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Advanced Topics

Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills

Sharpening Your Analytical Edge

This section tests your ability to read, analyze, and reason through complex passages, mirroring the skills needed in medical decision-making. You'll encounter topics from the humanities and social sciences, and must extract meaning, evaluate arguments, and apply logic.

What to Expect

  • Reading comprehension without prior subject knowledge
  • Identifying main ideas, tone, and bias
  • Evaluating evidence and drawing conclusions

Key Strategies

  • Annotate as you read to highlight arguments and evidence.
  • Practice summarizing paragraphs in your own words.

Challenge Yourself

Try reading editorials or essays and debating their strengths and weaknesses with friends.

Examples

  • Dissecting an argument about healthcare policy.

  • Identifying assumptions in passages about ethics.

In a Nutshell

Develops skills to interpret and critique complex information.

Key Terms

Inference
A logical conclusion drawn from available information.
Bias
A tendency to favor a particular perspective, often unconsciously.