changing strategy. need your advice

[jfgavina]

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well, after 2 weeks doing FA+UW I realized that I'm not learning much from UW. I can't concentrate in reading all those explanations, especially for the ones I got right. Do you think it would be positive for my score improvement to read just the educational objective for the ones I got correct and for the wrong ones read wrong answer+educational objective?

also, did UWSA 2 today and got 232, obviously this is consistent with my 214 from nbme 6, no major improvements in one week. please let me know your best advice to reach that 230! I have almost 5 weeks left

 

[ctizzle13498]

i agree with u....if u get a question rite...do u still need to read the explanation? its sooooo boring and then i get all annoyed

 

[ctizzle13498]

and i dont get what u mean no major improvement 216 to 232 is huge!!!!!

 

[jfgavina]

thanks ctizzle. I'm unsure about that, UWSA overpredicts a lot.. step 1 ex fighters your opinion is also appreciated!!

 

[Phlame217]

You really need to know things well before you do UW in my opinion; I am covering BRS Phys, RR Biochem, Micro made simple, and a few review books as I cover Pathology/FA. I won't start UW until the spring when I am in my last semester of classes and will use it to test my strengths and review my weaknesses.

I think its important to read the explanations even if you get it right because there may be underlying information that you were unaware of that could pop up on the real tests, etc.

 

[ctizzle13498]

i agree with you in theory, but when u start doing it...u'll realize that spending like 10 minutes to read an explanation on something you already know, is very boring and irritating. but i think your right at the end of the day, u just gotta push through it

 

[jfgavina]

thanks phlame, but I already did my first preparation steps, I started it in april! actually I'm doing my secound round in UW. I can't keep the same attention span to all the questions, so I think it would be better just to skip the ones I know and learn the ones I got wrong and make sure I'm not doing the same error again! I have 5 weeks left and only did 70% of UW, so I must rush!

 

[Torquer]

thanks phlame, but I already did my first preparation steps, I started it in april! actually I'm doing my secound round in UW. I can't keep the same attention span to all the questions, so I think it would be better just to skip the ones I know and learn the ones I got wrong and make sure I'm not doing the same error again! I have 5 weeks left and only did 70% of UW, so I must rush!

Jfg, ive been doing UW for the past 23 days now@2blocks per day with all explanation (wrong/right/options) its hell that my seniors said i need to put myself through to get to the other side.

I can finally see the light with just 3 more tests to go but i am procrastinating the hell outta those 3 tests.
Heres my 2 cents: reading every page like an individual page of study material is quite helpful - it was specifically in my case because near the 30'th or so block, explanations start getting redundant and you tend to go just a tiny bit faster. The good thing is that means you know that concept inside out

and again in stuff like those godforsaken neurocutaneous syndromes, every option on that page of explanations helps you learn the difference. same for the kidney pathology.

I dunno so ive come this far doing all explanations in 23 days, and maybe you with 5 weeks could easily do that with time to spare for other reads of FA?

 

[jfgavina]

Let's see if I can. It's difficult to do more than one block now that I started my classes -.-

 

[Torquer]

Let's see if I can. It's difficult to do more than one block now that I started my classes -.-

couldnt agree more. my classes started yesterday too and ive dropped to one block a day. i had just three to go and they're refusing to finish :O