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) covering carbohydrates, lipids, and connective tissue proteins. 

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

Watch the videos for Module 9 - Blood Clotting & Connective Tissue Proteins, Carbohydrates, and Lipids. 

Read Ch. 4 - Fibrous Proteins and Ch. 7 - Introduction to Carbohydrates 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 9.

Play Catch Blue.

Biology Cycle

Read Ch. 17 - G Protein Signaling, Ch. 18 - Catalytic Receptor Signaling, and Ch. 19 - Steroid Receptor Signaling in Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology

Cumulative review/skim of Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology up through chapter 16. 

Psychology

We are budgeting two modules to complete the work for Identity & Personality. Begin study of the conceptual treatment of Identity & Personality in your MCAT book-set and begin work on the odd numbered problems.

Begin reviewing 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 9 CARS Lesson The test writer's perspective.

Perform the thinking like a question-writer assignments located at the end of this module's CARS lesson.

MCAT Practice

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