Verbal reasoning strategy.

[Elmnt]

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How do you guys tackle verbal? I used to flip through passages and do what I thought were the easiest passages first and progress to the harder ones. Today I tried a different approach and looked at the questions first and then went back to the passage to find the answers. By doing this I ended up reading the whole passage but at a much quicker pace. It worked well as I scored a 12 this time when I usually score ~10.

Does anyone else read the questions frist and then go back to the passage to get the answer?

 

[g8orlife]

How do you guys tackle verbal? I used to flip through passages and do what I thought were the easiest passages first and progress to the harder ones. Today I tried a different approach and looked at the questions first and then went back to the passage to find the answers. By doing this I ended up reading the whole passage but at a much quicker pace. It worked well as I scored a 12 this time when I usually score ~10.

Does anyone else read the questions frist and then go back to the passage to get the answer?

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=297705

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/show...=285092&page=2 (Post #96 - Vihsadas' verbal quide)

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=206944

 

[SN2ed]

There are also numerous verbal help links in the MCAT Guide sticky.

 

[DrSmooth]

Reading q's beforehand = waste of time.
Traiging passages = waster of time.
Buy EK 101 verbal and perfect their strategy, use on all AAMC practice tests and MCAT Guide passages and you should be fine.

 

[achamess]

What he said.

Reading q's beforehand = waste of time.
Traiging passages = waster of time.
Buy EK 101 verbal and perfect their strategy, use on all AAMC practice tests and MCAT Guide passages and you should be fine.

 

[Vanguard23]

I would never skip the passage. Either entirely or even to refer back to it(this is for any section on the MCAT.
Read the passage first, even if your grasp on the physics, chem and bio is excellent.

 

[NickNaylor]

Do whatever gets you the best score consistently. I'll say that for me the EK 101 strategy works somewhat well.

 

[thawunandonly]

I asked this in my other topic, and I have the EK101 book, but what exactly IS the EK strategy? I don't think it says much of anything in the 101 book except to get the "gist," which is what Kaplan and TPR also say.

Is that it?

 

[amoiliz]

I've personally found that by reading the questions first and THEN going back to the passage helps me score higher. But then again, this strategy could be subjective. I did like to see more people try it and share.

 

[addo]

Reading the questions first may cause you to focus on something from a particular question, rather than reading for the main point. If you read for the main point, what the author is trying to say and his purpose of saying it, you can easily answer most of the questions.