I'm just posting this to discuss the study materials I used to get my score so that others can hopefully benefit off this info.
My scores:
Biology: 95
Chemistry: 99
CR: 67
QR: 77
Composite: 94
Cliffsnotes AP Biology 3rd edition: This book is excellent for the bio section. It has everything you need to do well. It contains most of the things thats listed in the Dr. Collins bio review but more in depth. Its missing out on microbiology. The only parts I didn't go over was biological diversity, plants, animal form and function,animal behavior, and ecology.
Chads Videos: These are free youtube videos offered on his website. Just google chads videos. I used these videos to study gen chem, biochem, and orgo. If you go through all of these videos, you will do well on the chemistry portion no matter what.
DAT Kaplan: I used this for math and although it had good info, it just wasn't enough. I was planning on taking the DAT so thats why I have this. Instead I used youtube videos to study math, especially for limits. There is actually a PCAT review playlist someone made on youtube which is what i used.
PCATexam website: Seems like an outdated website, not sure. I used this to study microbiology.
Dr. Collins self study: I didn't really use this to study, i just used it for practice. The reading comprehension practice was great though. A lot of people say the PCAT is harder than the practice tests but I thought it was the same level of difficulty. Actually, I thought the level of difficulty on all practice exams were about the same as the actual PCAT tests.
And last I used notes from school for physiology (although the cliffsnotes bio book has this info as well).
Studied 10 hours a day for 2 months using the study schedule listed in the DAT discussion forums.
Hope this puts some minds at ease if you are unsure about effectiveness of Dr. Collin's study guide, I guess it worked out well since this is what I used for practice.
Oh I would also like to mention some strategies I think will help. For math, if you have to think about how to solve the problem, just flag it and come back to it later. In the end after I got through all the questions I thought I could answer without thinking about it, I only had 5 minutes left. I had about 8 questions I couldn't actually work through so I answered all of them with the same letter choice.
For reading comprehension, one of the passages I had absolutely no time to read. I read the first 2 sentences of each paragraph and skimmed through the rest. Answered the questions for that part the best I could.
My scores:
Biology: 95
Chemistry: 99
CR: 67
QR: 77
Composite: 94
Cliffsnotes AP Biology 3rd edition: This book is excellent for the bio section. It has everything you need to do well. It contains most of the things thats listed in the Dr. Collins bio review but more in depth. Its missing out on microbiology. The only parts I didn't go over was biological diversity, plants, animal form and function,animal behavior, and ecology.
Chads Videos: These are free youtube videos offered on his website. Just google chads videos. I used these videos to study gen chem, biochem, and orgo. If you go through all of these videos, you will do well on the chemistry portion no matter what.
DAT Kaplan: I used this for math and although it had good info, it just wasn't enough. I was planning on taking the DAT so thats why I have this. Instead I used youtube videos to study math, especially for limits. There is actually a PCAT review playlist someone made on youtube which is what i used.
PCATexam website: Seems like an outdated website, not sure. I used this to study microbiology.
Dr. Collins self study: I didn't really use this to study, i just used it for practice. The reading comprehension practice was great though. A lot of people say the PCAT is harder than the practice tests but I thought it was the same level of difficulty. Actually, I thought the level of difficulty on all practice exams were about the same as the actual PCAT tests.
And last I used notes from school for physiology (although the cliffsnotes bio book has this info as well).
Studied 10 hours a day for 2 months using the study schedule listed in the DAT discussion forums.
Hope this puts some minds at ease if you are unsure about effectiveness of Dr. Collin's study guide, I guess it worked out well since this is what I used for practice.
Oh I would also like to mention some strategies I think will help. For math, if you have to think about how to solve the problem, just flag it and come back to it later. In the end after I got through all the questions I thought I could answer without thinking about it, I only had 5 minutes left. I had about 8 questions I couldn't actually work through so I answered all of them with the same letter choice.
For reading comprehension, one of the passages I had absolutely no time to read. I read the first 2 sentences of each paragraph and skimmed through the rest. Answered the questions for that part the best I could.
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