Can you still study for the Biological Scineces section without taking organic ?

[tennisball80]

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The questions on MCAT Biology section consists General Biology and Organic Chemistry knowledge.

If you only have taken general biology and look at the questions on MCAT, will you be able to recognize if the question is testing general biology or testing organic chemistry?

 

[tennisball80]

Sorry. Please move it to MCAT section.

 

[Druggernaut]

You might be able to recognize it, but you have to understand that most of the MCAT is made up of page long passages that test a variety of things, and these often require a mixture of biology and chemistry in order to answer the questions. There aren't many discreet questions that test just one thing.

You're a freshman, don't waste your time looking at the MCAT. Just focus on doing well in your classes, and on making yourself an actual human being other than some sort of automatronic BCPM regurgitating monster. If you're smart, getting into medical school shouldn't take complete and utter devotion at the expense of everything else that makes up life. There's a reason people who are further along in the game are telling you this.

If you really insist on studying for the MCAT, you can pick up review books in the individual subjects. That way you study things that you may have already covered (they are review books, after all), rather than wasting your time teaching yourself things that you're going to learn more thoroughly later.

 

[tennisball80]

You might be able to recognize it, but you have to understand that most of the MCAT is made up of page long passages that test a variety of things, and these often require a mixture of biology and chemistry in order to answer the questions. There aren't many discreet questions that test just one thing.

You're a freshman, don't waste your time looking at the MCAT. Just focus on doing well in your classes, and on making yourself an actual human being other than some sort of automatronic BCPM regurgitating monster. If you're smart, getting into medical school shouldn't take complete and utter devotion at the expense of everything else that makes up life. There's a reason people who are further along in the game are telling you this.

If you really insist on studying for the MCAT, you can pick up review books in the individual subjects. That way you study things that you may have already covered (they are review books, after all), rather than wasting your time teaching yourself things that you're going to learn more thoroughly later.

Thank you for advice. Please move this to the MCAT section if a mod sees it.

 

[JaggerPlate]

I know you want this moved to MCAT, but just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents ... yes, you can do fine on the BS section without taking an Orgo class. For me personally, everything you need to know/study is covered in books and review courses, and a lot of time old knowledge from classes can screw you up. I took a class and there was a LOT of people that didn't do Orgo before taking it. Also, in my opinion, Orgo is being stressed a lot less. I only had one passage and a few discretes of Orgo the last time I took the test, and no matter how hard I studied it, I always seemed to do about the same on them (hence was very happy to have much more Bio stressed).

 

[jfellings]

I took the MCAT before taking Organic and did just fine. The MCAT is moving more towards genetics and other Biology topics and testing less and less Organic. On my test there were only 4-5 Organic questions and my friends that have taken it since say the same thing.