 | GetTextbooks.co.uk Compare Prices & Save up to 90% | | |
|
| Login | Sign up | Settings | New! iPhone App | My Wish List | My iBundle |
 | | Examkrackers 16 Mini Mcat's (Examkrackers MCAT Manuals) by Jonathan Orsay ISBN-10: 9781893858435 ISBN-10: 1-893858-43-X ISBN-13: 9781893858435 ISBN-13: 978-1-893858-43-5 Paperback 2004-01-30 Osote Publishing Find Lowest Price |
Editorials | ||
Product Description Examkrackers 16 MiniMCATs is the homework book for the course. It includes 16 one hour exams in exact MCAT format. Each exam has two verbal passages, two phys/chem passages and two bio/orgo passages. Complete answers and explanations are included in the book. 16 MiniMCATs is also supported on the Forum of this website. | ||
Reviews | ||
Quick Response Seller was extremely quick to respond to all of my inquiries! Seller was timely with notifications of purchase and shipment. Inquiries during purchase were met to satisfy. Great job! | ||
The Verbal is good but I question the Physical Sciences and Biology!!! As stated before there are several passages that can be insanely difficult. I do not know if this was intentional or them just trying to put many concepts into 1 passage. But it is very easy to become discouraged after taking a few of these. Also, I noticed that some concepts being tested in certain exams are not even covered until later chapters in the regular books. For example, test #7 Physical sciences deals with thermodynamics and machines. However, a few questions were asked on topics (in particular Q = MC delta T for calorimetry) not covered until later chapters. So it may be wise to do an initial study of all topics before taking these tests. I would recommend the practice tests given by the MCAT home site first in addition to the 1001 Examkrackers series to really get a feel for the topics. Then if you want more punishment this is for you. | ||
Excellent service Package was delivered on time and in great condition. A+ for service. would def do transaction again | ||
this is a must, i helped me tremendously! this is a very good book to get with the package. follow the directions in the book and this will b a great start for ur prep. i toke a kaplan class which was a waste of time and money.. studying with the examkracker book has helped me out tremendously. use this book with the package. it is great! | ||
having recently finished... The premise behind 16 mini-mcats was apparently to closely parallel the information covered in the examkrackers prep books, all the while requiring small chunks of time to do so. While they did succeed in doing this, there were some important problems that I encountered as I simultaneously worked through the prep books and supplemented my practice with this workbook. First. The 'schedule' is suspect. They include an order in which each mcat should be taken to stress the concepts that would have been recently covered if you were working with the examkrackers prep books at the same time, i.e. take practice test 1 after completing ch. 1 in Bio, ch. 1 in inorganic chem, and ch.1 in physics, etc. This really is not a great idea, as what they are trying to, and in my opinion do so faithfully, is replicate the actual content found in mcat passages. Anyone who has actually taken the test could tell you that any given passage stresses multiple concepts, and not just those from ch.1,2,3 of a prep book. This workbook is similar to the actual test, so to fully benefit from the material, you really should start to take these after you have essentially finished your initial prep. While each practice mcat will superficially stress specific concepts covered in the specified chapters, following that schedule will limit the effectiveness of this book. Second. Expect typos/suspect answers. I did not find this to be a huge problem early on, but towards the second half of the workbook I did encounter some problems. This should be expected for verbal, given the ambiguity of the questions. This should not, however, come up in the science sections, where precision is important. Alas, the only way to know that a mistake has been made is to go on to examkrackers website and pay a $15 fee to be allowed access to the proper forum. Again though, this is not a very big issue with the book. Third. Don't be disheartened at first. It seems that examkrackers may have tried to elicit a 'shock' response with some of the initial sections. I say this because I found the first three verbal and the first two biological science sections to be inordinately difficult. These were unlike what I had seen on the real deal. Do not be discouraged if this happens to you, as it is not a recurring theme. So... Is this a good buy? I would say so. I think that the 20 minutes that you get for each section is too much, since each section only has two passages, and sometimes a few stand alones. If you can complete these in 15 min, you will probably be better off for the test. These are inferior to the aamc online tests, and if you really want to know where you stand, then that is the best way to go. Otherwise, the only way to improve on your mcat score is to practice, and this is a pretty good option. Hope this was helpful. | ||