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My gut instinct is that it can be done, but only if
you did strongly in Physics during high school. It's
been a while since I wrote the MCAT, but you should
remember that half of the Physical Sciences questions,
will, in fact, be Inorganic Chemistry questions.
Therefore, only 40 or the 80 or so questions are based
on Physics, and most of those questions, say 30-35,
are preceded by descriptive passages. Because of
these reasons, I think Physics is manageable.
However, you should really examine yourself and your
strengths and weaknesses. Do you think you will need
a lot of time to study for Physics? Obviously, the
more time you spend on Physics is less time for you to
prepare Organic Chemistry, and Biology.
If you have your heart set on applying after third
year, then you will need to write the MCAT immediately
after second year. In fact, assuming that you are
going into second year in Sept. 2000, you could still
register for first year Physics, complete it by April
2001, and write the MCAT in either April 2001, or Aug
2001. Either way, you'd be clear to apply to
med school in third year. Otherwise it'll just take you an extra year.
So, I think independant study for the MCAT is
possible, but it depends on your strength and
motivation. I do think it's a lot easier to have the
material taught to you than to learn it yourself;
there's going to be times when you scratch your head
and think "What's going on here?", and it's always
nice if there's a teaching assistant around that you can ask for help.
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