Keeping My Head In The Game (?)

[mj1878]

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I was just curious if anyone had any suggestions for me on the following:

I have finished all of my prerequisites, and have just moved myself to another state to be with my fiance (We'd been doing the long-distance thing for about a year and it was starting to hamper the relationship). I am a spanish major, and have nothing left but spanish classes and two core classes to go. What usually would happen would be that I would take some spanish classes and also science classes to fulfill the prerequisite requirements. Now here I am, a mere 25 credits from graduating, and sort of wondering how I am going to keep my head from going too deep underneath a cloud of liberal arts spanish education and away from the wonderfully wacky "premed world" where you tend to express everything in terms of "kilojoules per mole" and "Moles of ATP produced"? I will be studying for the MCAT until April; however, not having $800 just lying around, I can't take a review course. I would love to take an extra chem or bio class, but I don't want to delay graduation by doing so.

Anyone who has (SUCCESSFULLY) done home review (without Kaplan, et al) and has tips for me on how to tackle it, please let me know how you did it! Thanks to one and all!

 

[sddoc]

I was in a similar position several years ago. I went out to Barnes and Noble and picked up 2 MCAT review books with practice exams in the back. Over the course of 6 months, I reviewed the books and created flashcards for must know items. (By the end of the 6 months, I literally had hundreds of cards.) Each day, I divided my time between studying new material and running through flashcards that I had already made. There were 4 review exams in the book I had, and I took one of those per week in the month prior to the MCAT. I was very happy with all of my scores... 10's in all 3 sections.

The key to the process is to organize your time and your materials. Also, you have to make sure that you have time for yourself and your fiance. It's great preparation for medical school. Good luck!

 

[Green912]

Last year I bought both the Kaplin review book from B&N and the entire set of Kaplin review course books from someone on E-bay. The material in both are exactly the same. Only difference was that the course material had more practice questions and some pre-made flashcards. So for about $60 you can buy the Kaplin review book and have the exact same info you get with the $1000 course.

 

[mj1878]

Thanks, guys. Great idea about purchasing Kaplan on Ebay!