Which brand for practice questions

[yjkimnada]

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I just finished my 3-week content review using all the Kaplan books.

I want to grind practice passage-based and discrete questions before doing full-lengths. The following companies all offer some sort of question bank:

Kaplan (both passage-based and discrete)
Next Steps (both passage-based and discrete)
UWorld (doesn't specify)
EK 101 and 1001 books
TBR books (although these technically are content books)

Of these, which ones would you recommend? I am fine with problems that are harder than normal since I want to prepare for the worst. But I don't want something that is completely unlike the AAMC in terms of style or thought process. Thanks.

 

[PlsLetMeIn21]

I'd recommend TBR above everything mostly because they teach you how to loom at questions the right way. TBR books have content, but most of what they do is sample questions. I think there are more practice questions in TBR science books that the question-only books like EK's 1001s.

 

[lac5678]

Besides the fact that with all AAMC materials combined, you should be good on questions....Section banks, section banks, section banks!

I recommend buying NS FL practice or any other FL (i like NS The best out of Kaplan, EK and NS), take them untimed and break them up. Sit down one day for 95 mins straight and just do CP. then the next come do CARS, etc...

This is what I found the be the most useful.

 

[yjkimnada]

I'd recommend TBR above everything mostly because they teach you how to loom at questions the right way. TBR books have content, but most of what they do is sample questions. I think there are more practice questions in TBR science books that the question-only books like EK's 1001s.

I have access to the TBR books from 2011. Are the problems significantly different from the current version? Would you recommend I get the newest ones? Thanks.

 

[resilience123]

I'm enjoying U-world plus they have a 90 day free trial happening for the MCAT right now, so you don't have a lot to lose.
They have a lot of questions, their explanations are the best I have read so far (compared to khan academy, kaplan, and next step), and their flashcard making option makes it so easy to create flashcards.

 

[PlsLetMeIn21]

I have access to the TBR books from 2011. Are the problems significantly different from the current version? Would you recommend I get the newest ones? Thanks.

I'm not sure about old ones. I have the newest ones for all of the sciences.