Hyper Literal Textual Analysis for MCAT CARS
Change your reading paradigm and boost your score.
A Common Misunderstanding
Many students find MCAT CARS (Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills) to be the most frustrating section of the exam. Because they perceive passages as necessarily open to interpretation, finding the right answer feels like an inherently subjective endeavor. The so-called "correct" answers appear unpredictable, as they seem subject to personal opinion and bias. For these reasons, when students first come to me for help increasing their scores, they often believe there's no reliable way to know for sure if an MCAT CARS answer will be considered correct.
I can understand why test takers feel this way. After all, haven't we been taught that there are always multiple ways to interpret a text? Isn't it obvious that, when it comes to reading, different people have different takes? If that is true, then it would seem that no one can definitively claim that another person's interpretation is incorrect. Their opinion about a text's meaning might be different from our own, but that doesn't mean that they are wrong. Right?
Actually, no. Not on MCAT CARS, anyway. Not if we're approaching it properly.