Today’s guest post is from MedSchoolCoach partner Next Step Test Preparation. Next Step provides a comprehensive one-on-one MCAT tutor program nationwide. MCAT students overwhelmingly make one common mistake that hurts them more than any other. Simply put, they don’t adequately review their practice exams. Usually, when a student is reviewing a practice test, the temptation is to

When most people think of MCAT test preparation, they bring to mind a brief process that can be condensed into the two months preceding their official test date. From this perspective, MCAT test preparation is a blur of subject review, practice tests, and problem sets – and frankly, that’s perfectly fine. That’s how the majority

In a perfect world, everyone who wanted to take the MCAT would be able to take a 3-month break from work, school, kids, and anything else that might be going on in their lives in order to study 40 hours per week for the test. Unfortunately, this is not a perfect world and very few

5 Tips for MCAT Prep The MCAT: the daunting test that hangs over every pre-medical student’s head. Diligently studying for the MCAT is a signifier of one’s commitment to medicine, but students often find it difficult to prepare in a regimented, focused, coherent manner when they’re juggling a plethora of other demanding responsibilities, such as