Helpful advice for Reading Comp?

[DDSoneday283]

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I was wondering if anybody had any helpful advice on the reading comp section. My test is within a month, so I dont know if any long-term strategies of reading text will improve my score drastically. I was just curious how students who had success in this portion approached each passage...kaplan roadmap, looking back at text all the time....would like to hear some thoughts. Thanks.

 

[Drill2Fill]

I would advise you to purchase the Examkracker mcat verbal reasoning book.

 

[ddstobe]

I WANT to believe it helps but it doesn't. If you look close to the style of the MCAT questions, you'll find out that the MCAT verbal questions itself gives you tons of info about the passage, but the DAT questions give you vitually none thus follow the exmkracker method will help if you're taking the MCAT and not the DAT. Question like "what is the conclusion of the passage?" Examkrackers will give you no suggestion.

 

[DentalKitty]

Can I just say I despise the RC section? Lol, I am just a slow reader I guess. I find it works best for me to read/skim the questions first, then read/scan the article, then work on answering the questions. Kaplan's method of roadmapping does not work well for me and just ends up using up my time when I don't end up referring back to it. Maybe I am just doing it incorrectly. I usually have minimal problems relocating the section of the passage I need to find the answer in so writing purpose/scope/keywords down just eats up my time. I'm worried about people saying there are fewer detail questions and more inference/predicting type questions though....

 

[pre-dentalguy]

I was wondering if anybody had any helpful advice on the reading comp section. My test is within a month, so I dont know if any long-term strategies of reading text will improve my score drastically. I was just curious how students who had success in this portion approached each passage...kaplan roadmap, looking back at text all the time....would like to hear some thoughts. Thanks.

Just read a few books about a week prior to your date.

 

[ddstobe]

Can I just say I despise the RC section? Lol, I am just a slow reader I guess. I find it works best for me to read/skim the questions first, then read/scan the article, then work on answering the questions. Kaplan's method of roadmapping does not work well for me and just ends up using up my time when I don't end up referring back to it. Maybe I am just doing it incorrectly. I usually have minimal problems relocating the section of the passage I need to find the answer in so writing purpose/scope/keywords down just eats up my time. I'm worried about people saying there are fewer detail questions and more inference/predicting type questions though....

trust me, I took the da$n thing last year and on one of the passages, it has AT LEAST 10 questions are inference type. You don't need to worry about it because YOU WILL SEE IT ON YOUR DAT.

 

[DentalKitty]

trust me, I took the da$n thing last year and on one of the passages, it has AT LEAST 10 questions are inference type. You don't need to worry about it because YOU WILL SEE IT ON YOUR DAT.

lol, that's what I'm worried about 🙂 I guess I know what I have to prepare for though.