MCAT The Princeton Review’s Hyperlearning MCAT Program - Save $250

[ThePrincetonReview]

Welcome to Test Prep Week. Please find information below on our Special Discount Offer, Courses, Prep Options, Raffle, Mailing List, and Bonus.

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SDN members SAVE $250 on The Princeton Review’s MCAT, LSAT, GMAT or GRE Classroom or LiveOnline courses when you enroll between 1/4-2/3. Your current offer is $100 off so enroll now to take advantage during this limited time. Use the appropriate Promo Code from www.princetonreview.com/sdn when enrolling – this cannot be combined with any other offer or is not valid for previously enrolled students). Enroll - Give us a call at 800.2REVIEW (800-273-8439) or visit www.princetonreview.com.

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After 105 hours of intensive learning with our specialist instructors, you will get a great score on the MCAT. Our Hyperlearning program is rigorous, demanding and thorough – like the MCAT itself. Make an informed decision – your MCAT score deserves as much. You don’t believe us? 96% of our students would recommend us to others.* In addition, if you take our course and aren't happy with your score, you can take our entire course again for free. That's our guarantee. If you still don’t believe us? Then put our Hyperlearning MCAT course up against the competition.

Hyperlearning MCAT Classroom Courses by the Numbers

10 & 12 Points of Improvement
Our students boast an average 10-point score improvement on the MCAT. In fact, the top quarter of our students average 12 points improvement.

3-5 Number of Expert Instructors
Your course will be led by a team of specialists, each of whom is an expert in his or her specific field. Our instructors are screened, trained, and certified. Other companies may have only 1 teacher. Plus we think it’s worthless having rock star instructors unless you can spend quality time with them. You’ll have your instructor’s cell phone number and e-mail address, and you’ll be able to reach him any time.

105 Hours of Live Classroom Instruction
You’ll meet up to 42 times over 3-4 months (or 6 months for the early start programs) for up to 105 hours of instruction (see syllabus), and we help you master every aspect by guiding you through our extensive practice materials and rigorous schedule. •Expert content knowledge in biology, chemistry and physics
•Fundamental reading comprehension skills
•Effective time-management and strategic skills
•The Princeton Review methodology
•Class session breakdown: 10 Biology, 14 Chemistry, 9 Physics and 9 Verbal.

17 Practice Tests
The only way you’ll know how you’ll do on the MCAT is by taking a real test. That’s why you’ll have unlimited access to all 8 AAMC exams as well our 9 full-length, computer-based MCATs with detailed score reports and complete with annotations.

4300 Pages of Material
Comprehensive up-to date materials with review, practice passages and questions, complete with full explanations.

24/7 Online Access
We give you the tools to study any time, any place through your Online Student Center, which includes extra drills (6 additional MCATs' worth of subject-specific drills), materials, and explanations.

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[apumic]

How would you say your classroom MCAT courses compare with your GRE courses? Not to be negative, but when I took a TPR GRE course, the instructor spent almost his entire time teaching people up to the 50th percentile instead of teaching those of us wanting to be above-average (and actually get into a program) what we needed to get there. (This was despite requests to teach at a higher level.) Does TPR stratify its classes a bit more for the MCAT or find that instructors are able to find the time to address the needs of people aiming for a 35 MCAT instead of only focusing on the weakest points and ensuring no one gets a VR 5?

 

[jiayo]

For those of us that have taken a HyperLearning Course, how long do we get to keep the exams that came with the course?

 

[DownFracture]

Are the classroom taught courses led by actual professors or Princeton Review employees?

 

[PRamos]

Are the classroom taught courses led by actual professors or Princeton Review employees?

If they are teaching for Princeton Review and getting paid for their teaching, wouldn't that make them Princeton Review employees even if they were professors?

 

[PhoenixBlaze500]

How many times could one retake the course if one is not happy with one's MCAT scores? Also, how much time does one get to retake the course?

 

[ThePrincetonReview]

How would you say your classroom MCAT courses compare with your GRE courses? Not to be negative, but when I took a TPR GRE course, the instructor spent almost his entire time teaching people up to the 50th percentile instead of teaching those of us wanting to be above-average (and actually get into a program) what we needed to get there. (This was despite requests to teach at a higher level.) Does TPR stratify its classes a bit more for the MCAT or find that instructors are able to find the time to address the needs of people aiming for a 35 MCAT instead of only focusing on the weakest points and ensuring no one gets a VR 5?

There are 2 huge differences between our GRE course and MCAT course:

• HOURS: We have more than 80 hours more of live instruction (34 more classes) so you will get so much more time with your instructors to ask questions and focus on what you need.
• INSTRUCTORS: We have a team of 3-5 expert instructors, each an expert in his or her subject - unlike GRE which you probably had one. So now you will have more eyes focused on what you need to do in each area.

There is also office hours to get more personal attention. Plus the pace moves faster so students have to keep up so in general so I think that speaks to what you are asking.

Hope that helps,
Anthony

 

[ThePrincetonReview]

For those of us that have taken a HyperLearning Course, how long do we get to keep the exams that came with the course?

You will typically get a 9 month access but if you need more time (or through your guarantee), contact your local Princeton Review office as to your option of extending your time.

 

[ThePrincetonReview]

Are the classroom taught courses led by actual professors or Princeton Review employees?

The courses are taught by a range of experts some who may actually work as professors (but it is not required to be a professor at a university). They must also pass the qualifying exams even if they are professors. And yes they are all employees (part-time) as they get paid through TPR.

 

[DownFracture]

I appreciate your feedback, sans the sarcastic tone.

To rephrase my question:
What qualifications must one have to teach/lead/instruct a princeton reveiw MCAT course?

If they are teaching for Princeton Review and getting paid for their teaching, wouldn't that make them Princeton Review employees even if they were professors?

 

[ThePrincetonReview]

How many times could one retake the course if one is not happy with one's MCAT scores? Also, how much time does one get to retake the course?

If you read our guarantee, you will notice you have one year to retake the course. There is no limit on the number of times to retake the course but it would take years to repeat it multiple times (and something we wouldn't recommend to take the MCAT more than 2 times and spend 3 years prepping for the MCAT). That is why it is so important to prep properly the 1st time (or 2nd).

 

[ThePrincetonReview]

I appreciate your feedback, sans the sarcastic tone.

To rephrase my question:
What qualifications must one have to teach/lead/instruct a princeton reveiw MCAT course?

I did not reply with this particular feedback (but with another reply) but to answer your question as I am this moderator...

• expertise in his or her specific field
• screening interview
• Princeton Review training
• certification process include qualifying exams and teaching evaluations

And this is all before one gets to teach in our class. As I mentioned before, some may be professors and some may be professionials in the work force.

 

[equityrange]

is the 2009 hyperlearning computer based?

also, are there any major changes between 2005-present?

 

[ThePrincetonReview]

is the 2009 hyperlearning computer based?

also, are there any major changes between 2005-present?

All our practice exams are computer based (9 of ours plus 8 AAMC exams). And we have incorporate changes into our materials and resources with some of the content changes over the years. We update our books every year to account for this as well as we write new practice passges every year 9and put more stuff online as well).