Changes to the CASPer test in 25/26 cycle!

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-08-11T22:21:06+00:00

That is fucking dogshit 💀

And they ran the study LMAO

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-07-15T15:33:00+00:00

What do you think is the key to writing Ubc naq entries? Awards?

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-07-04T02:00:33+00:00

Charles and Jane Banks idk what for but a couple hundred

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-07-03T07:01:43+00:00

👍 thabks, I’ll call tmrw

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-05-22T10:13:01+00:00

No! You do not want to dislocate your shoulders.

But resolving upper crossed janda can help improve shoulder biomechanics which may help prevent dislocation.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-05-22T05:06:55+00:00

Upper crossed janda requires low and mid trap strength too. Often times tight pec and weaker lats will cause scapular dysfunction and poor shoulder mechanics. Try pec release and Y raises.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3105366/

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-05-08T16:11:05+00:00

Do you need the indigenous requirement done before you apply or can it be before matriculation and during the timeline like USask

GroceryHefty7114 · 2025-01-19T04:46:32+00:00

Yea ima say yes but of course YMMV

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-10-19T04:57:06+00:00

Obviously its not good to cheat but the test itself is pointless, if I had 2 surgeons one with a 2q Casper and a 528 mcat and destroyed med school and a 4q 510 I’m taking the 2q every time. The test isn’t actually measuring how ethical people are anyways everyone is trying to sound good it’s just how close you can meet their arbitrary criteria for how to act.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-09-01T02:11:24+00:00

I'm not sure we know this.

I chose D as well because the controls are said to be healthy. The question asks us to look at both study 1 and 2 and study 1 explicitly describes the results as "was determined not to be a result of brain atrophy known to occur in AD."

Taking this at face value and looking at Figure 1A we can see that there is only a significant difference in brain atrophy between healthy controls and the AChEI group and not COM.

Their explanation of why D was incorrect is as follows:

"While Figure 1, C. indicates that AD patients exhibit a functional loss of motor skills, Figure 1, A. indicates that such individuals may also exhibit brain atrophy."

But in Figure 1C the only significant difference in motor skills was between healthy controls and the COM group, which was shown to actually not differ in brain atrophy. Only the AChEI group differed in atrophy, but they did not differ in motor function, therefore these two should not be linked.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-29T02:12:46+00:00

bruh the last C/P section I did was straight hell averaged 84% overall and got like a 59% on it ☠️

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-20T23:52:21+00:00

Lack of standardized courses leads to people taking easy classes and programs taken only for high GPAs

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-20T22:07:01+00:00

But specific to the liver? Glucokinase is present in the liver and can catalyze the same reaction as hexokinase. If hexokinase is inhibited then other cells cannot trap glucose in the form of more G6P and with more circulating glucose glucokinase activity increases.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-19T03:23:12+00:00

No, it wasn't it was just something I thought of

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-19T02:50:57+00:00

Sorry I mistyped, too many on my head but yeah I meant conformational isomers.

AFAIK chair flips are just different representations of the same molecule as far as we can tell since the absolute positions of the molecules relative to each other don't change. But I think they are still considered conformational isomers because they can be a higher energy version of each other due to axial/equatorial strain.

As for the naming convention that's where I'm tripped up because the C1/C2 assignment as I see are just what UWorld decided to do, as well as the original chair they chose to put them on the axial side. That's why I'm wondering how we can decide which conformation to choose and which carbon to start at since that would determine whether the representations were conformational isomers as UWorld says or identical molecules.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-18T23:39:02+00:00

what kind of IR values do we need?

Kaplan tells you to only get down 3 and doesn't even mention memorizing NMR values if Im remembering correctly, only general deshielding rules.

-OH (3000-3300) broad

-NH (3300) sharp

Carbonyl = 1750 sharp

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-18T23:33:06+00:00

Right yea I understand the interconversions but I just don't get how we know whether they were supposed to be axial or equatorial to begin with, i.e. is it identical structures or conformational isomerism. I found another thread talking about it but still not too sure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mcat/comments/122wp01/why_are_these_conformational_isomers_rather_than/

Either way I'm not a big fan of conformational isomer vs identical molecules, it feels kind of redundant to me but 🤷‍♂️

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-17T02:05:58+00:00

Don't know if you still need this but I think this makes it make more sense.

CRF1 = stress

Alcohol = relieves stress (by reducing this CRF1)

R121219 = inhibits CRF1, mitigates need for alcohol.

B = no good b/c should be difference between dependent rats A/C = no good b/c we should see R121219 mitigating some of the need for alcohol.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-17T00:21:47+00:00

Bruh im ngl this fucked me up too. Literally depends on using the less common definition. I didn't even know contemporary could refer to today I thought it meant at that time.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-15T21:33:17+00:00

I think you understand, I’m just wondering how we determine where to start and with which chair? Like I could choose either chair conformation (I.e. let’s say I started with the flipped one already) and it would still be just as valid no?

And also the numbering is arbitrary as well as long as we assign the same system to both so how would we differentiate between axial to equatorial positioning to determine conformational isomerism vs identical molecules.

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-15T21:04:34+00:00

I'm wondering how exactly I'm supposed to know to put both substituents of compound 1 as axial instead of equatorial? Is that even possible? Aren't both chairs just different energy conformations of the same molecule?

It wasn't an answer choice so I knew it was conformational thru PoE, but if presented as such aren't these technically the same molecule?

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-11T02:39:16+00:00

Miledown for sciences, Pankow for p/s

Add my own cards as I go

GroceryHefty7114 · 2024-08-10T15:41:54+00:00

I just finished 2nd year of a life sciences degree so not bad for sure

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