The tips begin at a different place in each module. The advice moves along with the stages of the course.

MCAT preparation tests your knowledge of science, but it also functions to test your capacity for resilience. It's better to think of MCAT preparation as a a chance to practice the art of resilience before medical school. Many premeds, medical students, and doctors think of resilience as a kind of indifference to their own suffering, but resilience is better understood as the ability to sense your own suffering as a sign that you are out of balance and to respond with positive strategies to regain balance, such as more sleep, more exercise, more social interaction, and less attachment to worry.

Module 10 Science Focus

Suggested Assignments

Science Focus

Study the conceptual materials in your book-set (TBR or Kaplan) covering glycolysis, pyruvate dehydrogenase, fatty acid oxidation, and the citric acid cycle. 

Perform the odd numbered (phase 1 ) practice items in your book-set.

Watch the videos for Module 10 - Glycolysis, β-Oxidation, and Citric Acid Cycle

Read Ch. 6 - Bioenergetics and Oxidative Phosphorylation, Ch. 8 - Glycolysis, Ch. 9 - Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle, and Ch. 16 - Fatty Acid and Triacylglycerol Metabolism (just skim the section covering fatty acid synthesis) in Biochemistry (Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews). Perform the practice items at the end of each chapter. 

Choose from the resources available within the Topic Pages to reinforce and supplement learning.

Conceptual Integration

Read the Interdisciplinary Notes for Module 10.

Play Catch Blue.

We'll be starting AAMC Section Bank in module 12. Pretend that this is actually exam day coming. Set aside two hours for a cram session. Study as if you were trying to get one last look at everything.

Biology Cycle

Read Ch. 20 - The Cell Cycle and Ch. 21 - Regulation of the Cell Cycle in Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology

Psychology

Study the conceptual treatment of Identity & Personality in your MCAT book-set and complete the odd numbered problems.

Continue review of the conceptual vocabulary for Identity & Personality using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

Extend practice using the Essential Concepts ANKI Deck to include the Identity & Personality cards. 

Integrated Course practice items: 

CARS

Module 10 CARS Lesson The main idea.

Begin working through Step 2 and Step 3 of the CARS Diagnostic Tool. Pace yourself to complete the curriculum provided by this resource within the next four modules.

MCAT Practice

Continue working on the Physics, Chemistry & Biology (I & II) Question Packs at AAMC. Look to complete the Question Packs before module 12.