TPR Verbal- Scoring

[sagtig]

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I was just wondering if anyone knows how to score the Hyperlearning TPR tests, I have the 2007 edition, and whether Princeton Review TPR is supposed to be harder than the actual MCAT

right now I was just doing practice passages... and I'm so frustrated...

I got only 27/44 questions right twice now (TPR has 6-8 questions/passage, so if you do 7 passages, it winds up being more than 40 questions)

luckily I'm finishing on time, but after going over my mistakes, I've come to the conclusion that I'm just not read the passages closely enough

I want to get atleast a 10 or 11 on Verbal, and as of now, that's no where near a possibility...

I'm just wondering how others are doing on the verbal passages

 

[sagtig]

any input?

 

[JokerMD]

im in the same shoes. no idea on the conversion by the way. but im consistently missing a TON of questions in TPR. i get between 9-10 on EK101. for some reason the TPR passages seem alright to read but the questions don't make much sense. i don't have any suggestions other than keep doing all the TPR passages and practice verbal exams but really focus hard on EK for verbal.

 

[sagtig]

JokerMD, I hear you about the questions, I find the passages pretty straight forward, but when it comes to the questions I sometimes get lost (I'm usually almost always able to narrow it to 2 answer choices, and then... I can't determine which one would better fit in with the passage) and when I look over the answer explanations, sometimes I realize that I interpreted the question wrong because it was ambiguously phrased, or I find that the correct answer is so because of a completely slight reference in the passage that has nothing to do with understanding what the passage is about, and just has to do with subtle wording that almost always missed when reading for meaning rather than detail...

I guess I'll take your advice, and just practice more, and take EK verbal as the better predictor 🙂

GL with your review