New Official AAMC MCAT Prep Materials

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Now Available: The Official MCAT Self-Assessment Package

www.aamc.org/mcatsap

Have you completed all the AAMC Practice Tests and want more practice? Get more practice with The Official MCAT Self-Assessment Package.

Compared to the real exam, you will answer three times the number of verbal reasoning questions and four times the number of science questions.
Get a detailed analytic summary on your performance and then review each question to see explanations of the correct answer.
Learn more about the product by viewing the tutorials on www.e-mcat.com.
The Official MCAT Self-Assessment Package includes:

Physical Sciences Self-Assessment: 213 questions--$45
Physics and General Chemistry Tests

Biological Sciences Self-Assessment: 208 questions--$45
Biology and Organic Chemistry Tests

Verbal Reasoning Self-Assessment: 120 questions--$40
Verbal Reasoning Test

20% discount on the self-assessment package bundle:
Purchase all 3 self-assessments for the bundle price of $104

Other discounted bundles available:
The Official MCAT Self-Assessment Package + Practice Test 4--$125
The Official MCAT Self-Assessment Package + Practice Test 4 + "The Official Guide to the MCAT Exam"--$145

Analyze your MCAT knowledge. Buy online at www.aamc.org/mcatsap.


Thoughts? I'm interested in getting all 3 self-assessments, considering that I already have the AAMC exams...i'm taking the MCAT on 7/14...and I still have a bunch of EK and TPR problems to go through, not to mention 3 Gold Standard exams and 5 old AAMC's left. Is this something worth getting at this point, or should I just focus on the material in front of me? The word "official" sounds appealing... This is a new resource, so I guess I can't ask for anyone's experience...

Thanks in advance for the help!

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[Mehd School]

As far as I'm concerned, they're just getting some extra cash. I'm not interested.

 

[itsneverlupus]

There's another thread about this: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=923491

I've only taken the biology assessment, but I felt like it was very good practice. I think there were 21 or 22 passages (with fewer questions per passage than the real thing) and some discretes. It's not perfect - there are definitely more easy questions than moderate or hard and the categories they say the questions are in are a bit dubious. However, I think it was worth it for me to get extra practice and an idea of my weaker spots.

 

[gumbyj]

The passages (or some of them anyway) are taken from the questions cut from the longer exams (5R,7R) etc. I actually thought these were definitely worth the $ early on in studying - especially to get a feel for passages without wasting an AAMC.

Let me know if anyone wants more info.