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Examkrackers: MCAT Physics

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As a Pre-Med student taking the MCAT, I did a lot of research through my network of friends to find out what the best way to prepare for the MCATs are. The consensus I got from many of them who have already went through the process was that Examkrackers is the best possible book to prepare with. Therefore I purchased this book.

The book itself is very well written, very down to earth. Its written in simple english with nice pictures that make the concepts easy to understand. For someone who's reviewing the concepts that I studied two years ago, the book offered new insights especially in the electricity chapter with their mnemonics and analogies to help better understand the content.

The quiz problems I felt are challenging yet not impossible. They cover the material in each section in a way that sometimes forces you to look back at material that you thought you understood,.

Overall: I give this book an A+. It is a must for any Pre-Med who is planning to take the MCAT!

This book is a must have for anyone studying the MCAT! I was terrible at the MCAT Physics! Physics and verbal are easily most demanding subjects on the MCAT. These authors have just done a wonderful job of breaking down Physics. Also buy the 101 PASSAGE OF VERBAL ALSO. This book gave me courage to do better! It will give you a lot of practice and contains extremely hard questions that will make you work really hard. There are several lectures in this book that go hand in hand with the 1001 series. IF you truly are meant to be a MD or DO (both require MCAT) and the only thorn in your A$$ is the MCAT, then please do yourself a favor and buy all of these books. I am not an Advertisement for the books. You can buy all of the EK MCAT books for all from Amazon for less than $200 compare to $1900-2500 for a prep course.

Examkrackers provides a well rounded aspect to the fundamentals of the science tested by the MCAT which provides a deeper understanding and not just memorization. Their MCAT style questions are great preparation for the real thing.

I truly cannot believe people are giving this book 5*. I would give this book 1* alone on the amount of errors it has. In the optics section, for example, it lists what lenses are equivalent to what mirrors. It then shows a diagram/picture that tells you the opposite. On the next page it's telling you something else about them. It just becomes very confusing.

I also felt like this book was too concise, lacked too much reasoning behind things, etc.

not full of fluff, tells you exactly what you need to know and has plenty of practice problems!!

the book seems good. studying in conjunction with the class. lots of practice. nice approach to studying. expecting a high, if not decent grade when the test comes.

This book is well written and attractively illustrated. I do lots of tutoring and this book is well above average.

Some of the concept explanations were confusing and seemed a bit out of date. Overall, it was just OK.