is this insane- Lodish for mol bio

[Ramoray]

Well from all the talk of mol bio i am thinking about just busting out my Lodish Mol Cell bio. I mean i seem to read all the other texts in my wierd ways so i thought why not read it for like 30 mins a day and i calculated i would get through it by the time i take step 1, which is about 10 weeks from today. I mean HY is good but 1999 scares me and i really dont knwo of any other sources. ANy other people know of anything else as far as mol bio? even if it is a text, is there something like a short text?
any uideas? thanks

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[Pox in a box]

Well from all the talk of mol bio i am thinking about just busting out my Lodish Mol Cell bio. I mean i seem to read all the other texts in my wierd ways so i thought why not read it for like 30 mins a day and i calculated i would get through it by the time i take step 1, which is about 10 weeks from today. I mean HY is good but 1999 scares me and i really dont knwo of any other sources. ANy other people know of anything else as far as mol bio? even if it is a text, is there something like a short text?
any uideas? thanks

Alberts' Molecular Biology of the Cell is the best cell-molec resource on the market in my opinion. I almost sold my copy from undergrad on Ebay but I've actually read more of it in the past month than I had in all of my undergrad cell biology class.

 

[Doctor&Geek]

So little molecular biology appears on the actual exam that it'll be better to just reread more pathology and physiology. Even then, I'd rather read Robbins over Lodish if I had the choice.

 

[Janders]

You have 10 weeks, you can really do whatever you want! You can teach yourself a couple/three entire classes in that time.

However, I think an entire Mol Bio Text might be a bit low yield. Perhaps if you focused on sections that correspond to HY topics, that would be a valuble use of time?

 

[JKP]

But ALBERTS and LODISH?!!

😕 😕 😕

 

[HiddenTruth]

even if u did do that, how much of that are u going to retain? I say, stick with HY and know it cold, and get one or two questions wrong than taking the chance for not retaining and the time investment. But, then again, you're a text book fan. Plus, if u know all your other crap, those few extra q's aint gonna do much to your score (considering u read HY), but your call

 

[Pox in a box]

even if u did do that, how much of that are u going to retain? I say, stick with HY and know it cold, and get one or two questions wrong than taking the chance for not retaining and the time investment. But, then again, you're a text book fan. Plus, if u know all your other crap, those few extra q's aint gonna do much to your score (considering u read HY), but your call

Reading a big textbook is almost worthless for you if your test is less than a month away. You might ace 5 questions but you'll bomb 25 easy ones because you were not efficient with your time. I'm sure someone will disagree.

 

[JKP]

Think of it this way. You're being graded on a curve, and how many other students out there will be studying Alberts and Lodish cover to cover? They will be studying high- (and intermediate- AND low-) yield stuff compared to the ultra-low yield stuff in Alberts and Lodish. You're going to get killed man!!! This is not a joke is it?

 

[Belfagor]

I just happened to see the thread title. I'm still in undergrad, but I just finished a cell molec class that used Lodish. Lodish sucks. I have no clue what is on Step I, I can just tell you that I had to go to the library and use Alberts because I felt Lodish was horrendous.

 

[Ramoray]

agreed yesterday i looked at lodish and realized it sucks piss. I used old edition of lodish in college and it was decent but the new one, they took out everything that was decent in the book and left the waste. sucks. But yes i did get a copy of alberts and am going to read the highest yeild sections. DNa genetics, etc, things i am weak in and use HY mol bio of course in its entriety for a final read. Thanks for teh advice on alberts people