CARS — Critical Analysis & Reasoning
Passages from humanities and social sciences requiring argument tracking and inference.
What you need to know
1CARS is the section with the LOWEST correlation to undergraduate GPA
2Annotate paragraph function, not content: 'claim', 'evidence', 'counterpoint', 'response'
3Inference answers must follow NECESSARILY from the text — not plausibly or probably
4Strengthen/weaken questions require identifying the argument's unstated assumption first
About the MCAT
- Full name
- Medical College Admission Test
- Passing score
- Scored 472–528; the score you need varies by medical school
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