The difference between ExperienceMED and the big CASPer and interview prep companies comes down to one question: who actually coaches you? At ExperienceMED the answer is always the same person. Arvin Ardakani, a final-year medical student who founded ExperienceMED, teaches the course, marks every answer himself and answers students on WhatsApp, from the first session to test day.
How is ExperienceMED different from a big CASPer prep company?
Who coaches you. At ExperienceMED, it is Arvin, every time. When he paid big prep companies himself, he was coached by whoever the company assigned and never worked with the faces on their websites. He tells that story in what he learned from paying big prep companies.
Who writes the practice. He writes the practice scenarios himself, so the person who wrote a scenario is the person who marks your answer to it.
Between sessions. At ExperienceMED, support does not end when the hour does. Students text Arvin on WhatsApp when a question comes up, and practise at any hour with an AI model he trained on his own teaching.
The method. ExperienceMED teaches one structure, the 7-Level Blueprint, practised against 140 scenarios. It is the structure Arvin Ardakani used to reach the 4th quartile on CASPer four times.
What happens if it does not work. The 4th Quartile Promise: finish the CASPer program, and if you do not reach the 4th quartile, Arvin keeps working with you next cycle at no extra cost, until you do. It covers his coaching, not the test fee, and applies to one program at a time. It applies to CASPer. Read why the 4th Quartile Promise exists.
Who marks your CASPer answers?
At ExperienceMED, Arvin marks students’ answers himself and diagnoses the one pattern holding each student back. Before you sign up anywhere, ask who will mark your answers. See why he marks every answer himself.
Where are big prep companies strong?
Large companies offer volume: big scenario banks, many time slots and set curricula. If what you need is material and scheduling flexibility, that has value. What volume cannot replace is a coach who reads your answer and knows exactly what to change.
Does ExperienceMED coach interviews as well as CASPer?
Yes. The Interview course runs on the same model for MMI and panel interviews: original stations, recorded mock interviews and a teardown after each one, for medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, physiotherapy, nursing and every other pre-health applicant. A CASPer purchase and an interview purchase are separate programs.
What results have ExperienceMED students had?
Students coached at ExperienceMED have moved from the 1st and 2nd quartile to the 4th: Aida from the 2nd to the 4th and into the University of Ottawa’s MD program, and Shima from the 1st to the 4th as a dental applicant writing in her second language.
To see the difference for yourself, try the free CASPer mock, or see the CASPer programs.
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