Informing Future Doctors Reviews 84

Product lives up to its name. Truly a high yield guide. Just the explanation of enzyme kinetics is worth the price alone. Thanks IFD!

The IFD Highyield document is great resource for MCAT test takers because it is way better than Kaplan. The information are well-stated and very easy to understand since it allows you to absorb in a simple manner. Highly recommend!

Warning: VERY, VERY LONG review on their 2 products but one I wish I had seen before purchasing. Disclaimer: I LOVE John, Maggie, and their agressively charming southern accents. They and IFD are doing the lord’s work in democratizing the pay-to-play MCAT prep industrial complex. Now that we’ve established that I’m not a hater, let’s dive in. The guide is well written and organized so that was nice. Right before I bought it, I was feeling down about my prep and really LOVE their channel, thought this would help, and bought this in an emotional/rash decision. For context: BP diag - 493 (121,123,121,127), I’m two months into my prep with 2 months to go, I study full time-ish @ ~25-30hrs/wk, my last FL was a 509 (126,128,126,129) on BP FL2, and my goal score is the 5teens (e.g 513+). I seem to be plateauing in my B/B and C/P section scores was feeling panicky about this and thus purchased this high yield review book. The vast majority of the info in the guide, I already know and maybe just need to practice more - which this guide can’t help with anyways. The minority that I don’t know can be learned from their wonderful channel, other YouTube vids/prep material I already have, and will need to be practiced in depth anyways. Even if you won’t already know any of it, you’ll already have their free wonderful channel as well as other free review sheets online. Look up “Kaplan Quicksheets download” or “Milesdown summary sheets download” if you want something relatively similar. Although, the two review sheets I mentioned above don’t have little quips about how certain concepts will be tested in the MCAT. But, when you’ll inevitably need to study or practice these concepts more in-depth beyond a few sentence summaries, you’ll notice the very basic trends on how they’re tested anyways. This feature of “how it’s tested”, in my opinion, is a relatively small-ish part of the document (most of it is a pretty straight forward definition/explanation of content) and pretty surface level pattern recognition and not worth the $75 I paid for the bundle. Also when you Google / YouTube a topic to learn more about it but don’t want any extraneous info that’s out of scope for the MCAT, just type “[literally any topic] MCAT” (e.g [Enzyme kinetics MCAT]. Between their PHENOMENAL YouTube channel that says the exact same thing just in video format, free high yield review sheets online, and the in-depth studying and/or practice you’re going to need to do anyways - you probably don’t need this. I really can’t see this summary resource doing for you what other already available, free, and very similiar resources can’t. Also Also, if you’re using this guide to adress specifc content deficits like I was trying to do for my C/P and B/B sections, don’t. The majority of the doc seems like 55% P/S, 35% biochem, 6% bio, with a dash of C/P for taste. No really, there’s relatively little any Chem/phys on this. I was struggling with electrochemistry(not really high yield), waves, optics, several other Chem and physics topics that are at least mid yield, several high-ish yield organ systems (e.g endocrinology) and these among many other high to mid yield topics were no where to be found (there is a comprehensive C/P formula sheet at the end but you can literally find that anywhere online). Although, the “high yield applications” section with 10 well explained C/P practice problems were actually pretty good. The point is, be very clear to yourself on the role you want this guide to play in your prep. Need a rough overview in highest yield P/S and Biochem topics, This could probably help you, although there are free-er ways to achieve that. Need help to fill in your content gaps / weaknessses that are largely in Biology, chemistry, or physics? I would skip it. If you’re scoring <120-123 in B/B, C/P, or P/S, reading this may actually be a great help (Depends on the person and what they need help with). In a pit of dread and despair over your rapidly approaching test date on the one thing between you and your dreams? Definitely skip it, if you’re panic buying this thinking it’s going to be some silver bullet or key that you’ve been missing for your content prep. I bought this thinking it’ll be helpful to me breaking through the 126+ barrier in B/B and C/P and while I haven’t done a FL since going over it, i don’t think it’ll be helpful in getting me where I want to go and wish I kept my $75. For me and my prep it was negligibly useful at best if not completely unnecessary. Good luck everyone!