It was interesting. It's stressful, but you should be able to handle it with proper studying.

1. Chem Acs Exam Study Guide

It's pretty discouraged to discuss detailed info about the exam, but I can share a few tips: There are going to be questions you can't answer. Likewise, there will be a few questions that should seem obvious to you. Don't get hung up on the harder ones so much that you miss the easy ones. This is common for any ACS exam, they put the ceiling really high.

I can almost guarantee that your professor will curve the exam, so don't panic if you think you're walking out of there with 60%, that's a fine score. They give you a sheet with the alphabetical codes for amino acids, so if you're shaky on a couple of those, don't worry too much. You should know their structures and their features, however. All naming conventions that you learned are fair game. You should know how to number your lipids, which end of a carbohydrate is the reducing end, and the difference between a kinase and a phosphatase. Study well, but also get a good sleep, eat a good breakfast, and don't panic.

Chem Acs Exam Study Guide

Stress can be just as much of a killer for ACS exams as underpreparation. Were there any structures we needed to know besides amino acids Know your common sugars for sure, and your functional groups. Any major calculations?

Not much, you should be good with a very simple calculator. Most math questions will wind up being more about how you set it up (which direction a reaction goes) than about the math. Of the major pathways is there any stuff I can safely ignore? Don't know, and probably wouldn't be able to tell you if I did.

Your teacher should hopefully have told you if you can safely just know the basics of a pathway (eg, Pentose Phosphate Pathway). What is a curriculum pacing guide. For the lab stuff, how exactly can one prepare since they will be asking us to interpret results? Review how the lab stuff works. Understanding it is the best way to be able to interpret it. Remember that gels usually work on a logarithmic scale and the biggest things travel the shortest.

Don't get too bogged down by the details of running the experiment, focus on how the results are collected and interpreted.

My roommate is taking her ACS Biochemistry exam in a few days. She has no idea what she should study or what she should look for to help her study. She has googled everything she can think of and either you have to pay for an online study guide or there is nothing available. Does anyone have any ideas that can help.

My roommate is taking her ACS Biochemistry exam in a few days. She has no idea what she should study or what she should look for to help her study. She has googled everything she can think of and either you have to pay for an online study guide or there is nothing available. Does anyone have any ideas that can help her out? She would really appreciate it. For the best answers, search on this site Know glycolysis thoroughly, the enzymes involved.

Which steps produce NADH. What pathways and enzymes does ATP inhibit? What is the use of the NADPH produced in HMP? Is it used in anabolic or catabolic reactions? Recognize the STRUCTURES (not the functions) of biotin, TTP, THP, PPT? You need to destinguish between them Know the difference between competitive and non-competitive inhibitors and their effects on graphs Know what is on the coordinates of the enzyme graphs that measure Km, Vmax Know SDS-Page Know PCR If you are given a 4 small polypeptides amino acids (like glu-his-gly-arg), be able to recognize at a given pH the order those polypeptides will migrate to anode/cathode. Memorize your pkas!

BTW the one letter codes and three letter codes are given on the exam Know how much ATP is produced from Kerb's and know where it is produced at (which steps) Know in glycolysis and Kreb's cycle where NADH, FADH2, etc are produced What is the difference between glycolysis and gluconeogenesis? (throroughly know difference in terms of structure, enzymes, etc) Know translation in the sense, what will a point mutation do to amino acid sequence? What will a deletion do? Whats the differences between bacterial and eukaryotic DNA replication?

Know translation, what are promoters, etc? What are the enzymes in the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex?

What are the end products of the Kerb's cycle ONLY? In globular proteins, what might be used to break cys redisues? If you know, know a lot about that answer! In hemoglobin, know generally how O binds, what does 2,3BPG what about the differences in going from the T to the R state? Know the basic difference between an anabolic and catabolic pathway (which is reductive, oxidative?) Whats a thioester bond?

Which lipids have glycosidic linkages? What are the allosteric effectors of the steps in the Kreb's cycle?. Tell us some more. Upload in Progress. Upload failed.

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