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Which most like the real verbal?
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AAMC 3-10 Really, all seemed similar. Just the passages were slightly longer on the real deal, andthe nerves were kicking. Make sure you are finishing atleast 5-10 min early ontheAAMCs
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Sorry I would really like to bump this one more time. I understand everyone says AAMC is the most indicative but this is a slightly different question. Many have said that the aamc verbal is shorter and/or easier than the real thing and thats why I wanted to post this. Which of the following is best representative (not necessarily indicative) of the real test and therefore the best practice?
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I'm curious why you left TBR CBTs out of the survey. Are we just not on your radar? I guess if you don't take our class, then we don't really get noticed. But this is one of those surveys I'd love to see the results for, because the similarity between the actual verbal and our practice exams in terms of passage length and question types/style is one of the frequent comments from our students in their feedback.
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It's funny... please don't take any offense to this especially since I haven't taken TBR and these are not my words. But people have told me that the TBR is nothing but a TPR extension (same owner started it) and they both don't emphasize on verbal so much. I'm sure your program overall is great, maybe the best, but I had intentionally left it out for this reason and the fact that I have not taken brings more reason for this choice.
For this last 10 days I am doing non-stop verbal. I got extra aamc passage, but because there is no explanation I disregarded them and I have all of the above resources. Right now I am doing sets of EK 101, but I would like to hear other peoples thought as well as yours 😉.
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Hey if anyone would like to vote for The Berkeley Review, just comment ur vote and we can compare the results.
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i personally think Berk review SUCKED big time for verbal
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I'm not sure what to discuss here, because if you've already formed an opinion about our course (and PR for that matter) based on what you've been told, a different opinion really doesn't matter. I do want say though, that Westwood is unique in that I run into a fair number of UCLA students who base their opinions of our program on what they've been told by sales reps from another company or by a student who got a free course from that company. It's a business reality that seems more prevalent in Westwood than anywhere else. Because our policy is to not badmouth another program, we probably lose potential students. But then again, a student who wants to join because of negative comments about another course would not fit in with our approach to the exam and the application process.
That aside, we'd like to offer you something so that you can form an opinion based on observation. You have an open invitation to sit in on a verbal reasoning lecture with our course. Once you do that, we'll let you take a CBT exam for free, just so you can do a true comparison of the teaching, exam quality, and most of all strategies.
As far as facts go, the primary founder of Hyperlearning (the course PR absorbed a few years back) did help start BR, along with some UC Berkeley lecturers. But the courses are quite different. About the only similarity is that both offer over 100 class hours. Our philosophy is quite unique in the industry. Our lectures emphasize how to think your way through questions more than memorizing facts. We believe that test-taking logic applies to all sections of the exam. Each section has main theme/idea questions, inference questions, etc... The big difference between VR and sciences is that people have less anxieties in sciences because of their familiarity with the material. Getting good at verbal reasoning is to a large extent about building confidence.
The bottom line is this. Our average score in 2007 for VR was 9.9*. The national average was 8.0, so obviously we are doing something right. We ask our students to think their way through verbal, and although it takes some time to get used to, it works in the end. The in-class lecture packets provide a formula for success if followed and practiced.
Good luck with that. Spend time getting your strategy honed in! There is no single approach that works on every type of passage and question, so be flexible. May you meet with great success on the exam.
I am really hoping that the Examkrackers 101 passages are like the real thing. I've done 4 so far and have improved a lot. The first 3 i've gotten an 8 and thought i'd be stuck there forever. I just took #4 today and got an 11, even after realizing that I left 2 questions blank. I felt a lot more comfortable on this last one. Hopefully I can get at least an 11 on the real thing!
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