Kaplan MCAT 2007-2008 Premier Program (w/ CD-ROM) (Kaplan MCAT Premier Program (W/CD))

The Kaplan MCAT review series with CD gives me a better understanding on what I should be concentrating on whem preparing for the MCAT exam.

Overall, this is good value for your money.

Just a regurgitation of any science textbook. Go with EK if you want more for your buck.

I bought this book even though I will not be taking the MCAT for some time. However, I am using it as a study aid for my current coursework until then. It's very helpful and has great tips about HOW to take the MCAT not just what is on it. To all who are taking the test-- GOOD LUCK :0)

This book gets three stars, because it did contain pretty much all the information you need to take the MCATs, and made a good attempt to prepare you for the actual test.

However, as a study aid, it left a lot to be desired. First of all - no index. I find this inexcusable. Part of my reason for getting this book was so that if I missed a question on, say, stereoisomers on a practice test, I could quickly look up stereoisomers and review them. Don't expect to be able to do that here.

The much vaunted practice tests in here are pretty useless. According to a study I came across, they don't predict your scores on the real test at all - see [...]. One reason is probably that the raw-to-scaled scoring system in this book seems really off; it's much easier to get a good scaled score in here than it is on the real MCAT.

There were also a few errors that just annoyed me. Occasionally there will be careless typos in science sections, like writing 10^6 as 106 or mixing up an HO and H - seemingly minor, except that if you trust the book you can spend hours trying to figure out why the answer seems to be opposite to everything you've learned, and get very confused. And there was one part mentioning that you didn't have to be perfect because on some MCAT tests people got seventeen questions wrong and still got scores of 11 - without mentioning that those MCAT tests had half again as many questions as the current test.

So, all in all, I think this makes an okay review of biology, chemistry, physics, etc, but you wouldn't want to use it as an actual MCAT preparation aide.

This book is very poorly written, i bought it hoping that it would help me fill in some gaps i had on the biology section. I have to say that if you're hoping to use this as a textbook and actually learn any material from it - do not buy this book. it can only serve as a reference sheet and assumes that you already know the material. it's a much better idea to get a regular textbook. it does contain some practice material, but in my experience the actual MCATs i purchased were the best prep. in all, i wouldn't buy this book again, it is definitely not worth the money. you can always go to borders and work with this book for a couple of hours at the store.