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Hi everyone. I am a long time lurker and registered today because I was bored in bio.
The main reason for this thread is to validate some things I am hearing about the mcat exam. First of all, I was at a seminar not too long ago where several physicians caricatured biology professors as well as others for their approach in teaching the material to students, especially students preparing for the mcat. Dr. Ferdinand (GS guru) was there and he said that volume does not matter when approaching the exam. He claimed that the patterns that you are able to identify will guide you through the exam. i partially agree with him because if a sample passage were to give you some information about a chemical produced in the body known as s"manahshase, one can easily infer that regardless of what you do not know, it is relatively easy to look at patterns involved in the material. In this case, that chemical is an enzyme due to its -ase suffix, thus being a protein. Everyone knows the struc. of a protein and the types that exist, etc., so that passage can easily be figured out by inference.
On the other hand, volume is also very important on the mcat because one who covers not so much can easily miss a certain seq. of the krebs cycle in the left knee in biochem powered by....🙄
Anyways, my question is this:
Does proper preparation for the mcat revolve around the understanding of the GENERAL concepts?
OR Will there be some volume associated with it. i notice that Kaplan and TPR FLs ask ridiculous questions about content that do not even fit within the scope of the material, that requires rote memorization.
The main reason for this thread is to validate some things I am hearing about the mcat exam. First of all, I was at a seminar not too long ago where several physicians caricatured biology professors as well as others for their approach in teaching the material to students, especially students preparing for the mcat. Dr. Ferdinand (GS guru) was there and he said that volume does not matter when approaching the exam. He claimed that the patterns that you are able to identify will guide you through the exam. i partially agree with him because if a sample passage were to give you some information about a chemical produced in the body known as s"manahshase, one can easily infer that regardless of what you do not know, it is relatively easy to look at patterns involved in the material. In this case, that chemical is an enzyme due to its -ase suffix, thus being a protein. Everyone knows the struc. of a protein and the types that exist, etc., so that passage can easily be figured out by inference.
On the other hand, volume is also very important on the mcat because one who covers not so much can easily miss a certain seq. of the krebs cycle in the left knee in biochem powered by....🙄
Anyways, my question is this:
Does proper preparation for the mcat revolve around the understanding of the GENERAL concepts?
OR Will there be some volume associated with it. i notice that Kaplan and TPR FLs ask ridiculous questions about content that do not even fit within the scope of the material, that requires rote memorization.
