MDCAT 2-Week Plan

Study of motion without forces covering displacement, velocity, acceleration, equations of motion, and graphical analysis.

Newtons three laws of motion, friction, equilibrium, momentum conservation, and application of forces in practical situations.

Electric charges, Coulomb law, electric field, potential, capacitance, and electrical phenomena in body tissues.

Ohms law, DC circuits, electrical resistance, power consumption, and nerve conduction physics.

Reflection, refraction, lenses, optical instruments, eye optics, microscopes, and applications in medical diagnostics.

Work done by forces, kinetic and potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy, and power calculations.

Uniform circular motion, centripetal force, banking of roads, and satellite motion around Earth.

Simple harmonic motion characteristics, pendulum, mass-spring systems, and damped oscillations in biological systems.

Ionic, covalent, hydrogen bonding, VSEPR theory, molecular geometry, and bond characteristics in biological molecules.

Hydrocarbons, functional groups, isomerism, nomenclature, and structure-activity relationships in drug molecules.

Electron configuration, quantum numbers, atomic orbitals, periodic properties, and structure of atoms relevant to medical chemistry.

Enthalpy changes, Hess law, calorimetry, bond energy, and energy metabolism in living organisms.

Reversible reactions, equilibrium constant, Le Chateliers principle, and equilibrium in physiological systems.

pH and pOH, buffer systems in blood, acid-base balance, and titration in biochemical analysis.

Redox reactions, electrochemical cells, electrode potentials, and biochemical oxidation processes.

Aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, petroleum, and hydrocarbon derivatives in medicinal chemistry.

Cell structure and function, prokaryotic vs eukaryotic cells, cell organelles, and cell membrane transport mechanisms in plants.

Light and dark reactions, Calvin cycle, chlorophyll, factors affecting photosynthesis, and CO2 fixation pathways.

Biological molecules in plants including carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, enzymes, and metabolic pathways specific to plant cells.

Mitosis and meiosis in plants, cell cycle, chromosome behavior, and significance in plant growth and reproduction.

Glycolysis, Krebs cycle, electron transport chain, anaerobic respiration, and energy production in plants.

Water and mineral transport, transpiration pull, translocation, and pressure flow hypothesis in phloem.

Asexual and sexual reproduction, pollination, fertilization, seed formation, and fruit development in plants.

Mendelian inheritance, genetic crosses, dominance, segregation, and polygenic inheritance patterns in plants.

Eukaryotic cell organelles, cell membrane structure, cellular processes, and differences between plant and animal cells.

Central and peripheral nervous system, neurons, nerve impulse transmission, reflexes, and sensory organs.

Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, enzymes, and their functions in living organisms.

Alimentary canal, digestive glands, enzymes, absorption, assimilation, and nutritional requirements in humans.

Heart structure, blood vessels, blood composition, cardiac cycle, blood pressure, and circulation pathways.

Thermoregulation, water balance, internal environment stability, and feedback mechanisms in the human body.

Hormones, endocrine glands, feedback mechanisms, hormone action, and disorders of endocrine system.

Mendelian genetics, chromosomal theory, inheritance patterns, genetic disorders, and human genetics.

Reading strategies for passages, identifying main ideas, making inferences, tone identification, and answering RC questions.

Word formation, root words, prefixes, suffixes, contextual vocabulary, and techniques for expanding vocabulary for medical entrance exams.

Identifying grammatical errors, improving sentences, and selecting grammatically correct options in multiple choice format.

All twelve tenses with their forms, usage in different contexts, and common errors in tense usage for academic writing.

Subject-verb agreement, modifiers, parallel structure, and grammatical correctness in complex sentence construction.

Common academic and medical synonyms and antonyms, and techniques for eliminating options in vocabulary-based questions.

Converting phrases into single words, commonly used technical and medical terminology, and professional vocabulary building.

Commonly used English idioms and phrases, their meanings and appropriate usage in academic and professional contexts.

Complete number and letter sequences, identifying patterns, finding next term, and series logic problems.

Letter and number coding patterns, analogical relationships in codes, and decoding encrypted messages systematically.

Arranging words, sentences, or events in logical sequence based on given conditions and inferring order.

Evaluating statements, identifying valid conclusions, and assessing logical validity of argument conclusions.

Advanced logical analysis for evaluating complex arguments, identifying flaws, and strengthening or weakening conclusions.

Reading and interpreting data from tables, bar graphs, line graphs, pie charts, and analytical decision making from data.

Word relationship types including cause-effect, part-whole, function, and similarity relationships tested in analogy questions.

Identifying items that do not belong to a category, classifying objects based on common characteristics, and odd-one-out problems.