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MCAT Critical Analysis and ReasoningSkills Review Answered Correctly!!!
CARS Section CORRECT ANSWERS 90 minutes
9 passages
5-7 question/passage
500-600 words/passage
Types of Passages in CARS CORRECT ANSWERS Humanities
Social Sciences
What are the three question categories in CARS? CORRECT ANSWERS Foundation of
Comprehension
Reasoning Within the Text
Reasoning Beyond the Text
Foundation of Comprehension CORRECT ANSWERS Will involve:
-main idea
-specific details
-inferences that can be drawn
-meaning of a word or phrase
about 30% of all questions or 16 questions
Reasoning Within the Text CORRECT ANSWERS Will involve:
-identifying the purpose of a particular piece of info
-how one piece of info relates to another
about 30% of questions or 16 questions
Reasoning Beyond the Text CORRECT ANSWERS Will involve:
-capacity to extrapolate info from the passage and place it within new context
-ascertain how new info would relate to and affect the concepts in the passage
about 40% of questions or 21 questions
MCAT Hotkeys CORRECT ANSWERS Alt + Letter:
N= advance to Next/ Answer No
P= Return to Previous
V= Open Navigation
,H= Highlight/ Remove Highlight
S= Strikethrough/ Remove Strikethrough
T= Open Periodic Table
C= Close Navigation/ Close Periodic Table
F= Flag for Review
E= End Review of Section/ Exam
W= Return to Section Review
A= Review All Question
I= Review Incomplete
R= Review Flagged
Y= Answer Yes
O= Answer OK
Highlighting CORRECT ANSWERS -use sparingly
-highlight key terms or given values within passages
-highlight easily overlooked phrases in questions
Strikethrough CORRECT ANSWERS -use sparingly
Rhetoric CORRECT ANSWERS art of communicating through writing and speaking
Rhetorical knowledge CORRECT ANSWERS refers to an awareness of the
components of a written work besides the actual words on the page, such as the author,
the intended audience, and goal
Rhetorical analysis CORRECT ANSWERS examination of speech or writing that goes
beyond what the author is saying to consider how and why the author is saying it
Author CORRECT ANSWERS individual writing the piece;
-experts in a topics speaking to a knowledgeable audience use jargon(technical
words/phrases)
-less exports writing to a less-informed audience use common terminology and detailed
descriptions
-less experts than audience use moderating key words
Tone CORRECT ANSWERS reflects the author's attitude toward the subject matter
can use strong/neutral language or discuss specific subject matters
Voice CORRECT ANSWERS how the author uniquely strings words together to deliver
a message; how the author expresses thoughts and can be unique and identifiable
, Audience CORRECT ANSWERS the person/group the author intended to read or hear
the work
Genre CORRECT ANSWERS category into which the written work can be classified
-gives information about the authors intended audience
Message CORRECT ANSWERS the actual text written by the author, including factual
information and explicit opinions
Goal CORRECT ANSWERS reason why the author wrote the work, usually persuasion
or evoking emotional response; authors may write with more than one goal in mind
Arguments CORRECT ANSWERS a combination of one claim, known as the
conclusion, and one or more other assertions, known as the evidence, used to support it
- can be evaluated on their validity or strength
Implication CORRECT ANSWERS unstated conclusion
Assumption CORRECT ANSWERS unstated evidence
Inference CORRECT ANSWERS any unstated part of an argument, whether an
implication or assumption
Counterargument CORRECT ANSWERS objections, challenges, or claims that weaken
a particular conclusion
Kaplan Method for CARS Passages CORRECT ANSWERS 1.)Preview (big picture,
assess difficulty, now or later)
2.)Choose (highlighting, outlining, interrogating)
3.)Read and Distill (keywords by paragraph, choose method by paragraph, identify
reason of passage)
Passage timing CORRECT ANSWERS average 10 min./passage
Order of passages CORRECT ANSWERS easy and quick over difficult and time
consuming
Indicators of passage difficulty CORRECT ANSWERS 1.)Passage topic (social
sciences over humanities)
2.)Sentence structure (distance b/w periods, and different punctuations)
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