Annotating all of Uworld into First Aid

[rodmichael82]

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Uworld has a lot of detail in it's explanation. Annotating all of that into first aid can be a huge pain. I annotated all of the explanations to 10 questions into Uworld verbatim into my First aid and it took me 3+ hours. That's a ridiculous amount of time. Did you guys annotate everything in Uworld into first aid?

 

[shigella123]

Uworld has a lot of detail in it's explanation. Annotating all of that into first aid can be a huge pain. I annotated all of the explanations to 10 questions into Uworld verbatim into my First aid and it took me 3+ hours. That's a ridiculous amount of time. Did you guys annotate everything in Uworld into first aid?

Hi,

I was going through the same thing as you and so I searched online about this topic to see how other students were going through Uworld. I read that most people took notes on Uworld. There is a limit to how much notes you can take on Uworld and that helps you not waste time copying the entire explanation for hours and forces you to write down only the important information. That will help you go through the qbank faster. After taking notes they simply printed their notes to review. While there were others who just copied 1 or 2 lines on to FA and not more than that and some who just stopped taking notes altogether.

Hope that helps!

 

[SpecterGT260]

Uworld has a lot of detail in it's explanation. Annotating all of that into first aid can be a huge pain. I annotated all of the explanations to 10 questions into Uworld verbatim into my First aid and it took me 3+ hours. That's a ridiculous amount of time. Did you guys annotate everything in Uworld into first aid?

Oh good god no..... you transcribed it? What on Earth would possess you to do something like that?

The point of annotating is to jot down high-yield concepts that either didn't make it into FA, weren't well explained in FA, or weren't easy to find in FA (because most of them are in there somewhere... you usually find them right after noting something 1 page away).

I would also go in and make little notes about other sections that something was found in. The purpose there was to tie together ideas, pathways, or mechanisms that repeat throughout the material. You don't need to be able to recite FA or UW. You will literally never be asked a question exactly like it appeared in any of those resources. What you need to do is annotate in the ones you missed or didn't understand why you got it right and then only jot down the big concepts. Sure, they give tons of details, but what were the 1 or 2 things that you didn't catch that caused you to miss the problem?

Here is what one of my pages looked like. I tried to highlight the text so I could skim without needing to scour it. I also tried to add formatting (black lines and such) to improve the layout so I could quickly orient myself to the text. Then I annotated only as needed when something wasn't sticking. I scored >90%ile on the test. Good luck.
http://i.imgur.com/vSERT9d.jpg

 

[JeetKuneDo]

Is it worth annotating in other question banks, such as Kaplan and usmlerx? Or would that be too much?

 

[SpecterGT260]

Only if it seems appropriate and covers a concept you struggle with. I annotated Goljan into mine (from text. Not questions). But be sure to complete one qbank all the way as they all kinda cover the same stuff.