MCAT Ochem

[solid snake]

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Out of all the sections on the MCAT, do you think Organic should be the one with the less prep? If Organic on the MCAT is difficult, what do you think makes it difficult?

Reason asking is that I was just finishing up EK's 30 min exam in the back of their book and it doesn't seem difficult, even though there were questions I couldn't believe I missed and some that were challenging.

Thanks guys.

 

[LoneCoyote]

By default O-Chem has become the subject I am doing the least prep for so far. I am not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. I feel I had pretty good preparation in my O-Chem classes but I need to bring a lot of it back. I just have not had time to sit down and memorize the rxns yet and I know I need to do that. The TPR strategy seems to just be memorize the rxns and do practice. I'm not really sure what else to do besides that. I think for me the stereochemsitry is the most tricky and that has tripped me up on some of the MCAT questions I have done. Also, I find some of the SN2 v. E2 v. SN1 v. E1 questions can be tricky too because they sometime seem to give situations that you could make a case for going either way.

 

[deleted9493]

Personally, I know that I will be studying organic the least of all subjects. Real mcat questions don't seem to ask questions that are too ambiguous as far as organic goes. Examkrackers says that the level of knowledge of organic required is basic and from what I've seen...that's quite true. It's nice hitting those organic questions during the exams because I know the material pretty well (I'm in organic II) and can usually answer them pretty quickly. Gives me more time on those passages that require more inference (which I am horrible at!).