Boards after 2nd year -- what was your summer schedule?

[r_salis]

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cpw, christie, and the other folks who have taken Part I of the Boards -- what was your schedule like the summer after 2nd year before you took the boards? Were you in clinic? Did you have classes? Did your schools hold formal reviews for you?

SUNY is making clinic mandatory for us during the summer after 2nd year, starting this summer. I'm worried that I won't have enough time to get ready for boards.

 

[christie]

r_salis,

We had a full-load of classes & clinic in the summer. They did stop classes for us two weeks before boards, but we still had to go to clinic. Classes and exams resumed after boards. Clinic is not really the problem, its taking exams for classes before boards that was hard for us. Our school did conduct reviews every week, starting around June.

 

[r_salis]

Our school did conduct reviews every week, starting around June.

Which classes were the reviews most helpful for?

 

[idoc2006]

here at ico we start clinic in may and have a full courseload. We had finals two weeks before boards, so much like christie said, this was the hardest part for us - trying to study for finals and boards at the same time with clinic thrown in. they were generous enough to give us 1 week off to study for boards,, thanks ico.

just got my score back this morning and everything went well. The big thing is to set up a schedule that works for you and stick with it,, there are people who study for less than a week and people who study for 6 months and they both do fine. it all depends on the individual.

idoc2006

 

[Welsch Allen]

here at ico we start clinic in may and have a full courseload. We had finals two weeks before boards, so much like christie said, this was the hardest part for us - trying to study for finals and boards at the same time with clinic thrown in. they were generous enough to give us 1 week off to study for boards,, thanks ico.

just got my score back this morning and everything went well. The big thing is to set up a schedule that works for you and stick with it,, there are people who study for less than a week and people who study for 6 months and they both do fine. it all depends on the individual.

idoc2006

how can it be feesibly possible to do well on the "BOARD" if it consists of so many random type questions that seem to come from here-there-and-everywhere. i've spoken to upper year ico students, and they tell me the quesitons are hard because they are not defined to certain subjects, but are very very obscure in all regards.
i find it impossibly hard to believe that a person can study for less than 7 days and do ok (passing) on the "BOARD"

 

[cpw]

we were in clinic for half the summer before boards.... (some first half and some second half)

I studied about six weeks... and did very well. The berkeley guide has its good and bad parts but it's worth it in that it gives an outline of what's covered on the test. So, while it may have some errors you know what's covered so it's not really so random. If you study from your own notes from class i could see how boards would seem very hard and very very random.

the NBEO website usually has an outline of what to study as well

hope this helps... email me if you have more questions r_salis... it's still a ways off for you to be worrying about it yet though hun 😉

I'm starting to study for part 2 in a few weeks

 

[r_salis]

I'm starting to study for part 2 in a few weeks

Good luck! 😀