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[ex-oh-medic]

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I only have experience with the Kaplan books but I think they are very thorough and they obviously have a big R&D department - sometimes you wonder if some of their research methods are unscrupulous. I recently read an article talking about The Princeton review being sued my the makers of the mcat for sending in fake test-takers to memorize questions....

 

[Amy B]

I wouldn't doubt that happens. I don't know how they would prove their court case though. I do know that Princeton review questions seem more inline with the actual MCAT than the Kaplan questions were.

 

[TRUE]

Kaplan practice MCAT's are really not very representitive of the actual test in any section. They make them harder than the test questions actually are, probably so as to make you study harder. The good thing about the kaplan tests though, is that they're curved the same as real mcat's. so you get to see how you're doing comapred to others. They're also just good practice for the test-taking situation.

 

[exgatr]

I work for Kaplan, and we get questions in two ways.

1. Very experienced teachers are given the chance to write new questions. These questions are then checked to make sure they reflect the MCAT, and if they're good enough, they'll be included in the course or the books.

2. Kaplan spends a TON of money buying the actual questions from the AAMC.