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

Knowledge and skill for this exam depend on maintaining a steady discipline of practice, both practice items and passages throughout MCAT preparation. Your MCAT books, AAMC resources, Khan Academy and this course all provide valuable practice resources. The UWorld question bank is also excellent. Putting information into your brain is not enough. Instruction and study are not sufficient. You need practice retrieving the knowledge, and you need practice applying it. You will learn many new things doing problems. Practice isn't only about reinforcement. It makes your knowledge base more sophisticated.

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. 

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