The tips begin at a different place in each module. The advice moves along with the stages of the course.

In MCAT passages, your knowledge base makes the details come clear in the light of fundamental principles. Reading an MCAT passage is like clearing a field. However, sometimes you might run up against a stump or a boulder, an out-of-scope reference, a purposely cryptic description, a table of contradictory data. Seeing how you handle this type of thing is intentional in the test design. You are not in trouble. Just fence that off. It is an indeterminacy. Develop a provisional understanding. Formulate an open question. How you handle what is purposely designed not to be clear is one of the challenges of the test.

Suggested Assignments

Science Focus

Study the conceptual materials in your book-set (TBR or Kaplan) covering the organic reaction mechanisms.

Perform the odd numbered (phase 1 ) practice items in your book-set.

Study the Organic Reaction Mechanisms with Biochemistry Examples to preview the content of the course videos.

Watch the videos for Module 6 - Substitution vs. Elimination, Aldehydes & Ketones, Alcohols, and Carboxylic Acids & Derivatives.

Choose from the resources available within the Topic Pages to reinforce and supplement learning.

Conceptual Integration

Read the Interdisciplinary Notes for Module 6.

Play Catch Blue.

Biology Cycle

Read Ch. 10 - Regulation of Gene Expression in Lippincott - Cell & Molecular Biology

This is the module in which we complete the Cell & Molecular Biology Cycle work in your MCAT bookset (TBR or Kaplan).

Psychology

Study the conceptual treatment of Memory in your MCAT book-set and complete the odd numbered problems.

Review the conceptual vocabulary for Memory using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

Extend practice using the Essential Concepts ANKI Deck to include the Memory cards. 

Integrated Course practice items:

CARS

Module 6 CARS Lesson What is an argument.

Choose three or four passages you've already performed in the Question Packs. Study them closely in the light of the classical, Rogerian, and Toulmin models of argument. 

MCAT Practice

Begin the Practice Questions from the Official Guide to the MCAT Exam at AAMC MCAT Prep Hub. Spread this assignment out over modules 6 and 7. 

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