Anyone else find the EK Orgo Workbook (2003) to have impossible tests?!

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Right so I have the 1001 question series and the workbooks. The workbooks each have a 30 min practice test for each chapter and they give you a MCAT score estimate. On the Bio and Chem 30 minute tests I was getting 12, 11, 12, 12, 10, 12, 12, and a single 10.

The Orgo books had 4 of these practice tests, I got 7, 6, 10, 8 😕

I quiz myself with flash cards and seem to know everything in Orgo. Not to mention I completely and utterly raped the stand alone questions on these Orgo tests (knew the answer to each one of the stand alones without even looking at the choices and usually before I even finished the question!) But the passages? *whistle* Prochirality and sterochem up the wazoo.

Anyone else notice this or do just really suck at Orgo passages?

 

[IceColdPenguin]

yeah i am pretty good at orgo, but cant seem to do well answering the questions when they are in passage format

 

[161468]

The actual MCAT organic chemistry questions are extremely basic, asking mainly about properties of compounds, not specific reactions or products.

 

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Is there a lot of Steroechem? Because EK seems to be a huge fan of asking things " If something with 8 chiral centers reacts with a (S)(Z)(+), prochical molecule... will the final solution be a meso compound or will it will a diastereomer?

I mean I know textbook stero chem, but some of the passage questions they ask are just really really wierd, and they all seem to be about chirality or sterochem

 

[161468]

Is there a lot of Steroechem? Because EK seems to be a huge fan of asking things " If something with 8 chiral centers reacts with a (S)(Z)(+), prochical molecule... will the final solution be a meso compound or will it will a diastereomer?

I mean I know textbook stero chem, but some of the passage questions they ask are just really really wierd, and they all seem to be about chirality or sterochem

Yes, there will almost assuredly be multiple questions about that. Let me retract a bit on my previous statement about specific reactions/products; this is true except for Sn2, Sn1, E1, and E2.

 

[RoadRunner17]

Sometimes I wonder why I should bother doing the EK 30-minute exams while reading through the book. I feel like I should save them for later on, between having fully completed the content review and taking the full battery of AAMC tests leading up to the exam. After all, its supposed to be difficult right? So what's the point of getting raped by it when you're just doing content review?

 

[axp107]

The 30 min O Chem tests aren't hard.. compared to the other subject books (Chem/Physics)