PCAT prep

[nanaschool2000]

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what kind of pcat prep books did you guys use? Has anyone taken Kaplan prep course before? If you did, was it helpful?

 

[pharmCAS]

nothing helps....it seems to get harder each time

 

[ADN1226]

I used kaplan but lets see... i dont think it was really that helpful... a lot of the questions were basic that you knew / remembered from taking those classes like bio chem, a lot of microbio. Not much orgo, lots of calc I, i think i would've been more prepared if i studied my textbooks but then thats a lot of info. I know a girl that took the kaplan course and they really went into detailed with EVERYTHING especially lots of orgo reactions yet there was very little orgo -- but it seems like if you keep up the work with the kaplan course then they'll prepare you well.

 

[aldehyde]

for the chem/organic section, i studied from the MCAT princeton review book. It prepared me soo well for the test in OCT. I breezed through it and finished with confident. Kaplan Bio was helpful except that i used the 2004-2005 version which didn't have micro but i had taken microbiology the previous semester Kaplan math was also helpful but i also used the 2004-2005 version which voided out calc. can someone let me know whether kaplan 2007 include calc and micro? BTW.. Baron's book is not a real representation of the pcat. it is wayyyy too easy. I would recommend Kaplan and Princeton.

 

[celeron_266]

i use barron's DAT book

didnt study for verbal and essay

 

[ADN1226]

for the chem/organic section, i studied from the MCAT princeton review book. It prepared me soo well for the test in OCT. I breezed through it and finished with confident. Kaplan Bio was helpful except that i used the 2004-2005 version which didn't have micro but i had taken microbiology the previous semester Kaplan math was also helpful but i also used the 2004-2005 version which voided out calc. can someone let me know whether kaplan 2007 include calc and micro? BTW.. Baron's book is not a real representation of the pcat. it is wayyyy too easy. I would recommend Kaplan and Princeton.

I didn't think the recent kaplan had very much microbio... and the calc was very basic. you're better off using the textbook for those two subjects.