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IELTS Skills
2007-10-08 10:21:00 Most students will be studying English with a teacher. Here are some of the skills your teacher will be working on with you, all important in the IELTS test: Speaking: pronunciation, intormtioh, fluency, common phrases, interaction (dynamics with another speaker), asking questions; Listening: voice tone, listening for keywords, listening for general information, vocabulary, summarising; Reading: skimming (general understanding), ... More About: Skills
ielts time problem
2007-10-07 10:15:00 One of the biggest problems that students have in the test is that they run out of time. The first thing you need to practise is speed, especially in the reading and writing sections. Whenever you read something in English, give yourself a time limit. While you are reading, stop at the end of every ... More About: Time , Problem
Good Writing Sample Topics - MCAT
2007-10-06 18:14:00 When I was practicing for my MCAT, I found that having a good running list of examples basically let the essays write themselves. So I thought that having a list of topics would be a good idea. That way you can avoid using cliches like Hitler and MLK Here’s a few that I really liked that ... More About: Writing , Topics , Good , Sample
Importance of the PCAT and MCAT Essays
2007-10-05 18:13:00 Pre-medical and pre-pharmacy students often want to know how much the essays count, or how the medical and pharmacy schools use their writing scores in evaluating their applications. Unfortunately, we cannot give you a very informative answer on this point. MCAT: On the MCAT, the essay section is scored separately from the three multiple choice ... More About: Essays
Practicing Writing Essays for the MCAT and PCAT
2007-10-04 18:12:00 MCAT: Practice MCAT WS topics are available through e-mcat for free, although you will have to register in order to get access to them. Essay topics can come from several categories, including government, education, and ethics. You do not need to have any outside or technical information in order to answer the essays, and you ... More About: Writing , Essays
PCAT Essay: Spelling and Grammar
2007-10-03 18:12:00 Unlike the MCAT WS, spelling and grammar *are* graded on the PCAT essay. So it is especially important for PCAT takers to ensure that their writing is as grammatical as possible. If this is an area of trouble for you, you should get a grammar book, and review your grammar rules, spelling, and punctuation. However, ... More About: Essay , Grammar , Spelling , Gram , Spell
?Q:A? Spelling and Grammar on the MCAT WS
2007-10-02 18:11:00 Nutmeg: In my time on SDN, the two most commonly misspelled words seem to be: Argument (not arguement) and Definitely (not definately) Usually the spell checkers get hassled for being pedantic, but on this thread it seems appropriate to point out spelling errors. You don’t want to make these mistakes on the test. Also, some people tend to become ... More About: Grammar , Spelling , Gram , Spell
MCAT WS Essay Format
2007-10-01 18:10:00 The questions for the WS always follow the same format: {prompt: some sort of opinion statement} Write a unified essay in which you perform the following tasks. Explain what you think the above statement means. Describe a specific situation in which {the opinion in the prompt would NOT hold true}. Discuss what you think determines whether/when {the ... More About: Essay , Format
British concil ielts in Iran Tehran
2007-09-30 20:15:00 Exams IELTS Material IELTS Frequently Asked Questions IELTS website More About: Iran , British , Tehran
?Q:A? Coming up with Examples for the MCAT WS and PCAT Essay
2007-09-30 18:09:00 lorelei: To prepare for these essays, you probably want mostly examples. (As Q and Shrike point out, you don’t have to be a fantastic writer, but you do have to follow the directions, and having a mental library of examples makes it easier to do that.) For that, just following the newspaper can be fine. ... More About: Examples , Essay , Xamp
Reading in Preparation for the MCAT
2007-09-29 18:09:00 People often ask what they should be reading to get used to the style and topics they’ll encounter on the Verbal Reasoning section. In General The standard advice, which is good, is to read magazines like The Economist, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. These magazines generally have good writing in essay format. There are, of course, ... More About: Reading , Preparation , Prep
MCAT Keywords
