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As others have said, practice tests are key by dulac89

Lessons are mildly helpful, but the return on time investment is not that great. The Malcolm Gladwell "10000" model works well here, do practice test after practice test after practice test. Answer 10000 questions. For each test, read why the right answers were right, and the wrong answers wrong. The amount of knowlege you need to have for the test is actually reasonably finite. So the key is recognizing what concept the question is asking you to apply, because the concept is almost always disguised in something seemingly unrelated. I still remember the day where I did a practice test, and almost every question once I started reading the question information, about halfway through I knew what concept they were looking for. Once you know that, it's pretty easy.

Granted I had to take the MCAT twice, but the second time I walked out of there knowing I had correctly answered all but a handful of the questions. It was all Kaplan test bank practice.