Need Biochemistry Resources

[Raihan Mirza]

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Greetings to all,

I am going to be taking biochemistry this fall. I want to get a head start. Does anyone know any online sources where I can get textbook outlines or other learning aids in biochemistry. The textbook I am using in class is garrett. But I am also self studying using the stryer.

 

[DrAnteater]

Greetings to all,

I am going to be taking biochemistry this fall. I want to get a head start. Does anyone know any online sources where I can get textbook outlines or other learning aids in biochemistry. The textbook I am using in class is garrett. But I am also self studying using the stryer.

If I were you I would get a head start on other classes instead.

Biochemistry is the one class where studying this far ahead will not work, because if the school you go to is anything like UCI, there is such a vast amount of information you will learn that you will forget most of it by finals time.

 

[schrizto]

try www.sharenotes.com. I haven't used it but it was posted on SDN before.

 

[causalinference]

The textbook should be enough if you want to study ahead. I disagree with the previous poster who said that studying ahead for biochemistry will not work. If you have a good memory, you will retain enough information to make future studying easier. Like any other course, biochemistry can be easy or difficult. It just depends on how the course is taught.

 

[DrAnteater]

The textbook should be enough if you want to study ahead. I disagree with the previous poster who said that studying ahead for biochemistry will not work. If you have a good memory, you will retain enough information to make future studying easier. Like any other course, biochemistry can be easy or difficult. It just depends on how the course is taught.

If you disagree, it is because the class you took is absolutely nothing like the one I took at UCI. We had to know all the structures, regulation, and even stereochemistry of every step of glycolysis, fatty acid oxidation, fatty acid synthesis, gluconeogenesis, citric acid cycle, electron transport chain, urea cycle, amino acid structures and processes, and photosynthesis. I highly doubt anyone would still remember these structures and the stereochemistry 2 months after studying it.

 

[GoSpursGo]

If you disagree, it is because the class you took is absolutely nothing like the one I took at UCI. We had to know all the structures, regulation, and even stereochemistry of every step of glycolysis, fatty acid oxidation, fatty acid synthesis, gluconeogenesis, citric acid cycle, electron transport chain, urea cycle, amino acid structures and processes, and photosynthesis. I highly doubt anyone would still remember these structures and the stereochemistry 2 months after studying it.

I don't think that's uncommon... also, people study and remember things in different ways.

Anyways, I still wouldn't recommend pre-studying, simply because of the possibility of teaching yourself wrong information. I aced Organic I, decided to get a head start on Organic II by pre-studying the summer before, and promptly bombed the first exam because I'd ingrained some wrong concepts into my head. I threw out my summer notes, started studying as I went, and brought myself back up to the top of the class (luckily, they threw out our lowest exam score).

The vast majority of the time, you're just not going to get that big of an edge by pre-studying the material. Your time would be better spent studying for the classes you're in now or doing some other extracurricular.

 

[Charles_Carmichael]

I agree with others that pre-studying is a bad idea. How will you know what topics you need to study and how indepth your knowledge needs to be? You might spend a long time studying amino acid synthesis, for example, and come class time, realize that this topic was only going to be briefly covered in one lecture. Now, you've wasted a good chunk of time that could have been spent doing something else.

Honestly, biochem is not hard. It will require you to manage your time well, that's all. If you study in small chunks everyday or hell, even every couple of days, you'll be fine. If you wait till the weekend before the exam before you start reviewing notes/reading the text, then you'll find yourself in trouble because there's a lot of material (at least there was a lot that was covered in my class) that you'll need to know. The best way to memorize the structures/pathways is to just draw them again and again and again until you're sick of them; then, draw them some more. Don't waste precious free time in the summer studying. Good luck.