hey SDS
i thinkt the deal with the verbal passages is practice. i'm sorry if that sounds just like old fashioned advice. but i mean, once you've done enuf of them (i did 100's right before the mcat, like 2 weeks before) you kinda "see" what the question is really intending. the prob is the answers are really close together...and the way the question is phrased, it doesnt lead you anywhere.
i dont know if that helps...but watever the case, good luck!