The MCAT CARS Podcast
The CARS section of the MCAT gives thousands of premeds nightmares every night. Whether you're an ESL student, lack confidence while reading, or are a slow reader like me, Jack Westin and the Medical School Headquarters are here to help you score higher in every section so that you can be confident you are ready to get the MCAT score of your dreams.Podcasts
121: Understanding Passage Structures and Interpreting Tone
Published: March 31, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 39 seconds
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120: Exploring Hypnosis in Comparison to Psych Experiments
Published: March 24, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds
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119: How to Discern Facts, Assumptions, and Opinions in CARS
Published: March 17, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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118: Practicing Empathy With MCAT CARS Passages
Published: March 10, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 15 seconds
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117: How to Critically Think When Reading Deep Passages
Published: March 3, 2021, 6:04 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 28 seconds
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116: Taking MCAT CARS to Outer Space and Beyond
Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
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115: Experiments and Observations: Media Multitasking
Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 32 seconds
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114: Social Media Polarization, Influencers, and Echo Chambers
Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 4 seconds
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113: What's Up with App Users, Data Abuse, and Exploitation?
Published: Feb. 3, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds
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112: How to Deal With an Author's Questions Within a Passage
Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 1 second
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111: Voting Prediction: Finding Trends in an MCAT CARS Passage
Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds
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110: Is Charity Crowdfunding Just A Game of "Would You Rather?"
Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 10 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 6 seconds
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109: Where to Find the Main Idea in an MCAT CARS Passage
Published: Jan. 7, 2021, 3:32 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds
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108: How to Find Clues in the Details of an MCAT CARS Passage
Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds
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107: How to Approach "Easy" MCAT CARS Passages
Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
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106: Does the AAMC Ask Polarizing Questions on the MCAT?
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
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105: How Does Individual Adaption Contribute to Evolution?
Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds
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104: Does Training Your Brain Help You in the Real World?
Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 18 seconds
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103: A Philosophical Passage About Memes and CAPTCHAs
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 36 seconds
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102: Understanding an Article about Surveillance in Nature
Published: Nov. 11, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 55 seconds
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101: How to Handle Words You Don't Know in a CARS Passage
Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 9 seconds
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100: The Importance of Contrast Words Like "However" in MCAT CARS
Published: Oct. 28, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds
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99: A Passage about Ideologic Bias
Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
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98: What To Do When You Get Lost in a CARS Passage?
Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 44 seconds
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97: A Passage About Ellen DeGeneres and Being a Nice Person
Published: Oct. 7, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 28 seconds
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96: Picking Up Topics in the Passage You Do Not Know Much About
Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds
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95: Beginner Level CARS Passage to Understanding Tone
Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 18 seconds
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94: Breaking Down an Article about Robots Taking Over
Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 59 seconds
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93: A CARS Passage about Clueless. Hopefully you won't be.
Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds
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92: CARS Passage Breakdown: Glass vs. Porcelain
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 4:09 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 27 seconds
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91: MCAT CARS Investigates Violence in Movies
Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 26 seconds
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90: MCAT CARS Asks: Who's Really Leading the Conversation?
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 2 seconds
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89: MCAT CARS Asks: Accurate Portrayal or Cinematic Betrayal?
Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 23 seconds
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88: MCAT CARS: What Constitutes Identity?
Published: July 29, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 43 seconds
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87: MCAT CARS Asks: A Beautiful Synchrony or Lovely Loners?
Published: July 22, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
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86: MCAT CARS Asks: Fintechs: Friends or Foes?
Published: July 15, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds
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85: MCAT CARS Asks: What's Driving U-Haul's Tobacco Policy?
Published: July 8, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds
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84: MCAT CARS: Taking Control of the Natural World
Published: June 17, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 44 seconds
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83: MCAT CARS: Penetrating Radios and Podcast Passivity
Published: June 10, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 30 seconds
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82: MCAT CARS: Celestial Bodies and Mundane Afflictions
Published: June 3, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds
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81: MCAT CARS Asks: Can Computers Learn Common Sense?
