The PhotoReading Whole Mind System approaches critical thinking skills very directly when you get into Syntopic Reading. Educators often refer to critical thinking skills as creative-divergent or higher-order thinking.
I was asked to teach "how to integrate higher order thinking in the classroom" to a group of mentor teachers through an AT&T grant at the University of North Florida at Jacksonville. In that course I gave them what you will find in Chapter 8 my Natural Brilliance book under the heading of "Put Natural Brilliance to Work for You."
The model of creative-divergent thinking I reference by Frank Williams is exceedingly powerful and nicely captured in the simple procedure of Syntopic Reading. However, it is rare for anyone to think studying for an MCAT by reading syntopically. A counter-intuitive move like that would almost certainly have to be the product of someone who was ALREADY thinking in a creative-divergent way.
So unless the person studying had read the chapter on Syntopic Reading and actually practiced it, his conclusion would tend to blame the system on lacking such critical thinking opportunities.
