giggledesi said:
Hi I am taking planning to take the MCATS next april after i take orgo... but i was planning to take an mcat class this summer... just to get a feel for what i am doing. how much orgo is on the mcat. will a class be any use? thanks
Not much really. I reviewed orgo the least.
1) You just have to know all about sn1, sn2, e1, e2, and of course nucleophiles and electrophiles
2) nomencleture
3) Sugars- epimers, alpha, anomeric carbon, etc (may have had this in biochem)
4) isomers: stereoisomers, diastereomers, enantiomers, structural, constitutional, etc
5) oxidation/reduction
6) know how to follow arrows and electron movement
7) all the review material that used included hybridization in organic, although I did this first semester of general chemistry, so I will include it here since every one else does.
These were the main things that seemed to show up repetively on each practice exam and on the real thing. Really simple compared to actual organic class. You could try going through EKs or Kaplans organic review, although I feel they definately go overboard with it.