Live Strategy Session Database

All past and future Live CARS Strategy Sessions will be available here. Feel free to watch these at a faster speed using a web app such as Chrome’s Video Speed Controller.
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4/27/2020

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 5

Great passage for filtering through fluff and doing some Perspective Discovery

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4/17/2020

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 8

We had a great time using our linking and perspective discovery strategies on this passage.

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4/2/2020

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 3

This was a very detailed passage, and great practice for filtering out fluff while still keying in on important details

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3/19/2020

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 1

Great passage for practicing integrating comprehension monitoring and linking to find our main idea

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3/2/2020

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 20

Used linking to tie together our main idea to tackle this passage

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2/17/2020

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 18

We worked together to analyze this passage using lots of linking and perspective discovery with the author’s use of evidence

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2/6/2020

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 17

Great passage for comprehension monitoring, using context clues, and linking back to our main idea.

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1/23/2020

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 11

We had a great time using this passage to practice linking new information back to our passage’s main idea!

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1/9/2020

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 10

This passage was excellent practice for the use of our comprehension monitoring, linking, and making predictions strategies

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12/26/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 8

Great passage for practicing linking and making predictions based on passage information

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12/11/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 7

Excellent practice with comprehension monitoring, as well as how to handle multiple perspectives in one passage

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11/26/2019

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 4

Great passage to practice the use of linking and using word choice to discover the main idea of a passage

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11/14/2019

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 7

We solidified our understanding of this passage using our linking and perspective discovery strategies

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10/30/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 14

We had a great time working through this passage using our linking strategies

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10/17/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 12

Excellent practice for using Perspective Discovery. I apologize for the technical difficulties, the recording of this passage is missing the first few paragraphs!

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10/3/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 9

Great for practicing comprehension monitoring, use of background info, and linking it all together!

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9/18/2019

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 2

Good practice with an out-of-context passage

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9/4/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 21

Great passage to get the hang of the use of background info and how it relates to main idea finding!

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8/22/2019

CARS Question Pack 2, Passage 13

Great passage to practice using background information and linking it all together to find the main idea!

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8/8/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 13

Heavy use of linking and how it relates to main idea finding

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7/25/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 16

Great passage for practicing the use of background info and main idea finding. I apologize for the lack of audio once we got to the questions!

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7/11/2019

AAMC Practice Exam 1, Passage 7

Tricky passage, good for practicing the use of linking and finding passage structure

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6/26/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 4

Great passage for practicing the use of main idea and perspective finding!

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6/14/2019

Official Guide, CARS, Passage 5

Great passage for practicing the use of background knowledge.

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5/31/2019

Official Guide, CARS, Passage 4

Political passage. Great for practicing the use of background knowledge.

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5/17/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 2

Great passage for practicing your main idea and perspective finding skills!

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5/3/2019

Official Guide, CARS, Passage 3

This passage illustrates why it is so important to pay careful attention at the beginning of CARS passages.

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4/19/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 15

Great session! We learned about the importance of slowing down and understanding the first paragraph of the passage.

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4/5/2019

Official Guide, CARS, Passage 1

Skip past the technical difficulties in the first five minutes, and the rest of the session was great! Great passage for learning how to deal with argumentative text structures.

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3/22/2019

CARS Question Pack 1, Passage 6

My sincere apologize for my wife’s cat meowing in the background after the halfway point… I don’t know how she got in there… 😿

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3/7/2019

Official Guide Questions, CARS Passage 2, Questions 6-11
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Official Guide Questions, Chemistry/Physics Passage 4, Questions 15 – 19

This was a trial run session to gauge interest in weekly Live Strategy Sessions. Let’s just say everyone seemed to like it. 😊

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How we Matched up the Khan Academy Passages with the eCourse Lessons

Each lesson of the eCourse contains links to 1 to 5 Khan Academy science passages for the purpose of providing you with non-AAMC material to practice your science passage reading skills on. By completing all the linked passages within every lesson, you will have finished all the freely available Khan Academy science passages.

To match up the Khan Academy Science Passages with the eCourse lessons, we carefully examined the passage and question content of each one. Then we decided which lesson of the eCourse best correlated with that content. You may notice that some passages don’t match up perfectly with the current lesson. If they don’t match up with the current lesson, they should match up with one of the previous lessons in the module. We did this carefully so that you could practice your science passage reading skills on passages that contain the content you’ve already learned.

Why we don’t recommend non-AAMC CARS practice questions

We recommend practicing CARS by reading non-AAMC CARS passages but not doing the associated practice problems. The reason we don’t recommend doing the practice problems is because the MCAT is written by the AAMC. They have a very unique style in which they write CARS practice questions that third-party companies (try as they might) are unable to replicate. When students spend time on non-AAMC CARS practice problems, they get familiar with the wrong style of questioning, leading them to overthink and incorrectly respond to the questions written by the AAMC. Thus, it is in your best interest to solely practice on AAMC CARS practice questions.

That said, we highly recommend practicing your reading skills on non-AAMC CARS passages. In our Ultimate CARS Strategy Course, we provide you with 1,000 free CARS passages and 100+ homework assignments, giving you ample material to practice on. Reading countless passages while practicing the proper reading habits and strategies will prepare you well to conquer the CARS section as it was written by the AAMC.

Which books do the lessons match up with?

The books we use in each lesson are linked below. We plan to stick with these older editions of the books since very little has changed and the older editions are much more affordable:

First Edition of the Kaplan 7-book Series
First Edition of the Princeton 7-book Series

Do the chapters match up perfectly?

The Kaplan Books, Princeton Books, and Khan Academy Videos were all produced by different authors. For this reason, there are some chapters in the Kaplan Book or Princeton Book that are not even found in the Khan Academy Videos and vice versa. For instance, the Kaplan and Princeton Books have chapters that cover certain experimental procedures that the Khan Academy Videos do not cover.

Our goal in matching up the books with the videos was to correlate the content as best as possible while also covering ALL the content from every resource. For this reason, when nothing in the Kaplan Books matched up with one of the video playlists, instead of leaving the reading assignment for Kaplan blank, we inserted material that did not fit in anywhere else (i.e. one of those chapters on an experimental procedure that was not covered by Khan Academy). So, when the assignment doesn’t appear to match up right, please know that this was intentional.

*If you follow the reading assignments outlined, you will finish the entire Kaplan 7-book series and/or Princeton 7-book series by the time you finish all 10 content modules.

Do the sections match up perfectly?

If the sections assigned in our eCourse do not match up with the sections contained in your content review book, you may have a different edition. The sections should still match up the large majority of the time, but in the rare instance that they don’t, I’d recommend simply reading sections that do match up and saving the ones that do not for a future lesson.

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