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.

Suggested Assignments

Science Focus

Study the conceptual materials in your book-set (TBR or Kaplan) within Light, Geometric Optics, Wave Optics, Nuclear Physics, and Molecular Spectroscopy . 

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

Watch the videos for Module 13 - Light, Geometric Optics, Wave Optics, Nuclear Physics, and Molecular Spectroscopy.

Before moving on to the Integrated Course practice items, work on your physics fundamentals with the Concept and Question Cards.

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

Conceptual Integration

Read the Interdisciplinary Notes for Module 13.

Play Catch Blue.

Biology Cycle

Make progress on the in-depth cycle we began last module working through the materials covering human physiology in your book-set. Study the conceptual materials and perform the odd numbered practice items. Aim to complete this cycle before module 15. 

Psychology

Study the conceptual treatment of Social Behavior in your MCAT book-set and complete the odd numbered problems.

Continue review of the conceptual vocabulary for Social Behavior using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

Extend practice using the Essential Concepts ANKI Deck to include the Social Behavior cards. 

Integrated Course practice items:

CARS

Complete Step 2 and Step 3 of the CARS Diagnostic Tool. Pace yourself to complete this resource before module 14.

MCAT Practice

Module 13 MCAT Strategies Strategies for questions.

Continue working through the Section Bank at AAMC. Work at a pace to complete the Section Bank before module 15. 

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