Hey, I just posted my verbal strategy on the 30+ habits page--here's the verbal portion below, I hope it helps!!
Verbal:
Start with the least representative practice material, and work your way up so that before your exam, you're only doing AAMC problems. In the end, AAMC verbal feels a bit different than TPRH and very different than EK 101. So, I'd suggest starting with EK, then doing TPRH, and then finally doing AAMC/self-assessment. (Just a warning, I think TPRH questions incorporate reasoning much more than EK 101 which felt a lot more straightforward.)
In the beginning, don't worry about timing. It's most important to first be able to come up with the right method of reasoning to find the right answer, regardless of timing. Then, you can work on going through this thought process faster. But the thought process has to be there first, before you can work on timing. I did about the first third of my practice untimed (I didn't actually do many EK 101, I started with TPRH, and doing those untimed at first was very very helpful. I went from getting half the questions wrong in a passage to getting none to 1 or 2 wrong).
Also, a lot of verbal is basically logical reasoning. So looking at a couple logical fallacies and structures of logic websites might be useful. For example, a lot of the practice AAMC questions fall into the pattern: "The author says if a, then b. Which of the following can you conclude?" and the choices might be like "if b then a" or "if not a then not b" or "if not b then not a". Also look at necessary and sufficient condition vs necessary but not sufficient. A strong foundation in logical reasoning helps a lot for the verbal. When you do your postgame analysis of practice passages, try to see the logical structure behind the question. This is what will help you improve.
One more thing—when reading the passage, really try to focus on what the author is saying, and follow the train of thought being presented. Beware that the train of thought doesn't necessary follow the paragraph structure. Think about reading poetry or Shakespeare. One of Shakespeare's plays begins with the line, "now is the winter of our discontent" and the next line is "made glorious summer by the son of york". If you don't follow the train of thought, and instead just follow the line structure, you might end up thinking it's winter now, instead of correctly interpreting that it's actually summer. So for example, in the context of MCAT VR paragraph 1 might be about how the author is saying red jackets are the best type of jacket to wear. So you might think okay, the author likes red jackets. But then halfway through paragraph 2 the author will say something like actually, only blue outerwear is good, and only idiots think anything else is good, and so the first paragraph was actually the author saying what an idiot would say. Then there might be a question about how the author might perceive someone who likes orange jackets, and the choices might be something like "negatively, because he likes red jackets" or "negatively because only idiots like colors other than blue" or "positively because red and orange are similar colors" etc. If you didn't properly follow the train of thought regarding the author's views on outerwear color, and instead stopped at first paragraph, you'd misinterpret his views.
