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Become an expert at MCAT Logarithms with professional tips, analysis, and incredible shortcuts. Instantly calculate logarithms in your head, without a calculator! Expert Challenge Questions help clarify the topics. These never-before-seen questions will help you gain a deep understanding of the material. Message from the Author: The MCAT math is tough, but you don't need a calculator. Oh, you'll want one, of course, but you don't need it and you can't have it. Trust me: it's better that way. If they gave you a calculator, they'd have to make the math much, much harder. As it is, a good start plus intuitive estimation can get you where you need to be, and this guide will teach you how. The MCAT administrators have crafted a vehicle for the demonstration of strategy, not math skills. There are lots of short cuts and time-savers, and this guide will give you a few. Why Logarithms? Well, the logarithm scale is most effective in plotting data that varies greatly. Mathematician George E. P. Box (Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin) famously put it this way: Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. Well, that's where logarithms come in. How do we plot data when comparing 5 units to 5 thousand units to 5 million units to 5 billion units? If we used a bar graph, the paper would have to be 20 feet long and we still wouldn't see the first two data points. We need to plot the log values. Logarithms allow us to graph data such as the concentration of Hydrogen (pH Scale) or the tremblings of the Earth (Richter Magnitude Scale) and see trends that include all data points. The tough part is the translation to and from the logarithms. This guide will teach you what logarithms are, how to use them, and what to memorize for the MCAT. It will also show you the necessary shortcuts for MCAT success. As I always say: the MCAT is tough, and medicine is much tougher, but I promise you can handle it. Read through this guide, research the concepts you are not confident with, make notes, tackle the demonstration problems, and practice, practice, practice. You'll be fine, I believe in you.

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Jeff Rosenspan has been an educator since 1998. From tutoring English as a Second Language (ESL) while still in high school to more recently teaching college-level statistics, Rosenspan has personally helped over 900 students achieve their goals. In addition to MCAT preparation, Rosenspan has taught classes covering strategy and content for the DAT, OAT, PCAT, LSAT, GMAT, GRE, ASVAB, SAT, SSAT, SAT2, ACT, PSAT, ISEE, TOEFL, VCAT, PRAXIS, and NCLEX-RN exams.

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