hey reni, u sure check the forum alot!! (but so do i)
(1) About Physics - what kind of problems were they - mostly Kinematics, Newtonian Mechanics, Optics, Forces on an Inclined Plane, like that?
the real OATs test you a little on everything, and in pairs as well (i guess that's good). pretty much, they asked one or two quesetions from each of the chapters in the MCAT book. they weren't hard, but you do need to know the CONCEPTS behind each section because that is what the physics is all about. so yea, go through your mcat physics section one by one and make sure u nail it. if you wanna be hardcore, buy the schuamm's college physics review and do the easiest examples from each section then u'll probably get a 400. (i didn't do it, obviously) The questions from kaplan were most representative. but achiever helps cuz they give u the same type of questions as you would see on the real thing, but harder.
(2) Achiever and Kaplan questions that you saw on the OAT - were they from the subject tests or from the Kaplan Practice Midterm, Final, and OAT Practice Tests or both?
earlier i said many questions were representative of the kaplan exams, i meant, the kaplan OAT exam book, NOT the questions from the Mcat review book!!! go through every single question in the OAT kaplan exam book and u should hit a good number of those on the real thing.
(3) What kind of RC questions did you get - inference type or ones that had solutions that said "both true", "both false" etc...Also, what kind of passages did you get?
There is one true and both false question usually in the beginning of each reading section, and then it's a mixture of everything(not in order). just look over the questions carefulllly before you start reading that'll help alot. i got one about crocs, one on drug addiction (i almost didn't have to read the passage bc i took a class on drug addiction whew), and another on bridges (that one was hard!!!!)
(4) Did the Kaplan QR Subject Tests help you or do you think the ARCO book was better?
the arco book definitely helped the most. then came achiever, then kaplan. but review all of them anyway. the questions came in clumps, as in clumps of questions about the same subject. I was VERY surprised at how many algebra questions there were. as in, lx+3l< 5, what is x (harder of course). there were LOTS of those!!!! but yea, i can confidently say that the ARCO book helped me very much in the QR section. note, that there's only one chapter (the word problem chapter) that really did the trick, although reviewing over everything if you have time would definitely help too.
(5) What kind of Orgo questions were on there? Similar to the Kaplan practice tests?
the orgo questions were similiar to both kaplan and achiever questions, maybe a little easier but i didn't think so. i think for orgo (ochem as we call it in so cal) it'd be better to dig through the first couple chapters of your textbook for addition referance. know the names of reactions (ie, clemmensen) too.
okay this could go on forever but basically you would need to know a little of everything, but it's definitely do-able if you're motivated. i spent 4 weeks studyin' for this @#$%@# test. g'luck!
