What People Say About WikiPremed

Student Messages

I just wanted to share with you my appreciation for all the work you have done with WikiPremed. Your lessons on physics and general chemistry changed my perspective on many of the topics and were, in my opinion, at the level of teaching required for students to score a 14 or 15 on PS - something many other MCAT resources lack. I received a 14 in physical sciences, up from 11 without using WikiPremed, and achieved an overall score of 37. I will definitely recommend WikiPremed to anyone who mentions they are writing the MCAT in the future. Thank you again for all your hard work! - A. P.

Thank you John for making this amazing website. I used wikipremed as my primary study tool, and I just received a score of 14 PS 11 VR and 13 BS for a total of 38. Not only did this site help me achieve the score I wanted, but it has left me with a deeper appreciation and understanding of science. - P. M.

Thank you so much for your time and effort in developing WikiPremed. In studying for the MCAT, WikiPremed has proven to be an invaluable resource. I credit my 35 to it. - C. K.

I would like to thank you for this great website. I have spent quite a bit of time and money on a prep course and materials, and WikiPremed has been far more helpful than anything I have come across. - S. O.

I just wanted to say thank you to the creators of the wikipremed website. It is by far the most useful MCAT prep tool I used to prepare for the exam. I scored a 40 with just two months of studying from this website and a few books and I am going to be attending my top choice medical school this coming summer. Thank you once again - M. A.

I just wanted to thank you so much for having such a fantastic resource available. :) It's really kind of you considering it's a free service to everyone. - S. V.

I prepped exclusively with Wiki-premed (okay, and my three years of science undergrad classes). I felt prepared going into my MCAT, and I scored a 39. Thank you so much for making this resource available. - R. K.

I currently teach MCATs for Examkrackers and I have gone into great depth with my students about the wikipremed course and how amazing it is. I showed them the website and how much it helps MCAT preparation. Many of my students struggle quite a bit with some of the more nuanced concepts of the physical sciences, particularly physics. I made sure to let them know about your lectures and the physics flashcards!! THEY ARE AMAZING!!!! I'll be honest, I can not believe how good the quality was and how well you taught the central concepts!! - A. M.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for your wikipremed course. It helped me tremendously in my mcat preparation. I got accepted into medical school and wanted to say thank you so much for all your hardwork and dedication!! - R. K.

I appreciate the clarity and well thought out structure of your videos--particularly the way they tie together physics, chemistry, and biology--most public goods aren't this beneficial! - W. S.

Thank you very much for setting up this amazing website. I am seriously learning a lot more than what I learned at school. For once, I'm actually enjoying chemistry. Thank you so so much! - J. M.

I wanted to say thank you for providing such an incredible resource to us all for free. You are a wonderful teacher and I appreciate your holistic approach to the material. I love to learn, and this big picture understanding of the sciences is what I've been striving for. You do a GREAT JOB! Thank you for all the hard work you have put into making wiki premed. I'm spreading the word to all of the pre-med students I know! - C. J.

I think your sight is fantastic. Thanks for investing the time and energy into it! - S. A.

Your resources are absolutely fantastic! I especially enjoyed the physics videos. Thank you so much for providing these free materials. You have helped me out greatly. - S. A.

I recently found your website purely by chance. It was a pleasant surprise and still can't believe I paid just a few dollars shy of $2000 for an MCAT Prep course. Which I must add was painfully useless. Your program costs nothing and yet has such a wealth of material that are incredibly useful. For that I want to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. God bless you and all your efforts. - J. D.

Hey John, I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you have put into this project. I am a poor student who couldn't afford those $2000 courses and came across this site while searching the web for free resources. I know you say we're supposed to take longer to study for the actual test, but due to my circumstances, I only had 6 WEEKS to prepare! I watched all your videos, because it was so much better than sitting there for hours and reading through books thicker than bibles. My score jumped from a 23 (7PS/ 7BS/ 9 V) from the very first practice test to a 31 (11 PS/ 10 BS/ 10 V). I can say with a 100% confidence that my rise in the physical sciences score can be attributed to nothing else but your videos, as watching them is all I did to prepare for the section. I tell everyone I know that is studying for the MCAT to check out your website first. Not only are you a master of all the material that is covered by the MCAT, but your insight on how the test makers think helped me narrow down countless answers. Thank you again, you truly are a gifted teacher. - V. P.

I am enjoying the selfless resource of videos that you have provided for the MCAT and would recommend them to anyone as well as the printed materials. - T. L.

Your course, and it is utterly brilliant, effectively teaches me. As someone with a strong intellect; I have to understand concepts fully before I can master them. In order to understand fully I have to grasp the concepts spatially, as a whole and then I unify them..that's when the magic starts to happen and my brain explodes with connections, questions and creativity. Previously, the teaching I received was inadequate..I may be bright but I couldn't come up with the kind of perspective and mature mastery that the years of intelligent and insightful reflection you have worked at provides. The spiralling nature of the curriculum, the emphasis on the key scientific concepts and their inter-disciplinary application not only concisely identifies the MCAT material, but brings the subjects/universe to life. It's immensely pleasurable to go on the journey with you :) - J. H.

