Hm, looking at the syllabus, I don't think we go through that. Is that a part of OChem 1-2?
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It should be... unless your prof completely ignored what's actually high-yield. Same with amines, aromatics etc
Amines and aromatics is on the syllabus. It might be third quarter stuff. We'll see. 🙂 I ended up doing average on the midterm, but if I knew what I was doing I'm sure it would have been higher haha.
I try to do as many as possible but the lab portion takes out so much time. I hate lab lol!
I didn't even bother to take the lab portion of Ochem II this summer because it was 3 times a week...4 week long course. Hell nah. And yeah at my school the lab and lecture are separate courses.
I know! I asked (begged ha) them to let me take them separately since the grades are separate, but no luck. It sucks for people who drop 2nd quarter class because they have to drop the lab that they were 90% done with because the timing is so off.
Yea mine was separate courses too, it was only 1 credit. The first day of lab my prof told us Ochem lab would be the most effort we'd have to put in a 1 credit class.
Lab went from 2-5 on Fridays, which made it even worse.
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Outs is twice a week from 2-6 so it's not that bad considering it's summer and fast-paced but we definitely suck at Mass Spec/NMR because we had no time to learn it. 🙁
Can anyone confirm the "only Orgo 1 on MCAT" claim for sure? It would be a huge relief!
Doesn't seem like it if you look at https://www.aamc.org/students/download/85566/data/bstopics.pdf
Oh yeah, there's definitely a lot of organic 2 on there! Thanks for the link!
Given that the link you posted has been around for a few years, I doubt that that's the topic list for the new MCAT. Are you planning on taking it this year or something? From what I've seen regarding the new MCAT, very little organic chemistry will be on it. I think it's 5% of the BS section and 15% of the PS section on the new one. @feli_owl @Kochanie
Haha! Our lab goes so out of sequence with the class, it's not very helpful and so time consuming. 🙁
I'm taking the new one, but I was assuming @feli_owl was taking the old one.
Learning the material that I needed for lab in lecture only after we turned in our write-ups was the story of my Orgo lab experience.... so frustrating 😡
Haha yes!
I'm taking the new one too.
