miajah Posted January 24, 2017 Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 Hi All! I'm a grade 12 student going into general sciences next year at the University of Alberta, with aspirations of making it to UofA Med (fingers crossed!). Recently, I found out a guy in my school has already bought prep books for all the sections for the MCAT. Another friend then revealed that she is going to take a prep course (that can be redone as many times as you want) this coming summer before university even starts. Is this advisable? If you could go back in time would you take this route...or is this simply a waste of time that can be spent doing something more useful? I plan on volunteering this summer to get some more hours and continue working in a research lab. I am someone who needs to be busy all the time, but would you recommend taking a prep course on top of that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m_jacob_45 Posted January 24, 2017 Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 Hi All! I'm a grade 12 student going into general sciences next year at the University of Alberta, with aspirations of making it to UofA Med (fingers crossed!). Recently, I found out a guy in my school has already bought prep books for all the sections for the MCAT. Another friend then revealed that she is going to take a prep course (that can be redone as many times as you want) this coming summer before university even starts. Is this advisable? If you could go back in time would you take this route...or is this simply a waste of time that can be spent doing something more useful? I plan on volunteering this summer to get some more hours and continue working in a research lab. I am someone who needs to be busy all the time, but would you recommend taking a prep course on top of that? No I would not recommend that at all. Wait until you've taken the classes for the mcat in university and then studying for the exam will come much easier when you review mcat books. Also, in my opinion, mcat prep courses don't really cover the material in enough detail to teach a class from scratch. My last two points are that you don't want to waste practice tests now (which you are supposed to complete while taking an mcat course) and you don't want to waste CARS material as it's possible to run out and then you won't have any left by the time you are actually studying for the mcat. Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miajah Posted January 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 No I would not recommend that at all. Wait until you've taken the classes for the mcat in university and then studying for the exam will come much easier when you review mcat books. Also, in my opinion, mcat prep courses don't really cover the material in enough detail to teach a class from scratch. My last two points are that you don't want to waste practice tests now (which you are supposed to complete while taking an mcat course) and you don't want to waste CARS material as it's possible to run out and then you won't have any left by the time you are actually studying for the mcat. Hope that helps! Thanks so much!! Would the prep courses help in doing well on the classes though? It just hit me that it would be a really good intro to those intro courses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartk48 Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 The only benefit of a class: when its +20 outside and all your friends are having the time of their lives - you are sitting down, 'studying' and sticking to a schedule. Other wise you can find everything online for almost nothing.. If you can do it on your own - save your self that 2000$, study on your own, and efficiently. (I.e. you wont spend 2 hours listening to an instructor going over something you already know) Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
011235813 Posted January 25, 2017 Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 The only benefit of a class: when its +20 outside and all your friends are having the time of their lives - you are sitting down, 'studying' and sticking to a schedule. Other wise you can find everything online for almost nothing.. If you can do it on your own - save your self that 2000$, study on your own, and efficiently. (I.e. you wont spend 2 hours listening to an instructor going over something you already know) Good luck Seconded! Only aspects of my course that I found useful were the instructor (mine was awesome!), and the online tests. I used Kaplan. Tests were OK. The AAMC resources were the best though! I got the exact same score, section by section, on the scored test as my actual MCAT. Make sure you utilize the AAMC resources. Super representative, I found them to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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