Survey Time! Hardest Topic!?

[TheBoneDoctah]

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What is the one topic that gives you the toughest time? The one that even after doing question after question you just can't seem to remember that one equation or concept?

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

I'll start

Toughest concept for me is a tie between lenses and buoyancy.

 

[ciestar]

Kinematics. I cannot figure out what it is, but i suck at it.

 

[Paul Darlington]

Dude you know acid-base titration and fluids kick balls for real

 

[Lamel]

I'm always uneasy with titration and equilibrium/solubility. I can do the problems but I always get a little anxious when I see it.

 

[graybrij]

I don't know why but every time Newton's law of gravitation comes up I completely mess it up...I'm fine with the rest of mechanics....wtf

 

[nctw]

All the fluid stuff usually has me like "....what" when I first read it but I've gotten better. Gen chem wise probably the galvanic cell/electrochemistry stuff

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

All the fluid stuff usually has me like "....what" when I first read it but I've gotten better. Gen chem wise probably the galvanic cell/electrochemistry stuff

Buoyancy?

 

[CW 2010]

I vote for kinematics stuff! Hate it.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

I vote for kinematics stuff! Hate it.

That's funny. I lot of people hate it but it's one of the easier topics for me.

 

[ConceptUser]

By far lenses and maybe a bit of Thermodynamics/ Thermochemistry.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

By far lenses and maybe a bit of Thermodynamics/ Thermochemistry.

Do you have any good sources to learn lenses?

 

[AKMCAT]

Thermochemistry

 

[AKMCAT]

Do you have any good sources to learn lenses?

This is my favorite topic actually! I use berkley review method and always works for me!!

 

[madmuttal]

Thin lens Interference

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Thermochemistry

What about thermo?

 

[dutchie000]

Physics. All of it.

 

[AKMCAT]

What about thermo?

Nothing specific. I find myself usually making a mistake on this particular topic!

 

[ConceptUser]

Do you have any good sources to learn lenses?

What I did for my content review. I looked up the topics in, Mcat-review.org to get a quick review. Then I went to Chad's videos.....they helped A LOT!!! Then I went through the book. Thermodynamics isn't half bad but for some reasons I still don't understand lenses.

 

[Redpancreas]

Optics, also the mcat prep books make macro-thermo in chem way harder than it needs to be.

 

[moop]

Hardest topic? Hm, I hate regression discontinuity designs…and interest rate swaps. Oh and don't forget Modigliani-Miller. Doesn't matter how much I study those things, I just can't get a handle on them.

😛

 

[petyr_baelish]

For those of you who hate kinematics, the secret is doing a tonne of practice. Like, every problem in whatever prep book you have on that topic. Don't even complain until you have done every problem.

I used to hate it. In fact, I dropped math in grade 9, avoided math all through college and managed to take physics without a math background. So kinematics was horrific for me. But I'm convinced anyone can do kinematics, if I can. I used think choosing what equation applies is extremely difficult but you get used to the problem types. Now, I know what equation to use before I even finish reading the problem. Blood, sweat and tears, people.


But to answer the question in this thread....my worst topic is anything to do with orgo synthesis. I hope it's not on the MCAT.

 

[moop]

But to answer the question in this thread....my worst topic is anything to do with orgo synthesis. I hope it's not on the MCAT.

It's not. Even if it's there as a passage, they'll be testing fundamentals.

 

[TheBoneDoctah]

Bump

 

[CW 2010]

For those of you who hate kinematics, the secret is doing a tonne of practice. Like, every problem in whatever prep book you have on that topic. Don't even complain until you have done every problem.

I used to hate it. In fact, I dropped math in grade 9, avoided math all through college and managed to take physics without a math background. So kinematics was horrific for me. But I'm convinced anyone can do kinematics, if I can. I used think choosing what equation applies is extremely difficult but you get used to the problem types. Now, I know what equation to use before I even finish reading the problem. Blood, sweat and tears, people.


But to answer the question in this thread....my worst topic is anything to do with orgo synthesis. I hope it's not on the MCAT.

Oh, I loved Organic Chem synthesis! It was like a puzzle to solve.

 

[moop]

Oh, I loved Organic Chem synthesis! It was like a puzzle to solve.

Yeah….no need. Life is hard enough.