The MCAT Biology Book

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Comprehensive, Rigorous Prep for MCAT Biology.

The MCAT Biology Book provides a comprehensive overview of MCAT biology appropriate for all pre-med students preparing for the MCAT exam.

With this and its two companion volumes, The MCAT Physics Book and The MCAT Chemistry Book, Nova Press provides the most comprehensive series of test-prep books for the MCAT.

In twenty-one chapters, the basics of biology are described in easy-to-understand text. Illustrations help emphasize relevant topics and clarify difficult concepts. Each chapter concludes with a set of problems modeled after the MCAT exam, with complete explanation of the answers. Also, includes a thorough analysis of the MCAT verbal section.

Authors Nancy Morvillo and Matthew Schmidt both obtained their Ph.D. in genetics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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Average Customer Review

(5 customer reviews)

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

Concise review of Biology and Verbal portions of the MCAT, March 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The MCAT Biology Book (with Verbal Reasoning) (Paperback)

This book covers all the basics of biology. For someone like me, who had a lacking undergrad bio course, this book helps. The diagrams throughout the book are very helpful because they give you another way of remembering the concepts. This book is limited with testing questions, and is better used as a study aid. All in all, this is great for reviewing bio, but it should not be your only source of studying for the MCAT bio section. I have not yet looked at the verbal section, but it looks promising.

22 of 28 people found the following review helpful

Good book for reviewing biology, August 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The MCAT Biology Book (with Verbal Reasoning) (Paperback)

This book gives you a good, but brief overview of the MCAT Biology and Verbal portions. It doesn't cover organic chemistry except to the extent that it overlaps with Biology. The expanations are brief and concise and contain only the most important principles for MCAT testing purposes. It does not give test taking strategy, and it does not give many examples (one per major biology area), but the questions it does give are of high MCAT intensity.I would recommend this book to two classes of people:1) Those who took biology some time ago and wanted to review for the MCAT with the important biology priciples.2) Those who have not taken biology and needed to take the MCAT in spite of this deficeincy.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

The MCAT Biology Book, June 6, 2008

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This review is from: The MCAT Biology Book (Paperback)

This is an awful book for MCAT preparations, especially if you've taken a decent Biology course in college. There are by no means enough practice problems, maximum 10-11 questions at the end of each chapter, the material is far too simply described, and sparse. Reading a textbook is far more useful.