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Six Steps To Answering Science Questions 1. Understand the question and be sure you’re answering what the question is asking of you. 2. Use information presented in the question stem, the passage and visuals/graphs to your advantage. 3. Be able to understand the passage and interpret data. 4. When performing calculations estimate and use appropriate math skills. 5. Combine not only what is presented in the passage, but use background knowledge and visual data to arrive at an appropriate answer. This may include thinking/applying concepts across various subjects. 6. Use reasoning skills and think your way through problems. How to Get The Main Idea The main idea is a summary of the passage in one sentence and should reflect the author’s opinion. Be aware that 90% of Verbal Reasoning questions will center upon the main idea. Here are the four steps to generating the main idea: 1. After reading the passage write down the main topics. Each topic should be from 1 to 4 words. 2. From these topics choose the most important 1 or 2 and write a short phrase relating them to each other and the passage. 3. Connect the phrases in 1 or 2 sentences. 4. This is your main idea and the goal is to be able to do this in your head. When first starting out you will need to write these steps down, but as you progress in your abilities you want to do them in your head because of the time factor. Clearly, you will need to practice these steps if you want to be proficient at them come test time. I am going to reiterate another important point. Do not spend time re-reading the passage. Do not stop or pause, you do not have time for this. Practice Tests and Problems The saying goes, “practice makes perfect” and this applies to the MCAT as well. The only way you will have a great MCAT score is by doing as many MCAT style problems as possible. My medical student friends who have recently taken the MCAT strongly believe that they got a score good enough to get into med school by: 1. Doing as many MCAT style problems as possible 2. Taking advantage of full-length MCAT practice exams. Although you can do problems that review your basic sciences, this is not going to help you on the MCAT unless you are simply relearning the basic sciences. You need to do MCAT style problems to begin seeing how certain topics are approached on the MCAT and the type of questions that are asked. You will find that in many cases the MCAT does not go into as much depth as you would think from your premed courses…this is especially true with organic chemistry (having a basic understanding is all you need). I opened this section by mentioning, “practice makes perfect” and this is not completely accurate. You see I played baseball growing up and one of my Little League coaches said, “Perfect practice makes perfect.” And this is the mentality you need for the MCAT although our definition of perfection will not be getting every question correct, rather did you take the time to learn something from each question you attempted. NEVER EVER do MCAT problems and NOT spend time going over the answers. If you don’t go over the answers whether you got them right or wrong then you are wasting your time and cheating yourself out of getting a high score on the MCAT. Here is what you have to do after each problem set or MCAT practice test:

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