MCAT books

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Hi guys,
I have Kaplan books. My question is how should I study them? Should I read each book first then do questions, or do questions and use the books for reference?. I tried reading gen Chem first, then I did questions. Turned out I for get what was in the book, because there are too many details. So now i'm just doing questions and use the book as reference. If I don't know the content, I'll use the book and look it up. What are you guys' suggestion? Are there another way to best approach studying for MCAT?

Also what other practice problems books are best out there in the market?

 

[aldol16]

Don't worry about the questions at the end of the chapter. If you read the chapter, you shouldn't be getting more than 3 or so wrong on the end of chapter questions - otherwise, you probably didn't retain much of the information at all. But don't sweat the small details because the MCAT tests on the bigger picture and is more interested in whether you can reason scientifically and analyze data as opposed to whether you can memorize random facts. That said, you will get several questions on test day that test discrete items and random facts - these are hit or miss and there's no way to study for them unless you want to spend months on end just memorizing every little detail in those books - and even then, it likely won't be enough. I think there are better ways to spend your time.

 

[752779]

Don't worry about the questions at the end of the chapter. If you read the chapter, you shouldn't be getting more than 3 or so wrong on the end of chapter questions - otherwise, you probably didn't retain much of the information at all. But don't sweat the small details because the MCAT tests on the bigger picture and is more interested in whether you can reason scientifically and analyze data as opposed to whether you can memorize random facts. That said, you will get several questions on test day that test discrete items and random facts - these are hit or miss and there's no way to study for them unless you want to spend months on end just memorizing every little detail in those books - and even then, it likely won't be enough. I think there are better ways to spend your time.

Thanks, I am doing AAMC questions, and I think the passages and the graphs, we just have to know how to extracts informations from them, because most of the answers lie within them. If I'm not wrong, I think there are about 70-80% of the MCAT are graphs and passages questions. But yeah, I think i'm going to stick to using Kaplan books as resources, I will buy other book contains many questions for drill on the concepts.