Read the passage. Then the question.
Four timed sections, one long day, and no pass mark — only the score you are aiming for. The passage on the right is a real CARS passage from the course; tap a sentence to highlight it, the way the exam lets you.
The Discipline of Attention
The commonest defense of art appeals to feeling: a painting matters, we are told, because it moves us, and a symphony earns its place in the concert hall by the swell of emotion it reliably produces. I want to resist this account, not because emotion is irrelevant to art but because the appeal to feeling, taken as a measure of value, proves far too much and explains far too little. It proves too much because a great many things move us that we would never dignify as art—a lurid headline, a sentimental greeting card, the manipulations of an advertisement—and if being moved were the criterion, the card and the canvas would stand on equal footing. It explains too little because it cannot distinguish the tears wrung from us by a cheap melodrama from the far stranger response a demanding work exacts, which is less a feeling we receive than a labor we perform.
The whole passage and its questions are in CARS Passage Set 1.
Tap a sentence to highlight it; tap again to clear it.
Which of the following best captures the central claim of the passage?
B is the thesis: the author relocates value from feeling to the disciplined, renewable attention a work demands. A states the formalism the author explicitly rejects as a failed theory. C is the sentimentalism the author opposes. D misreads the headline/advertisement example, which is used to criticize the feeling-criterion, not to equate art with advertising.
Real item · cars-hum-01-q1 · cars1 · CARS
Sit it the way the day runs. Read it against your target.
A full-length here is four sections on their own clocks, with the real optional breaks between them, then a score report on an approximate practice scale. There is no pass mark on the MCAT, so every line is your target — 512 until you set your own.
Example numbers. Your report is computed from your own sitting on SynkMind’s approximate practice scale — never an official AAMC score. The default target is the mean of students who entered U.S. MD programs in 2025–26 (512.1, AAMC).
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Four full-lengths of 230
Each sat as four timed sections with the real breaks, then a score report against your target. Between them: section forms at three difficulties, two CARS passage sets and three science-passage sets.
Every wrong answer gets its reason
Each explanation says why the right answer is right and why each wrong one fails. From a Bio/Biochem item: “The Na+/K+ pump needs ATP and stops without it.”
A cell's primary active transport pumps are shut down by a metabolic poison that blocks ATP production. Which process will continue largely unaffected in the short term?
Simple diffusion needs no ATP, so oxygen keeps crossing down its gradient even when ATP is gone. The Na+/K+ pump, uphill proton secretion, and all directly ATP-dependent transport stop without ATP.
Real item · bb.cell_membrane-050 · bbonlevel1
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Is the score an MCAT score?
No. It is an approximate practice scale — 118–132 a section, 472–528 in total — so you can watch yourself move. It is never an official AAMC score, and the page says so wherever it shows one.
Why is there no pass line?
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Are the science sections passage-based?
On the real exam about three in four science questions sit under a passage. Our full-lengths’ science sections are discrete questions; the passage-based science practice is in the three Science Passage sets (30 experiment-and-data passages). CARS is passages throughout.
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