TBR Material Questions

[Falcons93]

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Hello everyone,

I'm been following TBR 12 week schedule strictly. Today, I finished the metabolic components and pathways section of bio. Unfortunately, I was discouraged because the material was insanely in depth. Do we really need to know all of the substrates and enzymes in every metabolic pathway?? I haven't taken biochem yet so a lot of this detailed stuff is new to me. Please help me out here. I've been taking notes (even though I know the basic gen bio stuff well), however, it takes me forever to get through the reading because of all the biochem. Should I just glaze over them and get the general gist?

Thank you!

 

[Jepstein30]

Hello everyone,

I'm been following TBR 12 week schedule strictly. Today, I finished the metabolic components and pathways section of bio. Unfortunately, I was discouraged because the material was insanely in depth. Do we really need to know all of the substrates and enzymes in every metabolic pathway?? I haven't taken biochem yet so a lot of this detailed stuff is new to me. Please help me out here. I've been taking notes (even though I know the basic gen bio stuff well), however, it takes me forever to get through the reading because of all the biochem. Should I just glaze over them and get the general gist?

Thank you!

No. Don't even need to know glycolysis. Just know the basics of everything and overall terms like substrate level phosphorylation, etc.

Good stuff to know incase you get a passage on it. But if you do, you'll have everything you need to know explained to you in the passage itself.

 

[Falcons93]

Thank you for the reply! That helps a ton. I'm going to try and cut down my reading time to 2.5 hours and spend the remaining 2-3 hours doing problems!

 

[Temperature101]

Thank you for the reply! That helps a ton. I'm going to try and cut down my reading time to 2.5 hours and spend the remaining 2-3 hours doing problems!

TBR bio books can be intimidating if you were/are not a biology major... I would suggest to read EK biology first, then go thru TBR content quickly and do the passages.

 

[Falcons93]

That's a great idea. I think I'll just switch over to the EK books for content. I looked them over today and they seem far more concise and reader friendly. Then I'll just use EK 1001, TBR passage, Kaplan tests, and AAMC tests for practice.

 

[Dr.Forssmann]

That's a great idea. I think I'll just switch over to the EK books for content. I looked them over today and they seem far more concise and reader friendly. Then I'll just use EK 1001, TBR passage, Kaplan tests, and AAMC tests for practice.

Ya i've been reading the chapters from TBR and going through EK. Using EK i guess as an outline.