Published: May 27, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds
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80: MCAT CARS: An Affectionate Nostalgia for Vines of Old
Published: May 20, 2020, 4:48 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 32 seconds
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79: MCAT CARS: Chalking to Raise Awareness of Urban Flora
Published: May 13, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 9 seconds
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78: The New MCAT Format: What Does It Mean for Premeds Now?
Published: April 29, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 37 seconds
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77: MCAT CARS Asks: Does Power Illuminate Your Character?
Published: April 22, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
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76: MCAT CARS: Finding Folklore In Scary Stories
Published: April 15, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds
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75: MCAT CARS Asks: Can Statistics Be Used to Predict Behavior?
Published: April 8, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds
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74: MCAT CARS Asks: Are Human and Animal Emotions Similar?
Published: April 1, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 59 seconds
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73: MCAT CARS Investigates the Cultural History of First Words
Published: March 25, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 57 seconds
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72: MCAT CARS Asks: Is Nutrition Science Broken?
Published: March 18, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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71: MCAT CARS: Power, Suspicion and Mystery in Mirrors
Published: March 11, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 56 seconds
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70: MCAT CARS: Would Working Less Reduce our Carbon Footprint?
Published: March 4, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 14 seconds
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69: MCAT CARS: Confronting an Infection of Desires
Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 26 seconds
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68: MCAT CARS: Shape-Shifting Across Time
Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 17 seconds
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67: MCAT CARS Unmasks the Comedy in Slaughterhouse-Five
Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 55 seconds
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66: How to Answer Vague Questions on the MCAT
Published: Jan. 22, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 27 seconds
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65: MCAT CARS Asks: Are Inequality and Education Related?
Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds
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64: MCAT CARS Dives Into the Legacy of Orwell's 1984
Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 50 seconds
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63: How to Tell Apart Opinion from Fact with MCAT CARS
Published: Jan. 1, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds
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62: MCAT CARS Compares Facts, Knowledge, and Beliefs
Published: Dec. 25, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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61: MCAT CARS Investigates How We Recall Information
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
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60: MCAT CARS Learns How Keanu Reeves Stays Mysterious
Published: Dec. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 49 seconds
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59: Heres Why You Should Never Skim a CARS Passage
Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 27 seconds
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58: Is 10,000 Steps The ticket to Good Health? MCAT CARS
Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 1 second
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57: MCAT CARS Asks: Is Online Retail Creating Overabundance?
Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds
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CARS 57: MCAT CARS Asks: Is Online Retail Creating Overabundance?
Published: Nov. 20, 2019, noonDuration: 17 minutes 4 seconds
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56: Reproducing the Past in Pop Culture With MCAT CARS
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds
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55: MCAT CARS: International Relations and Game of Thrones
Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 35 seconds
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54: Testing Our Capacity for Empathy with MCAT CARS
Published: Oct. 30, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 16 seconds
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53: MCAT CARS: Are Esports a Bubble, or Big Business?
Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 26 seconds
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52: MCAT CARS: What Shapes the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders?
Published: Oct. 16, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 17 seconds
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51: The Subtleties of Paid Parental Leave With MCAT CARS
Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 51 seconds
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50: MCAT CARS: Is There Value in Sequels and Spinoffs?
Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds
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49: Tracing the Genealogy of Words with MCAT CARS
Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds
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48: MCAT CARS and the Economics of Paid Paternity Leave
Published: Sept. 18, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 31 seconds
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47: MCAT CARS Asks: How Do Humans Perceive Giant Numbers?
Published: Sept. 11, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds
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46: Civil War History and Reconstruction with MCAT CARS
Published: Sept. 4, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds
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45: Self-Appointed Messiahs, Capitalism, and MCAT CARS!
Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 31 seconds
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44: MCAT CARS Ponders the History of the Meatpacking Industry
Published: Aug. 21, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 51 seconds
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43: MCAT CARS Asks: Can Moving Make a Person Healthier?
Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds
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42: How Capitalism Has Changed How We Work, with MCAT CARS!
Published: Aug. 7, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds
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41: MCAT CARS Examines The Preoccupations of Protagonists
Published: July 31, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 19 seconds
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40: MCAT CARS Looks Into Open Office Spaces and Productivity
Published: July 24, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 8 seconds
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39: The Expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, a CARS reading!
