MCAT Biology Review 2023-2024: Online + Book

by Kaplan Test Prep

Always study with the most up-to-date prep! Look for MCAT Biology Review 2024-2025, ISBN 9781506286853, on sale July 4, 2023.

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576 pages, Paperback

Published July 5, 2022

Reviews

[Ankita]

i want to kill myself

[smthinoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

hell yeah I’m logging this one in

[jenny! · Rating 4 out of 5]

WOOP WOOP I FINISHED THEM ALL

[Blake Bruneman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wanna record all my reading on this app and idk how to review this seriously, so I won’t: boutta annihilate this exam after getting through this textbook. Illuminating passages and digestible illustrations. Probably the greatest textbook I’ve ever read. I think I’ll return later for some light reading!

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

No notes other than how my life has utterly changed since I learned that there was actually a pretty fucking good reason why uracil isn’t used in DNA oh my god

[ac270021 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great read captivating couldn’t wait to read the rest in the set

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

i think glucagon is my fave hormone

[Alina · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay

[Aneeqa Meah · Rating 4 out of 5]

genuinely why is this the last book i read cover to cover

[Samarah Alam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Could’ve been worse. Pre quiz should be a post chapter quiz instead.

[Athalia Haywood · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book was a great refresher for topics I forgot all about lol

[Matthias Walters · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Kaplan. The conclusion to chapter 12 punctuated study wholesomely.

[Grace Dunn · Rating 1 out of 5]

I want to track these idk

[misha · Rating 3 out of 5]

there was wayyy too much info condensed into 12 chapters

like this book basically covered the entirety of anatomy and physiology

[Ryan Davin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favorite book of the summer.

[Amber :D · Rating 3 out of 5]

long. long. interesting.

[Jasmine · Rating 4 out of 5]

happy new year I needed to hit my goodreads goal so this has gotta count ❤️

[Savannah O’Brien · Rating 3 out of 5]

fav of the set

[Emilia Herdes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed this one but then again I’ve always enjoyed reading bio textbooks so I may just be odd.

[sunnie · Rating 2 out of 5]

12 chapters to realize all the underlying stuff is in the biochem book. i deserve some sort of compensation for this

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

this was one of the more interesting books ngl

[Mansi Sharma · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, decent book. Covered pretty much everything needed for the biology section and was very comprehensive. Wasn't a fan of how chapters and concepts were organized. My personal least favorite: Chapter 10 - Homeostasis (grouping together skin and the excretory system in one chapter makes no sense conceptually). Another gripe I have is that a lot of the chapters felt like they were just throwing random facts at you - its on you to make connections between different facts and aspects of an organ system, which is annoying because a proper, comprehensive understanding of human physiology requires you to understand these connections. They jump around a lot within chapters and they don't really flow well. An example - talking about the fetal circulatory system BEFORE going over the circulatory system. Introducing terms like patent foramen ovale and patent ductus arteriosus before delving deeper into the path of blood flow through the body doesn't make much sense.

If you have no background in human physiology (like I did), you will likely need to supplement this prep book with another resource (maybe khan academy or something to fill in the gaps). But overall this resource was incredibly comprehensive, just a little hard to follow.