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Examkrackers MCAT Biology

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This book has an incredible amount of condensed information, a lot that you will definitely not need for the MCAT. To be honest, the biology MCAT is more about reading a passage and answering questions based on your intuition about biology and passage information. There are some questions that test purely information, but only a few. That being said, the most helpful thing for the biology section is coursework, more specifically, a course in intro physiology and intro biology, perhaps genetics.

However, the information in the book is all very good, and it certainly is worth the money. However, I would not recommend studying from it alone.

By the way, I ended up with a 12 in the biology MCAT section, and I honestly didn't go through any of the physiology in this book (which is about half the book). If you do choose to, focus on big ideas rather than details. THe first half of the book is more basic biology, and is probably worth going over.

I purchased MCAT biology help me study for PCAT, and it is wonderful. The book gives you ton of hints of what kind of questions going to be ask and what to memorize. Pictures and diagrams are wonderful and very helpful. Has plenty practice questions to re-enforce concepts. It is a thin book with 278 pages, so it easy to carry around to different locations. I used for PCAT, but friends of mine borrowed it for other exams and said that it extremely helpful.

If you aren't fresh with the subject material, you may need to have a good Biology text nearby as a reference to fill in a few holes. The red notes on the sides of the paragraphs are very helpful in helping you stay on track with what's most important to remember. Overall good product, but i plan to buy the examcrackers question book, as there weren't too many quizzes.

This was a really well written and nicely illustrated book for reviewing biology on the MCAT. I read this book along with the supplemental audio set audio osmosis. The two make a nice combo and both work well with each other. For, me I haven't taken biology as a class since AP bio my junior year of high school so I was worried about this section of the MCAT. This book gives an excellent general overview of what you need to know for the biology section (and also importantly what you don't).
My main gripe would be both the lack of detail -in order to do really well on the MCAT bio section you'll really have to use this book as a supplement to other material out there. Its a great starting place especially if the bio concepts aren't fresh in your mind though, and for that I highly recommend it.

This should not be the primary study material, but it does provide a good review.

I have not taken the actual MCAT test yet so I can not determine how useful this book has been; however, I can say that I like the book so far.