Before I get into dedicated time, is this doable?

[sharklasers]

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I'm trying to come up with a study schedule, how does this sound? I have 34 days total to study.

~520 pages of First Aid
~2200 UWorld questions

Read 40 pages of first aid every morning, from 7-12 or so. 8 pages an hour.
---Finish first aid in 14 days

Finish 2nd pass of First Aid in 10 days. Finish 3rd pass of First Aid in 6 days. 30 days total to get 3 passes of first aid. That would give 4 days of leeway for falling behind/reinforcing harder topics.

Do 92 questions of UWorld (random, timed) in the afternoon from 1-7. About 3 hours/block (this would be a 2nd pass, did the 1st pass during the school year)
--Finish UWorld in 24 days

Do 3 blocks of incorrect/marked UWorld after this. This would be 2 hours/block (for a 3rd pass of these questions)
---Hopefully finish this in 6 days, giving 4 days of leeway as well.

30 days total to get in 2 passes of UWorld during dedicated time, with the first pass being complete during the school year.


I have Pathoma that I might read with First Aid, but thats not essential, in my opinion. I have no other resources.
Thanks for your advice!

 

[sharklasers]

Bump for some advice. Sorry about the long post

 

[Jamiu22]

I'm trying to come up with a study schedule, how does this sound? I have 34 days total to study.

~520 pages of First Aid
~2200 UWorld questions

Read 40 pages of first aid every morning, from 7-12 or so. 8 pages an hour.
---Finish first aid in 14 days

Finish 2nd pass of First Aid in 10 days. Finish 3rd pass of First Aid in 6 days. 30 days total to get 3 passes of first aid. That would give 4 days of leeway for falling behind/reinforcing harder topics.

Do 92 questions of UWorld (random, timed) in the afternoon from 1-7. About 3 hours/block (this would be a 2nd pass, did the 1st pass during the school year)
--Finish UWorld in 24 days

Do 3 blocks of incorrect/marked UWorld after this. This would be 2 hours/block (for a 3rd pass of these questions)
---Hopefully finish this in 6 days, giving 4 days of leeway as well.

30 days total to get in 2 passes of UWorld during dedicated time, with the first pass being complete during the school year.


I have Pathoma that I might read with First Aid, but thats not essential, in my opinion. I have no other resources.
Thanks for your advice!

I think it's doable.. it seems very well planned out and manageable.. .take what I say with a grain of salt, cos I'm still in it just like you (my exam's in 8wks)... but the biggest problem I've had soo far is maintaining a preset schedule... are you more military with your schedule? if you are,... cool... if not, make it more broad and focus on more major milestones as you move along... it would spare you ups and downs when you miss the minor milestones.


As far as you material list.... I would say: good list. close to what I'm using.. you are using the core of FA + Uworld.... I read through FA in one week..and then did a quick read through it again 2wks later.... and now I plan on going through it every 1.5wks-2wks or so... in an effort of memorizing the book....excessive repetition is key for me. Just so you know I powered through RX about a month ago.. and I'm half way through kaplan... will probably stop kaplan now to start uworld.

Good luck in your study efforts - we all need it.

 

[sharklasers]

thanks for the input! any other advice? thanks in advance 🙂

 

[John Lannister]

thanks for the input! any other advice? thanks in advance 🙂

 

[doclovebugcali]

Have you been adding notes to FA as you do UWorld? when you did UWorld during school?

 

[NickNaylor]

I found it difficult to read FA and do a lot of questions each day. It's definitely doable, just tiring. FWIW, I spent the first few weeks of my prep doing almost that exact schedule (FA in the morning, UWorld in the afternoon). I was usually able to get through 2-3 organ systems sections in the morning and anywhere from 60-100 questions in the afternoon (depending on how motivated I was and how long reading explanations took).

 

[sharklasers]

I found it difficult to read FA and do a lot of questions each day. It's definitely doable, just tiring. FWIW, I spent the first few weeks of my prep doing almost that exact schedule (FA in the morning, UWorld in the afternoon). I was usually able to get through 2-3 organ systems sections in the morning and anywhere from 60-100 questions in the afternoon (depending on how motivated I was and how long reading explanations took).

All right thanks! I figure it would be tiring, but I only want to do this for the first two weeks. That would give me an entire pass of first aid and about 60% done with UWorld. Then I could use the rest of the time fortifying first aid.

 

[NickNaylor]

All right thanks! I figure it would be tiring, but I only want to do this for the first two weeks. That would give me an entire pass of first aid and about 60% done with UWorld. Then I could use the rest of the time fortifying first aid.

Yeah - this was pretty much my approach too. Like I said, definitely doable, just a beating. Good luck!

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[skyblue2000]

This is pretty much what I'm doing, except doing UW twice instead of re-reading FA numerous times.

 

[Pinkleton]

I dunno how you guys go through FA so quickly. I'll be lucky to get through it once during my 4 week period, since I'm also doing UW

 

[skyblue2000]

Well I was going to only do FA for those 3 weeks and then start UW afterward