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[SleepPsych72]

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I took my first full length Kaplan and on verbal I skipped reading passages having to do with psychology since I have a Master's in Clinical psych. This saved me time and I took a nap at the end before bio.
Does anyone else skip passages some times?

 

[bgreet]

I really don't see how you can do this. A lot of the time its not asking about material, but rather what the author believes. You can't know this no matter matter what degree you have. I wouldn't rely too heavily on this, you may end up getting burned.

 

[bella_dottoressa]

yeah i don't know about this; verbal questions are weird and ambiguous as it is! 🙂

 

[velo]

I took my first full length Kaplan and on verbal I skipped reading passages having to do with psychology since I have a Master's in Clinical psych. This saved me time and I took a nap at the end before bio.
Does anyone else skip passages some times?

yeah that just sounds like a great way to get tricked into missing a lot of questions by using outside knowledge. Verbal isn't a test of knowledge, you should answer the questions based on the passage and the passage alone...pretend you've lived in a cave all your life and the only thing you know in this world is what is written in those 4-6 paragraphs of verbal passage! 🙂

 

[brynn7]

unfortunately they like to throw in stuff that is unfamilar, outdated or no longer valid. the passages are way too riduculous sometimes to even relate to anything that you have learned. and as a previous poster said, there are often lots of questions aimed at gauging your understanding of the author's point of view or main idea rather than just comprehension of the topic at hand.

 

[BaLeavaMD]

I took my first full length Kaplan and on verbal I skipped reading passages having to do with psychology since I have a Master's in Clinical psych. This saved me time and I took a nap at the end before bio.
Does anyone else skip passages some times?

BAD idea! Verbal does not draw on outside knowledge. It may seem like a question would be answered one way, but if you had read the passage the answer might be totally different. This is risky and could get you a LOW verbal score on the REAL thing. I thought Kaplan was WAY easier than the real test anyway, so Beware!!

 

[MoosePilot]

Yeah, a nap is a great use of your time 🙄

 

[ASDIC]

yes...

verbal tests your understanding of the author's arguments rather than the content.

 

[bella_dottoressa]

i agree w/ the previous poster saying kaplan is way easier. i don't think kaplan even comes close to replicating the verbal...i think EK's 101 book really does though.

 

[blz]

relax people, he was prolly joking...

 

[milliardo_L]

I raised my score two points by paying closer attention to what the questions say (Based on EK method). They have a lot of information about the passage. It is NOT an excuse to ignore the passage, but it might help to invest more time in really understanding the question and infering from them. You can usually suport your "putative main idea" through one or many of the question, especially one of those ...suport main idea of _____ EXCEPT...

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