Keeping textbooks to study for MCAT?

[_mdhopeful09_]

Hi,

 

Since it's almost time to go back to school, lots of people are getting rid of their textbooks. I was wondering whether I should keep my first year textbooks or not. Would Kaplan/Princeton/other MCAT prep books be good enough references to score nice high marks on the MCAT or should I keep my first year bio/physics/chem texts as well? For those of you who've gone through the process already I would really appreciate some advice! Thanks!

[VitaminC]

I kept my books after first year to study for the MCAT, hoping they would be a good reference...but having studied for the test, I can honestly tell you I didn't even look at them once. I'm sure there's plenty of useful info there, but the prep books are much more concise with what you actually have to know, and there wasn't a time when I couldn't find the answer in the prep books (or if that failed, it was usually just a quick definition of a term I wanted, for which google/wikipedia worked out perfectly fine).

 

I used the Princeton books, FYI.

 

I kind of wish I had sold my textbooks - hundreds of dollars down the drain, and they're old editions now!

[AndreaM]

I didn't use my text books at all for studying for the MCAT either. I had a couple of review books that were good and I found doing the old tests that AAMC has online were really helpful. I got a 36O, so I'm pretty happy with how my studying turned out.

[random]

no you wont need them. In fact, one or two comprehensive MCAT review books are all you need.