Product Review
Every year medical school admissions get more competitive, making a high score on the MCAT an essential part of a candidate’s application. At a time when fewer than 40 percent of students who apply get accepted to any school, while top institutions routinely accept fewer than 10 percent of all applicants, prospective students must stand out among the crowd.
It’s a fact that Kaplan gets more people into medical school than all other courses combined.
Kaplan MCAT Premier 2011-2012 is created by the same team of MDs, PhDs, scientists, and test prep experts that brought students Kaplan’s highly-regarded MCAT course.
Kaplan MCAT Premier 2011-2012 features:
- 4 full-length MCAT practice tests
- Online access to video tutorials
- Kaplan-exclusive strategies
- Full-color illustrations, charts, and diagrams for the most-tested MCAT concepts, facts, and formulas
- Portable, full-color study guide
- Online syllabus that creates personalized study plans
- Online workshops
From the creators of the #1 MCAT course, Kaplan MCAT Premier 2011-2012 is a pre-medical student’s interactive guide to success on test day.Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
(6 customer reviews) 23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Unrealistic Practice Tests,
May 19, 2011 Spencer D. Hawkins - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kaplan MCAT Premier 2011-2012 (Kaplan Mcat Premier Program) (Paperback)
The information was well organized, but there was often to much unnecessary detail for someone who is familiar with most of the concepts already. Often after presenting these detailed passages, they would provide an MCAT synopsis. Well, if the information could already be presented as an "MCAT Synopsis" then there was no reason for the detail in the first place.
My main problem with this is that you end up wasting a lot of time reading stuff you already know which gives you the perception of actually doing something to prepare yourself for the MCAT. If you had unlimited time, this wouldn't be that big of a problem, but obviously we don't. IMO, a much better approach would be to do exam crackers (though I've only used the EK 101 Verbal Passages) to identify your weak areas, then just focus on that. Way more efficient.
With that said, the information is here, and I learned I had weak areas in optics, solubility, and fluids via this book and was able to correct...Read more
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Okay, but not the best,
July 24, 2011 Ishmael - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kaplan MCAT Premier 2011-2012 (Kaplan Mcat Premier Program) (Paperback)
Okay so I bought this book with the Kaplan flash cards and to be honest felt like I wasted alot of time reading irrelevant information. I went with Kaplan instead of Examkrackers at first because I was skeptical about Examkrackers shady looking reviews, but after reading the same chapter of acids and bases on both kaplan and examkrackers, I realized that Examkrackers is more conceptual based, while Kaplan is more fact and detailed information. I now wish I would have studied with Examkrackers from the beginning of my summer, but I have a month left to my exam and am just going to use Examkrackers the rest of the way. Don't get me wrong, Kaplan is not a bad study tool, but like most college students studying during the summer, we want to get down to the conceptual information and need to know, not waste our precious summer time, learning irrelevant information. (personal opinion). Either way, I would only recommend this book, if you're taking a year off and want to know as much...Read more
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
two crappy tests,
October 28, 2011 Shen (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kaplan MCAT Premier 2011-2012 (Kaplan Mcat Premier Program) (Paperback)
they give two unrealistic laughable crappy practice tests. Kaplan really sucks big time with mcat. go for examkrackers or Pr or Br.
