MCAT critical analysis and reasoning skills review

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  • The Kaplan MCAT Review Team
  • Getting Started Checklist
  • Preface
  • About the MCAT
  • How This Book Was Created
  • Using This Book
  • Studying for the MCAT
  • Chapter 1. About Cars
  • 1.1. The CARS Section
  • 1.2. Passages
  • 1.3. Question Categories
  • Chapter 2. Using Your Test Day Tools
  • 2.1. Test Day Tools
  • 2.2. Navigation Tools
  • 2.3. Interface Tools
  • Chapter 3. Rhetoric and Arguments
  • 3.1. Key Components of Rhetoric
  • 3.2. Key Components of Arguments
  • 3.3. Analyzing Passages with Rhetoric and Arguments
  • Chapter 4. Previewing the Passage
  • 4.1. Timing in the CARS Section
  • 4.2. Previewing CARS Passages
  • 4.3. Determining Passage Order
  • Chapter 5. Reading the Passage
  • 5.1. Reading Strategically with Keywords
  • 5.2. Relation Keywords
  • 5.3. Logic Keywords
  • 5.4. Author Keywords
  • Chapter 6. Distilling Passage Information
  • 6.1. Choosing Your Approach
  • 6.2. Highlighting the Passage
  • 6.3. Outlining the Passage
  • 6.4. Interrogating the Passage
  • Chapter 7. Applying the Kaplan Passage Strategy
  • 7.1. The Kaplan Passage Method
  • 7.2. Humanities Passages
  • 7.3. Social Sciences Passages
  • Chapter 8. Question and Answer Strategy
  • 8.1. The Kaplan Method for CARS Questions
  • 8.2. Wrong Answer Pathologies
  • 8.3. Signs of a Healthy Answer
  • Chapter 9. Question Types I: Foundations of Comprehension Questions
  • 9.1. Main Idea Questions
  • 9.2. Detail Questions
  • 9.3. Inference Questions
  • 9.4. Deflnition-in-Context Questions
  • Chapter 10. Question Types II: Reasoning Within the Text Questions
  • 10.1. Function Questions
  • 10.2. Strengthen-Weaken (Within the Passage) Questions
  • 10.3. Other Reasoning Within the Text Questions
  • Chapter 11. Question Types III: Reasoning Beyond the Text Questions
  • 11.1. Apply Questions
  • 11.2. Strengthen-Weaken (Beyond the Passage) Questions
  • 11.3. Other Reasoning Beyond the Text Questions
  • Chapter 12. Effective Review of Cars
  • 12.1. Learning from Your Mistakes
  • 12.2. Thinking Like the Testmaker: Post-Phrasing
  • 12.3. Improving Your Timing
  • 12.4. Building Endurance
  • 12.5. Enhancing Your Vocabulary