I do well in my classes, but when I see what people talk about is on the MCAT or is any yield of stuff, a lot of it seems to be things I never even learned in my course (for that area).

Is the expectation that there’s a hefty amount of information that you also need to learn for the MCAT or is it that you should’ve learned this and now it’s something you need to review and know well because you’ll see it?

My college is a 4-year institution—an accredited university and all. I mean, anatomy is one example. I took both anatomy courses, and now I even help teach it. Every time a prof teaches the course, there’s a few things they do or don’t teach (like one might teach you details about the digestive system to test you on but won’t teach you about small other areas since they won’t test on it, but it’s a small bit that always changes and seems like prof preference). There’s some concepts I see that are only lightly covered in my school’s anatomy courses, and there are others that aren’t covered at all.

When I take tests, sometimes I can eliminate answers because if there’s a word I don’t know, I know it’s not the answer because I study and learn everything it could possibly be. That is not the case at all, of course, with the MCAT because there’s so many terms and all. I mean, in the end, I’ll need to learn these things I don’t know anyway because what can I do, but I’m just curious about if the MCAT is supposed to test the information you should know and have learned from taking that class.