Published: July 17, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 36 minutes 53 seconds
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38: MCAT CARS asks: Can Modernization Stave Off Disaster?
Published: July 10, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 10 seconds
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37: Celebs Attacking the Media PassageImprove Your MCAT Score
Published: July 3, 2019, 10:46 p.m.Duration: 43 minutes 2 seconds
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36: Why is Gotham Everywhere? Using Our MCAT CARS Skills
Published: June 26, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 28 seconds
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35: MCAT CARS SkillsOur Comprehension of the Universe
Published: June 19, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 37 seconds
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34: Analyzing the Need for Fake Meat Using Our MCAT CARS Skills
Published: June 12, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 29 seconds
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33: Critically Thinking Through a Passage About Obesity
Published: June 5, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 14 seconds
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32: Are Parents a Problem in the Cafeteria? Using CARS Skills!
Published: May 29, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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31: The Greatest Record Ever? Using Our MCAT CARS Skills!
Published: May 22, 2019, 6:30 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 51 seconds
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30: Studying a Passage About the Importance of Old English Books
Published: May 15, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds
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29: We Use Our MCAT CARS Skills to Analyze Storytelling
Published: May 8, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 43 seconds
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28: MCAT CARS SkillsThe Problem With Perfectionism
Published: May 1, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 10 seconds
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27: Using Our MCAT CARS Skills to Analyze the Homework Gap
Published: April 24, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds
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26: MCAT CARS SkillsThe Impact TB had on Architecture
Published: April 17, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 7 seconds
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25: Analyzing a Passage That Uses Monsters as a Metaphor
Published: April 10, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds
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24: MCAT CARS SkillsThe Impact of Constant Interruptions
Published: April 3, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 1 second
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23: Do Charming People Still Exist? Using our MCAT Skills
Published: March 27, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 35 seconds
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22: Using Our MCAT Skills to Examine a Passage About Bananas
Published: March 20, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 57 seconds
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21: MCAT CARSAnalyzing A Vocab Heavy Passage About Democracy
Published: March 13, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 4 seconds
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20: Is Geoengineering Unavoidable? Using Our CARS Skills!
Published: March 6, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
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19: MCAT CARS SkillsMachine Learning in the Finance Sector
Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 5 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 55 seconds
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18: Analyzing A Passage About Transportation Using CARS Skills
Published: Feb. 20, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 55 seconds
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17: MCAT CARS SkillsA Passage About Evolution and Technology
Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds
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16: We Use Our MCAT CARS Skills to Analyze The Way We Eat
Published: Feb. 6, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 59 seconds
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15: Finding The Link Between DNA and Privacy Using CARS Skills
Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds
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14: MCAT CARS SkillsThe Engines of Infatuation
Published: Jan. 23, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 9 seconds
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13: Using Our MCAT CARS Skills to Learn About Hallucinating
Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 46 seconds
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12: AAMC MCAT Passage and Questions Review Breakdown
Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 16 seconds
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11: MCAT CARS and What's Happening to Scientific Research
Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 3 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes
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10: We Use Our MCAT CARS Skills to Read About an Author
Published: Dec. 26, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 39 seconds
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9: Do Longer Books Equal Better Books? Using Our MCAT Skills
Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 54 seconds
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8: CARS Skills to Learn if All Famous People Have Footnotes
Published: Dec. 12, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 34 minutes 22 seconds
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7: How Can Beyonce Help Our MCAT CARS Reading Skills?
Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes
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6: Using Our CARS Skills for a Passage About the Printed Word
Published: Nov. 28, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 25 seconds
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5: MCAT CARS SkillsA Passage About Horror and Culture
Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 43 seconds
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4: Critically Thinking Through a Dry Passage about a Book
Published: Nov. 14, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 10 seconds
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3: MCAT CARS SkillsQuantum Computers in a Hot Tub
Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds
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2: MCAT CARS Passage SkillsTimes Article Breakdown
Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 2 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds
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1: Welcome to the MCAT CARS Podcast with Jack Westin
Published: Oct. 23, 2018, 9:06 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 23 seconds
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