Kaplan Verbal Reasoning practice II (ebook) question

[babystepsCA]

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Verbal practice diary (March 4)


Kaplan Verbal reasoning (ebook) practice II is a very confusing one. I've read the 5th passage and felt very frustrated. The passage is very short, much shorter than it usually is, and I understand almost nothing after I read the passage.

I know I should read for the main idea, but the main ideas for these passages, are in the clouds.

I hope to finish the Kaplan Verbal Practice ASAP, and then move to something else. Maybe TBR?

Please give me some comments!Thanks.

 

[tttgo]

have you tried EK 101 and tprh verbal? I heard those were pretty good. good luck on your mcat.

 

[LaurenMCAT]

Kaplan Verbal reasoning (ebook) practice II is a very confusing one. I've read the 5th passage and felt very frustrated. The passage is very short, much shorter than it usually is, and I understand almost nothing after I read the passage.

I know I should read for the main idea, but the main ideas for these passages, are in the clouds.

Do you speak of the four-paragraph politics and race passage? Did you passage map it? As in...use your scratch paper to jot down a quick paraphrase of each paragraph then determine the topic, scope, purpose and author's opinion?

It may seem silly sometimes to pull a main idea out of a confusing passage, but it's SO necessary! Without understanding the main idea, we set ourselves up to miss a number of questions that test the "big picture."

In this passage, let's look at the what the point of EACH paragraph is, then consider the main idea:
P1 - origins of pluralist politics: coincide with civil rights movement
P2 - goal of race-based politics: legal legitimacy
P3 - what happened in the courts + AL example
P4 - plural-ethnicity politics is different: focus on resources (+ examples)

Topic (general): politics
Scope (more specific): two types of ethnic/racial political movements in mid-late 20th C.
Purpose (why the author wrote this): to compare/contrast these two political movements
Author's Opinion: plural ethnicity politics (resource-based) grew from the civil rights movement (legal rights-based); is different and similar

If the questions that follow trouble you, remember to do this:
- answer the questions in the order YOU choose based upon their perceived ease
- read the question carefully while not getting distracted by the answers
- get solid support for your predicted answer directly from the passage (come up with the answer on your own before reading the answer choices)
- read the answer choices literally
- if a question just doesn't make sense at all, pick any ol' answer, mark it, and move on!

Good luck on the rest!

 

[LaurenMCAT]

babystepsCA...

Here are some more recommendations to help you with VR:
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=785764

Hope it starts to get easier... 🙂