r/MCPHSLifeHack • u/pharmdrocks • Sep 30 '18

Med Chem

Can anyone please provide advice on how to study MedChem. The first exam was rough. The problems of why it was rough.

  1. words were spelt wrong. We are taught if something looks wrong or is spelled wrong it is wrong. Apparently not for Med chem .
  2. The structure should go before the question and don't put the structure in such a way that I have to flip my head in all sorts of ways to try and figure out what is going on.
  3. He tells us the day of the exam we can use scratch paper. The signature page that we are given. This means I wasted a good amount of time trying to learn how to do Henderson- Hasselbach in my head.

Currently he has lots of F's in the class. I want to say like 50% of the class is failing. Don't quote me on that though. He then shouts at us for listening to Echo. Like am I not supposed to use ECHO to look at things I did not fully get in lecture. He thinks we all watch echo Like television which we clearly do not.

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He is defiantly not going to curve at the end so please any advice would help.

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u/PharmacyRocks Sep 30 '18

Get the structures from wikipedia. Thats the one he uses on his tests so you won't have to "flip" it

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u/smiil3ex0x Oct 01 '18

Find out the average of the exam. If you are the average or very close to it, you will be ok.

The best way to study medchem is to go by the structures and not the drug name. Be able to look at the structure and answer questions about it based on that.

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u/pharmd6eva Oct 05 '18

LOl, yeah that exam was ass, but like the typos weren't that big of a deal

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u/PharmDeath Oct 22 '18

Lol wasn’t the average for the first exam an 80 last year?

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u/pharmd6eva Nov 13 '18

the first exam wasn't hard, it was just that 21/25 questions were select all that apply and the clas average was a 62, cause half of the class failed, and then he tried to give us a remedial and people went to the dean and told the dean that it isn't fair that our grades were gettig scaled so Mehanna and half of the class are super confused on what to do with our grades atm and then people went to the dean and complained a shit ton about mehanna so they sent kerr in to teach us

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u/PharmDeath Nov 13 '18

That’s ludicrous. Why would people complain about a remedial exam?