Do I need to Know about spectrometers for DAT OChem?

[missdiana]

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HI~~

I have a question about DAT Organic chem section.

I haven't studying for DAT YET...I still need to study and finish my orgo and ana+physiology before I actually start to solve some DAT questions

I am studying those annoying spectrometers in Ochem (IR, NMR, ect)
I get to basics of their needs...and sort of how to read the graph
but in my OChem book, there are just so many tedious stuff on these spectrometers
(such as how these things work and what they are consist of and how this thing work with different molecules etc)

So here is my question
My prof said he is not gonna ask us anything tedious on these spectrometer, so I don't have to know all that
but do I need to know all these tedious things for DAT??


Please help me before I spend 5 hours on things I do not need to know!

Thank youuu

 

[Papasmurf1234]

First off, you don't need to take anatomy or physiology to take the DAT. The furthest you should go is genetics because they test on monosomy, trisomy, etc. But even so, you just need to know the basics of those.

Secondly, in regards to your question, you just have to know the extreme basics for spectrometry and IR.
IR you just have to know what peaks correspond to what functional groups (and just the basics too), and for NMR you should know HNMR mainly and how many signals each molecule gives, what kind (double, triplet, quartet, etc) and whether something is downfield or upfield from one another.
I heard they sometimes test CNMR too but its rare and you literally just have to know what that is.

 

[biomolecmed]

You do not need to know the spectrometer machines, but you need to know how to solve basic NMR and IR problems.

 

[15960]

HI~~

I have a question about DAT Organic chem section.

I haven't studying for DAT YET...I still need to study and finish my orgo and ana+physiology before I actually start to solve some DAT questions

I am studying those annoying spectrometers in Ochem (IR, NMR, ect)
I get to basics of their needs...and sort of how to read the graph
but in my OChem book, there are just so many tedious stuff on these spectrometers
(such as how these things work and what they are consist of and how this thing work with different molecules etc)

So here is my question
My prof said he is not gonna ask us anything tedious on these spectrometer, so I don't have to know all that
but do I need to know all these tedious things for DAT??


Please help me before I spend 5 hours on things I do not need to know!

Thank youuu

Don't focus too much on A&P....while there is A&P in the biology section..it's usually only at most 3 questions...biology is such a broad topic...anything from basic biology will be there (like stuff from bio1 and bio 2)

As for NMR and IR...just know the basic peaks and how to solve it...it's really basic
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