 3 of kaplan's test and the 1 official test (aye you get two so that's sweet lol)- along with all AAMC material

Did you also use the Kaplan 7 book set?

 

[OneGoal]

exactly what i did and got a 514. except for practice I only used 3 of kaplan's test and the 1 official test (aye you get two so that's sweet lol)- along with all AAMC material

Oh wow congrats! That's so awesome! I was also wondering the same as hopefulunderdog about what you used to take notes primarily for the outline? I'm using the Kaplan set currently.

 

[Ad2b]

@OneGoal - that's what I did to prep for 9/12 test and felt very ready for it (did not take due to dire family health matters). will do the same for when I do take it.