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What makes a CARS question a CARS question?


Chris Lele
Lesson by Chris Lele
Magoosh Expert

Summary
The essence of the content revolves around understanding the complexity of CARS questions on the MCAT, highlighting common traps and strategies to avoid them.
  • CARS questions are challenging because wrong answers are designed to appear correct, making them tempting.
  • Identified traps include 'word salad', 'rotten spot', 'answers a different question', and 'true in the real world'.
  • Strategies to avoid traps involve careful reading, skepticism of seemingly perfect answers, and always referring back to the passage for evidence.
  • The importance of understanding the question fully and avoiding rushing through the answers is emphasized.
  • Practical application of these strategies is demonstrated through analysis of answer choices for a sample question.
Chapters
00:00
Understanding CARS Question Complexity
01:44
Identifying Common Traps
05:41
Strategies to Avoid Traps
06:05
Applying What We've Learned