No I didn’t get an answer. I actually went back to school and took anatomy and physiology and a few other courses that I needed so I postponed taking the PCAT. Can you please help answering my question regarding how to study and your sample study schedule. Thank you for your response
Okay, so I am not going to breakdown the daily schedule. This would just take too much of my time to plan all of this out for you. But I will say that I studied for at least 6 hours every day, for 2 months and 15 days.
Materials I used:
CliffsNotes AP Biology 3rd Edition. There may be a free pdf version online somewhere if you know how to search for such things.
Chad's Videos on chemistry. Just google chad's videos and it should lead you to his site. Its all free.
The notes on microbiology off the pcatexam website.
Dr. Collins study stuff, I mainly used this for practice. Did not study with these at all.
That nextstepprep pcat website. There are free exams here that are, in my opinion, basically the same as the actual PCAT. I took 2 exams on this site and got basically the same score on the actual PCAT.
And whatever videos I could find on math. Khan Academy might be a good source for this. Forgot how hard math was on the PCAT but I think you should know basic algebra, trig, geometry, and calculus. Not sure if statistics showed up.
What I studied:
For CliffsNotes AP Biology 3rd Edition:
Study all of the chapters except Biological Diversity, Plants, Animal Behavior. I didn't see any of the info in these chapters show up. Not really sure on ecology either.
For Chad's Videos on chemistry. Go over everything. Make sure you know everything on chemistry. You will get a 99 percentile on the PCAT if you know everything.
For that microbiology website. Its not long so I just studied everything.
If you can't get a hold of the Dr. Collins practice stuff, just use that nextstepprep website for practice. It should be good enough but you won't get as much practice. There are a lot of practice exams in Dr. Collins.
For math, I am uncertain on this part. Look up the exam content on the official website to see what you need to know.
As for biochemistry, I will private message you my notes.
If anyone is looking for my notes on biochem, I can PM you my notes. Its short, not much to study. Feel free to ask.
If you can't find the time to study for at least 6 hours a day, extend your time of study from 2 months to maybe 4 months. You will want to get your studying out of the way first with some practice quizes inbetween studying. Then you want to spend the last month or two just practicing. Practicing is very important so don't think you can just study until the day before the exam and expect to do well. For some it works, for me I need practice.
There are no trick questions on this exam. There are no tricks to getting a good score on this exam. Its either you know it or you don't. Everything the official PCAT website states that will be on the exam, will be on the exam.
Good luck to you.