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To those who have taken MCATs, are the Kaplan practice MCATs generally easier or more difficult than the actual MCATs?
Pdiddy310 said:To those who have taken MCATs, are the Kaplan practice MCATs generally easier or more difficult than the actual MCATs?
ALaczniak said:Physical Sciences on Kaplan are WAY more difficult than the real thing. The computations you have to do on the real thing are much less complex and fewer than on the Kaplan test. However, I did feel that taking the Kaplan tests helped me prepare timewise for this section. I was always rushing to finish the Kaplan practice tests, but I finished the real thing with time to spare.
Verbal on Kaplan "feels" a little different than the real thing. I'd suggest doing a couple AAMC tests to understand what I'm talking about.
Biological Sciences on Kaplan, I felt, were the most similar to the real thing.
All in all, I felt like the Kaplan tests were more difficult, but a good preparation. And it is true that most people do better on the real thing than the Kaplan practice tests. I did three points better than on any of my practice tests.
BXP said:Very helpful thx!
ALaczniak said:Physical Sciences on Kaplan are WAY more difficult than the real thing. The computations you have to do on the real thing are much less complex and fewer than on the Kaplan test.
Pdiddy310 said:To those who have taken MCATs, are the Kaplan practice MCATs generally easier or more difficult than the actual MCATs?
Schaden Freud said:I thought Kaplan Physical Sciences was slightly tougher than the real thing, but Verbal Reasoning and Biological Sciences were pretty much on par. For me, Kaplan full-lengths were a very good predictor of performance on the real thing.
Schaden Freud said:I thought Kaplan Physical Sciences was slightly tougher than the real thing, but Verbal Reasoning and Biological Sciences were pretty much on par. For me, Kaplan full-lengths were a very good predictor of performance on the real thing.
Flushingfinest said:Is Kaplan Verbal Reasoning Book a good pratice or no??
bluenumber6 said:I use to take the kaplan verbal practice tests. A question asks, what would the author be LEAST likely to agree upon? You would think, that the answer is the opposite to his beliefs. I bubbled it, but got it wrong. Turns out that kaplan's definition of "LEAST" is actually the idea where if all else fails, the the answer would be the last thing the author would agree to. The idea of something that would contradict the author would actually be something the author NEVER agrees to. WTF?!
Flushingfinest said:hey thanks for response haha i also feel the same way i get those type of question wrong. my problem is thta my score rite now in Verbal is 5 and i have EK 101 book and Kaplan Verbal reasoning book. i know i should focus on EK 101 but i was thinking to take One exam from each book every day. i dont know if that's good idea or not. wat should i do? Finish EK 101 first and then pick up on kaplan?