MCAT Prep

Overview

The MCAT is a long test. 230 questions, about seven and a half hours, and most of them hang off a passage you have never seen before: a study, an experiment, an argument. Knowing the material is not enough on its own. You have to be able to use it on something unfamiliar, with the clock running, for longer than anyone would call comfortable.

That changes how you should study for it. Content review matters, but it only gets you to the start line. Knowing the Michaelis-Menten equation is one thing. Spotting in a new passage that an unchanged Vₘ with a raised Kₘ means competitive inhibition is another. What actually moves a score is working through passages and then going back over every question you got wrong. Not just what the right answer was. Why the one you picked looked right.

The scoring works the same way. Each of the four sections is scaled from 118 to 132, and together they make a total between 472 and 528. A 500 is about the middle. Because the sections are scored separately, a weak one shows up clearly instead of disappearing into an overall percentage.

What We Cover

• Chemical and Physical Foundations of Biological Systems
• Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills (CARS)
• Biological and Biochemical Foundations of Living Systems
• Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior

Study On Your Own

Alongside one-to-one tutoring, the MCAT course runs as a self-guided program: content review by topic with a check on each one, a question bank, section practice exams, and timed full-length simulations scored out of 528.

The Diagnostic Test is free, and so is the preparation guide — take the Diagnostic Test first and find out which sections actually need the work.

Take the free Diagnostic Test Download the free guide (PDF) Open the MCAT Course

The guide is a short PDF on how preparation actually goes — planning a timeline, reviewing a question properly, why CARS behaves differently, and what the last two weeks are for. No account needed, and yours to keep.