<p>I have asked about which study guide would be best suited for the MCAT?
for example, for SAT I, there was the 10reals
is there a 10reals of MCAT?
and also, Princeton Review or Kaplan?
and if Kaplan, which one? they got so many!</p>
<p>Examcrackers is the best study guide.</p>
<p>There is no 10 real MCATS but I believe you can buy one at a time from companies like Kaplan.</p>
<p>I would pick Kaplan the course over a Princeton Review course.</p>
<p>I would not pick Kaplan books as you already have figured out, they have way too many different books.</p>
<p>I certainly hope you aren't studying for Saturday's exam. But if you, lots and lots of luck!!!</p>
<p>ha ha, thanks, i am preparing for this august's, just thought to get a head start. Thanks a lot</p>
<p>Aren't you a high school student?</p>
<p>if you are preparing for the august exam, just take a kaplan course over the summer</p>
<p>it worked really well for me and also provides you with a minimum of 5 full length mcat exams</p>
<p>(might be a bit more expensive than just reading exam books though)</p>
<p>From the looks of his posts from this year it looks as if he/she is a high school senior who applied to colleges this way. He is gonna fake this that and the other thing and try to turn it into a joke.</p>
<p>what an idiot</p>
<p>a cat scan might be a more appropriate exam then</p>
<p>May I ask what is so flawed about his way of prepping early?</p>
<p>Is this not the equivalent of an 8th grader studying for SATs and doing well?</p>
<p>No, because you haven't learned half the material needed yet. Like Organic Chem. Unless he's an absolute genious who can teach himself its pointless. You take the classes in college to learn the stuff to take the test.</p>
<p>What I don't get is basically I realize it's a hard test, no doubt.</p>
<p>Yet, there are some people here who have scored 15 on pratice Bio. Aside from Organic Chem, the parts of the MCAT actually seem self-taughtable.</p>
<p>I find that the people who need to start studying for the SATs as early as 8th grade rarely do as well. (Good god...it's only English and Math, you really don't need 3 years of hard studying for that)</p>
<p>And like the poster above stated, unless newbyreborn has a remarkable ability to look at organic chem books or physics e/m books and magically understand everything, studying for the MCAT at that young an age is a good idea for someone looking to burn out and go insane.</p>
<p>Yea they scored 15 on the practice bio, sure. Notice they never said it was the real test, and this is the internet. I can say i got a 1600 on the SATS and 45 on a practice full MCAT, it is true? No, but its the internet and no one will ever find out the truth.</p>
<p>The SAT's and the MCAT are nothing alike.</p>
<p>I scored a 1290 on an official SAT in eighth grade without studying. Outside of learning a few test taking strategies, there's nothing to study for. The math they test is very low level. It's really more of a test of logic than knowledge. The verbal is filled with vocabulary words. If you don't have a solid vocabulary by 11th grade, it's too late to try to "study" up on the millions of words in the English language.</p>
<p>The MCAT is far more knowledge based. By the end of HS, you simply don't have the knowledge to take the test. You can't get by with intelligence alone. It's quite silly actually to take the MCAT so early. I'm also taking the MCAT this August but I will have finished all my premed requirements and then some (like Biochem, Evol. Bio, etc.) by then.</p>
<p>BTW: 0.1 % of test takers (1 out of every 1000) score a 15 on the bio section.</p>
<p>The poster whom told me about it was in USAB finals? So I didn't find it that hard to believe considering this site does have some prodigies out there.</p>
<p>However, a question remains though, aside from Organic Chem, the MCAT is broken up into Writing, Physics, Biology, Organic Chemistry. Assuming one, and I'm not saying that I do, has good skills in Writing, has recieved a 5 on Physics and Biology, wouldn't that be the basic prereqs. for a decent MCAT score?</p>
<p>Or do AP classes just not even enter the level. I took some of the pratice Bio questions and to be honest they didn't seem that bad.</p>
<p>The MCAT doesnt have a section for bio, physics, ochem, and chem. It has two main science sections, physical, and biological. The physical usually switches off on what it focuses on, sometimes its chemistry (the normal kind) sometimes its physics. You never know which it will focus on. The biological section is sometimes more normal biology, sometimes more orgo, it all depends on the luck of the draw. The AP classes do not prepare you for this level of testing. In college you have a class that is much much much more indepth in all four of the necessary sciences.</p>
<p>Since I will probably take this within the next two years, I guess this will be the beginning of when I start to ask about it.</p>
<p>Does it function similar to college board testing? Let's assume this is the Biology. The test taker gets half right, is this a 7? Or less?</p>
<p>I also have to say thanks for the replies, I don't know I was considering on learning Organic Chem by myself (I consider myself fairly bright) but now it doesn't seem so wise.</p>
<p>It functions more like the math SAT II. Depending on the test getting half right can get you up to an 11. Or it can get you a 7 it all depends on how they decide to score it. <a href="http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/2005mcatessentials.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/2005mcatessentials.pdf</a> This whole thing should provide you all of the answers.</p>
<p>BTW. Fairly bright doesnt make Orgo any easier. Its the weed out class for pre-med for a reason.</p>
<p>bigndude, I really have to give you my warmest thanks, you have helped me quite a bit.</p>
<p>That being said, may I ask is the notch for Biology/Physics/Writing that much higher than AP levels? </p>
<p>Let's assume a high school senior with near perfect scores, would the level for Biology/Physics/Writing be within 1 year of additional teaching at the college?</p>
<p>The reasons I ask this is because in my years of learning, I have not had one teacher "teach." I've been given the worst of the crop each time, and teachers fail to give any actual lessons across. I fear that college may be the same and I'll be stuck with self-teaching myself everything again.</p>
<p>In college you most likely won't be stuck luck this because there are multiple teaching aides and the such. They help out during labs and the teachers themselves usually hold discussion sessions for those who want to attend once a week.</p>