Highest yield material for MCAT

[lebronisking23]

Hello All,

I will be taking the mcat the first date in January. I will be taking biochemistry and a physiology course this fall. I finished the rest of the requirements for the mcat and did very well in my coursework, but I feel I have forgotten most of the material from past courses. I know these are questions that are asked quite a bit, but what are the highest yield topics to study and where can I find information on the highest yield? Is it smart to study every single topic that AAMC suggests, or is this too much material that you will not be able to retain most of it? Thank you all for the help in advance!


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[Wolfpack93]

Hello All,

I will be taking the mcat the first date in January. I will be taking biochemistry and a physiology course this fall. I finished the rest of the requirements for the mcat and did very well in my coursework, but I feel I have forgotten most of the material from past courses. I know these are questions that are asked quite a bit, but what are the highest yield topics to study and where can I find information on the highest yield? Is it smart to study every single topic that AAMC suggests, or is this too much material that you will not be able to retain most of it? Thank you all for the help in advance!


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Study everything, they can and will ask questions on random topics. There's a list of all the topics covered on the AAMC website. Curry is king.

 

[Dr. Jan Itor]

You WILL have questions on amino acids. That's the highest yield thing I can think of.

I don't think the new test has been out long enough to really say that X, Y, and Z are high yield. My test had so much stuff that wasn't covered by any of the official AAMC study material and a lot of stuff that was repeated on the AAMC exams didn't show up on the real thing. Study as many topics as you can. Definitely focus on biochem since it can show up in a bunch of different places. And know pretty much everything about amino acids - structure, charges at different pHs, abbreviations, etc.

 

[aldol16]

Metabolic pathways.

 

[Hospitalized]

The highest yield thing you can do is read scientific literature every single day. You will, without a doubt, be reading 39 passages on test day. If you are an extremely effective reader, the MCAT becomes much easier.

 

[Doremonster]

High yeild is relative to the exam you will be taking. As you can see from past post and reddit post (click on MCATjelly's link in her sig) it is a crapshoot. Yeah there are things that will probably appear in every exam such as amino acids because questions on amino acids could be asked from a pure chemistry viewpoint, biological or combined biochem. Hospitalized makes a great point. What's high yeild? Reading comprehension, analytical skills, and logic. Master those and you should do okay. Assuming you have the proper background knowledge.

 

[MareNostrummm]

Amino acids are the only extremely high yield topic. You can guarantee at least 10 questions between C/P and B/B that revolve around AA's indirectly or directly.

 

[Monix]

The highest yield thing you can do is read scientific literature every single day. You will, without a doubt, be reading 39 passages on test day. If you are an extremely effective reader, the MCAT becomes much easier.

Where can one obtain scientific literature to read as you suggested. Thanks.

 

[Hospitalized]

Where can one obtain scientific literature to read as you suggested. Thanks.

CARS:
https://aeon.co/
http://www.aldaily.com/essays-and-opinions/

For science use stuff like Nature and ScienceDaily.

 

[MilaKunisDoe]

Curry is king.

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