2007-09-28 18:08:00 Strategies are pretty individual, and they depend on your particular strengths and weaknesses. Personally I rarely marked up passages. I apparently process the keywords automatically - when I am working with students, I have to scan the passage and think about what the keywords are (it’s like explaining to my mom how I know how ... More About: Keywords
MCAT VR Tips
2007-09-27 18:07:00 1) Read quickly, but not too quickly. I pause after each paragraph, make sure that I’ve understood the gist, and quickly decide on a couple of key words to circle. This ensures that I haven’t read so quickly that nothing was absorbed. Circling key words gives me something concrete to do to nail down the content, ... More About: Tips
Outside Knowledge on the VR Section - MCAT
2007-09-26 18:07:00 Outside knowledge is definitely a big no-no on the Verbal Reasoning section, whether on natural science passages or any other type. There have been times when some of my students have known enough about a passage topic to be able to argue the point with the author; don’t do this. For the purpose of the ... More About: Knowledge , Section
MCAT Questions: Conclusions and Assumptions
2007-09-25 18:06:00 To answer questions that ask you to choose a reasonable conclusion or assumption for an argument, it’s important to understand what it means for a conclusion or assumption to be reasonable in the context of the MCAT. An implied conclusion is necessarily supported by the evidence but is not explicitly stated. That is, given A, B, ... More About: Questions , Assumptions
MCAT Questions: Strengthening and Weakening Arguments
2007-09-24 18:06:00 Basically when you come to one of these questions, the first thing you have to know is - what is the author’s argument? What assertions does s/he put forward, and what conclusions does s/he draw? Something that strengthens the argument will very often be something that supports the assertions - more data, or something that ... More About: Questions , Then
General Advice for Improving VR Scores - MCAT
2007-09-24 18:05:00 I’m not very familiar with EK’s method, so I’m not going to comment about it. But I can tell you that the biggest mistakes that Kaplan students make when trying to map passages is that they write too much, and they focus on the wrong things. Lorelei and Nutmeg have written some excellent posts about ... More About: Advice , General , Scores , Improv
Fact Versus Opinion: Finding the Thesis of a Passage - MCAT
2007-09-23 18:04:00 I think a lot of what this test looks for is the ability to separate fact and opinion. That’s why you get questions like "does it strengthen or weaken this statement to say…?" and so forth. So when evaluating each assertion, you need to look past the facts, which contribute to the summary, but are ... More About: Opinion , Fact , Versus
Examples of Reading for the Author?s Viewpoint - MCAT
2007-09-21 18:04:00 Something I’ve done on occasion to figure out the author’s point of view is to find the place where s/he is talking about the relevant point, and look for any non-necessary words: words that don’t absolutely have to be there to convey the facts, as well as words that could have been chosen differently to ... More About: Reading , Author , Examples , Viewpoint , Xamp
Dealing with Details: Repetition - MCAT
2007-09-20 18:03:00 Nutmeg has good advice about understanding WHY details are there, not understanding every little bit. As far as recognizing what is skippable, there are some typical structures that give you that hint. For example: "Sandra Day O’Connor was a paragon, an example to women everywhere, a perfect choice as the first female justice." (I just made ... More About: Details , Tails
Dealing with Details: Purpose of Details - MCAT
2007-09-19 18:03:00 The point of the details isn’t that you retain each and every point made in each detail. You have to do two things very quickly–1) understand what is actually being described, and 2) figure out why the author wasted your time bringing it up. How does the point pertain to his argument? Look for combining ... More About: Purpose , Details , Pose , Tails
MCAT Confusing Passages
2007-09-18 18:02:00 Many students have trouble with the more abstract passages on the VR section, particularly with subjects such as philosophy, literary criticism, politics, and historical scholarship. Those of you who still have several months before you take the test should practice reading abstract passages as much as possible between now and MCAT day. You are almost ... More About: Ages
Annotating MCAT VR Passages
