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Here’s master post of some great MCAT study materials and resources. Click on the bold titles to open links to folders containing the files listed below. Good luck!!!

2015 KAPLAN MCAT REVIEW BOOKS (pdf links listed below)

• Behavioral Sciences Review
  
• Biochemistry Review
  
• Biology Review
  
• Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review
  
• General Chemistry Review
  
• Organic Chemistry Review
  
• Physics and Math Review

BIOLOGY

• Molecular Biology; Cellular Respiration
  
• Genes
  
• Microbiology
  
• The Eukaryotic Cell; The Nervous System
  
• The Endocrine System
  
• The Digestive and Excretory Systems
  
• The Cardiovascular System; The Respiratory System
  
• Muscle, Bone and Skin
  
• Populations
  
• The Berkeley MCAT Review - Biology Part 1 (2011)
  
• The Berkeley MCAT Review - Biology Part 2 (2011)

BIOCHEMISTRY

• Lab Techniques
  

GENERAL CHEMISTRY

• Atoms, Molecules and Quantum Mechanics
  
• Gases, Kinetics, and Chemical Equilibrium
  
• Thermodynamics
  
• Solutions
  
• Heat Capacity/Phase Change/Colligative Properties
  
• Acids & Bases
  
• Electrochemistry
  
• Intro to Chemistry
  
• Electrostatics
  
• Gases
  
• Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry
  
• The Berkeley MCAT Review - General Chemistry Part 1 (2011)
  

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

• Molecular Structure
  
• Hydrocarbons, Alcohols, Substitutions
  
• Carbonyls and Amines
  

PHYSICS

• MCAT Physics Book (2015)
  
• Translation Motion
  
• Force
  
• Equilibrium, Torque and Energy
  
• Momentum, Machines, and Radioactive Decay
  
• Fluids and Solids
  
• Waves
  
• Electricity and Magnetism
  
• Light & Optics
  
• Linear Momentum
  

PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY

SCIENCE

MCAT PRACTICE TESTS / QUESTIONS

• Practice Tests
  
• Solutions
  

OTHER MCAT STUDY MATERIALS

Examkrackers Complete MCAT Study Set (2007)

These materials will help build your knowledge and test taking skills, they may not fit the current MCAT exam criteria but it will definitely build your knowledge of the subjects being tested.

1 tsp salt

½ tsp ground cumin

¼ tsp garlic powder

1 tsp paprika

¼ tsp cayenne pepper

1 tbsp cornstarch

¼ cup water

1 tsp black pepper

2 tbsp olive oil

marinate 15 min in fridge

good for 2 chicken breasts

vapingbaby:

dalé

beesmygod:

What a weird piano.

studying-for-the-future:

Listening

• Kinotx - hundreds of films and tv series in german

• Tivi - cartoons and shows for children in german

• Zdf - news in german

• Deutsche Welle - lots of videos for different levels

• Slowgerman - Audios with a text to follow

• Mypass - TV shows in German

• Germanpod101 - a youtube channel with listening tasks

• Deutschaussprache -Listen to correct pronunciation

• Cartoon with subtitles

Vocabulary

• Memrise - lots of free vocabulary courses which use spaced repetition system

• Languageguide - words by topics

• Ielanguages - words by topics

• Learnwitholiver - lots of flashcards with german vocabulary

• Syvum - German to English vocabulary quizzes

• Lingolia - words by topics with exercises

• Anki - a website which lets you create flashcards and learn them using spaced repetition system

• Cram - German flashcards

• Quizlet - another website for flashcards creation

• Cerego - lots of courses with german flashcards

• Nthuleen - vocabulary woksheets by topics

• Babadum - a fun and pretty vocabulary quiz

Grammar

• Schubert grammar - lots of grammar and vocabulary exercises

• Nthuleen Grammar - Grammar worksheets

• Grammatiktraining - Grammar exercises

• German-grammar - grammar explanations and exercises

• Levrai - lots of grammar exercises

• Lingolia - grammar explanations and exercises

• Deutschegrammatik20 - grammar exercises

• Mein-deutschbuch - grammar explanations and exercises

Some of my favourite grammar textbooks

• A level bookA level answers

• B level bookB level answers

• C level bookC level answers

• Grammatik Aktuell bookGrammatik Aktuell answers

• Pons Grammatik

Reading

• Zeit - news in German

• Free books in German

• Wievmanga - Manga in German

Test your knowledge

• Transparent.com test

• Heidelberg-languages.eu test

• Prolog-berlin.com test

• Goethe.de test

• Deutsch-perfekt.com test

• Grammatiktraining.de test

deutschesprache:

The ending of a verb is entirely dependent on what the subject of the sentence is. This rule doesn’t apply for every verb (the ones that don’t are irregular and thankfully there aren’t many of them – unfortunately for you, essen is one of them), but they do for the majority.

