PCAT prep materials

[ur2smart]

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Hi, I'm planning on taking the PCAT in January. I've been looking around for which books to buy and so far the popular ones are:

Barron's PCAT
Kaplan
Collin's
Peterson's PCAT success
PCAT Professor
Cliffs
Millers analogies
Schaums

Obviously I can't buy all of these, but I would like to know the opinion of people who have used any of these and taken the PCAT recently. Ie. What sections of the books were adequate/not.

 

[NYKnicks50]

i used barrons and dr collins.. i also reviewed all my class notes.

 

[seashoreharmony]

I used McGraw-Hill, Kaplan and Dr. Collins.
So far, I like the chemistry reviews from Dr. Collins. It's more precise and to the point than the others. I also studied Dr. Collin's vocabs
McGraw-Hill has pretty good reviews on Biology and Math. But, bio and math are my fairly strong point so that's just my opinion
I only used Kaplan for practice test, and I do think Kaplan is useless in reviewing. Some sections are so thin, yet those are the ones that need most attention and elaboration. And vice versa to the unimportant topics.
I downloaded Cliffnotes e-book to do the practice test after I'm done reviewing.
And you can always borrow some of these books in the library. Save $$$