Time per passage and question

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moto_za

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How much time should you give yourself for each passage and question? I was thinking 2-3 minutes per passage and a minute per question? Most of the practice passages I have do not have a time indicated so just wondering how to calculate it.

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If you are referring to the MCAT Verbal Reasoning, then you should spend 2min30s reading the passage (approximately), and 1 min (approximately) per question.
 
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Searching through the Internet, I realized that the nubmer of questions for verbal section (CBT) is fixiated at 40. Is this right? Then I suppose that there will be six passages with aobut 7 questions per passage?
 
How much time should you give yourself for each passage and question? I was thinking 2-3 minutes per passage and a minute per question? Most of the practice passages I have do not have a time indicated so just wondering how to calculate it.

That is exactly the timing you should use. For sciences, it's 2 minutes per passage and 1 minute per question, which will leave you with a 4-minute cushion in case your test is calculation heavy.

For verbal reasoning, it's 2 minutes 30 seconds per passage and 1 minute per question, which will leave you with a 2 and a half minute cushion.
 
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