Did you use the lehninger text for your first biochemistry class ?

[SelfObsessedMik]

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I go to a noname university and our into biochem class covers the entire lehninger biochemistry text in one semester. I am pretty sure that is the same as medical school. Are you guys in the same boat ? Can undergrad biochemistry really be as hard as medical school biochem ?

 

[Medikit]

That's what we used at my school, I definitely liked the book though I think lehninger's forte is metabolism. It's actually one of the easier reads out there. I also own Voet and Voet but I feel like it is best read AFTER having finished undergrad biochem.

 

[SelfObsessedMik]

Did you guys go through the entire book in one semester ?

 

[Medikit]

Did you guys go through the entire book in one semester ?

We went through most of it in two semesters. Second semester is mostly DNA/RNA and protein synthesis.

 

[UCLAstudent]

I used it. The book is wonderful. I'm on the quarter system (only 10 weeks per quarter), so we didn't make it through the entire book. We got through about 1/2 of it.

 

[UCLAstudent]

To add to Medikit's post, the class I took didn't cover DNA/RNA synthesis. Those topics were covered in a subsequent course.

 

[SpyPuts]

I go to a noname university and our into biochem class covers the entire lehninger biochemistry text in one semester. I am pretty sure that is the same as medical school. Are you guys in the same boat ? Can undergrad biochemistry really be as hard as medical school biochem ?

I'm using Lehninger to review cell metabolism and protein structure for the August MCAT. Studying the entire text in 4.5 months is not feasible. Whoever convinced you of this has fed you a pile of BS.

If you just wanted to read through and recall only a bare minimum amount of facts, sure, you could accomplish that in a month or two.

 

[SelfObsessedMik]

"Whoever convinced you of this has fed you a pile of BS."

- Hey *******: I have many friends who have already taken the class and they went through the entire book in one semester. That is not a negotiable discussion. The prof tested out of the book and he covered all of it.

You better get used to the pace wimpy because in med school they cover all that book and thensome during the first semester while they are also taking Anatomy and a couple other lesser classes.

 

[SpyPuts]

"Whoever convinced you of this has fed you a pile of BS."

- Hey *******: I have many friends who have already taken the class and they went through the entire book in one semester. That is not a negotiable discussion. The prof tested out of the book and he covered all of it.

You better get used to the pace wimpy because in med school they cover all that book and thensome during the first semester while they are also taking Anatomy and a couple other lesser classes.

Good one.

But I stand by my statement, you cannot cover the entire text in a single semester 4 hour undergraduate-level class. If by "covered all of it" you really mean to say that they skipped around a bit and got a good overview of the subject, then that is entirely possible. There is a lot of minutiae (read: entire chapters) covered in the book which would be a waste of time even for medical students.

Since you were kind enough to leave me with some advice, here's some for you: learn to read & write. It's true that this is an internet forum and that you are not graded on grammar, but your posts leave me with the impression that you are quite immature and of below-average intelligence. If it will help you sleep at night, I'll also tell you that I am confident in my ability to handle the work load at any US medical school, but I do thank you for your concern.

 

[SelfObsessedMik]

I have a 3.95 GPA at a school that obviously requires a lot more than your school. Also, you must not have understood when I told you twice that the course covers the entire book. I wont tell you a third time because you are obviously not getting it.

As for my grammer you can kiss my ass.

 

[MiaFLSurf]

Wow.
Someone is obsessed a little too much.....

Good luck on those interviews, Im sure youll come off looking reeeeealllllll smooth.

 

[SitraAchra]

I have a 3.95 GPA at a school that obviously requires a lot more than your school. Also, you must not have understood when I told you twice that the course covers the entire book. I wont tell you a third time because you are obviously not getting it.

As for my grammer you can kiss my ass.

You misspelled "grammar" - don't brag and get sloppy in the same post, it looks bad.

And everyone is tired of your threads concerning biochemistry.

 

[SpyPuts]

I have a 3.95 GPA at a school that obviously requires a lot more than your school. Also, you must not have understood when I told you twice that the course covers the entire book. I wont tell you a third time because you are obviously not getting it.

As for my grammer you can kiss my ass.

I think you're the one that doesn't get it. It is impractical to cover the *entire* book in one semester. That's more than a chapter and a half every week. The book "reads" well, but if you intend to recall any of the information contained within, you're going to need to spend more time with it (particularly if it's 1/3 or 1/4 of your course load for the semester). Anyway, this is the point where I stop letting you waste my time.

PS: The word is spelled 'grammar.'
PPS: My GPA is higher than yours.
PPPS: My school is on the upper portion of the US News ranking.

/pissingcontest off

To everyone else, I'm sorry you had to endure that. 🙂

 

[Medikit]

To everyone else, I'm sorry you had to endure that. 🙂

It was appropriate given the context

 

[it.]

i took a biochem class where we also covered pretty much all of lehninger in a semester save a couple chapters. 2 days a week, very closely following the book. wasn't just skimming the text either. the tests were ridiculous and involved a lot of details. it was memorization intensive and HELL. i hated biochem after that. op, screw that class; take something else

 

[AxlxA]

I took biochem with this book and i gotta say

Ax|xA >>>>> the rest of you

 

[Karina]

Did you guys go through the entire book in one semester ?

No way!

Karina

 

[SelfObsessedMik]

"i took a biochem class where we also covered pretty much all of lehninger in a semester save a couple chapters. 2 days a week, very closely following the book. wasn't just skimming the text either. the tests were ridiculous and involved a lot of details. it was memorization intensive and HELL. i hated biochem after that. op, screw that class; take something else"

- Thank you for saying that ... so there are other schools that cover the whole book as well.

 

[Skaterbabe74]

Our school uses Lehninger for the two-semester class and a different book for the 1-semester class. I'm doing the two-semester version and did the first half in a 4 week summer session so we definitely didn't cover the whole book. We did cover the entire first half of the book in those 4 weeks tho and did a 20 slide presentation on a second semester topic.

 

[Preeti09]

We used the Lehninger book (a personal fave I must add...one of the only bio or chem text books I could actually read without falling asleep/staring at the page forever...nice figures too) over the course of TWO semesters. The thing at my school was that second semester is taught by a different prof and set-up so that people who only need one semester can take either independently, SO, there was quite a bit of overlap...I think we did chapters 1-5 both semesters. I'm sure without the overlap it's tight, but doable in one semester.

 

[beanbean]

Hey *******: I have many friends who have already taken the class and they went through the entire book in one semester. That is not a negotiable discussion. The prof tested out of the book and he covered all of it.

You better get used to the pace wimpy because in med school they cover all that book and thensome during the first semester while they are also taking Anatomy and a couple other lesser classes.

I usually don't offer advice to posters who are rude and obnoxious to other posters. I do feel the need to correct you assertion that in med school you will cover all of Lehninger and then some. You most certainly do not cover biochem in the detail that is provided in Lehninger. Lipponcotts biochem is all that is needed at most schools.

If you can't be nice to the people who answer your question....don't post here.

 

[Noeljan]

Hey there
in my UG biochem course which was 4 credits the text was optional, but the Lehinger figure book was required. Our prof. had a really sweet set of notes you could buy and basically if you just read through them while studying the figures you could do well on the tests (or at least in my opinion). Looking at the figures helped a lot. I would really advise you to get that figure book. I really enjoyed the class. Hmm Im trying to think back, I think we skipped around a little bit. I could look through my old stuff and get back to you on that one though. I do remember organic 2 and biochem going really well together for some reason for configurations and things like that.