Kaplan

**Tangliss** · 21-08-2008, 01:47 PM

Looking on their site it's quite pricey.

What are the best books to buy and steer clear from?

**Tangliss** · 21-08-2008, 02:27 PM

Oh I forgot to mention for Stage 1.

**Scottish Chap** · 21-08-2008, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Tangliss

Looking on their site it's quite pricey.

What are the best books to buy and steer clear from?

Check out the sticky in this forum. It's all there.

It's tough to tell you what you should avoid because information is information and it's all abut learning style. Questions teach you the most, but you need books to get to the stage whereby doing lots of questions is beneficial (i.e. you need the knowledge before you go to work).

Many foreign medical graduates (outside of the U.K.) do the prep. course material religiously because they are comfortable in a highly-structured and directed learning environment, but I submit to you that it is totally unnecessary (same thing for the MCAT, by the way). Those courses are expensive and, if you are disciplined, you'll do just as well with a schedule that works for you. I basically 'free-studied'; I only studied subjects that I felt deficient in, and then I did a lot of questions. For subjects that I felt strong in, I just did some 'speed reading'. I was the only person I know of in my class that took this stratgy, though. My Step 1 subject profile highlighted all of my strengths. There were really no surpises.