I just got a confirmation that I have been admitted into a Master in Biochemistry program. However, I am required to take an entrance exam at the university before being fully registered. The university provides a list of topics, 10 example questions, and 2 recommended textbooks but, needless to say, I'm stressed out.

The topics are basically everything conceivably under the sun in the field of molecular cell biology and the questions are very specific. Understanding the basics is simple enough, but the test questions make me feel that I'm going to be blindsided by a lot of ultra specific questions. I had studied all of these topics during undergrad but, considering how little the majority of that knowledge was relevant in my professional work, a lot of it has gone by the wayside.

I have the textbooks, but I am not finding them incredibly helpful as far as using my time effectively goes. For example, there is general outline of enzymes and enzymatic reactions. But if the test asks me for the outcome of a specific reaction with a particular substrate, then very little of that was helpful (the test is also written). So I feel that just reading through every outlined topic is not very beneficial. Is there anything I could be doing better or is just knuckling down the best way forward?