It was obvious that it was recorded several years ago and hasn't been updated in a while. It was okay, I wouldn't discourage anyone from buying it as the information is useful and presented in a simple format. But it's a little expensive and I'm not sure it helped me much other than offering audio to the examkrackers books I was reading. The books seemed to be a little more up to date than the cd's and I would recommend these books over the Kaplan ones. Good luck on the MCAT!

This particular copy of Audio Osmosis had garbled tracks. The information was helpful. Since my purchase was electronically delivered I do not know where the fuzziness began or if the set was complete and unabridged.

These are great to listen too. However, they do get old fast. There are lots of quirky sounds and really bad jokes that are amusing the first time you listen to the lecture but after a few listens they become very old. I really think listening to these helped alot, so I highly recommend them.

This is a great product, I've been listening to this in my car almost everywhere I go. It keeps you refreshed on the multitude of topics presented on the MCAT, while the cheesy/corny jokes keep the perspective lite in contrast to other preps available.

This product is comprehensive and well organized, and I believe one of the better audio MCAT reviews out there. In some of the reviews people have complained that the jokes and sound effects are distracting--I have a thought about this: The lack of monotony and homogeneity of the recordings keeps the listener interested. Other programs are easy to "tune out" after a short while. This program keeps you listening and gets the information into your head whether you are extremely focused or not---thus the name: Audio Osmosis. Fully recommended.

I'm more of a visual and active learner, so I didn't love this product, but I did find it a useful way to try to review some key points when I was in the car or unable to open a book. The authors of the product say that you can just use the Audio Osmosis but I would strongly recommend that it's used as a supplement to other types of learning, unless you're really familiar with all of the MCAT science content already and truly just need a refresher.

These guys did a great job at covering every topic on the MCAT in a fun way. This is a great way to study while driving or playing video games or just laying around. You don't have to open a book or use a muscle, all you do is just stay awake, and they do a good job helping you to do that.

Jordan and Jon are not annoying at all, unless you are easily annoyed. Don't believe these disgruntled reviewers who say there is too much comedy. There is actually very little comedy. There is the occasional bad joke, and they'll make fun of it with sound effects for being a bad joke. Besides, when you're studying for the MCAT, ALL jokes, good or bad, are a welcome relief. So it's all in good fun, and it's only a nuisance if you are no fun, which I suppose is true of a lot of premeds. Jon is the know-it-all, and Jordan is the confused guy you can relate to. Jon has the dry, genius voice, Jordan has the young, animated voice. It works.

You won't ace the MCAT just by listening to this, but what I recommend is first studying the lecture from the book, then listening to the lecture on Audio Osmosis before you go to sleep. It's a very effective combination. I hesitate to even call these lectures because they're more like a summary of all of the important topics in each chapter. Jordan asks a question about the lecture, Jon gives him part of the answer, Jordan says "oh yeah!" and starts figuring out the rest of the answer for himself, Jon helps him along, then Jordan asks another question that takes the topic into further detail. That's the formula, and it's a good one.

These guys did as good a job as they possibly could have at covering every topic on the MCAT in a fun way. Everyone dreads studying for the MCAT, but this is a great way to study while driving or playing video games or just laying around. You don't have to open a book or use a muscle, all you do is just stay awake, and they do a good job helping you to do that.

This is a great way to start studying for the MCAT. It should be a refresher course for you since you should have covered all of this stuff in classes already. If you leave yourself maybe 2 months between the time you finish Audio Osmosis and take the test, you'll have plenty of time to use the Examkrackers books and take practice exams and get used to seeing MCAT questions, and by the time you take the test it'll be almost too easy.

this item is ...well, horrible! Save your money.

The good reviews, I presume, must have been posted by students on the lower end of the spectrum who are clueless and way too lazy to pick up a book. Annoying (and long) jokes interrupt the lessons quite frequently and waste a great portion of audio time. I tried listening to the CDs a few months ago, before I had begun studying on my own. I was amused and annoyed at the same time. I didn't get past the first CD. I tried it again days before taking my MCAT (when I knew the stuff) and it was simply UNBEARABLE.

this product is NOT to be taken seriously. worthless all around.

I bought this after reading another reviewer complain about how incredibly distracting their poor attmept at mixing some comedy in with the MCAT information was... I bought anyway thinking "how distracting could it actually be?" Well... the sound effects that are added in for I guess a comedic slant and the "dumb guy / smart guy" way of presenting the material is sooooo distracting I can't stand to even listen to the CDs. It is horrible - what's worse is that this would be a good study review if these guys would lay off these sound effects and poor attempts at jokes that have nothing to do with learning or reviewing the material.

MCAT Audio Osmosis is not bad, but is not entirely good either. The CDs were helpful for review in a general way. I mostly used the CDs to find the topics which I found confusing. Instead of listening over and over again to the parts I really didn't understand, I found it more useful to review those areas from the Exam Krackers review notes (which are much, much better). As well there are way too many distractions throughout the CDs (they are only funny the first time).

