TPRH Science Workbook vs Berkley Review

[tonayie]

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In regards to the passages mainly, are there any insights?

 

[411309]

I have both, just recently acquired TBR though. So far I prefer TBR. I feel like TPR passages are sometimes confusing the way they are worded. Not that I think it's bad but i really like tbr passages the most out of anything.

 

[tonayie]

thanks a lot for the response. For anyone else, I've looked into it myself (i have both availiable) and I think Berkeley passages is best for doing as you're reading the content cause it helps solidify the material. When you're done reading chapters, TPRH could be seen as random MCAT practice, and lot's of it.

 

[Swagster]

thanks a lot for the response. For anyone else, I've looked into it myself (i have both availiable) and I think Berkeley passages is best for doing as you're reading the content cause it helps solidify the material. When you're done reading chapters, TPRH could be seen as random MCAT practice, and lot's of it.

That's what I was going to suggest. I worked through TBR doing the reading and phases 1 and 2. Then when I came back later, I'd do phase 3 and TPR passages. The good thing about doing TPR passages later is that you don't need the explanations as much. I found their explanations a little weak. Because I saved them for last it didnt matter as much because I knew the material better.

And I completely concur with ColeSmalls.

 

[Erythropoietin]

They are both good practice material. However, I think TPR is one step ahead of TBR, even though it contains less passages than TBR.
TPR gives you a lot of discretes and their passages vary from easy to advanced, which is what you should expect from the MCAT.
TBR is also great b/c it really makes you think and there's a lot of passages. IMO, the disadvantage of TBR comes from the extraction of info from the passages. I'm saying this because you can still answer at least 70% of the questions without reading the passage, which I don't believe how the MCAT is designed, otherwise there would be more discrete questions compared to passages.
Overall though, both are very good practice materials compared to other sources.

 

[411309]

They are both good practice material. However, I think TPR is one step ahead of TBR, even though it contains less passages than TBR.
TPR gives you a lot of discretes and their passages vary from easy to advanced, which is what you should expect from the MCAT.
TBR is also great b/c it really makes you think and there's a lot of passages. IMO, the disadvantage of TBR comes from the extraction of info from the passages. I'm saying this because you can still answer at least 70% of the questions without reading the passage, which I don't believe how the MCAT is designed, otherwise there would be more discrete questions compared to passages.
Overall though, both are very good practice materials compared to other sources.

tbh, I felt like most of the TPR bio passages were really difficult. I got owned on a lot of them, some of the explanations made me go "wtf??!!!!?". Did you think TPR was hard? I feel like they are even harder than TBR bio honestly.. I do a lot better on those, lol.

 

[Erythropoietin]

tbh, I felt like most of the TPR bio passages were really difficult. I got owned on a lot of them, some of the explanations made me go "wtf??!!!!?". Did you think TPR was hard? I feel like they are even harder than TBR bio honestly.. I do a lot better on those, lol.

I think the biology on both are equal in difficulty, BR might be slightly harder due to the longer questions & passages. I used to miss a lot too, you just get used to the question types after a while.. so keep doing it!