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Every week, Sam Smith breaks down high-yield MCAT topics, ensuring you're primed for success on test day.

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Hello, I'm Sam Smith.

In this podcast, I'm going to discuss what the most important organic chemistry reactions to know and have memorized are, which mechanisms should you know, which ones don't really matter.

I came up with this list a few different ways.

So the first was reviewing all the practice material by the AAMC.

You know, you could pick out a few that came up a few times.

And then also I went through, you know, some blog post,

some stuff from student doctor.net, read it, you know, kind of see what the consensus was in terms

of which reactions are most important to know and have memorized for the MCAT. This podcast is to essentially

say, okay, these are the ones you need to know. I'm really not going to go in too great of detail.

And that's just because these mechanisms,

it doesn't help that much to have somebody say it to you.

It helps really to have it drawn out and see it for you.

And this is a podcast, I can't really do that.

But hopefully you get what you need out of it.

And it helps you understand which areas you really need to focus on

in terms of studying for organic chemistry on the MCAP.

So here's what I've deemed as the most important reactions to know.

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