MCAT Prep

Atomic structure, bonding, stoichiometry, acids/bases, kinetics, and thermodynamics

Functional groups, stereochemistry, substitution/elimination, carbonyl chemistry, and spectroscopy

Kinematics, forces, work/energy, momentum, fluids, and waves

Electrostatics, circuits, magnetism, optics, nuclear physics, and electrochemistry

Amino acids, enzyme kinetics, metabolism, lipids, nucleic acids, and bioenergetics

Chromatography, electrophoresis, centrifugation, and spectroscopy (Beer’s law) — the lab techniques the MCAT tests across the science sections.

Overview, active reading, main idea identification, inference, and question types

Humanities, social science, ethics, arts, comparative passages, and time management

Logical reasoning, strengthening/weakening arguments, assumptions, evidence, and fallacies

Cell structure, membrane transport, signaling, cell cycle, apoptosis, and stem cells

DNA replication, transcription, translation, gene regulation, mutations, and biotech

Cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, digestive, endocrine, and nervous systems

Mendelian genetics, population genetics, natural selection, speciation, and immunology

Musculoskeletal, reproductive, integumentary, sensory systems, and embryology

Bacteria, viruses, fungi, microbial genetics, antimicrobials, and host-pathogen interactions

Sensation, perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, development, and personality

Social structure, culture, socialization, group dynamics, health disparities, and demographics

Attitudes and cognitive dissonance, attribution theory, conformity and obedience, prejudice, and group dynamics — high-yield Psych/Soc content.

Neurons and action potentials, neurotransmitters, brain regions, the endocrine system and HPA stress axis, and behavioral genetics — the biology behind behavior.

Reading passages, data interpretation, experimental design, discrete questions, and common traps

MCAT format, scoring, study planning, section strategies, and test day preparation

Experimental vs. observational designs, variables and controls, validity and bias, and how to reason about study quality — the backbone of MCAT passage-based science questions.

Descriptive statistics, distributions, hypothesis testing, p-values and confidence intervals, and the risk/odds measures the MCAT expects you to interpret from passages and figures.

Unit analysis, scientific notation, ratios and percent change, log scales, and fast estimation — the no-calculator math the MCAT embeds throughout the science sections.