How to Boost Verbal Reasoning (Short Term)?

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I'm sure that it's been covered numerous times (and trust me I've heard a lot already as well), but I was wondering if anyone had any advice for a short term boost to VR scores. I'm about a week out from my MCAT (7/14). Personally, I'm sitting on the 10-11 borderline and I'm not unhappy with it but I've reached the point where I can pick out which questions I'm going to get wrong because I'm uncertain of them.

My verbal strategy which has been supported by both e-MCAT's marking functionality and my own marking in EK101 (? marks) points out questions that I know that I'm not sure of whether it be a decision that could go either way or an odd-ball question. Since I can almost accurately predict which one's I'm going to get wrong, is there any way to fix this?

I understand that sound verbal performance increases come from hours of practice over many weeks/months (something that I didn't really do until the last month), but since I can almost accurately predict errors (last 3 tests I've gotten 8/9, 7/9, and 8/8 of my mistakes predicted), I'm hoping something can be done. I usually have 10 minutes left at the end of VR which I use to go back to these questions, but I normally end up in the same confusion as I did initially. I'm just frustrated I guess.

If there was a simple way to boost your VR in about a week, everyone would do it.

I suppose I should rephrase my question. What I'm looking for is suggestions as to what manner with which I should approach knowingly troublesome questions both during FLs and during review of FLs. I would like to avoid having repeat offenders based on similar logical flaws. What review method have people found to be most helpful in being self-correcting?

1.) Take practice test
2.) Review answers you got wrong and right
3.) See why you got answers wrong and look for common patterns and categorize them from the explanation of the answers.
4.) Devise a strategy to tackle such questions so you can get them right next time.
5.) Repeat. Keep repeating until you're achieving your desired score.