CARS Reading Skills Workshop with Jack Westin: Chronic Illness I Jack Westin CARS Podcast

Can you keep your outside knowledge from hijacking a CARS passage, especially when the topic screams “medicine”?

Join Molly and Jack as they dissect an AAMC-style CARS passage on "Chronic Illness" and show you how to spot the author’s real agenda—single-parent burden—while sidestepping your own medical instincts.

Read the passage here: https://jackwestin.com/daily/mcat-practice-passages/cars-practice-passages/chronic-illness

What you’ll practice

Leaving your biases at the door when a passage hits close to home

Pinpointing the true main idea vs. the “too-broad” trap

Mapping paragraphs in real time so detail questions become freebies

Handling long, jargon-stuffed sentences without panic

Using “we” and other author clues to detect viewpoint & agreement

Timestamps

0:00 Intro & why this passage matters

1:55 First-sentence trap: broad thesis or setup?

8:05 Money, marriage & single parents—following the thread

14:30 How the meeting paragraph hides the key finding

22:00 Child illness ↔ parent function loop—what it really means

28:40 Siblings surface: spotting narrow supporting arguments

37:15 Main-idea wrap-up & how to crush “quote” questions

42:30 Your turn: grab the free passage + questions

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