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

For another cycle of careful study, revisit the conceptual materials in your book-set (TBR or Kaplan) within the subjects of Cell & Molecular Biology.  hover

Complete the 2nd half of the practice items in your book-set within the subjects of Cell & Molecular Biology. These were reserved after the biology cycle work in modules 3-6.

Watch the videos for Module 14 - Molecular Biology Fundamentals, Signal Transduction Pathways, and Genomics Laboratory.

Comprehensive review/skim of Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology from start to finish. 

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

Conceptual Integration

Read the Interdisciplinary Notes for Module 14.

Play Catch Blue.

Biology Cycle

Complete the in-depth cycle we began in module 12 working through the materials covering human physiology in your book-set. Study the conceptual materials and perform the odd numbered practice items.. 

Psychology

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

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

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

Integrated Course practice items:

CARS

Perform a complete review of CARS lessons 1-12, the AAMC Question Pack passages, and the Diagnostic Tool. Inventory your core methods. Reinforce everything you've learned about CARS passages and questions. Coming in module 15: Full Length Sample Test!

MCAT Practice

Module 14 MCAT Strategies Managing time in the science sections.

Complete the Section Bank at AAMC.

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