My name is Chris founder and content creator at Eightfold MCAT. I took the MCAT back in April of 2018 and scored a 520 (129/131/129/131). Ever since then, I have been an MCAT tutor and now that's my full-time job!
I love helping people achieve their score goals and that is my inspiration for this creating this channel. I hope to create a comprehensive content and strategy "course" that always puts the most important aspect of the MCAT first, application.
This video is absolutely phenomenal. Thank you so much. It really amazes me that I didn’t come across this type of reasoning ANYWHERE in my content review with Kaplan and Anki. One thing that bothers me is the insecurity of not knowing if this is “everything” that one needs to know about protein gels for the MCAT, since I have no idea where I can even find this information consolidated in one place in an authoritative source elsewhere, such as a textbook, and confirm that there aren’t 5 other types that we need to know besides Native, SDS, and SDS-Reducing. Do you have any advice on how to get over that insecurity/be more confident about that type of thing, Mr. Eightfold? Because I can spend the next hour wasting time trying to see if there’s ANYTHING ELSE that I need to know about protein gels and try to plug those “imaginary holes”, if you understand what I’m saying.
Also, I’m curious about how you knew to make these specific videos. Did you do a bunch of MCAT problems, notice specific types of problems, and just consolidate them into a video? What was your creative process for these? Meaning, how did you know: 1) which videos to make; 2) which content to cover in each video?
Literally exactly the video I needed. Thank you. So this a steadfast rule? For the active/binding site of a protein, in general, the {{c1::charge}} of the site should be {{c2::OPPOSITE those of the ligand}}, and the {{c1::polarity}} of the site should be {{c2::the SAME as that of the ligand}}.
I know you're not actively posting anymore, but I'm so grateful you even posted these kinds of videos in the first place! I have been struggling to understand how to improve my comprehension skills and did not know what to do until I found your channel. I'm already seeing a difference by using your strategies - thank you!!
This series is great, one note though, a galvanic cell has a negatively charged anode and a positively charged cathode, the addition of a battery to an electrochemical cell to complete the non spontaneous reaction is what causes the sign to flip on the anode and cathode
From wikipedia "The anode is the electrode where oxidation (loss of electrons) takes place (metal-A electrode); in a *galvanic cell, it is the negative electrode*, because when oxidation occurs, electrons are left behind on the electrode. These electrons then flow through the external circuit to the *cathode (positive electrode)* (while in *electrolysis, an electric current drives electron flow in the opposite direction and the anode is the positive electrode).* The cathode is the electrode where reduction (gain of electrons) takes place (metal-B electrode); in a galvanic cell, it is the positive electrode, as ions get reduced by taking up electrons from the electrode and plate out (while in electrolysis, the cathode is the negative terminal and attracts positive ions from the solution). In both cases, the statement 'the cathode attracts cations' is true."
never had a math or science teacher show me that simple trick for switching between log scales and their respective exponential forms, this was very helpful
My test is in two days and I just watched like 10 of your videos to review. Literally amazing explanations in all of them, idk how you don’t have more followers!!
