One February morning in my junior year, sitting under the harsh lights of the reference room in my college library, I decided to open ExamKrackers’ 101 Passages in MCAT. While I bemoaned the fact that this moment heralded the beginning of the dreadful MCAT study period, I was secretly confident that CARS would be a feel-good start to my MCAT studying. After all, having read thousands of pages of the “great authors” and also having churned out page after page of essays, sometimes analyzing a single word, I thought that reading a few passages and answering some comprehension questions were what I have been training for during the entirety of my undergraduate years. So, I forged ahead, ready to crush the first batch of passages.

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