LoveGI,thanks for the info.im taking mine in 3 1/2 weeks, and i was wondering what i should read 3 or 4 days before exam.
Well, I can just share what I did the last 2 full days before the exam (I had a noon test, so my 'last day' stuff posted above is really what I did the morning before I headed in). Consider if it would work for you, but stick to what you know you do best with- I am a kid that never studied more than 4 days before a school test, so I'm a last-minute kind of person for details.
I did
at least 200 UWorld questions a day (mix between new questions and marked questions) the last three days, including the day before. I wanted to have some stamina built up, and I was trying to push through to finish the qbank. Alas, it's only 96% complete and that's where it's gonna stay!
In the last two days, I did a
complete push through FA page by page. I basically skipped biochem altogether (except for diseases, vitamins, and the cell bio section in FA), because it is so super low yield and it would take me a week to learn one pathway. I also skipped the micro section, since I had read CMRRS in my last study week from cover to cover and felt that was better prep than FA. I do think this netted me a few extra micro questions, but would only suggest this to someone with the time and that likes micro (it's possibly my favorite sub topic). Other than that, I had seen the whole enchilada within 48 hours of sitting for my exam...
What I wanted to do but didn't have the time: I wanted to go over the
blue margin notes in RR Path, but ranked this lower since pathology is a strength of mine. I did read the whole book during my dedicated study time, every freakin bullet point, and felt like a I learned a lot. I would have liked a quick refresher of those tiny details, but truthfully in hindsight don't think this would have really made a difference (but I was strong going in, and had also heard all of his audio at least 2x before test day). I wanted to go over
all of my marked question in UWorld, but only reviewed ~200 out of the 450 I had marked. I was pretty selective when marking, only marking an important concept I wanted to return to closer to test day (ie a good diagram, a concept I kept screwing up, etc).
Keep in mind, this was my last few days after a 5.5 week push of ~12 hours a day. I did not go over FA 5x like some people, but really took my time the first time through and learned that thing! Most sections I only saw that second pass through the day before, outside of referencing a question I got wrong or something. I did, however, do RR Path in its entirety, BRS physio in its entirety, 96% of UWorld, 50% of USMLERx, and maybe 1/3 of kaplan questions (won these last two in raffles, so used them when I wanted details and not concept studying). Also add in CMRRS, and the high yield series systems book on the kidney (great recommendation if you suck at renal like I do!!!).
