So here are few tips from my personal experience on how to study biochemistry. I am just here to ask about a comprehensive book, study program, video, anything that I can just chug through over the next 1.5 months. If any of you have taken it before, what did you find most effective to study for this class? You'll never learn it all!
If studying with students help you should go ahead and teach each other since that is a good way to learn. The #1 social media platform for MCAT advice. Hi everyone, I am bad at biochemistry. I suggest the best way to study for it is to go over your lecture notes every night. Hope that helps you. Do any of you guys have any study tips for biochemistry? For both ochem I and II, I prepared in the break and received A's for both courses.
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During my graduation, i was taught human and clinical biochemistry. Use that to your advantage.
Don't study for Step 1 until April unless time constraints make it impossible. I'm planning to prepare for biochemistry in winter break so I can keep that A trend. In addition to what everyone else said, biochem has to be your life.
You'll go into each lecture with a good grasp of the content and you'll be less stressed before each exam. Ask your professor questions all the time whenever you are confused. It is my worst subject by far.
So I'm planning to take general biochemistry next semester in the spring. Some get you there faster than others. Study it every day or at least every other day (even for like 30 min-1hr) and you'll be ahead of the game. Biochemistry is an important subject for medicine, nursing and pharma students. Tldr: there are many paths that get you into biochemistry. I didn't even crack First Aid until mid-April (I took mine June 7 of that year). Apparently, the professor I'm taking is pretty difficult but is one of the best professors at my school. The MCAT (Medical College Admission Test) is offered by the AAMC and is a required exam for admission to medical schools in the USA and Canada. Biochemistry is a very very diverse and broad field; it's the chemistry of life, the study of the molecular interactions that produce, maintain and drive life. I love Biochemistry!
This may sound nonsensical, but you don't have to study biochemistry to study biochemistry. Many will find this subject to be very difficult and complex to study. When I say bad, I mean I am like 20 - 30th percentile on UWorld bad. But I think the most important principles to get to grips with and areas to really understand are: I've heard that it's a ton of information (Krebs cycle, amino acids, etc etc). As I went through it, I drew each pathway on a chalkboard every day as I learned them and got to where I could draw that massive full page "summary of pathways." For Biochem, I memorized and dumped every pathway in First Aid.