Comments on: Improving Your MCAT VR Score – Part 1 – Misconceptions about Verbal Reasoning

By: A

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:39:36 +0000

Thanks for the comment Jay! Have a good one.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:58:30 +0000

You’re a pompous dick! I feel sorry for your future patients

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:57:44 +0000

Your rebuttal for running out of time is mistaken. The exam isn’t about reading speed. It’s about comprehension and reasoning. A 10 year old could read the passages in the allotted time frame. BUT would he understand them?

By: Talin

Talin — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:02:33 +0000

It is unavoidable.. I don’t see how I can get through a passage without making a single mistake.

By: A

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:37:14 +0000

Bro, I would say the reason you aren’t getting an 11 is because you are making “at least 1 or 2 mistake per passage.”

By: Talin

Talin — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:51:27 +0000

Listen Bro. I really Don’t think its as easy as you say it is.
I just checked my reading speed, its 150 words per minute. BUT I always end up getting atleast 1 or 2 mistake per passage. Do you know what this means? It is an automatic 10. and If I happen to be unlucky and get longer passages, or get a hard passage where i get 3 or 4 mistake on that passage, and then I am automatically down to an 8 or 9.

I took the mcat twice, Got a 7 on VR the first time and then got an 8 on VR the second time.
If you are telling me that its so easy, then why exactly am I not getting the 11?

You tell me.

By: hh

hh — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:54:04 +0000

another point why does it have to be online. it is hard enough trying to understand this sh!t, let alone doing so while reading online, which any site that covers the issue will tell you it is slower than reading from paper
another 10 minutes would really be helpful, seriously would it kill them to do that. I guess it would.

All of the questions are these obscure detail questions, which ARE detail questions, but are not, in that they also require you to ‘get’ where the guy or woman who wrote the questions is coming from; it is very hard to explain what i am trying to say; all i can say is read the questions and I think you might understand what i am saying better.

You are probably better off just doing 6 passages at 10 minutes a passage, then s-canning the other and guess a letter.

By: hh

hh — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:43:37 +0000

this section is friggin impossible, mainly due to the convoluted nature of the passages, and also the people who wrote the questions are obviously on a completely different wavelength than any rational sane person. I cannot understand how anyone can decipher the complexity of the questions and understand some of the most difficult passages that I have ever tried to read.

it takes WAY MORE TIME THAN that to get through something that you do not understand. Unless you are supposed to pretend that you get it. This test is designed for people that somehow are able to get the mentality of the people writing this stuff

By: The Short List-July 2012 | PracticalPremed

The Short List-July 2012 | PracticalPremed — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:53:46 +0000

[...] Improving Your MCAT VR Score via TheHeroComplex. By scoring a 13 on his VR, @theHero_Complex scored in the top 1.1% percentile of all test-takers. Needless to say, the man knows a thing or two about getting a good MCAT score. The whole series is four posts in all, with my favorite being part one- Misconceptions about Verbal Reasoning. [...]

By: A

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 22:04:28 +0000

My AAMC scores ranged from 10-13. However, I have to disagree with your assertion that VR is impossible to master. It is not possible to “expose” yourself to all of the topics that Verbal Reasoning passages can be about. The test is not examining your educational or reading history, but rather how effectively you understand new material. In fact, I am usually quite interested in the passages because they are about topics I know nothing about.

I do think that my method works (I know it worked for me). Though obviously I was also comfortable with VR in general because I had taken so many practice tests. I think that if you are in the 10-15 range on AAMC tests, you are probably just about ready for the real deal. Maybe tweak a thing or two, but the whatever you are doing seems to be working.