Cbse Study Plan - 7 months

[Havelock714]

Hello all, I am planning on taking the cbse in February (July as well if need be)

What has been the plan of attack for a competitive score. I know first aid, pathoma, and uworld are a must, but how do you go about learning and understanding the material.

Currently am watching boot camp videos to learn the material and unsuspending the associated anki cards from anking boot camp tags. I do not know if this method is sustainable as some of the associated tags for a video have 150-300 related anki cards and there’s about 24k total cards. I find myself spending a hours between adding the new cards and reviewing the old ones.

How have you guys gone about learning and understanding the material before jumping into uworld blindly? And any other tips on this long journey on an overall plan of attack for the next 7 months?

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[Surgeondad]

Do the basics. Get hold on to the basic knowledge before Uworld. I did that mistake of jumping into Uworld. It's not the best advice, doing Uworld or NBMEs before Anki or watching videos.
Do Anki/ BnB/ Med Bootcamp/Sketchy/Pharma then try Uworld- use it as learning tool.

 

[Havelock714]

Do the basics. Get hold on to the basic knowledge before Uworld. I did that mistake of jumping into Uworld. It's not the best advice, doing Uworld or NBMEs before Anki or watching videos.
Do Anki/ BnB/ Med Bootcamp/Sketchy/Pharma then try Uworld- use it as learning tool.

What would be the best way to approach anki? A 100 new cards a day would take about 7 months. Or best to unsuspend after a boot camp video and powering through slow and steady?

 

[The Kube of Kubes]

Do the basics. Get hold on to the basic knowledge before Uworld. I did that mistake of jumping into Uworld. It's not the best advice, doing Uworld or NBMEs before Anki or watching videos.
Do Anki/ BnB/ Med Bootcamp/Sketchy/Pharma then try Uworld- use it as learning tool.

How does one manage their time to do anki for all resources (sketchy, pathoma and BnB in my case) before they get to UWorld? And do you drop anki once you do get to UWorld? I feel like anki would take up the entire day and there would be no time left to watch any new material.

 

[Ivy.ch]

How does one manage their time to do anki for all resources (sketchy, pathoma and BnB in my case) before they get to UWorld? And do you drop anki once you do get to UWorld? I feel like anki would take up the entire day and there would be no time left to watch and new material.

I gave up Anki once I started UWorld. Seemed to work. But this was a 12+ month process for me.

 

[teeth!]

I gave up Anki once I started UWorld. Seemed to work. But this was a 12+ month process for me.

to piggy back on this, as someone whose tried to make it a 6 month process, and am doing a 12 month process right now, treat it like a 12+ month plan. some people do 6 months but it takes a long time to engrain this stuff into your brain

 

[Havelock714]

to piggy back on this, as someone whose tried to make it a 6 month process, and am doing a 12 month process right now, treat it like a 12+ month plan. some people do 6 months but it takes a long time to engrain this stuff into your brain

What would a typical day during the learning phase of studying look like? Just starting out and trying to find out what works best

 

[Pleurodynia]

What would a typical day during the learning phase of studying look like? Just starting out and trying to find out what works best

Pretty much everyone uses some combination of bootcamp, BnB, sketchy, pathoma, Anki. Most people find a method that suits them individually, there’s no true schedule like there was for the DAT.

Hardest part of studying is the first 1-2 months when you’re figuring out what works for you. Once you get in a rhythm it’s not that bad.

 

[teeth!]

What would a typical day during the learning phase of studying look like? Just starting out and trying to find out what works best

yeah like person above said theres no set schedule. if you want my tips or schedule or anything, feel free to DM me

 

[tabletsjack]

Whats the latest Anki to study? is there practice questions like NBME only 26-31 are available on thier website.

 

[Havelock714]

Whats the latest Anki to study? is there practice questions like NBME only 26-31 are available on thier website.

Currently using anking boot camp tag. Overlaps with 90% of the texts/vids out there

 

[The Kube of Kubes]

Anyone have any advice on which to choose between BnB and bootcamp? I heard the BnB guy is one of the writers on the cbse but I also heard the program is pretty dense (same with its accompanying lightyear deck). Anyone have opinions on bootcamp?

 

[tabletsjack]

Currently using anking boot camp tag. Overlaps with 90% of the texts/vids out there

Is this the same as the Med Bootcamp?

 

[tabletsjack]

Anyone have any advice on which to choose between BnB and bootcamp? I heard the BnB guy is one of the writers on the cbse but I also heard the program is pretty dense (same with its accompanying lightyear deck). Anyone have opinions on bootcamp?

Lightyear deck is it good? How many questions in total?

 

[tabletsjack]

Need advice which would be better UWorld again or USMLE Rx?

 

[Havelock714]

Is this the same as the Med Bootcamp?

Yes

 

[Havelock714]

Lightyear deck is it good? How many questions in total?

Believe it’s about 22k card. Feel like can’t go wrong with it or anking. Both cover bnb/bootcamp and pathoma

 

[zenkershalitosis]

What would be the best way to approach anki? A 100 new cards a day would take about 7 months. Or best to unsuspend after a boot camp video and powering through slow and steady?

I only unsuspended the cards that were tagged high/moderately high yield and that cut out a decent amount of them. Once you’ve gone through most of the cards 10s of 20s of times they should be multiple months in the future so you won’t see them come your test date anyways.

Always do the shortest learning interval cards first/newest cards too. Seeing a card where marking good vs easy is the difference of 3 vs 4 months it doesn’t matter if you see it a few days after the intended time. As opposed to the cards that marking easy only sends it out 2 days for review…you don’t wanna review these past their intended date. This way if you don’t complete all your reviews everyday at least you can see the ones you need to most by putting them first for review.