AAMC-esque verbal practice?? HELP

[the truth]

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I'm getting 10s consistently on Kaplan, yet haven't broken 8 on AAMC. The Kaplan passages aren't even close. Does anyone know of anything out there that's more like the AAMC stuff?

This verbal thing is really becoming a problem w/ only about a week to go. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Psycho Doctor]

try EK, they aren't the same but they are harder so it might be good practice. AAMC is the best guide

 

[BioMedGy]

bump

 

[pbehzad]

The problem with Kaplan and even EK material is that no tests or practice passages have 10 question passages. AAMC tests have 2 passages that have 10 questions each. I think this throws alot people off, it threw me off for the April test (thats why Im retaking this damn thing). I sometimes wonder the legitimacy of EK cuase their passages are interesting while that can't be said about AAMC. I would try to work on the passages from the Princeton Review verbal workbook cause they have some pasages that are boring and have like 9 or 10 questions. Furthermore, what i realized this time around is to do the 2 10 question passages 1st on the MCAT, and then go in order. Those longer passages generally take me about 11 minutes to finish each one, but the 5 or 6 question passages take me about 7-8 minutes so it evens out.
Hope that helps.

 

[safrat]

The problem with Kaplan and even EK material is that no tests or practice passages have 10 question passages. AAMC tests have 2 passages that have 10 questions each. I think this throws alot people off, it threw me off for the April test (thats why Im retaking this damn thing). I sometimes wonder the legitimacy of EK cuase their passages are interesting while that can't be said about AAMC. I would try to work on the passages from the Princeton Review verbal workbook cause they have some pasages that are boring and have like 9 or 10 questions. Furthermore, what i realized this time around is to do the 2 10 question passages 1st on the MCAT, and then go in order. Those longer passages generally take me about 11 minutes to finish each one, but the 5 or 6 question passages take me about 7-8 minutes so it evens out.
Hope that helps.

usually one of the 2 10 question passages is incredibly hard (killer). I have the same exact problem as you. You should do the natural science passages. Then choose to do the social sciences. The humanities tend to contain the killer passage. So, if you do all the small passages, you'll notice that one of the big ones is humanities. Therefore, it might be beneficial to omit it or do it last.

I did aamc 7 verbal and got a 9. I did aamc 5 verbal and got a 7. Both of them had one of the 2 10 passage questions as the killer. The difference in my score was due to the fact that I avoided one of the 10 question passage. However, the strange thing was that I did the 10 q passage, and it was in humanities. I ended up getting all of it right. It was difficult as hell to read, and I just went on assumptions. The other 10 q passage was in the social sciences.

I'm basically going to have to call it on the day of the exam. I hope we both do really well. Hope this helps.