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hey guys, fellow SDner here with probably the most important piece of advice that i can ever give anyone.
i have taken the mcat multiple times in hopes of getting my verbal score up.
i had been scoring 8's and 9's and no matter how much i studied i couldn't do well.
it took me about long time to realize that the verbal exam is not read a passage a day for the rest of your mcat practice but it's a different way of thinking about verbal.
in a nutshell, i tried
TBR, Princeton Review, EK 101 , Kaplan, Gold Standard, and all of them honestly were helpful in climbing my score up to at least a 9 and sometimes a 10.
yet what i HAVE to tell you as my last piece of advice for the mcat is to get this book called Verbal Virtuoso (http://verbal-virtuoso.com/default.aspx)
i had never heard of them until i started googling the internet because i had used up ALL of my resources for verbal practice.
what i found in this book was something that i wish was told like 10 years ago, because it has helped me THINK differently for verbal.
there's that passage mapping, skimming first, reading the questions first, and whatever floats your boat but what this book focuses on is how to think about the verbal section and it acknowledges different practice techniques not just ONE HARD CORE "kaplan" way or PR way. (other companies that I give props to for accepting that there is no right method in verbal are TBR)
anyway, this book should be used BEFORE you start any studying for verbal.
it literally walks you through how to think on the test and how to understand sentences and what they really mean. its not new information but its information that is given to u in a way that starts clicking....
it just works.
i never worked for them and i never heard of them, im just giving you my final advice for the mcat.
i got an 11 on the verbal in the january 29 mcat and if you see the thread for mcat jan 29 they said the verbal was IMPOSSIBLE...but i scored higher than many people who were already scoring 12s on their verbal mcat practice scores.....it was just simple.... during that test i remembered what this book told me and it actually worked.
save yourself the stress people.
just stop doubting if its fake, bla bla bla, it's real. and it works, and i would do injustice if i didnt let you guys know about it.
im goin to medical school on the west coast and with the 11 in the bag, i really impressed the schools.
but honestly, i just like giving credit where its due and mcat verbal virtuoso should be on your priority list for killing the verbal section. also reading JAMA (journal of american medical association (only the commentary or editorial section because that's where the some mcat sections come from)..
good luck guys.
i have taken the mcat multiple times in hopes of getting my verbal score up.
i had been scoring 8's and 9's and no matter how much i studied i couldn't do well.
it took me about long time to realize that the verbal exam is not read a passage a day for the rest of your mcat practice but it's a different way of thinking about verbal.
in a nutshell, i tried
TBR, Princeton Review, EK 101 , Kaplan, Gold Standard, and all of them honestly were helpful in climbing my score up to at least a 9 and sometimes a 10.
yet what i HAVE to tell you as my last piece of advice for the mcat is to get this book called Verbal Virtuoso (http://verbal-virtuoso.com/default.aspx)
i had never heard of them until i started googling the internet because i had used up ALL of my resources for verbal practice.
what i found in this book was something that i wish was told like 10 years ago, because it has helped me THINK differently for verbal.
there's that passage mapping, skimming first, reading the questions first, and whatever floats your boat but what this book focuses on is how to think about the verbal section and it acknowledges different practice techniques not just ONE HARD CORE "kaplan" way or PR way. (other companies that I give props to for accepting that there is no right method in verbal are TBR)
anyway, this book should be used BEFORE you start any studying for verbal.
it literally walks you through how to think on the test and how to understand sentences and what they really mean. its not new information but its information that is given to u in a way that starts clicking....
it just works.
i never worked for them and i never heard of them, im just giving you my final advice for the mcat.
i got an 11 on the verbal in the january 29 mcat and if you see the thread for mcat jan 29 they said the verbal was IMPOSSIBLE...but i scored higher than many people who were already scoring 12s on their verbal mcat practice scores.....it was just simple.... during that test i remembered what this book told me and it actually worked.
save yourself the stress people.
just stop doubting if its fake, bla bla bla, it's real. and it works, and i would do injustice if i didnt let you guys know about it.
im goin to medical school on the west coast and with the 11 in the bag, i really impressed the schools.
but honestly, i just like giving credit where its due and mcat verbal virtuoso should be on your priority list for killing the verbal section. also reading JAMA (journal of american medical association (only the commentary or editorial section because that's where the some mcat sections come from)..
good luck guys.
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