TPR online verbal "Exercises"

[amakhosidlo]

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Anyone else just get totally blindsided by these things??
I like to think I'm pretty good at verbal, and the first three I totally aced. The next 10, however, came back with a 50% avg. Some of the answers don't even make sense. I read the answer, and read the passage, and say "No TPR, you're F***king ******ed".

Anybody else have any experience with them?

 

[BlueElmo]

Same experience here. The general consensus is that those are really hard, even by TPR standards. I have done almost all of them, like 36 passages, and some of them are brutal.

 

[maadaputtar]

Same experience here. The general consensus is that those are really hard, even by TPR standards. I have done almost all of them, like 36 passages, and some of them are brutal.

I would say MOST (not some) of them are brutal. I keep doing them for practice, but I hope they don't reflect the real thing. I actually get surprised out of my mind when I get 100% on one of the passages. I found them to be brutal starting 20 or so.

 

[G1SG2]

Is it just me or are some of the explanation for some questions missing?! Like when you review the answers to the verbal drills, they give you this little box with the explanation, and some of those are completely blank in some passages (not more than 1 blank per passage, though)? Is it just me? Or are you guys experiencing this as well? TPR needs to stop giving me such crappy service for the money that I paid 😡

 

[texahn]

actually i think TPR verbals onilne are pretty good. its not crappy service for your money lol

i think everyone gets shtty scores on these. i think i only got about 10-12 -100s and rest i would get like 40-60% and sometimes 0% . but oh well got a 12 on the real thing.

 

[sv3]

Is this verbal stuff something one can subcribe to alone or only for course enrollees?

 

[JeetKuneDo]

Is this verbal stuff something one can subcribe to alone or only for course enrollees?

I think it's only for enrollees.

 

[sv3]

I think it's only for enrollees.

Ah thanks. Well their hyperlearning book is taking me for a ride down know your role blvd and checking me into the smackdown hotel daily so i guess i'll just make do.

 

[G1SG2]

actually i think TPR verbals onilne are pretty good. its not crappy service for your money lol

i think everyone gets shtty scores on these. i think i only got about 10-12 -100s and rest i would get like 40-60% and sometimes 0% . but oh well got a 12 on the real thing.

It is when the explanation boxes are blank 😡 lol, but other than that I agree, their VR is good practice. At first I got in the 50's, but now I'm getting scores in the 70s/80/s, with the occassional 30's (those really freak me out lol). Idk if I'm hitting the section with the easy passages or whatever, but hey I'm happy seeing those 70's lol. I'm just hoping for a 9+ on the real deal. I'll deal with an 8. I'll cry myself to sleep every night if I get a 7. That will definitely finish me 🙁

 

[G1SG2]

Does anyone else think the questions in TPR Online Verbal Drills and the verbal questions in TPR hyperlearning full lengths are TOO detailed oriented? Most of the questions pick on some nitty detail in the passage, forcing you to go back and look through that long passage and reread that part. I haven't seen this with AAMC verbal questions...I can usually answer those with the main idea (questions presenting new information, stuff about the author, etc) but TPR online verbal questions give you some VERY detailed questions that can't be answered with the main idea. I find myself going back to the passage a lot for TPR (not for AAMC though). Does anyone else feel this way? I hope the real MCAT doesn't have such ridiculous questions, does it? I'm fine with main idea type questions and questions about the author, but it's a bit hard to search for 1 word in a HUGE passage and having to go back for each question 😡

 

[iDream]

Has anyone tried both the online TPR verbal passages and the EK 101 passages? I'm wondering which one is better to do if you have a major time constraint..?

Also, if EK is preferable, then are there any particular tests/passages that are suggested from the EK 101 book (and if TPR, any particular drills)?

 

[G1SG2]

Would it be a bad idea to do some of the TPR Online Verbal Drills the day before my real test, just to get in some practice? Or is that a bad idea since they're brutal?

 

[ap594]

Was running into the same problem as the OP and figured I'd bump this post. I've gone through the first 5 passages and have gotten the general idea of the passages after going through them once (under normal time constraints), but once I reach the questions, I am seriously on the brink of laughter. So many of the questions/answer choices aren't even grammatically correct, and I feel like I'm spending the majority of my time just trying to understand wtf the sentences are trying to say when I feel that AAMC exams (and the EK101 and the TPR VW...) are a lot more straightforward. On top of that, their "explanations" are sometimes blank (as the other posters said) or they are something along the lines of: "Answer C agrees best with what the passage say" ...and that's it.

Obviously, these passages aren't working out too well for me. Something to worry about? Thanks for the help ...