Examkrackers 1001 Questions in MCAT Chemistry

Buy this book if you feel that you are weak in certain areas of chemistry.The most problem-intensive concepts in MCAT Chemistry are solubilities and acid-base reactions. This book will make sure that you know what you're doing when given a Ksp, Ka, Kb, and any other combination. It is far too easy to read the equation for Ksp or Ka and think you know how to do those problems-- often, a student has no idea why equations are the way they are and just plug and chug. The MCAT will burn you if you don't understand why equations work the way they do, especially with solubilities and acid-base.Great practice problems to test limiting reagents, reaction rates, Le Chatelier's principle, electrolysis. What I did for the MCAT was to study the concepts in chemistry that required problem-solving with this book. Try to skip the conceptuals question-- often, your own chemistry book can you teach concepts better than questions here, which usually operates on your knowledge of miniscule facts. Pay attention to what your instructors say are important-- do not do Vp questions, do not do phase diagrams. Often, the practice problems in your review textbooks is sufficient enough and you do not need to do practice problems for those.I did all 1001 questions for MCAT Physics THREE TIMES and I understood all those questions. I kept a notebook that detailed explanation for all the problems that stumped me. I went on the message board countless times. And while I knew MCAT Physics backwards and forwards, the amount of work I put in versus the amount of information that I actually needed for the MCAT was around 30%. In other words, doing all the problems meticulously will get you nowhere! You will waste valuable study time. Find your weakness and focus on those. Other things, you should just know without extensive practice.For example, what is the difference between the second and third row of the periodic table? The third row non-metal elements can have five bonds while the second row can only have four. This is a typical MCAT style question, and while a book like 1001 Chemistry will ask a large number of periodical tendencies question, this will probably be the only one that shows up on the test!Study smart. Solubility, Acid-Base, and Electrolysis are the big subjects. Know how to do limiting reagents and stoichiometry. Do not do all the problems and master all of them-- that is a waste of time.

I highly recommend this book. It had been a while since I took chemistry and this provides so much practice that it brings it all together. The examcrackers text itself is succint though i feel it reviews all the basics. Most people struggle with the stoichiometry section in berkeley review but I did this before using berkeley's chemistry and it made that section one of my best sections.The chapters in this book correspond with the chapters in the EK books. I did every other question the first go around and then when i came back i did the evens. I like that it provides explanation for the questions. Sometimes, I learned concepts from the short little explanations. When i took kaplans test, it showed that while physics was a weak point, I did well in the physical sciences section because my chemistry compensated for it. The MCAT is passage based and while this book isn't, it's great for learning the basics and learning to do the quick math that'll earn you some quick points on test day. But do yourself a favor and get another book with passages, either princeton or berkeley review so you can work on pacing yourself through passages.Good luck.

Great book of questions! I couldn't afford a class or anything so I had to do my own home study. I used these books to test my knowledge each day. I will say that practicing with these questions helped boost my score by 10 points. I mean, I'm in med school now so I guess that says it all lol. I will stand by Examkrackers because there books are straight to the point & make it fun because learning should be fun! Plus, the little quirky things they add do help in retaining knowledge. In med school, the funny or silly cartoon, acronyms, & sayings are the ones that help you remember things the most so Examkrackers is right on point! I owe you guys everything for helping my MCAT score!

Essentially, this book is a collection of very simple gen. chem questions that function more as note cards rather than MCAT practice. It is great in the sense that it drills in concepts, facts, and simple procedures. However, the answers to the questions leave something to be desired. Often times they are little more than test taking strategies, "Use 'Roman Numeral' problems to you advantage. Since answer I is in all the choices, it has to be right." It is not hard to go back to your chem text book or the exam krackers chem book to review, but it would be nice for the authors to succinctly answer the question, and show why the other answers are wrong. This is the way that the Exam Krackers Verbal Reasoning and Biology Question books are written, which I would highly recommend. Also, as I have noted before, the questions do not at all reflect the types of questions that a student will see on the real test.

I didn't get as much out of this as I got out of the other EK 1001 Questions book. The answers were sometimes truncated, leaving me baffled as to what I did wrong with no indication of what to do right. The content also did not always correspond with the material as covered int he EK Chemistry text, so you will need to supplement with outside material. However, taking extensive practice questions and tests is the number one way to study for the real thing, and you would be a fool not to use this text as part of your studies.Supplement it with The Princeton Review in General Chemistry and the Khan Academy (especially on acid/base reactions and electrochemistry), and I think you're golden.

I really enjoy the Examkrackers 1001 Series as I believe the help show clear examples of some necessary subjects important for the MCAT that could easily be missed. Also with so many questions, key concepts can really be practiced and learned well.However, that being said, my one problems with this whole series is that it seems the books are riddled with errors here and there. As a student freaking out at trying to understand every concept, it's not a great feeling to be in a state of confusion when it is the books writers error.

I went through 150 problems and kept second guessing the answer on a few until I said wait a minute, let me look up this answer, it can't be right!The book asks for the electron configuration of Br and it says the answer is1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 3d10 4s2 4p5WRONG!The correct answer is1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p5 !!!!!!!!!! 4s2 comes before 3d10! Furthermore the correct answer isnt even listed as a possibility!I'm now afraid if I do anymore I'm going to get answers wrong on the MCAT and every point matters on the MCAT.I do not recommend this book at all.

Chemistry is a subject that I definitely needed some review in. I felt this question book was able to help me solidify the basic concepts of chemistry so that I could apply them in a broader context.

This book really goes over every topic and angle imaginable for questions you'll see on the MCAT. Great for reinforcing knowledge and pointing out weaknesses. I bought the whole 1001 review set and have found them very helpful.