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14 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Why is the verbal section challenging on the MCAT?
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"Most don’t study enough.
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What areas does one focus on and improve every time when doing passage exercises?
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"Focus: Keeping one’s mind engaged in the passage.
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What are the six verbal skills of the verbal section?
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"The Main Idea
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The Main Idea
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"Why is the author writing? What’s his point? What is his motive?
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Common Mistakes regarding the Main Idea
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"Assuming idea is stated in the beginning.
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Tone
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The mood and attitude in which the author writes the passage. Learning the tone helps one understand the meaning of the passage.
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The Author
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"Learn from your reading the attitudes and beliefs and motives that the author has.
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Contrasting Theories and Experiments
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"Main idea does not help.
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Making Mild Inferences
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Simple, obvious, logical inferences - not detailed or complex. Logic is simple and straightforward - there are no “chains.” B follows from A, not Z follows from A when there are no links in between: there won’t be on the MCAT.
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What are the major verbal strategies?
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"Take your time
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Strategy: Taking Your Time
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"3-4 minutes per passage.
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Read actively
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"Read as if you really enjoy the subject and find it intensely interest regardless of whether or not you actually do.
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Do NOT return back to the passage
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"Going back results in confusion when answering questions whose wrong answers are very similar to quotes in the passage.
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Avoid definitive answer choices
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"ALWAYS, NEVER, MUST, etc. These are wrong 98% of the time.
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