I just wanted to drop in and thank you for this wonderful resource. Thanks to some interesting professors in high school and college, I had developed somethings of a physics phobia and would shut down when presented with such material. Your videos were the first time I saw physics presented in an approachable and manageable way, and they allowed me to finally attain some understanding and appreciation for the subject. I used your course when preparing for the MCAT back in 2011 (although I didn't give myself nearly enough time to complete it) and was able to attain a 30R (a vast improvement from my early practice tests). I was recently admitted to medical school and will be attending this fall, and I really appreciate your help in getting me there. - J. H.

I really appreciate your help. You guys are providing a great service for all of us premeds who don't have the priviledge of spending vast amounts of money on MCAT material. - J. B.

I just wanted to say thank you so much for having these free videos here! I decided late I wanted to go to medical school so I had to take the MCAT this summer because I'm graduating in May, but I had never taken physics before, in high school or college. All I did was watch your videos and do the practice problems and I was able to get a 10 on the physical sciences section, which I'm sure would not have been possible otherwise, because it was absolutely unintelligible to me in the books I had been using. I thought you had a really thorough way of explaining things and making the concepts stick. - J. B.

I just wanted to thank you for setting up such an awesome way to learn and prepare for the MCAT exam. I am a premed student who is not interested in paying $3000 for a preparatory course, and this is such an awesome alternative. Great job putting together such awesome resources. The videos, pictures, text, example problems, and answers help SO much. Thank you! - E. F.

I don't know if John sees these, if not please pass the info along to him. I am so thrilled with the course. I have so much joy listening to the lectures, I could almost marry him. - S. L.

Hi John, Finally got scores and percentiles
35 M 93.8-95.7% ranking
Thanks again so much. - D. C.

Just wanted to say thanks for taking on this huge project!!! I really appreciate all the information and hardwork you put into this. Wish me luck on the MCAT! - K. C.

I just want to thank you for all the work you put into this site. It has really helped me to understand Physics in a way that the big review companies have not been able to. God bless you and this company and thanks again. - A. S.

Thank you very much for making this wiki site. After scouring the internet for months for something good to supplement my upcoming May 31st MCAT studies I found this site and its great. - B. S.

Not sure if you would ever read this. But I just really wanted to thank you so much for all your work and god energy that you have placed in wikipremed. I have watched about 85 % all the videos and the way you explain physics is waw !!!! Thank you. Me and my friend already ordered the package, with the flashcards and everything. - K. C.

Hey John, first of all, THANK YOU so much for creating this one in a million website. I have been searching for sites for MCAT and this beats everything out there, hands down. I really like the video part about the physical sciences parts, rather than just bombarding all kinds of facts, the intuition you provide is amazing. - D. R.

I just wanted to thank you for doing this entire series. I suggested this site to everyone in the premed club at my university, and we now all use it as the main means to study for the MCAT. So thank you so much for putting all of this online and for free as well. Many of my classmates were unable to afford Kaplan courses and so on, so this is a life saver to them, and several of the ones who have alreaady taken the Kaplan course agree that this site provides a better and more robust study schedule. - A. W.

I haven't heard back on what my test results are yet, but my last practice test was a 34, so I'm hoping for the best. I just wanted to let you know that I appreciate what you've done in creating this course. Having benefited from not only the materials, but also your syllabus/schedule and the order in which you chose to present them, there is no way I would have guessed something like your program existed. WikiPremed is a true dark horse. Congratulations on an original and well executed idea! - L. L.

As a premed I had the same thought, that there should be a study program that builds knowledge block by block and connects the physics with the chemistry and biology. It looks like I found it. I can tell you put a ton of work into it, so this is just me saying Thanks. - P. S.

I love you. Very much. Thank you for putting this site together. I received a 32 on the MCAT. And this made me very happy. After taking a kaplan course and being stuck at around a 28. I wondered what more I could do. It was wikipremed.com. I find myself recommending this site to many people. Thank you for being wonderful, clear sighted, and altruistic. You really are amazing. - V. K.

I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for your heroic endeavor to make the MCAT a surmountable obstacle for aspiring premeds around the world. I used your website as my primary means of study and am happy to report that after much stress and worry have conquered the test and been accepted to medical school this coming fall. I owe you a debt of gratitude for your help and will gladly recommend your site to anyone with dreams of becoming a physician. - J. H.

Hello there, I was just wanting to write you a quick note letting you know how grateful I am for your site. I struggle with physics, and your course is allowing me to grasp the concepts. I am scheduled to take the MCAT in May. Thanks again!! - S. H.

I wanted to take the time to thank you for this resource. I am just starting to study for the June or July MCAT. It has been many years since I have studied these science topics (7-10 to be percise). As an older/nontraditional student, I have been very worried about starting over without retaking the classes. I have worked in clinical research for 5+yrs and have had a lot of encouragement to reconsider applying to medical school. I had been so nervous before I discovered your fantastic resource! - N. M.

