1 week to go: desperate advice needed for the home stretch!

[ej37]

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Okay, so I have exactly 1 week left to go. I have been using the "final 2 weeks" of the Taus plan, but I find myself falling behind on it.

So far, I still have left to do: another pass of FA/Goljan RR
About 10% of UWorld
UWSA 2
Free 150 from 2011,2010,2009
NBME 11, 12, or both?

Clearly, I am not going to be able to do everything here. Can you help me prioritize?

Obviously I want to get through Uworld, I was hoping to get through it 2x but obviously that is not going to happen. I was thinking a compromise would be just doing the path/phys/pathophys questions again as these seem to be the most high yield anyway.

Are NBME 11/12 mandatory? I know a lot of the reason people recommended 6/7 was because they got some repeats... i did both 6 and 7 and was planning on looking them over once again also.

Thanks for everything this forum rocks. And good luck to everyone else taking the exam this month.

 

[ar2388]

i would not necessarily do a 2nd pass of RR except the blue margin notes.
finish UWorld
i dont know if all 3 of the free 150's is necessary. maybe someone else can comment on that? i was planning on only doing the 2011 ones....
maybe one more NBME if you wanna see where you stand now.

 

[hyrule]

I don't know if you should necessarily go over all of FA just to cram it in, ya know? A lot of FA, you probably know by now. Plus it takes a while to get through. Best bet would be to probably go over tables/figures/your weak sections of FA thoroughly... if you're going over FA just to go over FA, it might not be high yield.

For example, certain things I am going to go over again and again in FA that have been giving me difficulty (I have a little over a week also): poryphrin diseases, psych drug side fx, neuro drugs side fx, brain tumors, PATH section of FA(environmental agents, cancer genes), congenital adrenal hyperplasias. I realized in UW, pretty much all the Qs I'm getting wrong are ones that 25-40% get right. So it's all little details.

 

[SB100]

I would take another NBME or take a look at your most recent NBME and focus primarily on your weakest subjects. Cram equations, CD markers, and other stuff that can be memorized during the last two days. Good luck!