Most Useful Practice Exams aside from AAMC

[hugh2012]

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What practice exams did you guys find useful aside from the AAMC? Has anyone tried the 10 Altius tests and liked them? The Examcrackers one? Etc?

 

[supremus]

It seems EK 3-4 and NS are the best after AAMC material.

 

[docster2017]

I'd like to know this too. Any other input? I can't decide whether to get TPR or EK full lengths

 

[supremus]

I'd like to know this too. Any other input? I can't decide whether to get TPR or EK full lengths

EK in that case.

 

[Waillin]

Any idea if Kaplan FL scores are still deflated? I know they tried to fix their scale earlier this year.

 

[GrapesofRath]

Any idea if Kaplan FL scores are still deflated? I know they tried to fix their scale earlier this year.

Whether or not they are deflated isnt all that relevant its just that the Kaplan material is not a realistic simulation of the actual MCAT, focusing much more on fact regurgitation and memory recall than actual passage analysis and critical thinking.

 

[Phoodie]

Whether or not they are deflated isnt all that relevant its just that the Kaplan material is not a realistic simulation of the actual MCAT, focusing much more on fact regurgitation and memory recall than actual passage analysis and critical thinking.

Is it safe to say that Kaplan's 2015 content review books are also as such and the practice problems should be ignored? I've noticed that their orgo questions at the end of each chapter are much more like what you said: fact regurgitation.

 

[Altius Premier Tutor]

What practice exams did you guys find useful aside from the AAMC? Has anyone tried the 10 Altius tests and liked them? The Examcrackers one? Etc?

I suspect you'll find not very many of the users on SDN have tried the 10 Altius exams because we only started selling them this fall. We've been mainly focusing on perfecting them and making them an exact AAMC match, so there's been no promotion or advertising yet. Keep your ears open though, we'll be getting the word out more starting in January and I'm sure you'll start to get feedback on this forum. There is also a free 1/2-length exam which is the same as the 10 full-lengths (double blind peer reviewed, beta questions, standardized on real students, exact percentage distribution match to AAMC in terms of question type, passage type, figure type, word count, etc.).