Preparing for the Verbal, what was your technique / study skills?

[SnYpaJY]

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I am a freshman in college, and I have just bought Exam Krackers "101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning". I want to start practicing weekly so that I can adjust my technique.

Do you believe this is a good starting point? If so, what was your techniques in scoring well on the verbal? If you have any other suggestions in getting started, please let me know.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

I am a freshman in college, and I have just bought Exam Krackers "101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning". I want to start practicing weekly so that I can adjust my technique.

Do you believe this is a good starting point? If so, what was your techniques in scoring well on the verbal? If you have any other suggestions in getting started, please let me know.

Read difficult literature. Forego the 101 Passages for now, wait until <6 months before your MCAT date.

 

[studiddy]

It's a trite answer, but read The Economist, if you don't already.

 

[hawk126]

I am a freshman in college, and I have just bought Exam Krackers "101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning". I want to start practicing weekly so that I can adjust my technique.

Do you believe this is a good starting point? If so, what was your techniques in scoring well on the verbal? If you have any other suggestions in getting started, please let me know.

Good for you... it's great to start early! Complete every passage you can get your hands on during the next 2 years. Plus, start doing some heavy duty reading. Too early to hone "strategy", but not too early to put down a great foundation with tons of practice. Good luck!!

 

[ChubbyChaser]

Read the passage, Understand the passage, Read the question, understand the question, and answer the question. If you do this on all the passages and problems I guarantee you will make a 15 on the verbal!!

That is the secret to the MCAT, you guys are welcome and no autographs please.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

trust me it will work😉

 

[mterp45]

I am a freshman in college, and I have just bought Exam Krackers "101 Passages in MCAT Verbal Reasoning". I want to start practicing weekly so that I can adjust my technique.

Do you believe this is a good starting point? If so, what was your techniques in scoring well on the verbal? If you have any other suggestions in getting started, please let me know.

No it is not a good starting point. You are better off reading an extensive amount of material first. Don't use the EK book now, you will be wasting valuable MCAT material, and when you will really need it you wont have it. You wont be able to reutilize the material because once you have read a passage once, you wont forget it completely. Thus reading it again gives you an unfair advantage and consequently, will not allow you to make significant progress. One of the issues am having now is finding additional verbal passages to practice, and monitor my progress. I have done all the kaplan verbals, in the book and online for I am curretly taking the course, I have done all the princeton verbals, all the Qbank verbal in kaplan, I have also done almost all the EKs, but am saving the rest of the passages for march which will be one month before I write the MCAT. So now am forced to buy random crappy mcat verbal books off line from 1988 for extra practice.