verbal triaging... what aamc says and kaplan

[imapremed]

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according to kaplan triaging is a good idea if you can't at first grasp your head around a certain type of passage... now i have two inquires about this.

1) according to aamc the passages go in order of average difficulty of QUESTIONS not type of passage (again thats probably subjective - one topic might be easier for one than another topic for another)

2) i dont completely believe in wasting time to go categorize each and every passage but will skipping the first one or two passages (and doing them last) if say the first one is about laws and it takes me a while to grasp my head around law topics? but this one probably has the easiest questions according to aamc?

* i dont agree with kaplan in terms of triaging every passage cuz you have to eventually have to do all of them BUT how about skipping say the first or second passage cuz the topics are disasterous.

 

[Melomare17]

the passages dont go in order of increasing average difficulty of questions, in each passage, the questions in a passage go in order of increasing average difficulty. you might as well just go in order of passages (like do passage 1 and then 2) instead of wasting time clicking just to click back. just cuz a passage is 1st doesnt mean it will be easier.

 

[imapremed]

the passages dont go in order of increasing average difficulty of questions, in each passage, the questions in a passage go in order of increasing average difficulty. you might as well just go in order of passages (like do passage 1 and then 2) instead of wasting time clicking just to click back. just cuz a passage is 1st doesnt mean it will be easier.

nah, this came up before... its the passages that go in order it said each set of questions goes by AVERAGE difficutly with the first set being averagly easier than the next set until you get to the last passage which's questionss are on average harder - at least this is what im almost 99% confident as to what it said on teh aamc website but i can't find it righ tnow. someone on sdn brought this up.

i was just asking cuz i have some timing issues.

 

[Doctorsoon2011]

nah, this came up before... its the passages that go in order it said each set of questions goes by AVERAGE difficutly with the first set being averagly easier than the next set until you get to the last passage which's questionss are on average harder - at least this is what im almost 99% confident as to what it said on teh aamc website but i can't find it righ tnow. someone on sdn brought this up.

i was just asking cuz i have some timing issues.

This seems right! On the AAMC practice tests I am always getting killed by the last passage.

 

[Melomare17]

nah, this came up before... its the passages that go in order it said each set of questions goes by AVERAGE difficutly with the first set being averagly easier than the next set until you get to the last passage which's questionss are on average harder - at least this is what im almost 99% confident as to what it said on teh aamc website but i can't find it righ tnow. someone on sdn brought this up.

i was just asking cuz i have some timing issues.

oh ok. doesnt really apply to me then, since i always feel its the same difficulty of passages throughout lol. i usually get thru the last one the quickest and get 0-1 questions wrong while on the earlier ones i get at least 1+ wrong