Gr42 said:
It has 500 USMLE type questions with lenghty explainations. We basically get two days to study for each test (unless you are the motivated type that starts early during blocks) and you can get through this book easily in two days.erin682 said:
I felt this way about pretest histo and anatomy, but not Biochem. I thought the NBME was much harder. I didn't even use Pretest for the other classes because they were too difficult.DrOctopus said:
No thankslilmo said:2 of my professors wrote the pretest anatomy, cell bio. if you think pretest was hard, try having them in class
Pretest cell bio was rediculous. It had tons of path and phys and I hadn't taken either. I will probably take a look at it again next yr will preparing for the MLE.Gr42 said:
)....anyhoo, i did quite well on the shelf, and highly recommend lippincott's. i used the pre-test as well and found it most helpful for the metabolism and integration of metabolism section. Genetics is decent. Ignore it for the molecular bio section in my opinion. Though the questions are super duper hard (i missed half of them), the explanations are quite well written, and the same topics are tested in different ways....so though the topics are hard as hell, they get drilled into your head....Several people used this as their class text and were real happy with it. I didn't use a book, but the required one was real crap from what I heard.saanjana said:haha...i know this reply is coming in late...but its like a dream come true for me to give advice on biochem shelf (sad...but true
Lippincott's is a big book (by my standards...hehe), so if you havne't used it so far, it might be overwhelming to read it cover to cover at this point. However, I would get the 3rd edition anyhow, and look at the diagrams, and do the few questions that they have int here....frankly speaking, if you know lippincott's inside and out, you'll kick butt on that shelf! the diagrams are classics, and might help clear up and integrate many of the topics.
That's how I felt afterward..... thought I got half wrong. Ended up around the 93rd %ile nationally and two full standard deviations above my class's ave. You'll probably be amazed when it comes back. Good luck......felipe5 said:uggggggh,,,, just got done waddling home (in pain mind you) after this puppy.......definitely have the feeling that I bombed it. I used First Aid primarily, and I thought it definitely helped, especially since I was pressed for time to study for it (we had 6 other exams to worry about to boot). But its quite an AMAZING feeling to not have to worry about biochem forever
and by forever, I mean until next year or so
thackl said:
gin + tonic + bday celebrations=very bad shelf scores. but on the bright side, no more stinkin' biochem!
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