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surftheiop said:
I wasn't implying not to review organic, I just meant don't spend too much time on the Mechanisms of the reactions, being able to "arrow push" well is not important at all for the MCAT as far as I could tell.
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I understand. If I wasn't clear, all I really still need to review is mechanisms. I won't waste time "arrow pushing", but I DO need to go over reactants and products of the ones listed in the MCAT content review PDF.
 
surftheiop said:
I wasn't implying not to review organic, I just meant don't spend too much time on the Mechanisms of the reactions, being able to "arrow push" well is not important at all for the MCAT as far as I could tell.
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is it more about just knowing the product and reactants?
 
dingyibvs said:
i feel so left out when you guys talk about childhood shows 🙁
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captain underpants was a book series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Underpants


apparently i was way too old to be reading them...i have the first three. i def thought they were from the early ninties and i was just late to the party.

the kids in it are like the clean version of beevis and butthead (which, btw, b&b do america was on last night, + beer=win...+going out / late night=headache)
 
I saw that it was on, but we didn't watch it (we own it anyway... >.<). It cracks me up that the couple was voiced by Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.
 
raginfly said:
is it more about just knowing the product and reactants?
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Yeah.

I think there was some confusion in terminology here.

When I say "learn a reaction" I meant to know the products and reactants.

When I say "learn a mechanism" I meant knowing how to do the arrow pushing to get from said product to reactant.
 
*sigh*

Learn your orgo ffs. Again, my passages were all **** I hadn't seen before and had to figure out how it worked. It was definitely NOTHING like practice test orgo. Orgo constituted half of my BS section. A friend who took orgo a week before me had the exact same thoughts. Maybe the MCAT was just going through a phase that month, but I wouldn't risk it. I don't like to hear people giving bad advice.
 
FlowRate said:
*sigh*

Learn your orgo ffs. Again, my passages were all **** I hadn't seen before and had to figure out how it worked. It was definitely NOTHING like practice test orgo. Orgo constituted half of my BS section. A friend who took orgo a week before me had the exact same thoughts. Maybe the MCAT was just going through a phase that month, but I wouldn't risk it. I don't like to hear people giving bad advice.
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You really think detailed knowledge of the arrow pushing of each reaction is necessary????

So long as you know the products and reactants and the general principles of organic arrow pushing, your going to be completely fine.

Alternatively if you know the general principles of organic arrow pushing really, really well then you can pretty easily get away without necessarily memorizing reaction products/reactants.

Obviously in a world with infinite time it is best to memorize every detail, but in the real world its just not necessary.
 
Holy flying monkey balls! I just took the PS section for AAMC #6 and got a freaking 15!!!!!!!!! I only got two questions wrong! *Hyperventilates*
 
Geekchick921 said:
Holy flying monkey balls! I just took the PS section for AAMC #6 and got a freaking 15!!!!!!!!! I only got two questions wrong! *Hyperventilates*
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😀 👍

Also something to remember on test day- I'm sure it felt like you missed more than 2 while you were taking it, so don't freak out during real test if it feels like your missing a lot.
 
yeah, you need to know your orgo. my MCAT had 3 orgo passages.
 
surftheiop said:
I wasn't implying not to review organic, I just meant don't spend too much time on the Mechanisms of the reactions, being able to "arrow push" well is not important at all for the MCAT as far as I could tell.
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TBH, everything is important for the MCAT. Since anything can be on there, it doesn't make sense to make the choice not to study something. I definitely had a few mechanism questions on my test.
 
curbye said:
captain underpants was a book series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Underpants


apparently i was way too old to be reading them...i have the first three. i def thought they were from the early ninties and i was just late to the party.

the kids in it are like the clean version of beevis and butthead (which, btw, b&b do america was on last night, + beer=win...+going out / late night=headache)
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Ha, good, thought it was just childhood fun I missed out on. I read the whole Wizard of Oz series like my freshman year in high school or in 8th grade, pretty sure I was too old to be reading them too. But damn those books were good....

surftheiop said:
😀 👍

Also something to remember on test day- I'm sure it felt like you missed more than 2 while you were taking it, so don't freak out during real test if it feels like your missing a lot.
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Yup, I couldn't believe that I got a 15 in BS, I figured it was more like 12.

Artimacia said:
Mine had like one orgo passage
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Mine too.

JJMrK said:
TBH, everything is important for the MCAT. Since anything can be on there, it doesn't make sense to make the choice not to study something. I definitely had a few mechanism questions on my test.
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What kind of mechanism question? Based on my experiences, the MCAT really doesn't have many mechanisms that you need to know. Basically it's just the substitutions and the eliminations, and as long as you know them well and you know the trends/definitions(chirality, all the types of isomers) well you've got 80% of orgo covered.
 
float, how do you have this ninja status? i thought you had to be a donor or something.
 
Whatchu talking about boy? My button thingy is green and my name shows up at the bottom of the page.
 
well maybe you're just moving too quick for me from thread to thread.
 
FlowRate said:
Have you guys been keeping up on the Dr Nurse stuff? Gosh this makes me wish I had gone dent lol.
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Yeah, I know, it's really outrageous. I don't care about titles in the least, but what I'm concerned about is the standard of care falling at the primary care level, and patients being misinformed about who is treating them. If a nurse practitioner walks in, and says, "hello, I'm Dr. ____, however, I'm a nurse practitioner, and not a medical physician" then at least the patient is aware of who is seeing them.

But don't worry, in a year or two, we'll see the first lawsuit against a DNP, government officials will see a fault in the system, and more changes will occur.

FloatOn said:
Whatchu talking about boy? My button thingy is green and my name shows up at the bottom of the page.
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lol you definitely use some sort of ninja software. don't even lie
 
What is everyone talking about? I've always had it so that it shows when I'm on or not.
 
dingyibvs said:
What kind of mechanism question? Based on my experiences, the MCAT really doesn't have many mechanisms that you need to know. Basically it's just the substitutions and the eliminations, and as long as you know them well and you know the trends/definitions(chirality, all the types of isomers) well you've got 80% of orgo covered.
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There are some other finer details to keep in mind, too, IMO. Like how, in esterification, the oxygen from the alcohol is the one that makes up the ester, not the one from the -OH part of the carboxylic acid. I saw that on at least one of the practice tests I've taken. I'll wrap it up by the end of the week, I'm sure.
 
Geekchick921 said:
There are some other finer details to keep in mind, too, IMO. Like how, in esterification, the oxygen from the alcohol is the one that makes up the ester, not the one from the -OH part of the carboxylic acid. I saw that on at least one of the practice tests I've taken. I'll wrap it up by the end of the week, I'm sure.
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lmao, i remember correcting you on that in the Q&A board :laugh: that's part of knowing substitution well 😉
 
you guys are making quite the fuss about the orgo. orgo isn't even that bad to begin with and the MCAT doesn't trick you with it.
 
i almost wish i was studying. then i would have something to do.
 
no it is so not better. i am trying to figure out what might be wrong. lunotriquetral dissociation is what i'm reading about.
 
i think i have a hairline fracture on my first metacarpal of my left thumb
 
IndianVercetti said:
self diagnosis? that's the new trend huh
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Eh we are probably all going to rush ourselves to the ER with appendicitis at least once in med school, but seeing as apparently all SDN posters are gunners, we might as well get started early 😉
 
Geekchick921 said:
I never even saw that before. You answered that 10 days after I last responded. 😛 I FUBARed that entire answer.

Anyway... Furry Vengeance looks like one of the stupidest movies I've seen in a LONG time. Brendan Fraser just can't say no to anything.
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he really can't. like, he needs whatever roles he can get.
 
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