CBSE final stretch

[The Kube of Kubes]

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Hey everyone!

Was wanting some thoughts on how I should best spend this last month of studying before Februarys exam. For context: I’ve gone through pathoma and dukes deck twice which I dropped 2 weeks ago. I’ve gone through all of sketchy micro and pharm with the pepper deck which I’m still keeping up with. I’m also working my way through Biochem with dirty medicine still. Have about a week of that still.
I’ve gone through about 35% of Uworld, with my last 10 blocks of timed and random being around a 58-60% average, with most misses just being stuff I’ve never seen. My first Nbme will be this Saturday, I’ll be doing forum 30. I plan on doing one every Saturday up to the exam.

I wanted to ask what you guys think will help me see the biggest jump in score with this last month? I have a 100 concepts anatomy deck that I can do since I feel like anatomy outside of neuro is almost an automatic incorrect. It’s just 700 cards and would take a while. I also have a first aid rapid review anki deck that’s about 400 cards that I could do. Or I could do none of that I just hammer more than one block of questions per day which is what I’m limited to right now. Most of my day is about 2-3 hours of anki reviews, about 2-3 for a full block of questions on tutor mode and then with whatever energy I have left I try and learn more cards.

I’m trying to decide if my ROI with these anki decks would be better than doing more questions, since these decks would address pretty significant holes in my knowledge base.

I’m hoping to get anything over a 65 and I feel like I have a real shot this time around, but let me know what you guys would do if you guys were me!

 

[Pablo Sanchez]

Don’t have anything to add, but just wanted to wish you luck! Have seen you on the forums for a while, and you definitely got this!

 

[teeth!]

i would probably do as many NBME's from 20-31 (not sure if they've released more?) as i could in a way that would allow me to take the 200 questions, and review every question
at this point, not sure anki is entirely worth it. i would review incorrect UWorld's and do NBME's

echoing what was said above, seems like you've put the time in. get some beers or go for a run once in a while too.
can always DM me too
just my two cents

 

[The Kube of Kubes]

Appreciate it my friends. Hope to deliver good news in a month!

 

[Rick Sorkin]

Quit anki, increase UW - get to at least 50%. How you'll do that: Take an NBME, review all of it over a couple of days, then look what section you scored the lowest in and drill that topic for a couple days with UW. I'd also recommend every time a pathology Q comes up on the NBME, go read that disease and the related ones on that page in Pathoma if it's there. Same for bugs - go refresh yourself with them in Sketchy when they come up. Take a new NBME, rinse and repeat. Those random "HY" concepts/images/whatever aren't actually going to increase your score much at all so don't worry about spending a lot of time on them, but I'd say they're a nice chill thing for you to cram the day before (still study the day before but take it easy and go to bed early). The biggest ROI is just more UW, notably in your weakest subjects. Additionally, I strongly believe the Vascular chapter of Pathoma is the highest yield by far. It was all over NBMEs. Memorize every single word of Pathoma, but especially that chapter.

"I’m trying to decide if my ROI with these anki decks would be better than doing more questions, since these decks would address pretty significant holes in my knowledge base."

UW will address the same holes while putting them in an applicable vignette form.

 

[The Kube of Kubes]

Quit anki, increase UW - get to at least 50%. How you'll do that: Take an NBME, review all of it over a couple of days, then look what section you scored the lowest in and drill that topic for a couple days with UW. I'd also recommend every time a pathology Q comes up on the NBME, go read that disease and the related ones on that page in Pathoma if it's there. Same for bugs - go refresh yourself with them in Sketchy when they come up. Take a new NBME, rinse and repeat. Those random "HY" concepts/images/whatever aren't actually going to increase your score much at all so don't worry about spending a lot of time on them, but I'd say they're a nice chill thing for you to cram the day before (still study the day before but take it easy and go to bed early). The biggest ROI is just more UW, notably in your weakest subjects. Additionally, I strongly believe the Vascular chapter of Pathoma is the highest yield by far. It was all over NBMEs. Memorize every single word of Pathoma, but especially that chapter.

"I’m trying to decide if my ROI with these anki decks would be better than doing more questions, since these decks would address pretty significant holes in my knowledge base."

UW will address the same holes while putting them in an applicable vignette form.

Gold. Thank you man!