The Exam Krackers Audio Osmosis series is by far the most excellent resource I had for preparing for the MCAT. Jordan and Jon break-down and simplify not only every concept on the test, but also the test itself. They have each taken the test numerous times and score very highly, and you can tell they really understand the ins-and-outs of the MCAT.
This series is also surprisingly entertaining in it's corniness and you actually begin enjoying listening to the CD's right off the bat.
I can't really say much here that hasn't already been said before by others.
There are a couple of small errors they made and you can find them on their website. They should probably come out with a newer version that corrects those and talks a little about the computer-based MCAT, which is whi I give this a 4-star instead of 5-star rating.

i take the mcat in january, but if you're neurotic about spending every free minute of your day studying like i am, then this is a great addition to your arsenal for studying while commuting. i drive from annapolis to d.c. every weekend and put all 13ish cds on my ipod.. i can get through a complete subject each way. excellent mcat prep but could never be standalone. good luck.

im pretty blah about it...it's good and it's bad...it's right in the middle of being just a ok product from examkrackers....you'd spend better time reading their awesome review notes and practicing your tests...

This is a great program for anyone preparing for the MCATs. I listen to the cd's in my car, or as I am walking. They are an excellent addition to any MCAT preparation.

This set of audio cds is great. Listening to these cds encouraged me to buy the complete study package!

Right now, I'm a 2nd year med student and I used this product what it seems now, a long time ago. I read now a couple of other reviews and I decided to do one myself, because I disagree with some people. First, I dont know if a have a silly sense of humor but this guys are hillarious, and even though you are not looking for a stand up comedy album, laughing to some stupid joke can make studying a lot easier.

Second, I recommend you to get also the examkrackers books, so you may listen to the cd and then go to your text book to read and memorize what is there, believe me is the fastest way you are going to read anything for that crappy test, cause truth is reading about general biology is not exactly reading Harry Potter.

Another good hint - Buy the 101 questions or something like that On verbal Examkrackers 101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning (Examkrackers). Because other companies say "read read read" total BS - Im sorry but in less than 2 months you are not going to read enough to get the 10, so "practice practice practice" and probably youll have good luck.

Right now, I'm a 2nd year med student and I used this product what it seems now, a long time ago. I read now a couple of other reviews and I decided to do one myself, because I disagree with some people. First, I dont know if a have a silly sense of humor but this guys are hillarious, and even though you are not looking for a stand up comedy album, laughing to some stupid joke can make studying a lot easier.

Second, I recommend you to get also the examkrackers books, so you may listen to the cd and then go to your text book to read and memorize what is there, believe me is the fastest way you are going to read anything for that crappy test, cause truth is reading about general biology is not exactly reading Harry Potter.

Study hard - you don't want to go to Latin America for med school - I dont know what they teach there, probably they still use penicillin on s. aureus infections haha - Ohhh Another good hint - Buy the 101 questions or something like that On verbal Examkrackers 101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning (Examkrackers). Because other companies say "read read read" total BS - Im sorry but in 2 months you are not going to read enough to get the 10, so "practice practice practice" and probably youll have good luck.

Because I have a long commute back and forth to school, I thought that Audio Osmosis would be a good way to get a head start on studying for the MCAT,and I was right! Jordan and Jon move quickly through physics (though it is 4 CDs), biology, inorganic and organic chemistry and a brief section on writing. I have focused on physics to prepare me for summer courses, and although the concepts were new (I never took physics in high school), I found that with REPITITION I was able to master the elemental concepts and even a few formulas within a few weeks. The CDs do move quickly, covering a lot of material in little time, and this can be a bit difficult to follow. The solution, of course, is to listen again, and again and again... though with their humor and quirky sound effects, this isn't difficult.

The Examkrackers series is absolutely wonderful, and I think the Audio Osmosis really helps to reinforce concepts. It should be utilised as a supplement to TPR, Kaplan or EK books.

This seems like a good way to review. I have taken the mcat once (w/o audio osmosis) and am studying to take it again. So far, I've listened to the discs once through, and I think that being able to hear concepts while at work or on the train to/from work will help cement them in addition to reading, reviewing, and taking practice tests. DO NOT think you'll ace the mcat w/o practice tests, but it's an amusing set of discs with some good sound effects, asides, and mnemonics to help commit concepts to memory. I'm pretty confident it should help.

The reviewer named "Book Reviewer" Listed below is fake. I brought a book from secret route 2 months ago I recieved it within a week, it is very good and useful book. 60 essays and 50 answers are very effective and worth the price. "Book reviewer" is not a real person, he has no other reviews on amazon, he is fake!

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.

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

I have owned these CDs for about a year now. They do contain a wealth of information, however the laughtrack, sound effects, and irrelevant stories really do detract from their quality. After listening to each lecture several times, I began to anticipate the gongs, cheers, and other sound effects and latch on to those rather than the material. They are distracting to say the least. However, the lecturers have both been teaching MCAT prep for many years, and each repeatedly scored in the 90th percentile several times.

