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Your program comes with access to full-length online MCAT Practice Tests written by The Princeton Review. The TPR-written tests include TPR Course Tests, TPR Free Demo Practice Test, MCAT Review Series Practice Tests, and TPR MCAT Practice Tests. You may take any of these tests as many times as you wish—you can find them on the “Practice Tests” tab of this dashboard.

At a minimum, you should take five practice tests, called Required Tests. The Required Tests include TPR Course Tests 1-5. The Required Tests should be taken at regular intervals, spread out over your program. You should take TPR Course Test 1 early on in your tutorial. Then, continue taking a Required Test every 1-2 weeks thereafter. Your final test should be the AAMC Practice Test, and taken about one week prior to your actual MCAT test date.

While taking the five Required Tests is the minimum, many students like to take more practice tests than that, and we encourage this. Feel free to insert more practice tests in between the Required Tests—your options will be listed under “supplemental tests” on the Practice Tests tab.

In between taking practice tests you should work on your strategy using smart practice technology, the Science Workbook passages, the CARS Workbook passages, and the online Practice Passages. Make sure to target your personal areas of weakness, as determined by the Diagnostic Exams. Talk to your teacher for more information.

More Information about Taking Practice Tests

Diagnostic Exams are NOT Practice Tests. Here are some quick definitions:

MCAT Practice Test: a test designed to mimic the actual MCAT, to give you practice with the mechanics of the test and the type of questions you will see. All subjects are included in the test, but because of the limitations on the number of questions that can be asked, this is NOT content-comprehensive. You have 11 full-length practice tests available to you.

MCAT Diagnostic Test: a test designed to assess your areas of strengths and weaknesses in a particular MCAT subject. This is a subject specific test, and the number of questions is much higher so that all content (or question types) is tested. For example, each set of Biology Diagnostic Exams include a total of over 150 questions that cover the breadth of all the Biology content tested on the MCAT. This IS content-comprehensive.

More Information about Taking Diagnostic Exams

There are a total of 19 Biology modules, 13 General Chemistry modules, 5 Organic Chemistry modules, 26 Physics modules, and 6 Psychology and Sociology modules (totaling over 1,400 questions!). In addition, there are sets of primer questions for you to answer prior to each science lecture. The questions are designed to prime you for the content covered in each class session; to get you thinking about the material before you walk into class. These primer sets are very short (about 6 questions each) and cover the content that will be discussed in that lecture. There are no solutions provided for these questions; you will uncover the answers to them as your instructor lectures.

What is the AAMC CARS Diagnostic Tool?

The AAMC has created a CARS Diagnostic Tool to help students identify and work on their strengths and weaknesses in the CARS section. The main value of the tool is that it provides additional practice material directly from the AAMC test writers. The explanatory videos may give you some insight into how to track an author’s argument in the passage text. The written and video explanations are useful to understand why answers are right and wrong; keep in mind, however, that the question explanations are NOT consistently modeling or explaining strategy.

To get the most out of the AAMC Diagnostic Tool score reports, first use their assessments to see if you are missing more questions in one or two of the three AAMC question type categories (Foundations of Comprehension, Reasoning Within the Text, and Reasoning Beyond the Text). Then break those questions down into the ten TPR question types and three formats. Finally, compare those results to the Self Evaluation Passage Logs and Test Assessment Logs you are doing for your assigned Coursework passages and tests. The more data you have, the better you can recognize what is leading you to wrong answers and what you can do differently in the future to improve!

More information about the AAMC CARS Diagnostic Tool

All of the MCAT lectures were broken down into 5-15 minute segments and recorded to create a library of content videos. These videos are available on your coursework page associated with their specific lecture.

MedFlix CARS Practice Drills

The practice passages and drills covered in the MedFlix videos are located in the CARS Review. However, the title in the video is not the same as the title in the book. Here is a list of the video drill titles, and the corresponding location of that material in the CARS Review.

Note: The In-Class Compendium passages covered in live classes are not included in the Medflix videos.

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill I: The Six Steps in Action is located in CARS Review Chapter 2, Practice Passage 2, pp. 52-53

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill II: Active Reading is located in CARS Review Chapter 4, Practice Passage 1, pp. 176-177

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill III: Answering in Own Words is located in CARS Review Chapter 8, Exercise 6 Passage I, pp. 302-303

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill IV: Attacking the Questions is located in CARS Review Chapter 9, Practice Passage 1, pp. 336-337

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill V: Annotating POE is located in CARS Review Chapter 8, Practice Passage 2, pp. 326-327

MedFlix CARS Skill Building Drill: Passage Ranking Exercise is located in CARS Review Chapter 6, Passage Ranking Exercise, pp. 226-227

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill VI: Ranking and Pacing is located in CARS Review Chapter 6, Practice Passages 1 & 2, pp. 234-237

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill VII: 5 Minutes Left is located in CARS Review Chapter 7, Exercise 2 “5 Minute Drill,” pp. 258-259

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill VIII: Solidifying Your Strategy 1 is located in CARS Review Chapter 7, Practice Passage 1, pp. 272-273

MedFlix CARS Passage Drill IX: Solidifying Your Strategy 2 is located in CARS Review Chapter 9, Practice Passage 2, pp. 338-339

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Didn't receive your materials yet? You can download the files linked to below to use until your materials kit arrive. Although the table was originally formatted for classroom students, the content should have you well prepared ahead of your initial sessions.

All of the content below is in PDF form, so you will need Adobe Reader to properly interact with it.

• 2020 In-Class Compendium

This section includes several PDF documents so you may easily access or print them as needed.

• MCAT Tutoring Guide This document contains basic MCAT information, information about diagnostic exams, practice tests, smart practice technology, a basic study/test schedule, homework descriptions, and more. Start with this document!
• MCAT Advice This document contains recommendations to students about how to prep for the MCAT.
• AAMC Official MCAT Sample Test Solutions This document contains solutions to all of the questions on the AAMC Official MCAT Sample Test.

• Question Review Worksheet The Question Review Worksheet is a useful tool for analyzing your performance on a practice passage or on an entire section of a practice test. Download instructions for how to use the Question Review Worksheet here: Instructions for Question Review Worksheet
• Passage Grids and Question Grids The Passage and Question Grids are also a useful tool for analyzing your performance on a set of passages or a section of a full-length practice test; they are more visual than the QRW. Download instructions for how to use the Passage and Question Grids .
• Supplementary Genetics Problem Set
• Supplementary Genetics Problem Set Answer Key The Supplementary Genetics Problem Set includes some additional problems in genetics, both solving general probability questions as well as pedigree analysis. There is an answer key that goes along with the problem set as well.
• CARS Question Type Summary
• CARS MAPS Log
• CARS Individual Passage Log
• CARS Test Assessment Log The CARS Logs (MAPS Log, Individual Passage Log, and Test Assessment Log) can help you analyze your performance on single CARS passages and the CARS section overall. Your CARS Instructor will give you more information on how to use these logs.