finding that word in verbal passage.

[imapremed]

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so for some of the aamc verbal passages, in the question stem they ask you about a word from the passage WITHOUT A LINE OR PASSAGE REFERENCE and then ask you about it.

how do you guys go about this... sometimes i can't find the word so i just choose the answer that goes along with the main point of the passage but is there an easy way to find these words or something that im not getting?

 

[Bumbl3b33]

so for some of the aamc verbal passages, in the question stem they ask you about a word from the passage WITHOUT A LINE OR PASSAGE REFERENCE and then ask you about it.

how do you guys go about this... sometimes i can't find the word so i just choose the answer that goes along with the main point of the passage but is there an easy way to find these words or something that im not getting?

ditto....today, i almost spent 45secs looking for the word "nature", never found it...eff you Picasso or whoever it was.

 

[salim271]

Probably my least favorite question type, i get a kind of mental block and feel like i cant answer the question without it. My only suggestion is to read the answer choices and use your mental map of the passage to guess at the paragraph its in. The one thing i feel that EK 101 fails at is that AAMC practices (and im guessing the actual MCAT) actually ask questions that are passage specific and not main idea specific.

 

[vayntraubinator]

ditto....today, i almost spent 45secs looking for the word "nature", never found it...eff you Picasso or whoever it was.

Haha, ya at first I was looking for that word. That question was a stupid trick, but hopefully you didn't pick the obviously wrong two choices: A. Something that actually characterized nature or B. Aesthetic something...

Gives you a good sense, but that picasso passage I missed 8!

 

[paul411]

For questions like these, I'd try to locate the word quickly and if I didn't find it, eliminate the seemingly wrong options and guess the right answer if necessary. Then I'd come back to it at the end.

 

[brendonr]

I find it helpful to skim over the questions before reading the passage to look for those key word questions. If there is a key word or phrase I write it down so when I come across it in the passage I'm able to mark it. I think this strategy also helps give me a feel for what I'm about to read.

 

[mohad]

Lol, I missed all but 1 question on the picasso passage. I just don't know what I was thinking. I was derping all over the place. I was shocked that I got an 8 because usually I get 1/2 wrong, maybe 3 per passage, but there was so much red in the picasso passage. SO MUCH RED.

 

[deleted380953]

I find if that if i've read the passage well enough, I can spot it fairly quickly. If it's a word they can ask in a question, there's a decent chance that it's important enough to stick out in a paragraph.

Has anyone used TPR's method where you look at the questions first? Seems like it could help in this aspect

 

[paul411]

I remember that Picasso passage being a b!#ch on the practice test and a similar arts passage showed up on my real thing and I ended up with an 8VR 🙁

 

[MAP2]

ditto....today, i almost spent 45secs looking for the word "nature", never found it...eff you Picasso or whoever it was.

Yeah that Picasso passage was a b*tch! Half of my errors came from that passage alone...