MCAT Biochemistry Review

by The Princeton Review

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Genres: Science, Medical, Medicine, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2016

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The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students. It was founded in 1981. and since that time has worked with over 400 million students.

Reviews

[Emily Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

Needs more pics and diagrams. Glycolysis wasn’t very eye catching. Needs more diagrams linking pathways.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great content review, but would recommend using other images of biochemical pathways to compliment the ones in the book--especially if you havent reviewed this content in a while.

The figures were often very minimalistic, which is understandable since this is a 'review' book, but still were probably the most simplified pathways I'd ever seen which sometimes led to confusion.

Some of the shorthand for enzymes and intermediates (especially in the carbohydrate section) were ones I hadn't personally seen before and weren't explained in the book itself. For ex: 'Gde-3-P' for 'Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate' and '1,3-bP-Gate' for '1,3-bisphosphoglycerate'.

Good shorthand, but would have liked a key, or something to remind me of what it was short for, haha.

[Ally Van Dusen · Rating 1 out of 5]

booooo

[CeCe Nelson · Rating 3 out of 5]

i hate studying for the MCAT but 1/7 books done

[Sam (RiverMoose) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used The Princeton Review books + prep course wen studying for my MCAT and supplemented with the Kaplan review books and questions. I tended to prefer The Princeton Review over the Kaplan books, but the additional questions were worth it. Not enjoyable - but useful. The test taking strategies in the CARS books are the most useful of all the review books - for the other section, any content review will likely suffice, but CARS is very test strategy dependent.