There are four steps students must take to study effectively for the MCAT: learning content, reviewing content, memorizing content, and applying knowledge. Properly mastering all four steps is essential to achieving a competitive MCAT score.


Step One: Learning Content

Before studying for the MCAT, completing or being close to finishing all the required pre-med courses is necessary. However, it has likely been months to years since the time you took one of the required pre-med classes. Moreover, due to memory decay, everyone must re-learn a lot of the content they previously knew from each class. Testable material comes from:

• General Chemistry 1 & 2
• Organic Chemistry 1 & 2
• Physics 1 & 2
• English Literature
• Biology 1 & 2
• Biochemistry
• Psychology
• Sociology

While the MCAT covers a wide breadth of content, the depth is limited. Also, the MCAT will not test everything you learned from each of these classes. Therefore, you should seek to re-learn the material from sources created explicitly for the MCAT. However, not every study resource for the MCAT is equal. Additionally, much of the available content review resources are boring, inefficient, and overly drawn-out. Since most students try to study for the MCAT over a few weeks to months, you should look for an efficient and comprehensive resource. Fortunately, the MCAT for Victory videos include 100+ engaging bite-sized videos covering all the high-yield material tested on the MCAT. The videos are full of animations to help illustrate and explain intricate scientific concepts.

Step Two: Reviewing Content

Learning and understanding the material is a critical first step in studying for the MCAT. Still, the next step is just as important. To ensure understanding and to keep the content fresh in your mind, you should have an effective way to review everything testable. For example, the MCAT for Victory textbooks serve as an excellent supplement to the video course. The textbooks follow the same organization as the video course, making looking up and reviewing information fast and effective. Everyone who signs up for the MCAT for Victory course gets immediate access to 10 electronic textbooks:

• Introduction to MCAT for Victory
• Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology 1
• Biology 2
• Biochemistry
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Testing for Victory

Step Three: Memorizing Content

Learning, understanding, and reviewing content are all essential but useless if you cannot retrieve the information in your brain on test day. For that reason, ensuring that you appropriately memorize facts, equations, and concepts is essential. The best way to remember information is by using mnemonics and active recall. Mnemonics are used throughout the MCAT for Victory course. Meanwhile, the most efficient form of active recall is through flashcards. However, the best time to review each flashcard is right before you would have forgotten those facts. Anki is a free flashcard application that uses spaced repetition to help test takers memorize vast quantities of information as efficiently as possible. Due to its' effectiveness, it is used by almost every medical student. Now, more pre-med students are understanding the value of Anki and incorporating it into their MCAT studies. While Anki has a steep learning curve, the FREE MCAT for Victory flashcard course teaches you to become an Anki master. The course will teach you:

• How the Anki algorithm works.
• Required and recommended add-ons to improve your efficiency and experience using Anki.
• How to set up your settings.
• How to use the browser to search through the Anki deck
• How to understand the available statistics.

Those videos are just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone who signs up also gets immediate access to 4,100+ MCAT for Victory flashcards for free. Click here to sign up!

Note that the way you study is extremely important to help improve retention and efficiency. In other words, you should first learn and deeply understand the content before attempting to memorize anything. The best way to use the MCAT for Victory flashcards is demonstrated in the free course.

Step Four: Applying Knowledge

The MCAT tests critical thinking abilities just as much as it tests one's ability to understand and memorize scientific principles. Therefore, the final step in studying for the MCAT is through practice questions and passages similar to the real MCAT. Fortunately, the AAMC (the MCAT test creators) released 2,300 questions that are incredibly similar to the actual MCAT. The AAMC MCAT Official Prep Online-Only Bundle is hands down the best resource to use to apply your MCAT knowledge and test your retention. The bundle includes:

• Four Official MCAT Practice Exams
• Biology Question Packs
• Chemistry Question Packs
• CARS Question Packs
• Physics Question Packs

We recommend the official AAMC practice material without any affiliation or monetary gain. Make sure you mimic the actual MCAT exam as you go through the available questions.

Putting Everything Together

The MCAT for Victory course includes everything you need to get a competitive MCAT score. Four schedule options are available, ranging from 6-week schedules to 16-week schedules. Each tells you precisely what you need to do every single day. By following the plans and completing all required tasks, you will be in an excellent position to get the score you deserve on test day. We are so confident in our course that we even have a higher score guarantee and a 510+ guarantee.