Princeton Review Verbal Method

[LetsGo352]

Has anyone tried to the Princeton Review method for verbal? If so, did you find it useful?

I used the EK method for the last test and didn't do as well as I would've liked in Verbal. Maybe I just didn't do enough practice passages, but I'm just wondering what people think about this method vs Princeton Review's.

Thanks!

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[sully677]

Has anyone tried to the Princeton Review method for verbal? If so, did you find it useful?

I used the EK method for the last test and didn't do as well as I would've liked in Verbal. Maybe I just didn't do enough practice passages, but I'm just wondering what people think about this method vs Princeton Review's.

Thanks!

I took the class...the verbal approach is pathetic! There is not enough time to do everything they say. And one of their strong points is ranking the passages. No one has time to rank and order! And then the hardest passage they say you can just guess on that! WTF...who's going to actually guess on a whole passage just because it is hard...Their strategy would be the last thing I ever ever try.

 

[CentralPerKam]

Princeton Review's verbal approach is NOT effective. Unless you read 500 wpm (and can comprehend the material), there's no way you'll have enough time to do what they suggest. The best way to tackle verbal is to take little bits of advice from different methods (EK, Kaplan mostly) and synthesize your own verbal strategy.

 

[LetsGo352]

Yeah, I figured as much. I, too, thought the ranking of passages and the skipping of a passage was ridiculous. Thanks for the input.

 

[LostInStudy]

TPR offers decent ways of analyzing questions but their passage attack strategy sucks. I don't know what went wrong, did they just not want to copy anyone else and just came up with a strategy regardless of it's crapiness? I agree with the above, read over all the strategies and pick and choose what works for you. Then practice the heck out of it.

Hope this helps,

-LIS