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
to find the specific information that you're looking for
No track listing is enclosed
Stiff (No contractions, no pronouns)
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 contract
"just think of the letters SABP"...cause that's easy.

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

The CDs are a very helpful study aid. Yeah, the jokes are really corny, but there is quite a lot of good information here and extremely useful memorization tricks. I must say, though that most of the information here is limited unless you buy the study books, as well. The books and the audio disc complement eachother.

I listen while I drive, while I workout, I build confidence about taking the MCAT and laugh while my learning mind absorbs. Yes!

If you are so sensitive that these tasteless jokes bother you that much......you are not going to make it in medical school. Lighten up people.

Yeah the jokes are bad, but the material is good.

I took Gen Chem and Bio over 15 years ago, returned to school to gain pre-reqs for med school by taking Org and Physics. These CDs and the Examkrackers book set are all I studied for those long-forgotten subjects. Excellent, to-the-point format gave me exactly what I needed to know on each section, refreshed my memory with good visuals and the audio topped it off. As I am more of a visual learner, I was really surprised how much the audio helped.

Worked for me as I am busy packing to enter Medical School in my first choice school for Fall, 05 matriculation.

Good luck to all.

I am half way through listening to these awesome CDs. Here is why they are the greatest idea since sliced bread: 1)They are a very much needed tool, for those of us learners that learn best by hearing 2)For those who have alot of commute time they don't want wasted, it is a valuable way to spend that time 3)It is a fun, simple, and entertaining way to be introduced or to review the hard sciences.

Feel free to e-mail me, if you have any questions or comments. I find other's feedback and exchange of information a huge help for me, and would like to keep information flowing.

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Rebecca
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I would not recommend Audio Osmosis to anyone, unless you have a lot of time wasted everyday (commuting or whatever) to listen to these CD's. I have not try the other audio programs, and I probably will because the Audio Osmosis CD's are basically the EXAM Kracker books read to you. They add a little bit more information once in a while, leave out some.

But, their humor is horrendous. I have only listened to one CD and haven't heard any of the anti-female stuff that one reviewere mentioned, but their jokes suck. Suck elephant balls suck. It is so not funny. It's so bad that you can't believe it's that bad. I think it might actually take away from learning sometimes. And the sound effects suck too. I really feel bad for these guys, they might be making a decent amount of money off the MCAT's but whatever partners they have, man or women, must suffer through their humor. So, don't expect it to be funny like they advertise.

If you don't have a lot of time to listen on your hands, than do not buy this series. I would probably try out the other Audio series or even better try out the video series. I have ordered the video series and they are due to arrive on Oct 10th, so in late october, I will review those for you. I have also bought their books, their books are not so bad, but I"m trying to learn from them, and it is definitely meant to be review and you cannot learn well directly from them. So make sure you have a good textbook handy besides you if you don't understand the concept well. The exam kracker books, like most of the other books, do not give enough practice for each concept.

Alright, that's all.
Be well.

This is excellent! If you want to learn quickly and effectively, this is what you need! It is worth every penny!

I would not recommend "studying" straight from these audio CD's, though it can be done. Instead, it is very helpful to REVIEW the topics you're uncomfortable with. I listened to them in the car, in my lab job, before bed. They offer great flexibility to one's studying and the jokes help you relax a bit and not be so tense. The topics are covered with depth and help you become more INTUITIVE with the science.
Because the audio CD's go closely with the Examcrackers books, it feels like you can supplement a "lecture" with the great books. These guys are the best hands down on MCAT materials and have an online message board to answer any questions (very quickly too).

While we are not generally big fans of audio sets, we do like several rather unique characteristics of the Examkrackers audio package. It is a CD set so it is much easier to "rewind" to the beginning of the different topics, it is a dialog between 2 people as opposed to 1 narrator reading script, humor is interspersed throughout the CDs (which we were told didn't detract from it for the ultra-serious types), and sound effects are used to hold your attention as well as to facilitate your memorization of the material.

The set's title is very appropriate and if you are a commuter, this can add many hours to your MCAT preparation that otherwise would have been wasted in the car.

These guys were great. They covered everything that was on my MCAT in
April. They discuss the science concept rather than give lectures. They
aren't nearly as funny as they think they are, but I have to admit that I
did laugh occasionally. Anyway, their jokes and sound effects definitely
helped me remember the material. And there is no way that I would have
listened to 13 hours of straight lecture. If you really think 5 hours is
better than 13 hours, and dry and boring is better than interesting, then I
suggest Audio Learn instead. Unfortunately, I tried Audio Learn before I
found Audio Osmosis.

They talk fast so you should definitely plan on reviewing writtne material beforehand. Preferably sitting down and taking notes on your first listen through as they recommend. After that, use repitition on commutes to drill the basics.

Highly recommended.

These cds are great. I spent $1300 on a MCAT prep course and these cds are much more useful then the prep class material. I have actually stopped going to the prep class and just use this material and I feel like I am making more progress than I was while I was going to class. If I had known about examkrackers before I signed up for the course I would have just bought these cds and saved [a lot of money].