MCAT Passages Forum

biggestlawman · Post by **biggestlawman** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 4:13 pm

What informed opinion(s) do you have about the usefulness of the MCAT RC passages? Will really appreciate the input. Thanks.

gatesome · Post by **gatesome** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:09 pm

Fantastic for MCAT prep.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:45 pm

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McJimJam · Post by **McJimJam** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:52 pm

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rnoodles · Post by **rnoodles** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 6:25 pm

biggestlawman wrote:What informed opinion(s) do you have about the usefulness of the MCAT RC passages? Will really appreciate the input. Thanks.

From what I've taken they're much easier than RC on the LSAT. I took one MCAT RC on the Articles of Confederation, didn't even read it, and nailed it just from memory. Took some RC on dancing fucking bees or whatever on the LSAT and got wrecked. Maybe it's just me, but LSAT RC is more challenging for sure.

biggestlawman · Post by **biggestlawman** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:28 pm

theugg wrote:Did you run out of real RC passages?

Retaking. I used all the material for my attempt last June. Although I took a break from LSAT for 7-8 months, I only have 4 PTs that I have never seen.

biggestlawman · Post by **biggestlawman** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:30 pm

McJimJam wrote:
biggestlawman wrote:What informed opinion(s) do you have about the usefulness of the MCAT RC passages? Will really appreciate the input. Thanks.
This was over a year ago for me, but I think they were much easier than the reading comp. All the answers were right in the passage and pretty easy to spot. The only thing that made the section difficult was the time constraint. I'll go back and look at my MCAT books and update with more accurate info, but I don't feel they are a good substitute (don't really force you to think in the same way as RC does).

Thanks. Would appreciate an update based on your reassessment!

biggestlawman · Post by **biggestlawman** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:31 pm

rnoodles22 wrote:
biggestlawman wrote:What informed opinion(s) do you have about the usefulness of the MCAT RC passages? Will really appreciate the input. Thanks.
From what I've taken they're much easier than RC on the LSAT. I took one MCAT RC on the Articles of Confederation, didn't even read it, and nailed it just from memory. Took some RC on dancing fucking bees or whatever on the LSAT and got wrecked. Maybe it's just me, but LSAT RC is more challenging for sure.

A grand sample of one!

Mack.Hambleton · Post by **Mack.Hambleton** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 7:31 pm

Just reuse old tests

McJimJam · Post by **McJimJam** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:35 pm

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biggestlawman · Post by **biggestlawman** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:56 pm

McJimJam wrote:
biggestlawman wrote:
McJimJam wrote:
biggestlawman wrote:What informed opinion(s) do you have about the usefulness of the MCAT RC passages? Will really appreciate the input. Thanks.
This was over a year ago for me, but I think they were much easier than the reading comp. All the answers were right in the passage and pretty easy to spot. The only thing that made the section difficult was the time constraint. I'll go back and look at my MCAT books and update with more accurate info, but I don't feel they are a good substitute (don't really force you to think in the same way as RC does).
Thanks. Would appreciate an update based on your reassessment!
Yeah so its basically as I remembered its difficulty comes from being 7 passages in 60 minutes rather than the content actually being difficult. You're better off with older RC sections.

Thanks, McJimJam. BTW, Congratulations!

biggestlawman · Post by **biggestlawman** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 8:57 pm

Mack.Hambleton wrote:Just reuse old tests

Cool! Thanks!

appind · Post by **appind** » Fri Oct 23, 2015 11:23 pm

there are not a lot of mcat RC sections in PT forms out there, so even if you do use them, there is not a whole lot of them.

RC is hard to improve not the least due to the limited new PTs as the older RC scores are inflated. so one is left with about 25 RC sections that are like recent RC. also, rc is likely one of the least retakeable sections.