I started looking at TPRH Verbal, are the passages all this wack

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I did about 6 passages so far and I actually hated all of them

I even felt that some of them had no purpose it was just some long-winded philosophical garbage; the fact that the questions were asking for so much detail from the passage was also rather annoying

I'm going to keep doing it because of the lack of other Verbal material

But honestly it's nothing like what I've seen on the AAMC test
 
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onedirection said:
I did about 6 passages so far and I actually hated all of them

I even felt that some of them had no purpose it was just some long-winded philosophical garbage; the fact that the questions were asking for so much detail from the passage was also rather annoying

I'm going to keep doing it because of the lack of other Verbal material

But honestly it's nothing like what I've seen on the AAMC test
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I agree with you. I think it's probably one of the most awful verbal practice books out there. I've done it twice because I did very badly on it the first time and since so many people are saying that it's more representative than EK, I figured I'll do it again so that I can really see what my mistakes are. I did just as badly the second time around. I think it's just an awful book and not representative of AAMC, which I find much much MUCH easier.
 
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onedirection said:
I did about 6 passages so far and I actually hated all of them

I even felt that some of them had no purpose it was just some long-winded philosophical garbage; the fact that the questions were asking for so much detail from the passage was also rather annoying

I'm going to keep doing it because of the lack of other Verbal material

But honestly it's nothing like what I've seen on the AAMC test
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I find that they are pretty close to the AAMC's. But dont approach them the same way you would approach EK because they require different strategies. It took me a little while to figure out a good strategy and I've found that with TPRH you have to speed read and you cant spend time focusing on tiny details (for EK the reverse was true).
 
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TPRH verbal, at the very least, is more representative of AAMC style passages than EK is
 
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I agree that the passages may be representative of AAMC but NO WAY the questions are!!!

Their questions are incredibly detail oriented (have you looked at their roman numerals??)

EK has easy to read passages but AAMC-y questions; but TPRH has AAMC-y passages but ridiculous questions.
 
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texan2414 said:
I agree that the passages may be representative of AAMC but NO WAY the questions are!!!

Their questions are incredibly detail oriented (have you looked at their roman numerals??)

EK has easy to read passages but AAMC-y questions; but TPRH has AAMC-y passages but ridiculous questions.
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I felt that the format of TPRH questions was closer to AAMC than EK was. To me, EK made you refer back to the passage (those "in lines ___ to ___ questions"), and TPRH didn't include as much (or any) of those.

In the end, the closest thing to AAMC is AAMC itself 😳 the Verbal section is like a shot in the dark anyway. I say this because I did all of EK and TPRH and didn't see much of an improvement (scored 10-12 consistently through the whole three months of practice, got an 11 on the real thing).
 
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The only thing I liked about EK is that they told you what lines things were located at back in the passage. AAMC doesn't do that (if they have, I haven't noticed) and it really bothers me. First you have to waste time finding where this is, then you actually do the question. While you should know where ideas are located in the passage, it's ridiculous to have to treasure hunt for words.

But all in all EK Verbal sucks in my opinion. The logic is bad, questions are horribly vague (even more so than AAMC's) and the rationales are often worse. But I'm stuck using it now because I burned through TPRH (partially because I was trying to avoid EK) and for whatever reason TPR online won't grade my verbal passages anymore so I can't use the extra 20 or so that I have waiting there. But this is just my opinion.
 
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I was not a fan of EK because their passages were dumb and they had a very thin line of reasoning for their answers
 
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Synapsis said:
The only thing I liked about EK is that they told you what lines things were located at back in the passage. AAMC doesn't do that (if they have, I haven't noticed) and it really bothers me. First you have to waste time finding where this is, then you actually do the question. While you should know where ideas are located in the passage, it's ridiculous to have to treasure hunt for words.

But all in all EK Verbal sucks in my opinion. The logic is bad, questions are horribly vague (even more so than AAMC's) and the rationales are often worse. But I'm stuck using it now because I burned through TPRH (partially because I was trying to avoid EK) and for whatever reason TPR online won't grade my verbal passages anymore so I can't use the extra 20 or so that I have waiting there. But this is just my opinion.
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I agree with all of this. The line numbering in EK actually serves, IMO, to mistrain you since you won't have that resource on the real thing.
 
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inycepoo said:
WAIT I KNOW WHO THIS KID THIS I REMEMBER HIM TALKING ABOUT IT MY FRESHMAN FALL LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I think some of he's saying is BS, but overall, that sounds EXACTLY like something he'd say and actually do. Really smart and hard-working dude, but unfortunately just as arrogant as he seems on that thread lololol. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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He got a 42 haha I think we'd all be a bit arrogant.
 
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inycepoo said:
WAIT I KNOW WHO THIS KID THIS I REMEMBER HIM TALKING ABOUT IT MY FRESHMAN FALL LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

I think some of he's saying is BS, but overall, that sounds EXACTLY like something he'd say and actually do. Really smart and hard-working dude, but unfortunately just as arrogant as he seems on that thread lololol. :laugh::laugh::laugh:
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Well this is funny...looks like the 3 of us have something in common
 
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gettheleadout said:
Right, but if you're at that level you're probably aware of it enough that you'd feel justified in being somewhat arrogant beforehand anyway. Nevermind lol
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Understood. Plenty of people are like that, and I can't say I haven't done it as well for certain classes here and there. But this guy took it pretty far and was an annoying ******* most of the time.

Ended up at a top 10 school, though, so I guess he toned it down in front of the adcoms. 😛
 
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Hey everyone who has the 2010 edition of TPRH Verbal, look at passage 43....I KNOW I've seen this before...anyone know where?
 
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Uhmm... not sure where that passage 43 is from.

I LOLed at a poem passage that Princeton has...
 
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