2007-09-17 18:01:00 There are two very important things to keep in mind when annotating paragraphs: 1. Your annotations should be SHORT. If you’re writing entire sentences, it’s too much. You should only be writing a few words or a phrase at most. Also, do not write out whole words if you can avoid it. Abbreviate as much as ... More About: Anno , Ages
MCAT Inference Questions
2007-09-17 18:00:00 On the questions, get good at inferences. While I’m biased, I’d say that Kaplan is exceptional on this point, both in the amount of questions you have available to hone the skill and in the method. The main thing to remember for inference questions is that the right answer MUST be true based on the passage; if it may or may not be true, it’s incorrect. This, in my opinion, is the single biggest factor keeping students who score in the 9-11 range from getting to the 12+ range: if you mistake something possibly true for something definitely true, or vice versa, on only a few questions you’ve automatically taken your score down a few points. Make sure you understand what certain types of questions look like. Again, Kaplan’s excellent on this, both in terms of volume and instruction. If you can glance at a question and know its category, you can spend less time trying to analyze what it’s asking; you’ll already have a good idea. And finally, don... More About: Questions
“Q:A” VR section of the MCAT test-taking strategy
2007-09-16 17:59:00 Here is my personal method for taking the VR section of the MCAT. I read the passage through, reading critically but not taking a huge amount of time to figure out details I didn’t understand. I did make sure that I understood the overall argument and thrust of the passage though. Then I read the questions, answered the ones I knew, and referred back to the passage for the few that I didn’t. I never skipped passages, because for me it was more trouble than it was worth to remember what I had to come back to. Again, my strategy was what personally worked for me. I’m a fast reader (I did always finish ahead of time), I’m good at grasping arguments, and I had a double engineering/humanities major so I was somewhat used to reading humanities passages. (The art ones were the worst for me.) And I’m not used to marking up textbooks so it never really occurred to me to mark up the passages, though I did occasionally underline or star things that I knew I was co... More About: Strategy , Test , Section , Rate , Taking
?Q:A? Reading for the author?s viewpoint - MCAt
2007-09-15 17:47:00 lorelei: There is a big different in reading passages for the VR section of the MCAT versus the two science sections. In the sciences, you try to read a passage primarily for comprehension (what the author is saying). In verbal, not only do you have to understand what the author is saying, but also why ... More About: Reading , Author , Viewpoint
British concil ielts in India
2007-09-14 20:18:00 UK EXAMS IN INDIA IELTS English tests Educational Exams Professional Exams Vocational Exams IELTS RESULTS - IELTS Results - Postpone or cancel your IELTS test - Request for revaluation ... More About: India , British
?Q:A? Computer-Based MCAT Issues: Paper versus Computer Practice Tests
2007-09-14 17:46:00 Please excuse my rambling in advance, but I just read what I think is some pretty dangerous advice in another thread. The advice was that it isn’t necessary to practice CBT questions, because paper was just as good. At face value, there is definitely some truth to that statement. Reviewing using paper materials is actually more ... More About: Computer , Issues , Practice , Paper , Versus
Where can I go to find information about my pre-health test, register for m
2007-09-13 17:45:00 Test Registration and Information Websites: DAT:This test for pre-dental students is administered by the American Dental Association. MCAT: This test for pre-medical students is administered by the American Association of Medical Colleges. All students should download and read the AAMC’s MCAT Student Manual. You will need Adobe Reader to be able to view this file. OAT: This test ... More About: Health , Find , Test , Register
What tips can people with insanely high MCAT scores (40+) give to students
More articles from this author:2007-09-12 17:45:00 hese tips are from volunteer advisor emack, who scored a 41R on the MCAT. Level of detail: as much as you can cram in! But seriously, it doesn’t need to be 100%. For example, I gave up on really understanding much organic chem, and decided to cut my losses and just memorize what seemed to be ... More About: People , Students , Tips , High , Give 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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