Please help, how to study for verbal section

[ProRx]

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thsi is my first thread here. I have a difficult tiem on how to study fo rverbal section because thi sis a section I did really bad, it is just aroud 5 % , I did others parst okay but this part pull down my composite. May you recommend some methods or books that I can improve this , I plan to take the test in October 06.
thanks for imput from everyone, I am really appreciate

 

[mph2pharm]

thsi is my first thread here. I have a difficult tiem on how to study fo rverbal section because thi sis a section I did really bad, it is just aroud 5 % , I did others parst okay but this part pull down my composite. May you recommend some methods or books that I can improve this , I plan to take the test in October 06.
thanks for imput from everyone, I am really appreciate

If I understand your post correctly, you took the actual PCAT and scored 5% on the verbal section? If this is correct then this section should definitely be your focus. Verbal was a really tough section for me as well. I guess I would suggest getting a Kaplan book or other PCAT prep book that gives you root words, prefixes and suffixes to study. Many of these prep books also give you a list words that tend to be found on standardized tests such as the PCAT. For the reading comprehension section, I found this book to be pretty helpful:

Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day by Elizabeth Chesla (bought mine on Amazon.com)

If I may ask, is english your primarily language?

 

[ProRx]

If I understand your post correctly, you took the actual PCAT and scored 5% on the verbal section? If this is correct then this section should definitely be your focus. Verbal was a really tough section for me as well. I guess I would suggest getting a Kaplan book or other PCAT prep book that gives you root words, prefixes and suffixes to study. Many of these prep books also give you a list words that tend to be found on standardized tests such as the PCAT. For the reading comprehension section, I found this book to be pretty helpful:

Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day by Elizabeth Chesla (bought mine on Amazon.com)

If I may ask, is english your primarily language?

yes, English is my second language, I do well on science and math parts but very bad in verbal and my reading comprehensions is around 55 % and not as good as I want but overall it pull the composite down
thanks for advice, I will check the book comprehension in 20 mins , is it a used book or I have to buy it brand new?

 

[mph2pharm]

yes, English is my second language, I do well on science and math parts but very bad in verbal and my reading comprehensions is around 55 % and not as good as I want but overall it pull the composite down
thanks for advice, I will check the book comprehension in 20 mins , is it a used book or I have to buy it brand new?

I bought my copy new from Amazon.com but I just checked and I guess they are no longer selling new copies BUT they are selling used copies starting from around $1.55 (don't know what condition they are in).

 

[usi]

anything for the SAT will work for the PCAT also
Vocabulary practice
http://www.manythings.org/fq/m/2991.html

http://www.quia.com/mc/1527.html

http://www.takesat.com/wordlist.php?PHPSESSID=80409a12fe558fd9f01ceba0d1ca30fa

http://www.takesat.com/sentence.php

 

[rxlynn]

thsi is my first thread here. I have a difficult tiem on how to study fo rverbal section because thi sis a section I did really bad, it is just aroud 5 % , I did others parst okay but this part pull down my composite. May you recommend some methods or books that I can improve this , I plan to take the test in October 06.
thanks for imput from everyone, I am really appreciate

Perhaps some of the review books for the TOEFL test (English as second language test that foreign-trained pharmacists take) might be helpful?? I'm not familiar with that test's content, but I'm thinking it's primarily verbal type questions.

 

[ProRx]

anything for the SAT will work for the PCAT also
Vocabulary practice
http://www.manythings.org/fq/m/2991.html

http://www.quia.com/mc/1527.html

http://www.takesat.com/wordlist.php?PHPSESSID=80409a12fe558fd9f01ceba0d1ca30fa

http://www.takesat.com/sentence.php

thank USI, I try some of web tonight, and it is fun, and learning, better than surf the web for news.
how about verbal analagies, I know it test some kind of correlation and logics but you know if I do not knwo the meanign of for example A and B then I have no clue to gues what is C and D , how it related
it is tough, it is just like American try to learn Chinese to me
TOEFL I think may not help becauce all standard tests is another level higher than TOEFL, it is not test for foreingners, but for native speaking American
thank you

 

[DownonthePharm]

Start studing NOW for verbal. Its one of those things you cant cram in at the last minute, you need to let the words roll around in your brain for a while to really own them.

Find a list of vocab words, in particular SAT top 100 since they use a lot of the same. In your spare time read some interesting novels a little above your reading comfortability and look up anything that seems unfamilar.

 

[ProRx]

Start studing NOW for verbal. Its one of those things you cant cram in at the last minute, you need to let the words roll around in your brain for a while to really own them.

Find a list of vocab words, in particular SAT top 100 since they use a lot of the same. In your spare time read some interesting novels a little above your reading comfortability and look up anything that seems unfamilar.

thanks all of you , I start to learn it now, these are vocabulary we do not use daily, and they are useless in pharmacy school !! so I try to swallow them slowly, and read some journal to improve my vocabulary
thanks DownonthePharm

 

[Mangosteen]

I take notes of the words I don't know when I read books, scholastic journals, etc...and keep a loooooong list of it with definitions and sentences. Some of them were on the actual PCAT test, about 6 of them out of the 13 pages I have. 🙂

 

[akira2511]

thsi is my first thread here. I have a difficult tiem on how to study fo rverbal section because thi sis a section I did really bad, it is just aroud 5 % , I did others parst okay but this part pull down my composite. May you recommend some methods or books that I can improve this , I plan to take the test in October 06.
thanks for imput from everyone, I am really appreciate

You can go to Quizlet website and search for PCAT Verbal Section which I made. English is my second language and I got 43 percentile on the July 2013 test.