121 episodes
The MCAT CARS Podcast Ryan Gray, MD with Jack Westin
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4.7 • 83 Ratings
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The CARS section of the MCAT gives thousands of premeds nightmares every night. Whether you're an ESL student, lack confidence while reading, or are a slow reader like me, Jack Westin and the Medical School Headquarters are here to help you score higher in every section so that you can be confident you are ready to get the MCAT score of your dreams.
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Understanding Passage Structures and Interpreting Tone
Tone provides a deeper sense of one's attitude. Understanding tones and structures in a CARS passage will help you get a better sense of the passage and author.
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Meded Media
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Exploring Hypnosis in Comparison to Psych Experiments
If you want more free practice for MCAT CARS, visit jackwestin.com. Today, Jack and I focus on learning as we read this passage about hypnosis. Listen now!
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Meded Media
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How to Discern Facts, Assumptions, and Opinions in CARS
Today, we talked about the difference between facts and opinions/assumptions that sounds factual. Understanding the differences can help you score high in CARS.
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Meded Media
Jack Westin
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Practicing Empathy With MCAT CARS Passages
In this episode, Jack and I discuss how to find article passages that are similar to MCAT CARS passages.
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Meded Media
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aldaily.com
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How to Critically Think When Reading Deep Passages
MCAT passages are all about giving a message. You don't have to understand everything, but you can't make just assume or predict things that aren't there.
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Taking MCAT CARS to Outer Space and Beyond
The recent landing of the Mars Perseverance rover reminds us that our universe is vast, as are opinions on the MCAT. What are my thoughts? Listen to find out!
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Meded Media
Jack Westin
Link to the article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/10/rogue-planets-milky-way/616897/
Customer Reviews
121 --> 125
This show and JW's practice passages/course trial session helped me raise my official CARS score from a 121 to a 125! There is hope! Thanks Dr. Ryan Gray for this podcast
Great Advice
I listened to 3 episode and already I’m understand HOW TO read these passages. My accuracy on questions has increased but I need to work on my timing!! I am faithful this will come in time!! Thank you Jack Westin and MedEdMedia for all your free material! I really appreciate it! The QUALITY from you guys is unmatched. I thank God for you guys!!
From CT with love/appreciation
Podcast Review
Jack Westin is revolutionary - Before we discovered Jack, we spent a tremendous amount of time and energy struggling to get through a single MCAT CARS passage. Over time, we had built bad habits including going back to the passage for each question and failing to grasp the main idea. After speaking with Jack, we not only learned to break negative habits, but we began to build a positive mindset to our approach to MCAT CARS. Believe it or not, we began to put ourselves in the authors' shoes and genuinely began enjoying reading, what others may consider, extremely dull, boring passages. We would highly recommend listening to this podcast, and similar to us, you too will learn to enjoy doing passages just like we did!
P.S. Jack, you are a blast!