<p>1) i have McGraw Hill test prep book for mcat is that a good one?</p>
<p>2) what about the new kaplan premier book? / whats the best book to get ready for the mcat</p>
<p>You can't study for the MCAT until you've learned the material. Get a couple years of college under your belt and get a jump on it over the course of a summer.</p>
<p>yea but there are a lot of explanations for biology/chem/physics ...its not just practice tests, it explains very well =/</p>
<p>Well, if those explanations work for you, then it must be rather a comprehensive book indeed. If it can explain the material to you before you've even taken it, then, hey, maybe it'll pay off in your courses, too.</p>
<p>Of course I'm extremely skeptical. College exist for a reason, after all. But I've been wrong before, and, hey, maybe I'm wrong here too.</p>
<p>I think those books are designed as a review, something to reinforce the concepts you learned in your coursework. I would go ahead and get one, Kaplan is pretty good, but I think the most important thing is to do many actual full length exams. What I would do is after you learn a particular unit in biology or chemistry in a course, go ahead and read those topics in the review book. It will allow you to retain the information long after you are done with the course. A few people I know used this strategy and ended up doing very well on the MCAT. It does take diligence, I don't know about you, but I don't like reading essentially the same thing twice from two different books, lol. But definitely learn the material first through your coursework and then reinforce those concepts with a Kaplan book (or whatever you are using). Again, be sure to get full length past exams to practice.</p>
<p>The best books... Examkrackers.</p>
<p>^especially for verbal</p>
<p>Examkrackers verbal strategies are hyped up pretty good but they didn't work for me when I took the MCAT :(</p>
<p>is the mcat verbal just like the sat verbal ?</p>
<p>No. It's similar in format to the SAT's reading comprehension section, but the questions and passages are much, much harder.</p>
<p>i guess im going to be spending all my free time with either working/volunteering in a hospital or studying for mcat's ...</p>
<p>What I personally recommend (but it depends on if you can finish all the requirements before junior year) is to finish all the requirements study for the mcat the summer before junior year and take it at the beginning of junior year. Studying for it during the spring of you junior year is hard because you have classes at the same time. During the summer you dont have classes and can focus on studying.</p>
<p>well doesnt it depend on the amount of classes im taking?
how many should i take...5 a year?</p>
<p>You should usually take a normal courseload for your school and once or twice take a more-than-normal courseload.</p>
<p>idk how the schedules work in college. but i thought we had to choose the amount of classes</p>
<p>You do. But there's a "normal" amount and a "more than normal" amount, and it varies from school to school. At Penn, the normal number is five classes at a time. At Duke, it's four. At UCB, they measure in units, and 16 units is normal.</p>