list of websites that can help improve VR score

[Dark Ace]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you guys know of good websites besides just The Economist or New York Times that would really help me out for the MCAT VR. Websites that have academic journals for free would also be good. I'm taking the MCAT in January and verbal is my weakest. Until then I want to have some websites in my bookmarks to go do some reading every now and then. Sadly if I don't make a good score in January I will have to give up on medicine. This is my only shot.

Thanks for your time!

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[NinjaMed]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you guys know of good websites besides just The Economist or New York Times that would really help me out for the MCAT VR. Websites that have academic journals for free would also be good. I'm taking the MCAT in January and verbal is my weakest. Until then I want to have some websites in my bookmarks to go do some reading every now and then. Sadly if I don't make a good score in January I will have to give up on medicine. This is my only shot.

Thanks for your time!

Wait, what?

 

[UCSultanPepper]

My advice, don't waste your time with that. Get straight to the high yield stuff. If instead you do something like timed 5 passages every other day until your test, you will destroy the VR.

 

[PanRoasted]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you guys know of good websites besides just The Economist or New York Times that would really help me out for the MCAT VR. Websites that have academic journals for free would also be good. I'm taking the MCAT in January and verbal is my weakest. Until then I want to have some websites in my bookmarks to go do some reading every now and then. Sadly if I don't make a good score in January I will have to give up on medicine. This is my only shot.

Thanks for your time!

Any news site/blog that is within your sphere of interests could be a good resource. For example, I think I've been unconsciously bolstering my own reading skills by being a avid reader of Engadget over the last 5 or so years. Blogs that you keep going back to can help because you'll begin to unconsciously make note of a specific author's bias towards something and how that appears in his work. You also can go through a lot of articles every day with regularity, because these news blogs typically update very often, and sometimes the editorials can be very "academic". Engadget is just one example if you're a techy.

You might also consider changing up your strategy. There have been a lot of positive responses to my own thread (http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=936176), and many of the people seem to be making a lot of progress in short time.

You've still got a lot of time, and a lot of options open, assuming you didn't exhaust every single verbal resource out there. I don't know what you're situation is, but a bad VR score only prevents you from going MD... there are millions of other options out there if you want to practice medicine, DO not being the least of them.

 

[Dark Ace]

Thank you for sharing your thread Pan. Seems like a strategy worth playing with. I'm going to give it a try and see how it goes.

 

[Integrated MCAT Course]

Reading serious, difficult non-fiction from a variety of genres, at least three hours each week, will make you a stronger reader for MCAT VR. It will take a number of months, but reading to become accustomed to and even to enjoy the kinds of discourse in VR passages is an effective way to improve your Verbal Reasoning score in combination with test practice. Here are some websites that may be good candidates for you.

http://www.nybooks.com/

http://www.theatlantic.com/

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/

http://crookedtimber.org/

http://marjorieperloff.com/articles/

http://www.insidehighered.com/

http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps/contents.html

http://www.cromohs.unifi.it/eng/index.html

http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v5no1/

http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/

I hope this helps! All the best.

 

[La Presse]

I would also take a look at the LSAT verbal portion since the exam writers also write the MCAT.It can be very helpful.

 

[HughMyron]

Become an art history major. Those passages are the hardest, douchiest, most annoying things on the MCAT. If you can get through those, you can probably get a 14 on VR.

I only got an 11 tho hehe.