

You must also do as many problems as you can. Reasoning also requires practice and as you get better at it, your confidence will increase, including the speed at which you get right answers. However, like we’ve mentioned already, make an honest attempt at reasoning out the answer. If you lack understanding, go in-depth with external resources like Khan Academy videos. Practice unit conversions, working with equations, dividing and multiplying scientific notations, rounding, etc. This is one of the sections where you can improve your score DRAMATICALLY with practice.Įvery 130+ scorer in this section greatly emphasized the importance of practice and how practice is what makes this section in particular, one that you can truly master. Keep this going until you can maintain your efficiency in under 135 minutes.

As your confidence increases, do it again but with less time. Once you do an untimed test like this for C/P, your confidence will increase. Most of the time you’ll notice that the right answer is always there in your head, if you just give it a little time and push for it to come up. If you forget something, guess, make a note of it, and move on. Go through the passages and graphs and really try to figure out the right answer. Go through it in a state of complete calmness. The key is to take a C/P exam that’s not timed. Every premed has the cognitive abilities to conquer this section. In fact, it just requires basic math and simple reasoning. This section doesn’t require you to have some super reasoning abilities. In our hurry, our reasoning abilities aren’t as strong and our score suffers. When we’re going slow, we try to speed up. An interesting problem a lot of premeds face for this section is low scores because of mental pressure that is a result of the timer running.
