LIARS!!!! where was all the genetics???????

[nishi]

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yes I know this does not help me in anyway but i must:
AAMC sucks

 

[MollyMalone]

Heh. I would have happily given you some of mine. 🙄

 

[ebolahunter]

FM had 3-4 genetics problems

 

[chaeymaey]

Genetics was all over mine (form DG). The last passage was a crazy one about genes that mask other genes in mice and then applying that to pigs, but then the pigs had a diff. mode of inheritance. It was crazy. You're lucky you didn't have a lot of genetics.

 

[MoonShiNe]

Genetics was all over mine (form DG). The last passage was a crazy one about genes that mask other genes in mice and then applying that to pigs, but then the pigs had a diff. mode of inheritance. It was crazy. You're lucky you didn't have a lot of genetics.

Yea, I had that passage too.. it was soo twisted..

 

[clenny]

that genetics passage should have been easy for me....I took a genetics class like two quarters ago that went over that exact stuff but I kinda forgot stuff because I never reviewed genetics for the MCAT. In all of my practice tests I never got anything more complicated than one-gene mendelian genetics so I figured I'd be fine.

 

[DemonDeacon]

🙂 I didn't have ANY time to go over the genetics chapter in EK. I'm so glad I didn't, I hardly had any genetics 🙂

 

[typerlover]

yes i agree that mouse pig passage was tough. I'm taking genetics right now and yes its tough, but all of it is very doable. Reading the passage was where the problem was, because it made absolutely no sense in the way they worded it. Piss poor passage.

 

[fozziewan]

Yep, I had a few genetics Q's. I was so happy that I went over that section of my TPR books! 😀

 

[shuzee]

🙂 I didn't have ANY time to go over the genetics chapter in EK. I'm so glad I didn't, I hardly had any genetics 🙂

i had form AN and my BS was full of genetics and molecular bio...phew! Thank God im a mol.genetics major! 🙂

 

[musiclink213]

i had a couple of genetics, more about evolution though, it seemed. But then again, i could just be remembering those questions because those arre the ones i got stuck on.

 

[Shredder]

Oh I actually had one with the genetics of blood type, but it was convoluted, not the usual genetics. If anyone else had it, I didn't understand that SS Ss part at all, I had to guess.

 

[Smyle4Jenn]

I had form FK and barely had any genetics. I was so mad! I ended up with 5 o-chem passages! I thought there'd be more of an emphasis on genetics.

 

[gujuDoc]

yes I know this does not help me in anyway but i must:
AAMC sucks

Remember that there are multiple forms. mine had quite a bit of genetics. It had one pedigree devoted to one full passage. It also had hardy weinberg and a question about coevolutioin in one of the microbiology passages. I had quite a bit of genetics as so did some other people. One form, someone on here was saying, had some imprinting genetics passage and so forth. Its really a crap shoot, you can try your best to know everything but always remember everything isn't on the test.

 

[MollyMalone]

I had form FK and barely had any genetics. I was so mad! I ended up with 5 o-chem passages! I thought there'd be more of an emphasis on genetics.

Wow, I had 2 ochem passages and a couple discretes (AG). What a crapshoot this test is... just like the rest of the application process.

 

[OwnageMobile]

Shredder- you were AG as well? I felt that SS Ss problem was so simple it was tricky. Both PS and BS were more difficult than the AAMC practice tests.

Yeah, I really didn't have any genetics. It pissed me off to know that i had studied for hours in vain.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

Seriously - half of my test was genetics.

 

[docmorgan]

I only had a few, wish there was more. There was more orgo than I expected also.

 

[OSUdoc08]

yes I know this does not help me in anyway but i must:
AAMC sucks

according to my girlfriend, genetics was all over the test, and there was only 1 organic chem passage

 

[KeyLime]

I had form FH, and there was way more organic and less genetics than I ever expected. I should have taken organic more seriously when studying. I guess now I know what I need to do for the August test...sigh

 

[SailCrazy]

I had form FH, and there was way more organic and less genetics than I ever expected. I should have taken organic more seriously when studying. I guess now I know what I need to do for the August test...sigh

That's odd. I had FH as well and felt like there was a reasonable amount of genetics. I'd been weakest in Organic, so I'd been looking it over the last few days beforehand, so maybe I was just conditioned to lots of organic questions.

 

[Shredder]

Shredder- you were AG as well? I felt that SS Ss problem was so simple it was tricky. Both PS and BS were more difficult than the AAMC practice tests.

Yeah, I really didn't have any genetics. It pissed me off to know that i had studied for hours in vain.

hey i had AM. i couldnt make any sense of what SS and Ss stood for and how to apply it to that question, im pretty sure i got it wrong and i cant even remember what i put. tsk. agreed, ps and bs were harder than the practices for sure.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

hey i had AM. i couldnt make any sense of what SS and Ss stood for and how to apply it to that question, im pretty sure i got it wrong and i cant even remember what i put. tsk. agreed, ps and bs were harder than the practices for sure.

I think the SS and Ss just meant it would be expressed in one place and ss would mean you'd see it in the other.

 

[Shredder]

it asked what genotype would show only A antigen though, and i couldnt figure that out even after blowing several minutes on it. it was stupid time management, i had to rush later and im sure i botched it anyway.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

it asked what genotype would show only A antigen though, and i couldnt figure that out even after blowing several minutes on it. it was stupid time management, i had to rush later and im sure i botched it anyway.

