organic chemistry on Aug Mcat

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Does anyone know if the amount of organic chemistry on the MCAT will be even less than the April MCAT?

I had heard from friends where they literally only had a passage of orgo on their April mcats...and since I have only recently begun to study, Im wondering if it is even worth it to study since it is a lot of memorization.

Any thoughts? or how are people approaching this subject for the August MCAT? Is the EK Organic Chem book helpful?

THanks

 

[Schaden Freud]

There was very little organic on the April 06 MCAT; if I recall correctly, there were three passages and a few discretes. I don't think there will be any less on the August test.
As far as studying, you really shouldn't be memorizing that much for ochem- just know SN1, SN2, E1, E2, NMR splitting patterns and approximate location, the major IR peaks (carbonyl, alcohol, etc), and stereochemistry (be very comfortable at assigning R/S config.)

Does anyone know if the amount of organic chemistry on the MCAT will be even less than the April MCAT?

I had heard from friends where they literally only had a passage of orgo on their April mcats...and since I have only recently begun to study, Im wondering if it is even worth it to study since it is a lot of memorization.

Any thoughts? or how are people approaching this subject for the August MCAT? Is the EK Organic Chem book helpful?

THanks

 

[Erina]

don't completely blow off organic chemistry...bio may be the main focus, but if you know your ochem, that's 2-3 passages and a few discretes that you'll have. if you don't know your ochem, that's a lot of questions to get wrong.