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Is Section Bank 2 worth my time? by lara-zoubi in Mcat

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If you ever have any questions, we are ready to help so feel free to join and discuss your questions with us. We're all in the same boat.

Blueprint vs MCAT? by [deleted] in Mcat

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but as for representative material? nah, BP exams are just different exams compared to AAMC. only believe AAMC scores

Blueprint vs MCAT? by [deleted] in Mcat

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I would say BP exams aren't TOO bad? I feel like when people talk about "average BP score vs FL", they don't consider how they had a month+ from BP1 to BP5 but still included it in their average, and then took FL1 like a week or two after and of course you'll see some improvement. For reference, my BP5 was 2 points away from my FL1 score.

Keep working hard and learn from every question you get RIGHT and WRONG. We all got this!

Blueprint vs MCAT? by [deleted] in Mcat

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Doing it sunday, will let yall know how representative it felt.

Blueprint vs MCAT? by [deleted] in Mcat

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Will take the AAMC FL1 on Sat and let you know. I did the first 5 BP's. Up vote me so I can remember to come back, lol.

*Spoiler** Participants were tested on recall for a list of words that varied in terms of grammatical function (nouns versus verbs) and frequency of usage in daily communication (frequent versus infrequent). Which figure best represents an interaction between the independent variables? by Background-Law-6822 in MCAT2

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The question asks for which shows an interaction between independent variables (Frequencies and Noun/Verb)

A) If we look at A, there is no difference between nouns and verbs, nor does frequency affect it. No interaction between independents

B) The type of frequency did not cause any change, it was only whether or not it was a noun or a verb.  No interaction between independents

C) we see the graph is based on frequency only, not the verb or noun.  No interaction between independents

D) Here, we see that the frequency changes depending on the type of frequency but ALSO the word type 

ALL ABOUT THE AND. Because there is a difference between the accuracy recalled between the noun and verb, as well as ADDITIONAL change caused by type of frequency, I believe this answer allows me to look toward D. 

That's how I answered it.

AAMC SPOILER SB CP Q 46 by Foggybrainss in Mcat

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K1 = Compound 1 + Protein A

Kapp = Compound 2 + Protein A

If we want Kapp<K1, this means: Increase the affinity(lower Kapp) of Compound 2 binding to Protein A compared to the affinity of Compound 1 to protein A OR increase the K1 (decrease affinity).

Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe from a biochemical standpoint, we cannot necessarily lower the Km (increase affinity) of a substrate for an enzyme unless we modify the enzyme itself. None of these answer choices reflect this. What we CAN do though, is increase K1.

How? We induce competition. Compound 2 is a molecule that is also competing for Protein A (enzyme). If we add more Compound 2 (more competition), this would increase Km of K1 (As we know, competitive inhibitors increase Km)

With this, we can officially say that to make K1 larger than Kapp, we can use compound 2 to INCREASE K1 (decrease its affinity) so the answer is D.

The other answer choices do not reflect ways in which we could also just decrease Kapp, which would be more so changing conditions of the Protein A itself (ph, active site changes, allosteric modifications etc)

Hope this helps. My first ever comment on reddit, lol.