My main problem left is misreading questions...but how do I improve this?

[tf2medic]

at this point in studying, i've narrowed down most of my mistakes to only misreading the questions. my extra mistakes before from not knowing the material as well has decreased immensely.

now, i know most of my mistakes are from misreading the material. i'll misread the question or something and the correct answer is real obvious when i see the question again later. the thing is...there isn't really a pattern to the questions i misread. just sometimes i readover a key part of the question so i am searching for the wrong answer to begin with. i really don't know a strategy to fix this. i guess you can say do more practice but i find myself making these mistakes each practice test. the only reason my scores have been going up is because i reviewed the material more now so there's no reason to miss as many straight material questions. i just need to increase my accuracy somehow now....i don't know. help?

thanks

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[Nevadanteater]

this was my major problem too after i got my content down.

is timing an issue for you? how much time do you usually finish with?

slowing down is probably the best advice i can give you. i used to finish with a few minutes at the end of each section, so I slowed my frantic reading pace and started to miss less and less questions due to stupid mistakes...

 

[studiddy]

Somebody gave me some program called eyeQ or something like that, and it's supposed to make you read faster/more accurately, basically it gives you a very limited time to read words or paragraphs. I played with it for about 5 minutes and it seemed interesting if nothing else. If all else has failed it could be worth spending a few hours with. I'm sure it's a small file and if I still have it I can .rar it and email it if you're interested.

 

[tf2medic]

Somebody gave me some program called eyeQ or something like that, and it's supposed to make you read faster/more accurately, basically it gives you a very limited time to read words or paragraphs. I played with it for about 5 minutes and it seemed interesting if nothing else. If all else has failed it could be worth spending a few hours with. I'm sure it's a small file and if I still have it I can .rar it and email it if you're interested.

hmm, if i have to retake the mcat, then i might ask ya for it. as of now i only have 2 weeks before it and have several tests coming up in classes before then, so dont really want to spend a few hours on a speedreading program hehe. thanks though

any other tips?

 

[unsung]

Go slower. When you finish passages ahead of time, do you go back and review your answers? Make it a habit... see if you can catch your wrong answers. This has worked relatively well for me on verbal.. my first impressions are wrong like about 25% of the time, but they usually get corrected upon a second review.

 

[bozz]

at this point in studying, i've narrowed down most of my mistakes to only misreading the questions. my extra mistakes before from not knowing the material as well has decreased immensely.

now, i know most of my mistakes are from misreading the material. i'll misread the question or something and the correct answer is real obvious when i see the question again later. the thing is...there isn't really a pattern to the questions i misread. just sometimes i readover a key part of the question so i am searching for the wrong answer to begin with. i really don't know a strategy to fix this. i guess you can say do more practice but i find myself making these mistakes each practice test. the only reason my scores have been going up is because i reviewed the material more now so there's no reason to miss as many straight material questions. i just need to increase my accuracy somehow now....i don't know. help?

thanks

That would happen to be all the time especially on Bio. I honestly don't know how I consciously got over that..

but I'd always do the discreets first on the sciences (that would take 10 minutes). Then I'd do the passage based questions... I felt like it'd keep the flow and help me read the questions clearly... rather than do passage, discreets, passage and so on..