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[Reimat]

Look through old threads- this question comes up offen and the answers to your questions are 'maybe', and 'yes'. The core courses might be enough, but having genetics, biochem, endocrinology, and/or physiology courses can give you an edge.

 

[Howard Roark]

Are the 4 main pre med classes....bio, ochem, chem, and physics, sufficient enough by themselves in order to do well on the mcat? Does the mcat cover anything that these classes wouldn't cover?

genetics
physiology
biochemistry

these would be nice also

good luck


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[fahimaz7]

Every physiology class that you can as well as biochems.

Scott

 

[liverotcod]

Literary analysis and expository writing. Verbal is the most important component of the MCAT, and even the science components are strongly correlated with reading comprehension, which is best built by doing close reading and writing.

I don't think coursework outside of the prereq sciences is all that helpful - just look at the exam's syllabus and compare it to your class syllabi, and study any outliers. For example, I didn't have fluid dynamics in my physics course, and just studied it on my own.

The corpus of factual knowledge required for the MCAT is really pretty small. It takes a lot more time and effort to effectively learn analytical skills.