Hello everyone,
I am having difficulty with the CARS section on the mcat. I get less than 50% of the questions right. My problem is that it takes me 4-5 minutes to read the passage and I feel like it gives me less time to answer questions. I'm taking the MCAT soon (in 6-7 weeks). I've tried different strategies, such as
1. Writing down a work or two per paragraph and formulating a main idea. I found out that this strategy took very long, although was helpful in getting answers correctly, but it wasted too much of my time on full lengths.
2. Highlighting words or sentences that I thought were important. With this strategy I get around 50% of the questions right.
3. Reading the passages without highlighting or writing anything. This strategy made me lose my way around the passage.
4. Lastly, I thought it would be a good idea to try reading questions first then try to read passage quickly. this method was horrible. I used this on one of the FL, I got a 119 on CARS! 🙁
English is not my first language and that is why I feel that this section is the hardest for me. PLEASE help if you have any suggestions on what I should do or how I should approach this section.
I am having difficulty with the CARS section on the mcat. I get less than 50% of the questions right. My problem is that it takes me 4-5 minutes to read the passage and I feel like it gives me less time to answer questions. I'm taking the MCAT soon (in 6-7 weeks). I've tried different strategies, such as
1. Writing down a work or two per paragraph and formulating a main idea. I found out that this strategy took very long, although was helpful in getting answers correctly, but it wasted too much of my time on full lengths.
2. Highlighting words or sentences that I thought were important. With this strategy I get around 50% of the questions right.
3. Reading the passages without highlighting or writing anything. This strategy made me lose my way around the passage.
4. Lastly, I thought it would be a good idea to try reading questions first then try to read passage quickly. this method was horrible. I used this on one of the FL, I got a 119 on CARS! 🙁
English is not my first language and that is why I feel that this section is the hardest for me. PLEASE help if you have any suggestions on what I should do or how I should approach this section.