TL;DR: I score much higher on verbal practice tests when I do not even read the passage and jus t use the stems versus reading the whole thing and trying to figure out the main idea/point and was wondering if anyone else feels the same way.
I cant believe it.
I, like many other people on these boards (or rather people who are taking the mcat for their first time) are having a bit of trouble with the verbal.
I am not a good reader, (atleast now... still got 3 months till the mcat) and as is such my verbal practice tests that I have taken thus far have been scoring rather low (not at super concern now because I still have 3 months).
Anywho, I am taking kaplan class. And after reading this board, everybody has recommended EK for verbal. So I got the book.
Read about their "question stem" method as to how sometimes you do not even need to read the passage to get the right answer.
Just took a Kaplan verbal subject timed test.
Tried using the whole "main point" and "know the author " stuff that both kaplan and EK write about at first (i know that mapping is crap).
Anywho was runnign out of time and was like screw it. This is just a practice test I am not even going to read the passages. The last two passages I soley used the question stems.
Long story short. I did significantly better on the passages where I did not read a single thing and only utilized the stems than on those passage where I actually read and tried to figure out the main idea.
I dont really know what to think. A part of me feels like I am too scared on the actual mcat to soley rely on the question stems... yet on these practice tests I do better when I dont even read the paragraph and just focus on the stems!
Anyone else feel like this?
I cant believe it.
I, like many other people on these boards (or rather people who are taking the mcat for their first time) are having a bit of trouble with the verbal.
I am not a good reader, (atleast now... still got 3 months till the mcat) and as is such my verbal practice tests that I have taken thus far have been scoring rather low (not at super concern now because I still have 3 months).
Anywho, I am taking kaplan class. And after reading this board, everybody has recommended EK for verbal. So I got the book.
Read about their "question stem" method as to how sometimes you do not even need to read the passage to get the right answer.
Just took a Kaplan verbal subject timed test.
Tried using the whole "main point" and "know the author " stuff that both kaplan and EK write about at first (i know that mapping is crap).
Anywho was runnign out of time and was like screw it. This is just a practice test I am not even going to read the passages. The last two passages I soley used the question stems.
Long story short. I did significantly better on the passages where I did not read a single thing and only utilized the stems than on those passage where I actually read and tried to figure out the main idea.
I dont really know what to think. A part of me feels like I am too scared on the actual mcat to soley rely on the question stems... yet on these practice tests I do better when I dont even read the paragraph and just focus on the stems!
Anyone else feel like this?
