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15 hours of expert-led LiveOnline classes
Experienced CARS instructors who specialize in MCAT reasoning
20 in-class reading exercises that sharpen the exact skills the AAMC tests
CARS Skill Builder Reader
CARS Skill Builder Class Manual
22 challenging CARS passages with 77 questions to apply what you've learned
Focused reading assignments aligned with CARS-style content
4 homework sets:
- 8 curated readings to stretch your reasoning muscles
- 4 readings with full expert annotations
- 4 readings with personalized teacher feedback
Our Formula for CARS Success
- Introduction/Goals of the Course/Materials/Homework
- What is Active Reading? Why and How
- The Moving Parts of a Text
- Exercise: Moving Parts
- Engage With the Text
- Exercise: Engaging With the Text
- Reading for Logical Structure
- Exercise: Reading for Logical Structure
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- Practice Passage
- Vocabulary Log
- What is an Argument?: Claims and Evidence, Identifying Claims (markers/words), Identifying Evidence (markers/words)
- Annotation
- Exercise: Construct Your Own Argument
- Paraphrasing as a Tool: When and Why
- Exercise: Identifying and Paraphrasing Claims
- Exercise: Synthesizing the Author's Argument
- Exercise: Identifying and Assessing Evidence
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- How Does Identifying Claims and Evidence Help You Answer MCAT CARS Questions?
- Practice Passages
- Why Do Authors Write?: Passage Purposes
- Exercise: Defining the Author's Intent
- Reading for Author's Tone: Tone Indicators, Strength of Tone
- Exercise: Strength of Tone
- Defining the Author's Point of View: Adding up Tone and Purpose, Author's Point of View, Active Reading – Synthesizing and Predicting
- Exercise: Defining the Author's Point of View
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- How Does Identifying Purpose, Tone, and Point of View Help You Answer MCAT CARS questions?
- Practice Passages
- What Makes a Passage Difficult to Understand?
- What Strategies Can You Use to Manage It?
- Exercise: Managing Dense Detail
- Exercise: Managing Multiple Points of View
- Exercise: Managing Abstract Arguments
- Exercise: Putting it All Together
- Practice passages
- Moving Forward: Your CARS Study Plan
- Suggested Supplemental Reading List
- Active Reading Review
- Exercise: Identifying the Primary Focus
- Exercise: Dealing With Abstraction
- Exercise: Dealing With Multiple Points of View
- Exercise: Think Like a Test Writer
- Practice Passages
Meet Your MCAT CARS Experts
Our CARS instructors don’t just explain passages—they teach you how to think like the test writers.
Experts in
Critical
Reasoning
Our instructors are trained
to spot the logic, structure,
and argument patterns that
show up on the MCAT.
Clear, Strategy-
Based Teaching
Our experts break down
each passage with step-by
-step analysis so you
understand why the right
answer is right (and why
the wrong ones are so
tempting).
Personalized
Feedback
Your instructor doesn't just
teach — they read your
work, give feedback, and
help you course-correct in
real time.
MCAT
Veterans
Our teachers have coached
thousands of students
through CARS prep.
Elia Zashin
Elia's been teaching for The Princeton Review since 2001 in a manner that reduces student anxiety while inspiring confidence and excellent test-day performance. He was the LiveOnline Tutor of the Month in June 2017 due to his professionalism, student feedback, and desire to go above and beyond for his students. He attended Cornell University, where he graduated with a B.A. in English in 1997 and earned his M.A. in English at UT Austin.
Elia Zashin
Meet Elia
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