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 amino acids and protein structure. 

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

Watch the videos for Module 7 - Amino Acids & Protein Structure, The Protein Laboratory, Coordination Chemistry, and Oxygen Transporters.

Integrated Course practice items:

Read Ch. 1 - Amino Acids, Ch. 2 - Structure of Proteins, and Ch. 3 - Globular Proteins 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 7.

Play Catch Blue.

Biology Cycle

Read Ch. 11 - Protein Trafficking and Ch. 12 - Protein Degradation in Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology

Psychology

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

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

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

Integrated Course practice items:

Cumulative psychology review 

CARS

Module 7 CARS Lesson Types of CARS passages.

Perform the second 7 passages (questions 44-80) from CARS Question Pack, Vol. 2. Give yourself 65 minutes to complete the passages. Before scoring them, perform a blind review.

MCAT Practice

Complete the Practice Questions from the Official Guide to the MCAT Exam at AAMC MCAT Prep Hub.