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After taking the MCAT and doing horribly, I've realized exactly what to expect and what to work on to markedly increase my score in 3 months. So I'm a week and a half into sn2'eds 3 month plan but am realizing that TBR's science passages, although tough and great for content review, does not incorporate the critical thinking, hypothesis testing, passage-based questions that make up the majority of the actual MCAT.
This spring I helped tutor a person who studied for 4 weeks and got a 36 (naturally a beast at verbal...very strong correlation between naturally gifted verbal reasoners and 35+ scores I might add), it's clear that this analytical/critical reading and thinking skill is far superior to simply knowing or even truly understanding the fundamental science concepts. This is a skill that I truly want to build over the next 3 months but feel like TBR is just one big source of content review.
So my question: I've realized that TPRH SW's passage are strongly critical-thinking/experimental based and seem to reflect the real MCAT 10x more than TBR, so why isn't the consensus more in favor of that?...or am I missing something here (aside from the fact that there are fewer passages per topic). If I want to really develop great scientific critical thinking skills, would it be wise to replace the TBR passages with TPRH SW? Anyone else do this and can attest? Thanks!
This spring I helped tutor a person who studied for 4 weeks and got a 36 (naturally a beast at verbal...very strong correlation between naturally gifted verbal reasoners and 35+ scores I might add), it's clear that this analytical/critical reading and thinking skill is far superior to simply knowing or even truly understanding the fundamental science concepts. This is a skill that I truly want to build over the next 3 months but feel like TBR is just one big source of content review.
So my question: I've realized that TPRH SW's passage are strongly critical-thinking/experimental based and seem to reflect the real MCAT 10x more than TBR, so why isn't the consensus more in favor of that?...or am I missing something here (aside from the fact that there are fewer passages per topic). If I want to really develop great scientific critical thinking skills, would it be wise to replace the TBR passages with TPRH SW? Anyone else do this and can attest? Thanks!