What is it? The Casper test has nothing to do with “Casper,” the mattress company, or “Casper the Friendly Ghost” from the children’s cartoons series/movies. Casper is an acronym for Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics and is a situational-judgment test developed in Canada over ten years ago. Developed as ... Read more
Lior Krimus
Updated July 19, 2022 by Lior Krimus
None of us can refute the claim that a doctor’s profession is a lifesaver and a coveted one. Working in the field of medicine is viewed as a noble profession all across the globe. At ... Read more
Samuel Iglesias
Updated June 22, 2022 by Samuel Iglesias
Jia Wei Tan came from Malaysia dreaming of completing her residency in the U.S. and becoming a nephrologist. Luckily, she took the USMLE and interviewed for programs before COVID-19 shook the world, and she began ... Read more
Jia Wei Tan, PhD, MD and Anupam Garg, PhD
Updated June 22, 2022 by Jia Wei Tan, PhD, MD and Anupam Garg, PhD
An awesome trick for remembering metric prefixes and converting between units in the metric system Preparing for the MCAT requires a tremendous amount of memorization. By the time you sit down to take the exam ... Read more
Chelsea Myers
Updated June 24, 2022 by Chelsea Myers
It is often said that the journey to becoming a doctor is a marathon, not a sprint. In my humble opinion, the comparison is apt. In fact, the premed’s path seems to me like a ... Read more
Julia Bauman
Updated June 24, 2022 by Julia Bauman
When you receive your score report, you will receive five scores—four scores for each of the multiple-choice sections of the exam and one total score. As you prepare for test day, you may wonder how ... Read more
AAMC Staff
Updated June 25, 2022 by AAMC Staff
There’s no question that medical school is tough, especially when you consider the amount of material you need to cover in a few short years. Even if you’re putting in the hard work and making ... Read more
Eric Brown
Updated June 26, 2022 by Eric Brown
Famous Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz once remarked, “When my teams took second place, the fans called me an idiot. A guy who finished last in medical school is still called a ‘doctor’. Hardly ... Read more
Lauren Curtis
Updated June 26, 2022 by Lauren Curtis
Before giving you some specific strategies to ace Casper scenarios, it’s important to step back and talk about where this test comes from and what it’s all about. Casper stands for Computer-based Assessment for Sampling ... Read more
Behrouz Moemeni
Updated July 17, 2022 by Behrouz Moemeni
Walking out of the test center after I had completed the MCAT was a surreal experience. Somehow, the far-off test date for which I had been preparing for months had not only arrived, but had ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
Many MCAT prep companies will try to sell you on the idea that you need to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on a fancy prep course with all its bells and whistles in order ... Read more
MCAT Self Prep
Updated June 26, 2022 by MCAT Self Prep
In an ideal world, the months before an MCAT test date would be exclusively devoted to preparing for the exam. Prospective medical students would wake each morning without any obligations outside of studying. Unfortunately, the ... Read more
Cassie Kosarek
Updated June 26, 2022 by Cassie Kosarek
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ExamGuru
Updated June 26, 2022 by ExamGuru
Taking the MCAT can be a nerve-wracking experience. In fact, many students develop significant test anxiety as a result of the MCAT’s role in the medical school admissions process. If this scenario describes you, here ... Read more
Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
Updated June 26, 2022 by Anubodh “Sunny” Varshney
One of the most pressing issues facing prospective medical students today is the choice of how to prepare for the MCAT, a now 5+ hour test which factors largely into the highly competitive process of ... Read more
Brian Wu
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brian Wu
In 2014, the American Association of Medical Colleges announced that the MCAT 2015 would be the first of a new kind of admissions tests to assess the fitness of students to enter into medical school. ... Read more
Brian Wu
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brian Wu
Studying for the boards overwhelms most people. The sheer amount of information to know is staggering. And while being a good doctor will require you to know much more than what is covered on a ... Read more
Patrick C. Beeman
Updated June 26, 2022 by Patrick C. Beeman
With the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) undergoing major changes in 2015, the first revamp in over two decades, aspiring medical students are faced with new uncertainty in how to prepare for the crucially important ... Read more
EduMind
Updated June 26, 2022 by EduMind
In the 21st century, piracy is more common in cyberspace than on the high seas. What are the risks and consequences of using or selling counterfeit test prep materials? An SDN Report.
Helena Bachmann
Updated June 27, 2022 by Helena Bachmann