Thank you!!! I wrote my MCAT this summer and studying only using this website and the exam krackers books, and I obtained a 33R. A million thanks! I don't know what I would have done without wiki-premed, not being able to spend the time or money on a prep course. - K. G.

I would like to thank the WikiPremed MCAT for freely distributing quality material online for MCAT preparation. I have used your material extensively in my own preparation for my exam. The material is well though out, especially the physical sciences flashcards. I also appreciated how each question explored a variety of implications that pertain to each topic, something which is rare in other MCAT preparation resources. Furthermore, the new situations in which a concept is situated served to prepare me well for new situations presented in the MCAT. Lastly, the spiraling curriculum was of great benefit, as it served to give a "heads up" for upcoming topics. At the end, I received a score of 13 in the physical sciences. I am grateful for all your help and hope that such services continue to be offered in the future for other students. - A. A.

Thank you for creating Wikipremed. I primarily used Wikipremed and the online AAMC tests to study. My pretest was a 27, rather horrifying. I wound up with a 32, decent enough to keep me in the running for medical school. I think your program is valuable for studying for the MCAT but should also be required for every student graduating from college, regardless of their major. Wikipremed does a fantastic job of drawing connections between the sciences, promoting a lifelong basic scientific understanding of the world. - D. P.

Educators and Advisors

Setting its sights on reducing obstacles for pre-med students (and saving them a few bucks in the process) is the surprisingly sophisticated, open-access WikiPremed MCAT Course site. Providing hundreds of items for free that prep courses such as Kaplan charge thousands of dollars for, WikiPremed is bound to be every pre-med student's friend, and not just because of its price. - Dr. Kevin Ahern - University of Oregon BioTechniques Web Watch

This is an open-course guide to understanding the scientific content of the MCAT and other health professions exams . . . The general content is neatly packaged here. - George Mason University Health Professions Advising

WikiPremed is an MCAT preparation site with flashcards, questions and video explanations by John Wetzel, an incredibly experienced MCAT course instructor. The site has comprehensive lessons in all aspects of the MCAT and is a superb asset for those preparing to take the test. - Truman State University AMSA

SDN Posts

Hey...I just wanted to vouche for the wikipremed site...it's the most comprehensive site out there that doesn't cost an arm and a leg plus a rib... The physics is especially great and the printed version is most definitely worth the cost!!!! - WannaBDR

I think it is the best comprehensive prep out there. - chebella7604

John, I have used the website and I find your video lectures and flashcards extremely helpful. I am very thankful for hardworking people like yourself in this world. Thanks. - ts1370

I truly can't say enough good things about WikiPremed. I took the MCAT for the first time last year and again this summer. Last year I participated in a weekly on-site prep course for four months. This summer I stumbled upon WikiPremed through a Google search for MCAT study materials. I improved my MCAT score by three points using the resources on WikiPremed. Reasons you should consider WikiPremed: - the structure [ The value of the "spiraling curriculum" that John Wetzel mentions in his course introduction is perhaps best realized after working a bit with the actual material. In my opinion, other methods don't compare to this setup. It's the way I believe most all things should be taught - dynamically and relevantly. The structure also allows you to work at your own pace and according to your own schedule. Call me nerdy, but I found the flashcards and crosswords to be pretty fun, while the videos offer the sense of a private tutor. Oh yeah - and he's not ruthlessly charging you by the minute for it. ] - the economics [ ...which brings me to my next point. For starters, it's free. No gimmicks where after 50 views of the site you get some unfriendly warning to "Pay up or log off!" Nope. Check out all the stuff he's got on there as much as you want, whenever you want. If you want the tangible products, you can buy "the bundle" for about fifty bucks. And suffice it to say that's many, many, many, many fractions less than I paid for my previous MCAT prep class. (Never mind the lower score I got doing so.) ] - the philosophy [ So, it's official. After using WikiPremed throughout my MCAT prep and ultimately reaching my goal with my score, I can say with confidence: Wetzel is not some profit-hungry monster. In reality, he's far from it. Honestly, I kept waiting for the catch. Instead, I came to accept that there are still genuinely good people in this world and realized he's in it for the right reasons - to offer access to MCAT prep materials to anyone, anywhere with the motivation to pursue becoming a physician. ] My suggestion: use WikiPremed as a central resource, KhanAcademy for clarification and a set of prep books (I used ExamKrackers) to supplement all of it. I'd also attempt to take as many practice tests as you can fit in your prep schedule whilst maintaining sanity. May seem like a lot, but once I got in the swing of things I was sincerely grateful for WikiPremed as a consistent guide and invaluable study tool. - SimplyDNotions

1) Your individual scores and composite score PS: 14 VR: 9 (ew) BS: 13 Composite: 36 2) The study method used for each section For Physics and Chemistry, I used TBR Physics and TBR Chemistry. These books are gold. I supplemented them with http://www.wikipremed.com and a little bit of http://www.khanacademy.org These websites are excellent free resources for MCAT prep, and are as good, if not better, than traditional MCAT prep materials. I'm giving a shout out here to John Wetzel. - muhali3