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What are biology questions like on the actual MCAT?
I took a physiology course awhile ago, and it really helped my mcat studying. I was using berkeley review, and the biology book had a bunch of physiology in it that I wouldn't have been able to do without my course. I never took the mcat that first time around, and now I am studying again, but I forgot a bunch of the physiology. I'm now missing a majority of the questions in BR bio. Most of the passages are irrelevant to the questions. They are basically just straight up discrete physiology questions that cannot be answered without a lot of background knowledge.
Does the mcat actually provide useful information in the passages for bio? If it's anything like BR bio, I'm screwed. I don't have the time to retake a physiology course.
I keep missing questions about things that I could answer a long time ago, but not anymore. I also don't think it is effective to just keep googling things as I miss them.
What is the quickest alternative to taking physiology again? The berkely chapters are not that comprehensive; they just talk about a few concepts.
I've read over and over again that BR is overly detailed, but really, it's not detailed enough. It's detailed in the sense that they throw random bits and pieces at you, and you can't connect them all from just reading the chapter. In my opinion, BR would be useful to someone right after taking a physio course, or maybe if they remember all the details from the class.
It's as if they try to review all the details for you, but then it doesn't work because they miss the important connecting details between the details.
I took a physiology course awhile ago, and it really helped my mcat studying. I was using berkeley review, and the biology book had a bunch of physiology in it that I wouldn't have been able to do without my course. I never took the mcat that first time around, and now I am studying again, but I forgot a bunch of the physiology. I'm now missing a majority of the questions in BR bio. Most of the passages are irrelevant to the questions. They are basically just straight up discrete physiology questions that cannot be answered without a lot of background knowledge.
Does the mcat actually provide useful information in the passages for bio? If it's anything like BR bio, I'm screwed. I don't have the time to retake a physiology course.
I keep missing questions about things that I could answer a long time ago, but not anymore. I also don't think it is effective to just keep googling things as I miss them.
What is the quickest alternative to taking physiology again? The berkely chapters are not that comprehensive; they just talk about a few concepts.
I've read over and over again that BR is overly detailed, but really, it's not detailed enough. It's detailed in the sense that they throw random bits and pieces at you, and you can't connect them all from just reading the chapter. In my opinion, BR would be useful to someone right after taking a physio course, or maybe if they remember all the details from the class.
It's as if they try to review all the details for you, but then it doesn't work because they miss the important connecting details between the details.
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