Increase Your MCAT Score
Master the skills you need to succeed on the MCAT by working directly with a top test-prep expert to learn powerful strategies for approaching different sections of the exam.
Students will work one-on-one with a leading MCAT strategy specialist who is the author of a major book on the exam. You will learn personalized, advanced strategies through up to 30 hours of phone or video coaching in weekly sessions over the course of a year. Coaching includes a specific study plan, review of assignments, and analysis of timing and testing strategies, but it does not include science instruction. Students are also eligible for the Cutts Graduate Reviews summer MCAT classroom-style Zoom program at no extra cost, on a space-available basis. Through the coaching sessions, students will master advanced timing strategies to maximize their score, along with powerful problem-solving strategies for the CARS (Critical Analysis and Reasoning) and science sections of the test.
What You Will Learn
Discover effective tools and strategies for success on the MCAT.
- Learn how to avoid the strategy errors that account for 75% of MCAT wrong answers.
- Know how to maximize your use of time on the test and how to avoid the most common timing pitfalls.
- Understand how to overcome test anxiety and poor performance on standardized tests,
- Know how to skim CARS passages for structure and master tools for distinguishing between two very close answer choices.
- Understand how to set up passages efficiently on the science sections and how to skim for the essential elements of a passage.
- Learn how to gain points through testing strategies such as process of elimination and estimation.
- Know how to read graphs and charts effectively and how to use logic to get correct answers.
- Practice using a range of scientific problem-solving tools as well as tools for working two answer choices against each other to find the correct answer.
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Note:
- This is a 30-hour course.
- UC San Diego undergraduate students may be eligible to take this course for with financial assistance through the Student Grant Program. The $500 voucher would be applied to tuition and the balance would be paid by students.
- Please contact precollege@ucsd.edu with questions.
- The 30-hours of coaching should be completed within two quarters in which you register. If these hours are not completed during this time, attempts for make-up sessions will be made, but cannot be guaranteed.
Course Number: EDUC-90051
Credit: 0.00 unit(s)
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4/3/2023 - 9/8/2023
$1200
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Cutts, Jay
Jay Cutts is the lead author of the Barron's LSAT and MCAT prep books. Over the past 30 years he has helped over a thousand students get accepted to law school, med school, grad school, and business school. He specializes in individualized instruction and is a pioneer in teaching advanced intuitive strategies for test taking, timing, verbal problem solving, logical problem solving, math problem solving, and scientific problem solving.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDMCAT Flash Cards (Barron's Test Prep) 2015
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438075549
MCAT with Online Tests (Barron's Test Prep) 3rd
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438077925
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
Pre-enrollment required.
No refunds after: 3/27/2023.
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NOTE:
Students can enroll within the course at any point during the scheduled start and end dates. The instructor will reach out to students within five business days of enrollment to schedule coaching sessions. Dependent on enrollment date, coaching sessions may be scheduled past the end date of the course.
4/3/2023 - 9/8/2023
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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6/26/2023 - 12/4/2023
$1200
Live Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).
Cutts, Jay
Jay Cutts is the lead author of the Barron's LSAT and MCAT prep books. Over the past 30 years he has helped over a thousand students get accepted to law school, med school, grad school, and business school. He specializes in individualized instruction and is a pioneer in teaching advanced intuitive strategies for test taking, timing, verbal problem solving, logical problem solving, math problem solving, and scientific problem solving.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDMCAT Flash Cards (Barron's Test Prep) 2015
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438075549
MCAT with Online Tests (Barron's Test Prep) 3rd
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438077925
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
Pre-enrollment required.
No refunds after: 6/19/2023.
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NOTE:
Students can enroll within the course at any point during the scheduled start and end dates. The instructor will reach out to students within five business days of enrollment to schedule coaching sessions. Dependent on enrollment date, coaching sessions may be scheduled past the end date of the course.
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9/25/2023 - 3/23/2024
$1200
Live Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).
Cutts, Jay
Jay Cutts is the lead author of the Barron's LSAT and MCAT prep books. Over the past 30 years he has helped over a thousand students get accepted to law school, med school, grad school, and business school. He specializes in individualized instruction and is a pioneer in teaching advanced intuitive strategies for test taking, timing, verbal problem solving, logical problem solving, math problem solving, and scientific problem solving.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDMCAT Flash Cards (Barron's Test Prep) 2015
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438075549
MCAT with Online Tests (Barron's Test Prep) 3rd
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438077925
MCAT with Online Tests (Barron's Test Prep) 3rd
by Jay B. Cutts M.A.
ISBN / ASIN: 9781438077925
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
Pre-enrollment required.
No refunds after: 9/18/2023.
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NOTE:
Students can enroll within the course at any point during the scheduled start and end dates. The instructor will reach out to students within five business days of enrollment to schedule coaching sessions. Dependent on enrollment date, coaching sessions may be scheduled past the end date of the course.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Pre-College Programs department at 858-534-0804 or precollege@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.