Princeton Review Elite 45...suddenly doing abysmally!!

[physiologist]

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I prepared for MCAT using Kaplan and eventually started getting mid 30s on my AAMC and Kaplan FLs (I got 36 on AAMC11). So I bought the Elite 45 book for my summer trip to Italy so that I could study MCAT without a computer handy.

The verbal destroyed me. While on the AAMC and Kaplan exams I got between 10 and 12 typically, in the TPR Elite 45 book, I barely get two right per passage, sometimes I don't get any right. I'm kind of scared. Also, while it normally takes me 6-8 minutes to get through a passage on an AAMC or Kaplan practice test, I would be shocked to see the stopwatch read 10, even 15 minutes after I glance at it upon completing a passage.

Why do you think this is? Do you know anything about that TPR book? Are they supposed to be unusually difficult?

 

[tttgo]

Its supposed to be hard. Some people like it. I'll probably use it after I finish my other material. Don't use it too close to your test date. I got a 0 on one of their online psgs🙂.

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[gtbROX]

I've found that even the tpr practice tests and verbal drills are extremely hard. I would typically get 6-8s on those and 9-10s on the AAMC material. It does make sense that the tpr 45 would be much much harder.