Verbal Self Assessment Difficulty

[moto_za]

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I did a search but couldn't find anything in particular. Is it just me or did some other people find the verbal somewhat challenging? I felt like the passages were harder to understand than EK & TPR. What was everyone elses experience like?

 

[moto_za]

I guess I'm the only one

 

[dudewheresmymd]

I've done the first set..but haven't graded my results yet. From those, I didn't find them particularly any easier or more difficult than TPRHVB or EK...though my results have yet to be determined 🙂

 

[brood910]

I've done the first set..but haven't graded my results yet. From those, I didn't find them particularly any easier or more difficult than TPRHVB or EK...though my results have yet to be determined 🙂

How about passage-wise?
I mean, I find EK passages to be really easy to comprehend while I find it really hard to understand TPR.

 

[dudewheresmymd]

How about passage-wise?
I mean, I find EK passages to be really easy to comprehend while I find it really hard to understand TPR.

Passages were a bit longer I think than what I'm used to in EK and in terms of finding the main idea, I think there were 1-2 passages where I was like wtf did I just read...other than that nothing out of the ordinary. The science related ones were very easy to read through though.

I agree with you EK is definitely much easier to read (aside from the one or two hard esoteric literary/social issue etc ones per exam) but I haven't found TPR too bad to understand the main idea and I'm almost done all of the individual passage based ones (have been getting 1-3 wrong/passage) though. TPR though does do a good job of making ambiguous answers that are ambiguous enough to match the AAMC's style...i think far better than EK does. I just finished EK 7 and there was one entire passage where I didn't get the main idea and missed like 4 questions where usually with TPRH verbal workbook I only miss 1-3/passage which tells me that I understand the main idea but just missed "touchy feely ones" --> ie closer to AAMC style.

AAMC > TPRH VB > EK >Berkley> Kaplan

 

[brood910]

passages were a bit longer i think than what i'm used to in ek and in terms of finding the main idea, i think there were 1-2 passages where i was like wtf did i just read...other than that nothing out of the ordinary. The science related ones were very easy to read through though.

I agree with you ek is definitely much easier to read (aside from the one or two hard esoteric literary/social issue etc ones per exam) but i haven't found tpr too bad to understand the main idea and i'm almost done all of the individual passage based ones (have been getting 1-3 wrong/passage) though. Tpr though does do a good job of making ambiguous answers that are ambiguous enough to match the aamc's style...i think far better than ek does. I just finished ek 7 and there was one entire passage where i didn't get the main idea and missed like 4 questions where usually with tprh verbal workbook i only miss 1-3/passage which tells me that i understand the main idea but just missed "touchy feely ones" --> ie closer to aamc style.

Aamc > tprh vb > ek >berkley> kaplan

once again, im freaking scared.

 

[fritolays08]

I did a search but couldn't find anything in particular. Is it just me or did some other people find the verbal somewhat challenging? I felt like the passages were harder to understand than EK & TPR. What was everyone elses experience like?

I took the verbal assessment today and got a 72%. Not really sure what to make of this or how others on here usually do. The average is a 64% though.

 

[janutt345]

On par with TPRH Verbal Workbook for me. I found TPRH Verbal Workbook easier than EK 101 VR by far. Though the content of passages is far more difficult to comprehend and dense in the TPRH Verbal Workbook, the question stems aren't as difficult and the logic/reasoning behind every answer explanation seems to make perfect sense. If I get a question wrong in TPRH Verbal Workbook, I almost always agree with the author's explanations. With EK, the passages are very straightforward and the questions are f-cked up.