Would you recommend MedEntry or Section Zero?

[Irving4Prez]

I had the MedEntry package last year and completed all the drills and 1-2 practice exams.

Would re-applying this year be a waste? In retrospect, would buying Section Zero be more beneficial?

From experience, would you say Section Zero is better than MedEntry?

[datfatcat]

I had the MedEntry package last year and completed all the drills and 1-2 practice exams.

Would re-applying this year be a waste? In retrospect, would buying Section Zero be more beneficial?

From experience, would you say Section Zero is better than MedEntry?

First of all, I must say I haven't done Section Zero, but I believe it is great (from people's comments and the fact that questions are made by those who did UMAT before and got into med). I would pick Section Zero if I were you because I am certain all the questions are new. Medentry can be a waste if most of their questions are the same as last year.

[pi]

the fact that questions are made by those who did UMAT before and got into med

Medentry hires high UMAT-eers to write their questions

[Stick]

I had the MedEntry package last year and completed all the drills and 1-2 practice exams.

Would re-applying this year be a waste? In retrospect, would buying Section Zero be more beneficial?

From experience, would you say Section Zero is better than MedEntry?

It depends on your strategy. If you're only intending to invest a small amount of time into preparing for the UMAT (highly recommended in my opinion), then I think Section Zero is much more value for money. Granted, I never did MedEntry, but I can vouch that Section Zero is a great resource, particularly for Sections 1 and 3.

[Irving4Prez]

It depends on your strategy. If you're only intending to invest a small amount of time into preparing for the UMAT (highly recommended in my opinion), then I think Section Zero is much more value for money.

I intend to spend 30 minutes - 1 hour a night, would that be considered a small amount? :/ From a few sources, MedEntry makes minimal additions on an annual basis, so I'm not too sure if it'll be a waste.

[pi]

I intend to spend 30 minutes - 1 hour a night, would that be considered a small amount? :/

That's a lot actually.

[Stick]

I intend to spend 30 minutes - 1 hour a night, would that be considered a small amount? :/ From a few sources, MedEntry makes minimal additions on an annual basis, so I'm not too sure if it'll be a waste.

Yes, that's a lot. I was doing roughly 45 minutes a week (if I had any time left at all). Then again, I "only" got 75th percentile.

[DJA]

Fully recommend Section Zero. It's pretty freaking awesome in terms of value for money.

Simply because...every...single...question...is explained in a video. 
It's like having a tutor explaining to you every question you got wrong.

[datfatcat]

I intend to spend 30 minutes - 1 hour a night, would that be considered a small amount?

Wow...I only spent a few hours in June to prepare for it

[Irving4Prez]

Wow...I only spent a few hours in June to prepare for it

That's ideally, what I intend to do. It'll probably boil down to an hour or two per week after being burdened by work load from other subjects

Fully recommend Section Zero. It's pretty freaking awesome in terms of value for money.

Simply because...every...single...question...is explained in a video. 
It's like having a tutor explaining to you every question you got wrong.

How many practice exams are provided?

[DJA]

That's ideally, what I intend to do. It'll probably boil down to an hour or two per week after being burdened by work load from other subjects

How many practice exams are provided?

A lot
like in the region of 850 questions from last count and increasing. (they plan to have 1000 soon)

Whenever you ask  the system to do a test, it pulls questions from the database to make a new test. you do the maths-how many questions are in a UMAT paper? 

[grannysmith]

Just out of curiosity, does  Section Zero have an expiration date?

[IndefatigableLover]

Just out of curiosity, does  Section Zero have an expiration date?

Not sure what you mean by expiration date (like from when you first purchase it) but back last year in the Age Expo I asked someone from the AN stall and they said from the day you purchase it, you can access Section Zero for two years (since I'm from Class of 2015 so I thought I'd ask) but not sure if that still stands today...

[grannysmith]

Oh okay, so it expires in 24 months from the date of purchase? Can an admin confirm this?

Edit: don't mean to derail this thread, but I thought it'd be relevant

[Irving4Prez]

I'm just wondering how the percentiles are calculated on Section Zero? Obviously skewed results would be apparent if only 20 students were registered with them

Are they based in correlation with other students who have registered on Section Zero or somehow against a general UMAT exam sitter?