Jessica Wynn

And for the MCAT alone, you might buy the Kaplan seven book set, the exam cracker set, and then add the Princeton review courses for good measure.

And it's so expensive and nobody reads all of them.

But there's this anxiety that if you don't buy them, you're not doing enough.

Pre-med students are all over social media, too, posting their study stacks on Reddit and pictures of just bookshelves full of materials.

You know, if you're not using Kaplan and exam crackers and this other thing, are you even serious about med school?

It's exhausting.

And plus, some of these are total scams.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, outdated material repackaged as a new edition with a higher price tag, materials that blatantly copy from each other, question banks that are poorly written and don't actually match the exam style.

All of that can hurt your performance.

Yeah, absolutely.

If you practice with bad questions or the wrong format, you're essentially training your brain incorrectly.

It's like practicing basketball on a hoop that's two feet too low.

Everything feels great in practice, and then you get to the real game and suddenly nothing works.

There's actually a very public recent example of this.

So Kim Kardashian failed the bar exam and said it was because she had studied with chat GPT.

So someone with every resource at her fingertips.

And she now claims she failed because she was using the wrong preparation method.

Apparently, which first of all, right, bold choice.

And second, let's be clear, this was not a she had no resources situation.