Like_a_G6 Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 Hey any tips if kaplan`s verbal mcat stategy is good? Its not working for me so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mithril Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I personally hated the Kaplan verbal strategy. It took up way too much time. I would suggest looking up the PM101 member Erk and reading through his tips on VR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayerrr Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 EK method works way better for me...Kaplans method sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Femto Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I am really surprised at how ****ty every prep company's verbal strategy is. I mean, seriously! It seems to them that simply having a 'unique strategy' is more important than having a good strategy. Why can't any of them just break it down into a simple process...like it is really? I think this is one reason why so many people stress over VR, because there is not a single company teaching a good, logical, and sufficient method. Skipping a whole passage?...Seriously!!! Has anyone who suggests this actually tried it? And, not going back to the passage? Who is able to remember all of the fine details of the overly dense passages? Perhaps these companies are comfortable with teaching a method to get an 8...thinking that that should be good enough. There are a million different things you could do to get an 8, but probably only 1 or 2 to consistently get a 12+. End of rant...sorry to derail your thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obi Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I personally thought the strategy itself works quite well. (Scoring 12's on practise AAMC's but the actual test had a passage that really threw me off so ended with a 10) Their practise material, however, is garbage. Applying the Kaplan stategy to the EK material seems to work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kkentm Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 I personally thought the strategy itself works quite well. (Scoring 12's on practise AAMC's but the actual test had a passage that really threw me off so ended with a 10) Their practise material, however, is garbage. Applying the Kaplan stategy to the EK material seems to work well. how garbage? so far ive only done kaplan practice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obi Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 Their passages seem to really mould to their strategy. It becomes far to easy to pick out "faulty detail" "out of scope" etc etc in their "trick answers". The style of the passages and the wording of the questions is also not really representative to what the AAMC gives to you. If you do an AAMC practise and you find that you score well on verbal, just keep doing what you're doing. But I found the transition from reading EK's passages/questions to doing the AAMC tests to be almost seamless. The EK tests may at first seem very easy, but i found they really helped me with quickly pinpointing which answer was wrong, and why it was wrong, because they were so similar to the actual ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markov79 Posted August 1, 2011 Report Share Posted August 1, 2011 what do all of you do for vr practise? (ie passages, reading news articles in the economist etc)? just curious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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