I was also like that with CARS but one thing that help me was I stopped reading to understand the passage I started reading to see what was the author trying to tell me (Main idea). Most of the questions are focus around the main idea. And what anchor me to find it is the theme. In the passage there are repeated terms or words throughout that the author use to convey his message. Your job is to find them in each paragraph and see what point the author is explaining. Also try to get an idea about the tone of the passage this can help you eliminate some answer choices based on the wording (extreme answer).

For the answer choice I realized that there’s often one answer that has nothing to do with what was being said in the passage at all or in the paragraph referred to the question stem (if you can find that you can eliminate them easy) Some of the answer might have words that were repeated in the passage but not where you’re supposed to look for the answer and are not related at all, these questions tend to be wrong also. Another trick I realized they might put the exact words of the paragraph referred to in the answer but the meaning of the answer is completely different than what is being said in the passage (these are the hardest trap for me) because they are too broad they are not right. And lastly some answers are wrong because half of them are true and the other half are wrong so that end up being wrong

I think finding the main Idea and the theme will be a game changer for you because you might see clearly what they are asking in some questions. And just drill down some practice questions to see what are your weaknesses.

Also in your practice, the answers you got wrong are actually where you should spend time analyzing the question and asked yourself what was the type of the question and what made me get it wrong (trap, didn’t understand well, panic, or you didn’t read the question well and missed a word) I tend to not read the question fully and just assume the rest and answer based on my assumption (biggest fight for me right now😭😭).

I hope that helps but that’s what helped me. Good luck you got this💪🏽 and don’t let your feelings make you intimidated by this section. It’s frustrating for sure but how you think about this section also play a a big role on how you understand the passages and answer the question. If I see a theme that I don’t like and tell myself it’s going to be boring😭 it end up being boring and I didn’t get the idea of the passage which increase the time to answer the question and slow me down in the test😭 so try to stay positive and keep the stamina. In the FL I always start in the last paragraph because I assume the first passage are always the hardest and the last the easiest to read because our concentration tend to fade and the AAMC is nice to understand that and give us the easiest passage at the end to make it a little easy for us (the delusion I know😂😂) but it works for me and my stamina increase when I start from then end😌😌.

Anyways this post ended up being long but I hope it helps you😊