Want to Know good PCAT study guide

[tim90999]

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🙂Hi guys..
I'm very freshman in college now. I'm taking pre-pharmacy courses in community college. After maybe 3 years, I will try to apply for University of Kentucky Pharmacay school. From now, I want to study PCAT and get ready for it. But there are lots of PCAT study guide from different company. Does anyone know what is best or better PCAT study guide?
I do want to study, but I don't know where to start. Also if you know anything that could help studying PCAT in on line, I hope you guys tell me about it. Thank you for reading and hope you have great day!🙂

 

[delano2000]

🙂Hi guys..
I'm very freshman in college now. I'm taking pre-pharmacy courses in community college. After maybe 3 years, I will try to apply for University of Kentucky Pharmacay school. From now, I want to study PCAT and get ready for it. But there are lots of PCAT study guide from different company. Does anyone know what is best or better PCAT study guide?
I do want to study, but I don't know where to start. Also if you know anything that could help studying PCAT in on line, I hope you guys tell me about it. Thank you for reading and hope you have great day!🙂

I would wait until you have taken majority of the courses you will see on the PCAT eg. Microbio, Orgo I (at least) and calculus.

 

[Passion4Sci]

Agree w/ above.

Starting early is NEVER discouraged, however you're definitely putting the cart before the horse here.

For future reference, though, Pearson and Kaplan are both excellent.

 

[mug3n]

McGraw-Hill makes a very decent guide also and covers up for some of the deficiencies that Kaplan's guide has (Kaplan does a very poor job at covering organic chem and math).

 

[diastole]

The best thing you can do is learn the material in your classes really well. Make sure you know the hows and whys rather than just knowing enough to get an A on the next exam. When I was taking these classes, I would try to make connections to my other classes. For example, if I was learning about transport through a cell membrane, I would try to understand the chemistry or physics behind it even though it was a biology class. It really helped for long term understanding. Whatever you do, try not to cram. If you do, the material will go in your head long enough for your test but you will forget it shortly after.

Another thing you can do right now is start reading everyday if you don't already do so and look up the words you don't know. It will help you get practice for the verbal and reading comprehension sections.

If you really want to study ahead, Kaplan is pretty good for biology.

 

[medicalCPA]

Moving to PCAT subforum because of topic.

 

[philapharm7]

The best thing you can do is learn the material in your classes really well. Make sure you know the hows and whys rather than just knowing enough to get an A on the next exam.

I completely agree with that. Actually learn everything from your basic classes. DO NOT just cram for tests. My first year of college I just crammed for all my tests, but second year I actually learned and studied the material gradually over longer periods of time. Now studying for the PCATS I know all the questions on Micro, Anatomy, Orgo, etc.--all classes I took second year. But I've had to completely reteach myself everything from Basic Chem and Basic Bio because I never truly learned it in the first place. Remember that the PCAT is really only testing you on things that you should already be familiar with from your pre-pharm classes... so dedicating yourself to said classes is the best thing you can do.

Another piece of advice, even if your school doesn't require you to take English or Literature classes, I recomend you do so anyway. I used to do very well on the Language portions of standardized tests (as in, near perfect SAT score) but after really only dealing with science for two years, I'm having difficulty with the Verbal PCAT questions, and I don't even want to think about how hard the essay will be for me.