ACE and SEE books Written board review?

[kotomi21]

Are the SEE (Self-Education and Evaluation Program) booklets review helpful for the written board? I wanted to do as many board like question exams as I can.

Thank you for your help

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[Gern Blansten]

ACE-absolutely
SEE-absolutely not

 

[kotomi21]

thank you much

 

[somedumbDO]

Are the SEE (Self-Education and Evaluation Program) booklets review helpful for the written board? I wanted to do as many board like question exams as I can.

Thank you for your help

honestly ace didnt help much, you may hate to hear it but big blue memorize it you will do really well

 

[Trisomy13]

honestly ace didnt help much, you may hate to hear it but big blue memorize it you will do really well

My experience was the exact opposite. Thought Big Blue was a big waste of time.

SEE is more focused on current literature review and not nearly as high-yield as ACE.

 

[mep9030]

I used Hall and McGraw-Hill review books which are very detailed. McGraw Hill is not the same type of question you will see on the exam but has a lot of questions testing basic and complex facts. The ACE questions are very helpful but IMO are slightly easier than what you should expect on the real exam. I also used Big Blue which I found helpful when you don't have time to read an entire textbook - it's in an outline format, with all the fat trimmed out and the facts that you need to know are in there.

Hope this is helpful.

I took my boards this past August and I'm selling all my books - if you're interested, PM me.

 

[epidural man]

Are the SEE (Self-Education and Evaluation Program) booklets review helpful for the written board? I wanted to do as many board like question exams as I can.

Thank you for your help

ACE for me was SOOOO helpful. You should know that a lot of the ACE question writers also have written the board exam questions. In fact, I thought there were 3 or 4 questions that were the same. They have really great explanations to the questions.

Although my buddy didn't find them as helpful as I did - which I really found hard to believe, but whatever, people learn differently. If you can get a copy of each exam (I think they started in 2005), that is A LOT of practice questions.

SEE is crazy hard and contains esoteric material that won't help you.