My MCAT Study Resources / Plan

Hello! I recently took the MCAT and got a great score. Here’s my latest list on what did and didn’t work for me, and how you could use resources to the best of your ability to maximize your score.

r/mcat on reddit was my best friend because it was extremely useful. There are tons of premeds who recently took the mcat and want to share their best tips/techniques/tricks and also do their best efforts to answer any and all questions. Whenever you search up a question an answer is usually on reddit, and you can see people’s thought processes to better understand how you should be answering questions.

I’ll split this up into resources for content review and resources for practice questions, since that’s how the MCAT prep is usually structured. You should begin with content review just to the point of feeling comfortable to start doing questions. Then hit the questions hard! You can split up the practice questions into two parts:

1) doing practice questions untimed

2) taking practice tests

For content review, you can use any books but The Berkley Review, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and ExamKrackers are all pretty good. You should check specific reviews for the benefits and drawbacks of each book set.

My top three resources for content review are -

1) MilesDown 100 page document, compiles everything really well

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/92ndgx/my_review_sheets/

You should also check out his Anki deck. It’s really good.

2) Khan Academy 300 page Pscyh/Soc document which compiles everything from KA really well

You can find it on the sidebar at reddit.

3) UWorld questions are really hard but check your content knowledge really well and answer explanations are exceptional

a. This is for practice questions that check and review your knowledge, so after you’re done with preliminary content review

Then for practice questions I’d say

1) The best is AAMC practice stuff, especially section banks and the 5 sample tests

If you know why what you got wrong is wrong and why what you got right is right for every single AAMC question, then you’re in a solid place to take the exam

2) Next best (for me) was NextStep/Atlius practice tests

These were extremely hard for me but forced me to really read the passages more thoroughly and understand the questions much better

Again this is what worked for me, and you can read everybody’s study strategies everywhere online. Find out what works best for you depending on where you are on your study plan and how much time you have. Figure out your strengths and weaknesses.

Best of luck!