TPRH Verbal too easy?

[BilalL]

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I have the 2010 TPRH Verbal, and have done the first 12 passages and missed only 4 questions.

I remember doing a friends EK 101 verbal and missing way more.

Which is more realistic? Which one is perceived as easier?

If I am doing well in TPRH should I practice EK 101 verbal too along with it? It might be that the passages so far have dealt with material I know. Hawking, Einstein, religion, and stock trading.

 

[CodeBlu]

Doesn't matter.

Keep practicing. Then write an AAMC practice test. Those are the best indicators of the real deal.

 

[etherealx]

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[GooseWing]

I also feel that TPRH verbal might be a little easier than EK 101's verbal (read: easier might just be that EK's answers are sometimes too vague to be representative of what may actually appear on the test)

I finished all of TPRH and began the EK passages and go brutalized on my first go--I still think it may have been that I had grown accustom to TPRH passages but who really knows?

 

[BilalL]

I think the TPRH once you read the answer explanations for a couple you figure out how all of their questions work and than it becomes very hard to miss them unless you forget to read all the answer choices.

 

[PingPongPro]

I think its probably very beneficial for you to start practicing under strict time restraints. I agree, the questions are generally not the most difficult, but the difficulty generally lies in finishing under the time constraints and not getting stuck on a single passage or fatigued.

 

[BilalL]

I think its probably very beneficial for you to start practicing under strict time restraints. I agree, the questions are generally not the most difficult, but the difficulty generally lies in finishing under the time constraints and not getting stuck on a single passage or fatigued.

I finish in an average of 6 to 7 minutes. Its not too hard in that respect but i do agree that one should do more passages at a time to learn to deal with fatigue. I havent done that yet.

 

[mohad]

Please take my verbal for me then since I am horrific at verbal 😀

I have started to improve by doing the workbook questions, but my big issue is that I can't get all the retrieval questions correct. I try and rush/I misread answer choices and derp all over the place, thus giving me around an 8-9. What's your strategy to get accuracy up?

And in reference to your thread, my TPR instructor said EK 101 passages is way better than TPR verbal not only for the strategies (personal opinion, he said), but because the passages and questions are kind of similar to the MCAT. He told me to run through that book if I wanted to break into double digits. I plan on ordering it after I finish using the TPR book.

 

[saveourpens]

EK 101...something about it rubs me the wrong way... how come I do well on Princeton verbal and AAMCs but can't even break a 10 on EK?

 

[BilalL]

Mohad, I make sure to just read it once to understand main idea and locations of important points. Than in the questions I know exactly where to look if I have to. I try to understand why they are asking the particular question and I also try and eliminate inferences or statements not found in the text even if they relate to the subject. I can usually figure out the personality and political, philosophical, or societal leanings of the author. I read a lot in general though so that gives me a slight advantage.