The MCAT is a make-or-break test. If you do well on it, you're
almost certainly going to get into medical school. If you don't,
you've got to scramble.
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The MCAT
isn't the hardest part of becoming a doctor, but it is a necessary
evil. It pays to prepare for this exam professionally. That means
you need to be disciplined and focused. Sometimes the amount of
material you have to know seems overwhelming. In fact, it's a finite,
and relatively small amount of information - well, small compared
to what you'll learn in your first two years of medical school,
anyway.
Having taught MCAT prep for several years, here's my take on the
best way to prepare for the MCATs:
1. Make a study plan. You don't want to spend your whole
life studying every synthesis reaction or every variant on Kirkhoff's
Laws, so you need to make a general outline of your long-term
(2-month) study plan. Set specific study goals for each week.
2. Continually test yourself with MCAT type practice questions.
The MCAT has specific ways of asking about certain topics - do
as many MCAT practice questions as you possibly can. Kaplan has
an excellent MCAT
Question Bank
- use it. A friend of mine spent a whole summer doing question
banks and Kaplan review materials, he truly aced the MCAT. When
I interviewed at Harvard, I was slightly pissed off to be asked
about him and his phenomenal MCAT scores. He got in, I went somewhere
else. It pays to do well on the MCAT!
We've also put together a brief analysis of practice
MCAT score results. We were surprised by which practice tests
best predicted the real MCAT scores.
3. Learn test-taking skills. When your stuck on a question,
it's important to have techniques to quess intelligently. When
I taught MCAT prep I used to give a demonstration: I had half
the class read the text, read the questions, then answer the questions.
The other half skipped the text entirely and answered the questions.
The second half of the class did almost as well as the first half
- in much less time. An even more surprising demonstration was
to have half the class read just the answers (not the questions
or the text) and try to guess the correct answer. These students
didn't do as well as the first two groups - but they did much
better than chance. As any test-taking pro will tell you, a lot
of information can be found in how the answers are phrased. Try
it while you take a practice test - guess the answers without
reading the question first, then answer again after having read
the question.
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