I just went with the homozygous dominant A and SS (or Ss) I think. Who knows.

 

[tank you]

the question was asking what would be the genotype of a person with the A antigen in the saliva. there was only one answer choice that corresponded to having an A antigen and it beingin the saliva, im pretty sure it was SsI(A)I(A).

 

[beponychick]

the question was asking what would be the genotype of a person with the A antigen in the saliva. there was only one answer choice that corresponded to having an A antigen and it beingin the saliva, im pretty sure it was SsI(A)I(A).

Thats what I put. At first I put AAss, but then changed it to AOSs. Yay! One question right! (hopefully)

 

[juniper456]

my whole f-ing test was genetics. form EG.

 

[Hoberto]

the question was asking what would be the genotype of a person with the A antigen in the saliva. there was only one answer choice that corresponded to having an A antigen and it beingin the saliva, im pretty sure it was SsI(A)I(A).

Yep, that's what I put. I had Form AN, I am SOOO glad there wasn't too much Ochem since I haven't taken it yet!

 

[red dot]

did anyone get that northern/southern blotting passage with the tuberculosis viruses?

i was stuck on the on the question about what happened to DNA --> the southern blot showed hybridization with the avirulent virus (bovis something) but the northern blot showed no hybridization of the TB virus to the avirulent one.

i'm sure i'm botching up the question.... but i think that's what it said. i guessed that the DNA wasn't transcribed. but i think i was wrong because the southern blot hybridized. so the other guess coulda been that the DNA was absent. but i thought to myself that that was an extreme answer. so later i thought it might have been that the DNA just didn't replicate. i ended up with my first choice cuz i ran out of time.

 

[OwnageMobile]

yeah, i had that passage about the blots, **** was hard. I had to really guess on that question. I was really quite lost during that whole passage. Im not sure how a probe acts/what it does.

experimental...naa probably just really hard.

 

[tank you]

did anyone get that northern/southern blotting passage with the tuberculosis viruses?

i was stuck on the on the question about what happened to DNA --> the southern blot showed hybridization with the avirulent virus (bovis something) but the northern blot showed no hybridization of the TB virus to the avirulent one.

i'm sure i'm botching up the question.... but i think that's what it said. i guessed that the DNA wasn't transcribed. but i think i was wrong because the southern blot hybridized. so the other guess coulda been that the DNA was absent. but i thought to myself that that was an extreme answer. so later i thought it might have been that the DNA just didn't replicate. i ended up with my first choice cuz i ran out of time.

yea, i had the same thinking u did, i was stuck between not transcribed and absent, and i thought that absent was too extreme, so i also put it was not transcribed. that entire passage's questions were really hard, does anyone remember any other ones from that blotting/tuberculosis passage?

 

[Hoberto]

Yeah, I went with not transcribed too, because of the diff between northern and Southern gels. (RNA vs DNA) So, I maybe got at least 2 correct on BS!! Woohooooo....all is not lost.

 

[Tinker Creek]

The aamc said that only 3 genetics questions were added starting 2003. Which means, there are still 74 questions, out of which any number could be not genetics, am I right? So, am I wrong to assume that the content on the mcat was fair game? Well, not 'fair', but the change wasn't so dramatic is what I'm trying to say. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

The aamc said that only 3 genetics questions were added starting 2003. Which means, there are still 74 questions, out of which any number could be not genetics, am I right? So, am I wrong to assume that the content on the mcat was fair game? Well, not 'fair', but the change wasn't so dramatic is what I'm trying to say. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I think its a moot point anyway. The average MCAT may have 3 more genetics questions than before, but that doesnt mean that some MCAT forms aren't absolutely full of genetics. I had form BG, and let me tell you, at least 35/77 questions had to do with genetics, if not more. So dont get hung up about what AAMC tells you - it told me I had to learn a whole lot more than I actually did. Not a single question on hormones, mechanics, kinetics, heart/lung/kidney physiology, etc., were actually on the test, despite the fact that AAMC tells you to learn it all.

 

[tigress]

I had form FH, and there was way more organic and less genetics than I ever expected. I should have taken organic more seriously when studying. I guess now I know what I need to do for the August test...sigh

I had FM. There was sooooo much orgo it was crazy, and it was very hard orgo. Very hard. It completely screwed me over and I'm never going to forgive AAMC. But there was also a genetics passage and a few discreets, too. Of course I think I got even the genetics passage all wrong because it was very tricky.

 

[Tinker Creek]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I think its a moot point anyway. The average MCAT may have 3 more genetics questions than before, but that doesnt mean that some MCAT forms aren't absolutely full of genetics. I had form BG, and let me tell you, at least 35/77 questions had to do with genetics, if not more. So dont get hung up about what AAMC tells you - it told me I had to learn a whole lot more than I actually did. Not a single question on hormones, mechanics, kinetics, heart/lung/kidney physiology, etc., were actually on the test, despite the fact that AAMC tells you to learn it all.

What I'm trying to say is, just because aamc said there's more genetics added doesn't mean that change would be so dramatic that there has to be 'a whole lot' of genetics on the revised mcat. I'm not arguing over the fairness of the content. The minimum number of genetics q's that aamc said would add is fullfilled (I hope)... after this, the content that's outlined on their site is "fair" game. I too don't think it's fair that one topic is tested more over the others.