passage-based prep

[suenos]

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hi all,
i'm retaking the mcat in may and am hoping to spend a lot of my study time doing real questions to prepare myself. i've seen a lot of threads glorifying the awesomeness of examkrackers but i have read reviews on amazon where people say that the questions aren't very similar to real mcat questions. plus they have said that most of the practice questions are discretes, whereas on the real mcat it is largely passage-based. does anyone have any suggestions for good sources of passage-based questions? (i do plan on using some of the exams from aamc, but other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.) thanks!

 

[dr.kicia]

hi all,
i'm retaking the mcat in may and am hoping to spend a lot of my study time doing real questions to prepare myself. i've seen a lot of threads glorifying the awesomeness of examkrackers but i have read reviews on amazon where people say that the questions aren't very similar to real mcat questions. plus they have said that most of the practice questions are discretes, whereas on the real mcat it is largely passage-based. does anyone have any suggestions for good sources of passage-based questions? (i do plan on using some of the exams from aamc, but other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.) thanks!

this is what the Ek stuff is:
the home study package consists of 5 boocks (bio, chem etc)
they are divided in lectures, after each section of a lecture there are discreet questions to check if you understand the concepts. After finishing lecture though you have a PASSAGE based practice exams.
As for the 1001 books they are passage based except for organic chemistry (since the bio book is passage based).
As far as questions go the 30-min exams at the end of each section are on a little harder side. I think overall EK kind of questions are much closer to the real MCAT then Kaplan or TPR.
the verbal book is also amazing, very much like the verbal on the AAMC tests.
hope that helps

 

[theunremarkable]

Only the bio and verbal books are passage based out of the 1001 series. The ochem, gen chem and physics are NOT.

I dont know what the last poster is talking about unless they revised the books in the last 6 months.

 

[dr.kicia]

Only the bio and verbal books are passage based out of the 1001 series. The ochem, gen chem and physics are NOT.

I dont know what the last poster is talking about unless they revised the books in the last 6 months.

ooops😳 sorry...you right. I only did stuff in bio and orgo book so far so i didn't realize that the rest wasn't passage based.
needless to say they are are good prep method.
Nova physics has some passage based questions so i'd use that too.

 

[theunremarkable]

I was actually hoping that you would be right! I really wish they had some passage based questions on the other three 1001 books.

 

[Telo78]

The TPR science workbook on ebay. There are like 60 passages each in
bio, chem, physics, and about 40 for ochem. Also in each section there
like a couple hundred discretes. The book also has solid solutions to all
questions. 700 pages of nothing but passages.

 

[GoldenSword]

The TPR science workbook on ebay. There are like 60 passages each in
bio, chem, physics, and about 40 for ochem. Also in each section there
like a couple hundred discretes. The book also has solid solutions to all
questions. 700 pages of nothing but passages.

You definitely want to get this ! probably the best one out there.

 

[suenos]

does anyone have a copy of the TPR science workbook that they'd be willing to sell? i only saw it on ebay but got outbid (*grumble grumble*). PM me if you'd like me to take it off your hands (you can post it on half.com or something if you want to make it official).