I’m going to use kaufen as my example for a regular verb here. So with verbs in German, when you want to conjugate them, the easiest thing to do is cut off the ‘en’ at the end there. So you have ‘kauf.’ What do you do with this? Easy.

ich (I) – the verb ends in e

du (you, informal) – the verb ends in st

er/sie/es (he/she/it) – the verb ends in t

wir (we) – the verb ends in en

ihr (y’all) – the verb ends in t

sie (them) – the verb ends in en

Sie (you, formal) – the verb ends in en

So now we conjugate the verb kaufen. Cut off the en and add the ending I described above to whichever subject your sentence is referring to.

ich kaufe

du kaufst

er/sie kauft

wir kaufen

ihr kauft

sie kaufen

Sie kaufen

Now you can do that with the verb trinken, too.

ich trinke Milch (I’m drinking milk) 

and etc. with the other possible subjects.

Essen, on the other hand, is an irregular verb. It doesn’t follow this cute little verb ending set of rules. Here’s a video I found that shows you what they are and how to pronounce them. It shows you in red how it differs from the regular verbs. (There’s also a bunch of other verbs and things they cover)

Now den is an article, so it goes in front of a noun. Specifically, den is either the accusative form of der or the dative form of die (plural). In German, you have four cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, and Genitive. 

Nominative: der (masculine), die (feminine), das (neutral), and die (plural)

Accusative: den (m.), die (f.), das (n.), and die (pl.)

Dative: dem (m.), der (f.), dem (n.), and den (pl.)

Genitive: des (m.), der (f.), des (n.), and der (pl.)

And it all just depends on where it is in the sentence/how it is used.

Nominative is the subject of the sentence, the one who is doing the action of the verb. “Der Mann trinkt Milch” <– The man is drinking milk. He is doing the drinking.

Accusative is the direct object of the sentence. So if the man were writing a letter, for instance, you wouldn’t use der Brief, you would use den Brief. “Der Mann schreibt den Brief” <– The man is writing the letter. Who is writing? The man. What is he writing? The letter.

Dative is the indirect object of the sentence; it receives the indirect object. So the man gives the letter to the teacher. “Der Mann gibt dem Lehrer den Brief” <– you know he is giving the letter to the teacher and not that he’s giving the teacher to the letter because of the dem and den forms used. Dem indicates the receiver while den indicates it is what is being given. Who is giving? The man. What is he giving? The letter. To whom is he giving it to? The teacher.

Genitive shows possession – when we say in English, “Oh that’s Jennifer’s car” or “We are going over to Alex’s (house, it’s generally implied in English),” we are showing possession of a thing (car or house). Same as when we say “The man’s car is red.” In German, it would be “das Auto des Mannes ist rot.”

Here’s a handy website, though, for better and more in-depth explanations.

It’s a lot of practice and a lot of memorization. I wish you luck and I hope this was helpful!!

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my grandparents have to lock their car doors when they go to sunday mass because people have been breaking in to unlocked cars and leaving entire piles of zucchini

i feel like i should’ve added more context when i posted this. my grandparents live in a rural area where farmers and casual gardeners alike are, at this point in the year, suddenly being hit with unexpectedly abundant zucchini crops. there aren’t just some random vandals leaving zucchinis in people’s cars for the hell of it, this is the work of some very exasperated, probably very elderly, folks who have more zucchini than they know what to do with

Yep. You can also expect to find a bag of zucchini on your porch.

My grandfather once found his neighbor stealing his tomatoes out of his garden at three in the morning. Red-handed, with a basket of the nearly-ripened ones.  He thought he was going to find gophers or something, but no, here’s Henry, taking his tomatoes. The best ones.

There was a long pause between them.

My grandfather (allegedly) said, “Henry… it’s OK.  You can take some tomatoes if you want them.”

Henry sighed in relief.

“But,” my grandfather said, “you have to take two zucchini for every tomato.”

There was another long silence.  “That’s a harsh bargain, John,” said Henry.  “But I accept.  I’ll tell Joe up the street, too.”

My grandfather said, “Tell Joe he needs to take three.”

a friend of my dad’s came by in the middle of the night, he seemed very nervous when my dad answered the door. he wouldn’t come inside but he leaned in and whispered to my dad in spanish, “i have some fresh grapes for you.” and then this happened:

the melon was a special bonus.

MY DREAM

A friend of mine lives in a rural area and he has been surrounded by zucchini for most of May, June, and July.

At one point he was so done with the whole zucchini madness that he came to classes actively begging people to “Please please please!! Take some my family’s damned zucchini!! I’ve been eating zucchini for weeks!! I’m going insane!!!”

Having grown up in a rural area and having come home to zucchini on the front step or in the mailbox, i find it highly amusing the OP had to clarify.  I’m sitting here nodding “yup.”

@sugarseamstress

For us it’s rhubarb. I find boxes of rhubarb left in my car after work. I don’t even like rhubarb.

We just get our strawberries stolen EVERY SPRING we’ve resorted to a tripwire that sounds an alarm in my grandad’s bedroom