MCAT CARS and SAT CRITICAL READING, same approach?

[collegerer]

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Hi guys I'm looking to take my mcat next year as a junior (I'm a sophomore) and I was wondering if this is the correct approach to studying for mcat cars. For the SAT critical reading my biggest struggle was the passages, vocab was fine, I started with a 590 and after a lot of practice by just doing practice questions I ended up with a 750. It was a lot of practice and people told me that reading newspapers and magazines are essentially useless when preparing for these types of sections. I got good at this section because I got good at answering the questions, I could smell the incorrect answer and I knew what the test creators wanted as the answer. Is this the Same approach for the mcat? Where I take a lot of practice tests and eventually I could sense the answer?

 

[GrapesofRath]

Hi guys I'm looking to take my mcat next year as a junior (I'm a sophomore) and I was wondering if this is the correct approach to studying for mcat cars. For the SAT critical reading my biggest struggle was the passages, vocab was fine, I started with a 590 and after a lot of practice by just doing practice questions I ended up with a 750. It was a lot of practice and people told me that reading newspapers and magazines are essentially useless when preparing for these types of sections. I got good at this section because I got good at answering the questions, I could smell the incorrect answer and I knew what the test creators wanted as the answer. Is this the Same approach for the mcat? Where I take a lot of practice tests and eventually I could sense the answer?

The AAMC has released 9 old tests over the past 2 decades on top of the 2 new ones from the past year. Take a look at one of them(they are all over the internet) and try out some passages. See how you do. 80% correct is about an 11, 70% about a 9, 75% about a 10, 85-90% close to a 12. There's no point speculating how much different the SAT is from the MCAT: take a look at some of those old verbal passages and what you think of them. Nobody will know whether you can sense out wrong answers except for you. Many people without any studying can go into the MCAT and hit 12+ on the verbal section. Others go through hundreds and hundreds of passages of practice and still cant crack a 7. It's a section that varies incredibly from person to person.