BR Orgo Over-Complicated or is it just me?

[Shibbyboi182]

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Title says it all. I'm a good chunk of the way into content review using a modified Sn2 schedule. I've been using BR for everything except bio, for which I use EK. I flew through bio and physics ahead of schedule, and verbal is showing to be surprisingly solid for me. Orgo is my Achilles heel.

Throughout BR organic, I feel that there are parts where it emphasizes seemingly random nuances equally or more importantly than fundamental concepts. I'm having a hard time distinguishing meat-and-potatoes from stuff that seems even trivial at times. The most recent example: Electrophilic Addition. Must know concept, got it down. But then it goes into several pages of 1,4-D.A. addition vs. 1,2--DA addition and conditions favoring one, the other, or equally. Is that level of detail really necessary? My impression of organic of the MCAT is that the necessary content is very surface, it's the critical thinking that's the pain in the a**.

Is the BR Organic overkill? I feel like the time I'm saving flying through other subjects is lost completely on trying to learn all of this seemingly trivial organic. I'm thinking maybe to use a different source for content review of organic and switch back to BR for the passages? I don't want to short-change myself but I really feel overwhelmed with their organic. Thoughts? Opinions?

 

[Temperature101]

Title says it all. I'm a good chunk of the way into content review using a modified Sn2 schedule. I've been using BR for everything except bio, for which I use EK. I flew through bio and physics ahead of schedule, and verbal is showing to be surprisingly solid for me. Orgo is my Achilles heel.

Throughout BR organic, I feel that there are parts where it emphasizes seemingly random nuances equally or more importantly than fundamental concepts. I'm having a hard time distinguishing meat-and-potatoes from stuff that seems even trivial at times. The most recent example: Electrophilic Addition. Must know concept, got it down. But then it goes into several pages of 1,4-D.A. addition vs. 1,2--DA addition and conditions favoring one, the other, or equally. Is that level of detail really necessary? My impression of organic of the MCAT is that the necessary content is very surface, it's the critical thinking that's the pain in the a**.

Is the BR Organic overkill? I feel like the time I'm saving flying through other subjects is lost completely on trying to learn all of this seemingly trivial organic. I'm thinking maybe to use a different source for content review of organic and switch back to BR for the passages? I don't want to short-change myself but I really feel overwhelmed with their organic. Thoughts? Opinions?

BR orgo is overkill but it might come handy when you need it... I have both kaplan and EK orgo as well, and I think they are not good at all. Therefore, I am sticking with BR orgo even though it is overkill...If you are getting 70%+ in the phases, you should stick with it.

 

[Cptn Loko]

I felt it was a good bit of overkill too. I ended up using TPR instead with chad's videos sprinkled in.

 

[Jepstein30]

Title says it all. I'm a good chunk of the way into content review using a modified Sn2 schedule. I've been using BR for everything except bio, for which I use EK. I flew through bio and physics ahead of schedule, and verbal is showing to be surprisingly solid for me. Orgo is my Achilles heel.

Throughout BR organic, I feel that there are parts where it emphasizes seemingly random nuances equally or more importantly than fundamental concepts. I'm having a hard time distinguishing meat-and-potatoes from stuff that seems even trivial at times. The most recent example: Electrophilic Addition. Must know concept, got it down. But then it goes into several pages of 1,4-D.A. addition vs. 1,2--DA addition and conditions favoring one, the other, or equally. Is that level of detail really necessary? My impression of organic of the MCAT is that the necessary content is very surface, it's the critical thinking that's the pain in the a**.

Is the BR Organic overkill? I feel like the time I'm saving flying through other subjects is lost completely on trying to learn all of this seemingly trivial organic. I'm thinking maybe to use a different source for content review of organic and switch back to BR for the passages? I don't want to short-change myself but I really feel overwhelmed with their organic. Thoughts? Opinions?

I found it to be more than necessary, EK does a much more concise review. The Orgo on the MCAT is pretty much straightforward. You'll want to know all the spectrometry stuff and simple reaction mechanisms (SN1, SN2, E1, E2, aldol, etc.) for sure as those are common questions.

Also, make sure you are actually using the more recent editions of TBR. The older editions have much, much more content in them than is actually tested on the MCAT since they changed the orgo topics a few years back. That is 100% overkill.