Content that I Felt Was Most Important to Know

CHEM/PHYS:

• Standard Conditions (25*C or 298K, 1atm) vs STP (0*C or 273K, 1 atm)
• Periodic trends (ionization energy, atomic radius, etc.)
• Reduction/ Oxidation reactions:
  • Oxidation of alcohols (primary, secondary, tertiary)
  • Reduction of aldehydes, ketones, esters, carboxylic acids
  • Know oxidizing vs reducing agents
• IR spec (O-H broad peak 3300 cm-1, N-H sharp peak 3300 cm-1, C=O sharp peak 1750 cm-1)
• Electron donating groups vs electron withdrawing groups (understanding this concept transformed by CP section score):
  • How that relates to aromatic groups and pKa
  • H-NMR Spec (more electron donating groups will have lower values for ex. alkyl groups are between 0-2 and more electron withdrawing groups will have higher values ex. carboxylic acids are between 10-13)
• Different methods of separating (simple vs vacuum vs fractional distillation)
• Quantum numbers
• Circuits (series vs parallel and the different ways that affects V, I, R)
• Lens equations
• Buoyancy equations (Fbuoyancy = density of the fluid * g * volume submerged)
• E = hf, c = wavelength * frequency (this gets brought up so much)
• n = speed of light / speed in other medium (refraction equations) and snell's equation: n1 sin theta1 = n2 sin theta2

For physics the biggest thing you can do is to memorize all the units and how they relate because even if you don't know how to do a problem you can use the units of the answer choices to rule some out/ figure out how to do the problem.

BIO/BIOCHEM:

• Ectoderm vs Endoderm vs Mesoderm
• Amino acids
• Glycolysis, TCA cycle, ETC, Gluconeogenesis, PPP, FA synthesis, Beta oxidation
• HPT, HPA, HPG, RAA
• Types of hormones
• Analysis methods (SNOW DROP acronym ones: Southern, Northern, Western)
• Types of muscles (skeletal, cardiac, smooth)
• Enzymes
• Nervous system
• Protein structure
• Basic Understanding of the Immune System

PSYCH/SOC:

This section was a lot of memorization for me, but these are some of the basic things to memorize:

• Stages of the sleep cycle (what waves occur at each stage)
• Drugs (depressants, opiates, stimulants, hallucinogens)
• Structure of the brain and what each part does (especially the lobes -- frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal) and the reward pathway
• Theories of Language
• Biases (belief perseverance, confirmation bias, framing effects)
• Defense mechanisms (projection, reaction formation, etc.)
• Norms (reinforced, formal, informal)
• Theories of sociology (functionalism, conflict theory, social constructionism, social interactionism)
• Attachment (Harlow Monkey experiment)
• Fundamental attribution error vs self-serving bias vs actor-observer bias
• George Mead (Me vs I)
• Theories of emotion
• Memory!!!! (and amnesia)
• Reinforcement schedules
• Imaging (MRI vs CAT vs EEG vs MEG vs fMRI vs PET)
• Freud's stages of psychosexual development, Erickson's stages of psychosocial development
• Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning development
• Cognition -- Piaget's stages
• Personality (psychoanalytic perspective vs humanistic perspective - Maslow)