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Jagiellonian Medical College Syllabus: Key Concepts Checklist, Annotated

All 31 topics of Jagiellonian University Medical College's official topic list, in its own words, each with what to know, the IvyTest lessons that teach it and the questions of our free sample test that test it. Tick a topic off when you have it; your ticks stay in this browser.

Based on "Examination Material Scope 2026/27", the page on Jagiellonian University Medical College's admissions site, as it read on 20 October 2026 (the page carries no date of its own). The official wording is quoted as printed; the notes and links are IvyTest's.

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JUMC's Examination Material Scope links four Key Concepts documents: Biology (12 topics), General Chemistry (10), Organic Chemistry (6) and Logic (3). Every topic below is quoted from them as printed; Biology topic 11 lists its seventeen systems, whose detailed points are in the Biology PDF. The exam has 100 five-option questions in 180 minutes across Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Logic and Ethics, and JUMC publishes no split between them. There is no Key Concepts document for Ethics (see the Ethics page) and none for Mathematics, whose arithmetic, algebra, counting and probability appear in the official sample paper. Tick each topic when you can do it without notes.

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Organic Chemistry

1. Structure and bonding in organic chemistry: 1.1. Hybridization and molecular shapes; 1.2. Carbon atom and its properties in organic compounds; 1.3. Carbon skeletons with single and multiple bonds; 1.4. Functional groups; 1.5. Structural and skeleton formulas of organic compounds; 1.6. Lewis structures, formal charges;
Organic Structure and Functional Groups
What to know: sp³, sp² and sp hybridisation and the shapes they give, carbon skeletons, functional groups, structural and skeletal formulas, Lewis structures and formal charges.
Lesson (members): Organic chemistry foundations & nomenclature Lesson (members): Chemical bonding & molecular structure Sample question 39 Sample question 40
2. Classification and properties of organic compounds: 2.1. Hydrocarbons 2.1.1. Alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds 2.1.2. Homologous series 2.1.3 Alkyl halides, Nitro compounds; 2.2. Alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and their derivatives; 2.3. Amines, amino acids, peptides and proteins; 2.4. Lipids, carbohydrates, heterocyclic bases, nucleotides, nucleic acids; 2.5. Isomerism: Structural isomers, tautomers, resonance forms
Classes of Organic Compounds
What to know: Each class and its properties: hydrocarbons, halides and nitro compounds, alcohols (primary, secondary, tertiary), phenols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, acids and derivatives, amines, amino acids and proteins, lipids and soaps, carbohydrates (aldoses, ketoses, ring forms), bases and nucleotides; structural isomers and tautomers.
Lesson (members): Hydrocarbons & aromatic compounds Lesson (members): Alcohols, phenols, ethers & thiols Lesson (members): Aldehydes & ketones Lesson (members): Carboxylic acids & derivatives Lesson (members): Amines & nitrogen compounds Lesson (members): Biomolecules & biochemical chemistry Sample question 41 Sample question 42 Sample question 43
3. Nomenclature of organic compounds 3.1.Hydrocarbons of various classes; 3.2.Compounds with one functional group; 3.3.Compounds with more functional groups;
Organic Nomenclature
What to know: IUPAC naming: the parent chain, the suffix of the principal group, lowest locants and substituents in alphabetical order, for one and for several functional groups.
Lesson (members): Organic chemistry foundations & nomenclature Sample question 44 Sample question 45
4. Stereochemistry: 4.1. Stereoisomers; 4.2. Z/E stereoisomers; 4.3 Cis -trans isomers 4.4. Enantiomers and diastereomers; 4.5. Conformations;
Isomerism and Stereochemistry
What to know: Z/E and cis–trans isomers, chiral centres, enantiomers and diastereomers (meso forms), Fischer projections, and conformations.
Lesson (members): Isomerism & stereochemistry Sample question 46 Sample question 47 Sample question 48
5. Organic reactions: 5.1. Types of organic reactions: addition, substitution, elimination; 5.2. Mechanisms of organic reactions; 5.2.1. Nucleophilic substitution, nucleophiles; 5.2.2. Elimination; 5.2.3. Electrophilic substitution in aromatic compounds, electrophiles; 5.2.4. Radical substitution, radical processes, radicals 5.4. Reduction and oxidation in organic chemistry; 5.6. Rearrangements in organic compounds; 5.7. Some characteristic reactions of functional groups: amide bond formation, acetal creation, ester formation and hydrolysis.
Organic Reactions and Mechanisms
What to know: Addition, substitution and elimination; nucleophilic, electrophilic aromatic and radical substitution; oxidising primary and secondary alcohols; amide, acetal and ester formation and ester hydrolysis.
Lesson (members): Hydrocarbons & aromatic compounds Lesson (members): Alcohols, phenols, ethers & thiols Lesson (members): Carboxylic acids & derivatives Sample question 49 Sample question 50
6. Organic polymers
Organic Reactions and Mechanisms
What to know: Addition and condensation polymers and the monomers they are made from.
Lesson (members): Vitamins, medicines, drugs & polymers

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Logic

1. Logical Reasoning: 1.1 Number series; 1.2 Syllogism; 1.3 Direction tests; 1.4 Logical deduction; 1.5 Logical problems; 1.6 Problem solving; 1.7 Statement and conclusions; 1.8 Statement and Assumptions; 1.9 Cause and effect; 1.10 Seating/arrangements;
Formal Logic and Syllogisms
What to know: Number series, syllogisms and conditionals, direction tests, deduction and problem solving, statements with their conclusions and assumptions, cause and effect, and seating puzzles: practise each type until you can spot its pattern fast.
Lesson (members): Formal & propositional logic Lesson (members): Syllogisms, sets & classification Sample question 51 Sample question 52 Sample question 53 Sample question 54 Sample question 55 Sample question 56 Sample question 57 Sample question 58 Sample question 59 Sample question 60 Sample question 61 Sample question 62 Sample question 63 Sample question 64 Sample question 65 Sample question 66 Sample question 67 Sample question 68
2. Verbal reasoning
Verbal Reasoning and Data Interpretation
What to know: Reading a short argument closely: its conclusion, the assumption it needs, what would weaken it, and whether a correlation shows cause.
Lesson (members): Verbal reasoning & argument evaluation Sample question 69 Sample question 70 Sample question 71 Sample question 72
3. Graph/tables interpretation
Verbal Reasoning and Data Interpretation
What to know: Reading values from tables and graphs, and working out differences, percentages and percentage points by hand without over-reading the data.
Lesson (members): Data, tables & graph interpretation Sample question 73 Sample question 74 Sample question 75

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