528 Scorer Analyzes an MCAT Bio/Biochem Practice Passage

In this video, watch 528 scorer Vikram Shaw walk through an MCAT Biochemistry Practice Passage.

A famous football coach named Vince Lombardi once said, “Practice doesn’t make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.” Practice on the MCAT involves taking as many passages as you can. Perfect practice involves taking passages, reviewing your mistakes, writing down what you need to learn, and most importantly, studying to make sure you don’t make those mistakes again.

We can’t emphasize this enough. Thoroughly tracking, writing down, and studying your mistakes is the single best way to improve your MCAT score. As a rule of thumb, you should spend almost as much time reviewing the passage as you spend taking the passage. You should also spend time studying what you missed, which is a key step that students often forget.

In addition, as you progress further in your medical training, you will begin shifting your test preparation strategy from studying content to completing practice problems. In fact, USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 preparation relies almost exclusively on completing practice problems and then reviewing the content. The MCAT is very similar in this regard. Students who complete practice problems and then study what they missed tend to do very well compared to students who rely too heavily on content review.

Before you take the MCAT, you will have taken hundreds of practice problems, many of which come from the people who write the test, also known as the American Association of Medical Colleges, or AAMC. As a result, you will have a good idea of the topics that you tend to miss questions on. For example, if you keep missing questions on thermodynamics, then go back to the book and study thermodynamics so that you approach your next full-length with an understanding of both the topic and how the MCAT likes to ask questions on the topic.

We're going to go over how to practice perfectly by going through a REAL Biochem passage just like you should be doing at home in this video.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
01:05 - Starting a Bio/Biochem Passage
06:43 - Figure 2
08:32 - Question 1
10:07 - Question 2
12:08 - Question 3
13:57 - Question 4
15:08 - Question 5
15:55 - Wrap Up

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CREATOR AND ATTRIBUTION PARTY: REILLY, A., ZHOU, S., PANIGRAHI, S., ET AL. GPR17 DEFICIENCY IN POMC NEURONS AMELIORATES THE METABOLIC DERANGEMENTS CAUSED BY LONG-TERM HIGH-FAT DIET FEEDING. NUTRITION AND DIABETES 9, 29 (2019). THE ARTICLE’S FULL TEXT IS AVAILABLE HERE: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4138.... THE ARTICLE IS NOT COPYRIGHTED BY SHEMMASSIAN ACADEMIC CONSULTING. DISCLAIMER: SHEMMASSIAN ACADEMIC CONSULTING DOES NOT OWN THE PASSAGE PRESENTED HERE. CREATIVE COMMON LICENSE: HTTP://CREATIVECOMMONS.ORG/LICENSES/B.... CHANGES WERE MADE TO ORIGINAL ARTICLE TO CREATE AN MCAT-STYLE PASSAGE

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