MCAT Blog: AAMC B/B: How to analyze a B/B passage like its a CARS passage

MCAT Blog: Tips for B/B Passages
1) Build your pathway. Build a story about activation, inhibition, induction, suppression, et cetera.
2) Recognize your dependent and independent variables. What is changing, and what is being changed? What is dependent on what?
3) Identify your cell lines of interest, controls, and WT cell lines
4) Recognize what is being changed in the non control cell lines, as well as what results in ends up producing
5) When answering the questions, make sure your experimental analysis/graph analysis is correct and the interpretation is not off.
6) When a question comes about about the BEST statement or conclusion from the experiment, always rule out two wrong conclusions. Afterwards, chose the answer that is EXPLICITLY mentioned either in the graph or passage
7) Same thing for WORST or LEAST LIKELY statement or conclusion: except you are now ruling out answers that are obviously supported by the passage
8) Content needs to be on point. Your content questions (amino acids, cell cycle, GPCR, lab techniques, physiology, hormones, enzymes, something else) are easy marks as long as you know content.
9) Time your passages to 10-12 minutes. Save the time on discretes. Spend time reading the passages if you struggle with reading quickly, and take 3-4 minutes on the questions. Reverse this rule if you struggle with questions instead.



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