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

MCAT preparation can produce role strain and role conflict. Role strain occurs when you have trouble meeting goals you expect from yourself or what others expect of you. Everyone experiences role strain in MCAT preparation. Role conflict occurs when two roles have demands that are mutually exclusive. It may be a heavy course load while preparing for the exam. It may be parental responsibility or a demanding job. It's very important to identify and navigate role conflicts successfully in MCAT review. Keep things in balance!

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Module 5 Science Focus

Fluid Mechanics
Harmonic Motion
Waves

Suggested Assignments

Science Focus

Study the conceptual materials in your book-set (TBR or Kaplan) within Fluid Mechanics, Harmonic Motion, and Waves. 

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

Watch the videos for Module 5 - Fluid Mechanics and Waves.

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

Integrated Course practice items:

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

Preview the Organic Reaction Mechanisms, the science focus of module 6. 

Conceptual Integration

Read the Interdisciplinary Notes for Module 5.

Play Catch Blue.

Perform the MCAT Official Prep Online Flashcards at AAMC. 

Perform a cumulative review and refresh your memory of the topics we've already covered.

Kinematics

Newton's Laws

Work & Energy

Electricity

Atomic Theory

Periodic Trends

Chemical Bonding

Organic Structure & Stereochemistry

Intermolecular Force

Temperature & Heat Flow

The Ideal Gas

1st Law of Thermodynamics

Stoichiometry

Thermochemistry

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Chemical Thermodynamics

Solutions

Acids & Bases

Biology Cycle

Read Ch. 8 - Transcription and Ch. 9 - Translation in Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology. 

Continue Cell & Molecular Biology Cycle work in your MCAT bookset (TBR or Kaplan).

Psychology

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

Review the conceptual vocabulary for Learning using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

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

Integrated Course practice items:

CARS

Module 5 CARS Lesson Blind review.

Perform the first 7 passages (questions 1-43) from CARS Question Pack, Vol. 2. Give yourself 75 minutes to complete the passages. Before scoring them, perform a blind review!