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I feel lite mode is only good when you're on vacation or maybe have class exams coming up so it's a temporary way to lessen the review questions. Eventually with enough banked, people are getting 200+ questions a day and it starts becoming a time sink so that's my take on it. If you have the time and your step 1 exam is 6 or more months away then I say use comprehensive, that way you're hammering the HY and little details.
I feel lite mode is only good when you're on vacation or maybe have class exams coming up so it's a temporary way to lessen the review questions.
Vacation? Wow, it's called GUNNER training, not slacker training...real gunners don't take vacations, except to go to the library to read Robbins and look for mistakes.
You could go through them and mark the ones you know as 5 or perfect so you can spend time on the ones you don't know. If you mark them all 3-4 it's going to be annoying when they all come up again on the same day.I'm about 3 months outside my exam with approximately 70% banked. I'm considering going through the rest of the subjects and marking them 3-4 rapidly as opposed to studying the cards. What are peoples thoughts on this? I only have anatomy, embryo, biochem, and behavioral left. It would help get on to qbank questions.
Ugg, the thing I hate most about GT is the lack of a pause button. We just had a pharm exam yesterday (at our school pharm is short answer, not multiple choice), so I definitely haven't had time for GT for a few days. Now I have hundreds of questions piled up. Oh well, guess that's what I'll be doing today.
I'm about 3 months outside my exam with approximately 70% banked. I'm considering going through the rest of the subjects and marking them 3-4 rapidly as opposed to studying the cards. What are peoples thoughts on this? I only have anatomy, embryo, biochem, and behavioral left. It would help get on to qbank questions.
I'm not getting one of the GT questions and would love some clarification if anyone can provide it. The question is on calculating pulmonary vascular resistance. An image of the question and answer is attached. My main issue is where in the world the 80 comes from. Thank you much!
Side question - Has anyone come across the cardio phys quiz questions that reference "the above patient" without giving any information about any patient?
Do not use GUNNER. Use Kaplan, UW or USMLE RX. Those banks have been tried and remain a good bank from what I hear. I just checked out the GUNNER Q bank. It seems decent but I won't risk it. For anatomy, I would reccomend lippincott Q and A anatomy and embryo. The questions are detailed but it drives home the point.So I ended up reseting/ignoring the "anatomy" section of GT. Seemed too low yield and wasn't "sticking" for me after repeated views in the way other subsections have.
Anyone else do this? Or, am I not being a true gunner? Conversely, did anyone find that continuing to hammer GT GA resulted in ultimately learning it/found that info useful?
(I'm also quite tempted to do this for embryology, though GA seemed to me the most important one to ignore on GT.)
I'd love to hear another opinion on this.
Do not use GUNNER. Use Kaplan, UW or USMLE RX. Those banks have been tried and remain a good bank from what I hear. I just checked out the GUNNER Q bank. It seems decent but I won't risk it. For anatomy, I would reccomend lippincott Q and A anatomy and embryo. The questions are detailed but it drives home the point.
Do not use GUNNER. Use Kaplan, UW or USMLE RX. Those banks have been tried and remain a good bank from what I hear. I just checked out the GUNNER Q bank. It seems decent but I won't risk it. For anatomy, I would reccomend lippincott Q and A anatomy and embryo. The questions are detailed but it drives home the point.
So I ended up reseting/ignoring the "anatomy" section of GT. Seemed too low yield and wasn't "sticking" for me after repeated views in the way other subsections have.
Anyone else do this? Or, am I not being a true gunner? Conversely, did anyone find that continuing to hammer GT GA resulted in ultimately learning it/found that info useful?
(I'm also quite tempted to do this for embryology, though GA seemed to me the most important one to ignore on GT.)
I'd love to hear another opinion on this.
There is a feature that let's you spread them out over next 7 or 14 days. At least that way it isn't as intimidating as having like 800-900 questions staring you in the face and you can tackle them a little at a time.
Where is this feature located? Definitely would love to use this every once in a while.
It's right under the calender. Click "clear today's review" and it will give you further options on how long of a period to spread the questions out over.
Is anyone annotating Gunner into FA? Or is everyone just using Gunner's system to annotate straight into their brains without wasting time writing so much haha?
I just did the card for Physio Cardiac Cycle and it had 20 questions and about 16 of them were not located in my physio section of FA.
I didn't end up annotating too much because I felt like the process of reading kaplan, highlighing kaplan, reading GT, doing GT questions, annotating GT into FA and then going onto Kap Qbank for each section will start to become very time consuming (although I don't mind spending the time if it seems like the best way to do this).
Is anyone annotating Gunner into FA? Or is everyone just using Gunner's system to annotate straight into their brains without wasting time writing so much haha?
Just a word on the anatomy section... I completed 33% of anatomy and I would say that the material is at the same depth as my school's anatomy materials. It's not as bad or "detailed" as some may have mentioned and there weren't really any new materials to learn. More of a refresher for me.
My $0.02.
Is anyone annotating Gunner into FA? Or is everyone just using Gunner's system to annotate straight into their brains without wasting time writing so much haha?
I just did the card for Physio Cardiac Cycle and it had 20 questions and about 16 of them were not located in my physio section of FA.
I didn't end up annotating too much because I felt like the process of reading kaplan, highlighing kaplan, reading GT, doing GT questions, annotating GT into FA and then going onto Kap Qbank for each section will start to become very time consuming (although I don't mind spending the time if it seems like the best way to do this).
Sweet.Just checked their facebook page and they have 4 weeks free for all members with the coupon code. So you can add it to your existing account.
Coupon ends March 1st at midnight!
Just checked their facebook page and they have 4 weeks free for all members with the coupon code. So you can add it to your existing account.
Coupon ends March 1st at midnight!
I don't see the code either..
Just checked their facebook page and they have 4 weeks free for all members with the coupon code. So you can add it to your existing account.
Coupon ends March 1st at midnight!
What do I search to find their fb page? I tried "gunner training" but nothing came up.
Also thanks for the heads up on the code, it worked like a charm
I wonder if users could talk about how quickly they add cards, understanding that some cards have 20 Q's on them and others only 3, how many cards on average would you say you can add each day or week? How many cards on average do you do in an hour?
Just curious as I'm beginning to amp up a bit, I'm only around 15% banked.
I wonder if users could talk about how quickly they add cards, understanding that some cards have 20 Q's on them and others only 3, how many cards on average would you say you can add each day or week? How many cards on average do you do in an hour?
Just curious as I'm beginning to amp up a bit, I'm only around 15% banked.
some cards are ridiculous and should probably be broken up a bit lol. I'm looking at you, pharyngeal arch/groove/pouch cards...
Celiac Sprue question:
GT says- Celiac sprue is duodenum
Pathoma says - Celiac sprue is jejunum
Which is right?
You reversed who said what and Pathoma took a more conservative approach: GT says damage to the jejunum but Pathoma says it's mostly duodenum but other 2 parts of intestines may be involved. FA says jejunum is mostly affected but Robbins says second portion of duodenum on and proximal jejunum are exposed to the most dietary gluten