I start a one year cycle of pre-med courses on June 6th. My goal is to take the MCAT before July if that can be helped. I am going to work on the verbal section since I can not recall every topic in chem, bio, and physics at this point.
5/20/11
10:30-11:45pm
I knew that I was not great at reading comprehension or decoding what I read. I did not read the TPR book prior to testing where I am at. I bought a three month trail to Gold Standard and took MCAT Verbal #9. This was a great way to get a heads up and figure out how to tackle verbal in the future. I scored a 4/15 and looked at what I got wrong. I was able to conclude that a) I need to read the passage and conceptualize it, b) find strategies to extract what I need, c) I finished earlier than expected (but may need more time on the real MCAT, and d) I need to read up on strategies and take more practice tests. Not a bad lesson to learn.
I order EK Verbal book online and have the TPR Hyperlearning books from 2011. Once I go through each book I will take 1-2 practice tests and see what the end result looks like.
5/21/2011
9:01-9:45am
Just reading over strategies that look for words such as however, also, unfortunately, in contrast. I need to start highlighting those words.
5/21/2011
3:57-4:41pm
Took the first two drills in chapter 2 of TPR Verbal Reasoning and Writing Skills book. My results were 3/5 and 4/7.
Pre-test #9 30% accuracy
drills after one chapter 57-60%
* Explanation for improvement: a) not timed, and b) not timed leading to concentration
