Amount of ORGO in recent MCATs?

[dr octagon]

Can anyone enlighten me as to the amount of Organic Chemistry that has appeared on recent MCATS? I've heard that though the AAMC practice tests have a good amount, the more recent MCATs focus more on Biology and contain less Organic. Can anyone weigh in with an educated response? My reason for asking is that I do amazingly well on all the Biology passages but don't do so hot in the Organic passages (despite studying and doing well in Orgo) and I usually end up with around a 9-10 (on the AAMC prac tests) when I want a consistent 10+ (on my actual one coming up on 7/29).

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[JSU]

Can anyone enlighten me as to the amount of Organic Chemistry that has appeared on recent MCATS? I've heard that though the AAMC practice tests have a good amount, the more recent MCATs focus more on Biology and contain less Organic. Can anyone weigh in with an educated response? My reason for asking is that I do amazingly well on all the Biology passages but don't do so hot in the Organic passages (despite studying and doing well in Orgo) and I usually end up with around a 9-10 (on the AAMC prac tests) when I want a consistent 10+ (on my actual one coming up on 7/29).

I had one passage on sugars which is not eve 100% orgo and around 3 free standing questions. It sounds like there isnt much these days, which was unfortunate for me.

 

[bieber]

the recent official test i took had very little orgo, maybe even a little bit less than i saw on aamc practice tests (which was already minimal)

but i know of at least one official test within the past 3 months that supposedly had a seemingly disproportionate amount of orgo .. i forget which, though.

i didn't do too well in my orgo class, but i never felt really uncomfortable reasoning through the passages and i almost always did fine on them. on the official test i just took, though, there were a lot more memorization specifics that caught me off guard ... for ex: naming types of compounds ... which is supposed to be incredibly easy, but i didn't get it because i didn't study specifics. /facepalm

 

[dr octagon]

Thanks for the response! I feel slightly better knowing that I wont have to deal with as much orgo on the actual exam (hopefully)

 

[hondaaccordjdm]

anyone from the june / july exams ?? more genetics ?

 

[cfx]

I took it last Friday and there was only 1 organic passage. Not sure how many discretes, but at least a couple. I would have preferred more, to be honest.

 

[judasreznor]

I took a test last August and one in May. The August one was chock full of Organic passages. The May one had very little Organic (approximately 1 passage plus a few discrete questions).

 

[plzNOCarribbean]

Orgo I would prefer to see more orgo.

 

[ru4real1666]

the recent trend has been that the amount of orgo is very little in most tests but then there is ONE test between the majority of test dates which has a disproportionate amount of it. just do the best you can with the material and hope you get the one with less orgo! haha

 

[whoop]

My March MCAT had way too much organic.

 

[eablackwell]

Luck of the draw. My April mcat had 1 crazy hard orgo passage and no discretes. My June one had two medium lvl orgo passages and 4 discretes.