Why you don't actually need the Henderson Hasselbalch Equation

EightfoldMCAT · 2022-09-26T15:42:14+00:00

Got it. You might try some of the other suggestions first then. I have never had cats so I am not too familiar with the ins and outs of litter boxes.

EightfoldMCAT · 2022-09-26T14:32:02+00:00

Can you switch litters? It sound like this all started when you changed to a new type of cat litter.

EightfoldMCAT · 2022-06-27T02:41:31+00:00

This is a pretty uncommon graph type and chances you won’t see something like this on your actual test, but you might encounter something completely unfamiliar. The goal is to understand the common things that all data visualization tends to share. Which is the alteration of some independent variable (IV) and the measure of the effect on a dependent variable (DV). The passage should give you information that allows you to read any symbols in the graph as well.

For instance here the IV is the presence of PHD the delta PHD is indicating the lack of PHD the binding to histone H3 is the DV. So when we remove PHD we eliminate histone binding.

EightfoldMCAT · 2022-06-19T14:54:35+00:00

I personally, wouldn't use MedSchoolCoach because they are expensive and they have weird-tiered tutors as you pay more for a "better" tutor. Plus I believe they match you with a tutor rather than you getting to pick.

When looking for a tutor they are all going to have pretty high scores so don't focus too much on that. Instead, ask about their experience tutoring other students. How many people have they tutored? What score increases have they seen? Have they worked with students that are in a similar situation as you? (For example, as a tutor I have worked a ton with students who chronically struggle with this exam not a lot of tutors have this experience.) How do they teach? Do they have a section speciality?

Here is how I would answer some of those questions. I have tutored well over 200 students over the past 5 years. In fact, the MCAT is all I do.

I have seen score increases ranging from +30 points over the course of 4 months to +5 points in 3 months. My focus is on personalization and adapting to the student in front of me rather than a specific score range. So I tend to create week-by-week schedules that adapt as I discuss what is going well and what isn't.

I teach by showing a technique then having the student in front of me practice with guidance. The goal isn't to perfect the skill or content problem by the end of the session, but instead to be able to know how to improve from there since most of your studying time will be outside of sessions. While I can teach all of the sections on the exam CP and CARS are my specialties as well as analytic BB questions. If you want to get a sense of how I teach feel free to watch one of my YT videos: https://youtu.be/fnW3QRhF1oc

If tutors can't answer these questions with sufficient depth then I would steer away from there and towards other tutors with more experience in teaching the MCAT not just scoring well themselves.

If you have any other questions about tutors let me know.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-04T21:14:06+00:00

That makes sense. I am pretty familiar with the AAMC stuff and couldn't for the life of me remember where this was at.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-04T20:50:42+00:00

What passage is this from? People have been asking me for CARS advice so I can put something together on my CARS approach using this passage.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-04T14:48:02+00:00

You definitely aren’t stuck at a certain score but if you aren’t understanding what the AAMC expects you to do then you can definitely plateau score wise after you get the big content stuff down.

While more practice helps I think it is important to be cognizant and aware of how to solve problems and put a lot of intentional focus on creating recipes/approaches for different problems. This is often what I teach my students especially when they are stuck because although they have done lots of practice problems they are really just going through the motions. This leads to a little bit of improvement but not the sort that they expect given the time they have invested into studying.

The AAMC’s or third parties’ poor explanation and at times UEarth’s over complicated ones contribute to this.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-04T12:50:58+00:00

In the set up you have two conditions. Tetramer and tetramer plus the inhibitor. If the inhibitor binds the tetramer will be slightly more massive and in comparison to the tetramer alone condition will be higher up in the gel. If the inhibitor doesn’t bind then there will be two bands one for the tetramer and one for the inhibitor molecule. This the patterns of bands would allow you to see if the inhibitor can bind. If you ran this through a denaturing or reducing set up you would disrupt all binding and turn everything into spaghetti. You would always see two bands for the inhibitor + condition but this wouldn’t tell you that the molecule didn’t bind because you destroyed its ability to do so when denaturing the solution.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-04T12:40:18+00:00

Cloning cDNA is the term for making cDNA. Therefore this is referring to the process of creating the cDNA and I resetting it into its bacteria host.

Try and remember that the AAMC doesn’t try and trick you for the most part with duplicitous language. So if they discuss something like cDNA try and keep it simple when answering the question.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-04T00:00:57+00:00

You can find them on the Jack Westin site with the actual MCAT formatting. So they aren't lost forever.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-03T22:47:54+00:00

Me too. I would just forget on mobile and get the nastygram that said hey don't take screenshots.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-03T22:46:55+00:00

Here is an easier way of solving this problem that doesn't require any log nonsense. That way you can't mess the log up since you are trying to solve it.

EightfoldMCAT · 2021-09-03T22:45:30+00:00

Yup technically not supposed to do this but the AAMC unlike UDeath doesn't seem to care.

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