If you are like me, you studied more than enough for the MCAT and are looking for a comic relief while reviewing the old material, I believe this is an exceptional book. One of my old roommates who is a now a medical student recommended another book which can be found at secretroute-dot-com , this book changed my life. If I had that book when I was a freshman, I would have been sitting at Harvard med right now!!!

Audio Osmosis was very helpful to me as a secondary tool for reviewing, but you should definitely get the regular Examkrackers books as well. I found the jokes to be a useful memory tool and only mildly distracting the second time around. I guess if you're going to listen to these CDs for a year then the humor would get obnoxious, as some of the other reviewers have mentioned, but at that point maybe you should just take the test...

The only complaint that I have about these CDs is that they are ridiculously overpriced. I could not justify blowing the $125 on
9 CDs, and I was able to get them off of Ebay for around $60, which was worth it. I'm not really sure why they have inflated the price so much, but if you can get them cheaper, then do it. They are a good study tool and really help with memory recall, in my opinion.

This study aid will give you the basics. Since the MCAT only tests basic science, the basics are all you need to master. Audio Osmosis was very useful after a long day of studying on paper.

This item is really good for reviewing the basics for the MCAT. To get an even more intense review, purchase the 1001 problems for Bio, Chemistry, OChem, and Physics. All of these products were wonderful aids in my preparation for the MCAT!

AudioLearn and Audio Osmosis seem to get to the same place in their own ways. Neither is perfect. Both are helpful. Both CDs were created by highly credentialed people. They cover the same information, which bolsters the faith you can have that you're studying the proper material.

I bought AudioLearn a year after the jokes on these CDs became unbearable. Audiolearn lacks these distractions, however suffers from a problem that I hadn't anticipated: AudioLearn is as stiff as AudioLearn is corny.

AudioLearn:
-- Lectures are quite long (up to 18 minutes)
-- -- One track discusses several topics, thus making it difficult to locate specific information
-- No track listing is enclosed
-- Stiff (No contractions, no pronouns, repetitive word use)
-- -- For instance, when discussing the naming of alkanes:
-- -- -- "If the number of carbons is one, you say meth, if it is two you say eth, three you say prop, four you say but, five you say pent, six you say hex, seven you say hept, eight you say oct, nine you say non, ten you say dec."
-- Narrator sounds like Mr Sulu
-- No jokes, no sound effects
-- Mnemonics...sort of
-- -- To remember the signal that causes heart contraction: "just think of the letters SABP"... 'cause that's catchy.

AudioOsmosis:
-- Short lectures make it easy to find a particular topic
-- The jokes, gongs, applause, & laughtrack distract
-- -- They account for 20% of the lecutres
-- -- I can't stress enough how distracting they are
-- Jordan & John's co-narration makes listening more intersting
-- MAMA: Mnemonics Are Memory Aids