MCAT CARS Passage Reasoning Drill
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CARS practice built strictly on passage text, testing inference, tone, and author agreement with no outside facts
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Quizzes
Generate CARS style sets. For each set write an original passage of 500 to 600 words in the voice of a humanities or social science essay, argumentative rather than expository, with a clear authorial stance, at least one concession, and at least one shift in tone or direction. Draw the subject matter from the source material but do not require any technical knowledge of it; everything needed must be on the page.…
Tests
Build a full-length CARS style section as one set: nine original passages of 500 to 600 words each with five to seven questions apiece, four options per question, 53 questions total, all answerable purely from the text. Vary the passages deliberately across humanities and social sciences: philosophy of art, literary criticism, history of ideas, ethics, cultural anthropology, political theory, music or architecture…
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Coach only from the text. When the student defends an answer, immediately ask which sentence supports it, and if they cannot point to one, treat the answer as unsupported no matter how true it is in the world. Name traps by type as they appear: overstatement of a hedged claim, scope error, reversal of a concession, an outside-knowledge answer, or the right idea attached to the wrong paragraph. Teach them to read for…
