Advice for final 5 weeks please!

[Nabin]

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I did an NBME 12 today. Got a 3 digit score of 226. Got 220 in NBME 5.

Current standing :
Did uworld once. Did Goljan twice. Quite confident about my patho.
Things I made mistakes in NBME were also due to facts I haven't learnt by heart some portions. I have left to memorize micro, pharma and psychiatry. Some questions seemed really weird.

How am I doing? I want 250+. All I am planning to do is spending the rest of the time memorizing and freshening up important concepts and images.
Is FA and uworld and more nbme practice enough to get my target? EXAM IN FIVE WEEKS.

 

[Nabin]

Hello guys? anyone?

 

[cs24]

I did an NBME 12 today. Got a 3 digit score of 226. Got 220 in NBME 5.

Current standing :
Did uworld once. Did Goljan twice. Quite confident about my patho.
Things I made mistakes in NBME were also due to facts I haven't learnt by heart some portions. I have left to memorize micro, pharma and psychiatry. Some questions seemed really weird.

How am I doing? I want 250+. All I am planning to do is spending the rest of the time memorizing and freshening up important concepts and images.
Is FA and uworld and more nbme practice enough to get my target? EXAM IN FIVE WEEKS.

Look through the scores and experiences thread for what other people have done. 5 weeks is a long time, you should be able to get your score way up in that time. UFAP is enough. If you are weak on micro, sketchy will really help that area. Otherwise, it sounds like you need a lot more quality time with first aid. When you say "goljan" do you mean audio or something else. I would still go through pathoma even if you are confident about your pathology. Easy to add those videos on to the relevant section of first aid, and if you are scoring in the 220s on practice NBMEs I would still question your mastery of pathology, which is huge for the test.

 

[Nabin]

Look through the scores and experiences thread for what other people have done. 5 weeks is a long time, you should be able to get your score way up in that time. UFAP is enough. If you are weak on micro, sketchy will really help that area. Otherwise, it sounds like you need a lot more quality time with first aid. When you say "goljan" do you mean audio or something else. I would still go through pathoma even if you are confident about your pathology. Easy to add those videos on to the relevant section of first aid, and if you are scoring in the 220s on practice NBMEs I would still question your mastery of pathology, which is huge for the test.

Hey thanks for the reply. Not exactly mastery (hehe), but I feel good about patho. Yeah and I did pathoma videos too alongside Goljan book. So, it stands better than my other subjects. With one more revision, I hope to feel that sorted out. Yeah you're right about FA. I need more time with it. I made mistakes on a lot of things which could have been answered via memory of facts, mostly in portions of micro, pharma, psychiatry and behavioral sciences. I have now started to sit down and memorize FA. I will be done with those subjects from FA and take another NBME. Then, next month I plan to revise first aid and Goljan using FA and UW. Is hoping to increase by 20-30 marks too far fetched? What do you think? I want to make it happen. 🙂

Cheers!

 

[cs24]

Hey thanks for the reply. Not exactly mastery (hehe), but I feel good about patho. Yeah and I did pathoma videos too alongside Goljan book. So, it stands better than my other subjects. With one more revision, I hope to feel that sorted out. Yeah you're right about FA. I need more time with it. I made mistakes on a lot of things which could have been answered via memory of facts, mostly in portions of micro, pharma, psychiatry and behavioral sciences. I have now started to sit down and memorize FA. I will be done with those subjects from FA and take another NBME. Then, next month I plan to revise first aid and Goljan using FA and UW. Is hoping to increase by 20-30 marks too far fetched? What do you think? I want to make it happen. 🙂

Cheers!

I think its totally reasonable to increase that much. Sounds like you are on the right track, good luck

 

[Nabin]

I think its totally reasonable to increase that much. Sounds like you are on the right track, good luck

Thanks a lot! 🙂

 

[Nabin]

I think its totally reasonable to increase that much. Sounds like you are on the right track, good luck

Hey if you're there! I did NBME 13 day. Got 235. I don't know if its some fluke it increased that much in this short time. But, I sat down and memorized 80% from fa micro and psychiatry portions and some pharma portions too. And I managed tick off some questions easily from that learning. Pathology, again I felt comfortable with it. Need some work to do in Anatomy and biostats plus more pharma memorizations. I hope I am getting there.

 

[cs24]

Hey if you're there! I did NBME 13 day. Got 235. I don't know if its some fluke it increased that much in this short time. But, I sat down and memorized 80% from fa micro and psychiatry portions and some pharma portions too. And I managed tick off some questions easily from that learning. Pathology, again I felt comfortable with it. Need some work to do in Anatomy and biostats plus more pharma memorizations. I hope I am getting there.

Good job! Keep on going. If you put in the work the scores will go up.