MCAT BIO.. Best Gentics, Molecular Biology Review

[dray5150]

I just took the MCAT Jan1/30/09. It was a ton of Molecular Bio and Gentics.. nearly all of it. I have an older version of EK Bio most likely issued in early 2000's but its pretty general on that stuff The MCAT is obviously changing espically the Bio. I just need something to get me ready. I was a bio major and I'm pretty good on physiology. I made an 8 when I was knocking 10-11 on AAMC Practice Test

Any suggestions?

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[creativekat]

I took courses in Genetics and Molecular Bio...both subjects of which I love, yay (for me, at least). I TA-ed for Genetics as well...multiple times, so on the MCAT, it took me all but 10 seconds to read the question and I already knew the answer. 🙂 If you still have time, take those classes with a good professor and own it next time!

Try EK1001...one question from EKBio and one question on EK1001 was on the real thing 😱 (well...they repeat questions a lot in EK1001...but still...)

 

[MegaProjectile]

I just took the MCAT Jan1/30/09. It was a ton of Molecular Bio and Gentics.. nearly all of it. I have an older version of EK Bio most likely issued in early 2000's but its pretty general on that stuff The MCAT is obviously changing espically the Bio. I just need something to get me ready. I was a bio major and I'm pretty good on physiology. I made an 8 when I was knocking 10-11 on AAMC Practice Test

Any suggestions?

Most MCAT books will only cover the foundations of molecular biology (replication, transcription, translation etc). I thought the MCAT was less about content review and more about knowledge application? Do we have to crack out our huge bio textbooks?

 

[dray5150]

I don't think you have to take out the text books but AAMC is definitely focusing more on it in my opinion then they have in the past.

 

[up40loves]

I was wondering the same thing. I am weakest in molecular biology and genetics. I haven't taken a course in genetics. Anyone have any books they recommend I can prepare from? I am using ExamKrackers for biology and they don't cover much mendelian genetics.

Thanks!

 

[pharaoh88]

You definitely DO NOT need to crack the big text books to do well on the MCAT. Focus on practice problems in mendelian genetics.

On my MCAT Bio section, there was plenty of genetics but none required much upper level bio knowledge. Just focus on application and you will be fine...its all about those practice passages/problems. I primarily used EK for Bio and got good results, so I would continue to recommend it to others.