MCAT CARS Strategy Workshop: Standardized Tests Passage Breakdown (New Year’s Eve Edition 🎉)

Start the new year by finally making peace with MCAT CARS. In this CARS Reading Skills Workshop episode of the Jack Westin MCAT Podcast, we walk through a full Jack Westin Daily CARS passage called “Standardized Tests” (posted on December 31) and show you exactly how to think while you read.

We treat this like a live CARS tutoring session: reading sentence by sentence, talking through confusion, and mapping the author’s argument so main idea questions feel way less mysterious.

In this MCAT CARS episode, you’ll learn how to:

🧠 Understand what the author actually believes about standardized tests

🧩 Separate background / history (Thorndike, criterion-referenced tests, etc.) from the real argument

🎯 Spot the author’s subtle skepticism about “objective” testing and statistics

🧾 Use validity and reliability the way this passage defines them (not your psych/soc memory)

🧭 Track when the passage shifts from standardized tests to criterion-referenced tests and why that matters

⚖️ Recognize when an author is questioning “objectivity” and hinting at subjectivity and judgment

Read the passage here first: https://jackwestin.com/daily/mcat-practice-passages/cars-practice-passages/standardized-tests

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