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Here is a handout I made for one of my pre-pharmacy society meetings.
CREDITS: SDN and Harcourt!
New test starting June 2007: 240 minutes (5 more minutes)
The PCAT has 6 sections:
Verbal Ability: 48 questions, 30 minutes
-- To increase your vocabulary score, you might try memorizing the GRE top 200 words list, or studying Latin and Greek word roots.
-- Learn roots
Biology: 48 questions, 30 minutes
-- There is MORE GENETICS, including crossing, probability, DNA/RNA, transcription/translation
-- There is some anatomy/physiology. The Kaplan book is sufficient.
-- Learn how the action potentials work
-- Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis basis
-- Evolution, especially natural selection
--There are questions about illnesses, diseases and syndromes
-- Cell biology: parts of the cell, mitosis, meiosis
Reading Comprehension: 48 questions, 50 minutes
-- Practice makes perfect!
Quantitative Ability: 48 questions, 40 minutes
-- NO MORE GEOMETRY, AND THERE IS MORE PRE-CALC AND CALC
-- Solving for a variable
-- Basic logs
-- Absolute values and inequalities
-- Probability: including odds
-- Calculus: derivatives; what first derivatives and second derivatives show, and basic integrals
-- Basic trig
Chemistry: 48 questions, 30 minutes
General Chemistry
-- Isotopes
-- Quantum Numbers , including Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Pauli exclusion principle
-- redox reactions
-- Intermolecular forces: Covalent Vs. Ionic Vs. Hydrogen bonds – which is the strongest?
Writing (essay): 30 minutes.
-- THERE ARE NOW TWO ESSAYS.
-- http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/about/wsitems.htm (and yes, I know that says MCAT, but it's good practice)
CREDITS: SDN and Harcourt!
New test starting June 2007: 240 minutes (5 more minutes)
The PCAT has 6 sections:
Verbal Ability: 48 questions, 30 minutes
-- To increase your vocabulary score, you might try memorizing the GRE top 200 words list, or studying Latin and Greek word roots.
-- Learn roots
Biology: 48 questions, 30 minutes
-- There is MORE GENETICS, including crossing, probability, DNA/RNA, transcription/translation
-- There is some anatomy/physiology. The Kaplan book is sufficient.
-- Learn how the action potentials work
-- Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis basis
-- Evolution, especially natural selection
--There are questions about illnesses, diseases and syndromes
-- Cell biology: parts of the cell, mitosis, meiosis
Reading Comprehension: 48 questions, 50 minutes
-- Practice makes perfect!
Quantitative Ability: 48 questions, 40 minutes
-- NO MORE GEOMETRY, AND THERE IS MORE PRE-CALC AND CALC
-- Solving for a variable
-- Basic logs
-- Absolute values and inequalities
-- Probability: including odds
-- Calculus: derivatives; what first derivatives and second derivatives show, and basic integrals
-- Basic trig
Chemistry: 48 questions, 30 minutes
General Chemistry
-- Isotopes
-- Quantum Numbers , including Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Pauli exclusion principle
-- Periodic trends
-- Percent composition, moles, Stoichiometry
-- Reaction orders, factors that affect it
-- Spontaneity of reaction
-- Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure
-- Molarity, molality, is it soluble/is there precipitate?
-- Acids, bases, tiraition , normality, buffers
-- Nuclear Phenomena
Organic chemistry is a major part of the exam. Study the concepts. And reactions (some reactions come from Orgo II) -- Percent composition, moles, Stoichiometry
-- Reaction orders, factors that affect it
-- Spontaneity of reaction
-- Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure
-- Molarity, molality, is it soluble/is there precipitate?
-- Acids, bases, tiraition , normality, buffers
-- Nuclear Phenomena
-- redox reactions
-- Intermolecular forces: Covalent Vs. Ionic Vs. Hydrogen bonds – which is the strongest?
Writing (essay): 30 minutes.
-- THERE ARE NOW TWO ESSAYS.
-- http://www.aamc.org/students/mcat/about/wsitems.htm (and yes, I know that says MCAT, but it's good practice)
