Decks vs Stax

[Dentalguy08]

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I was looking at board review material, and it seems that the vast majority think Dental Decks are a must. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Dental Stax. I have found that they are less expensive, color coded, and have diagrams and pictures. There are also more cards in the set. What are everyone's opinions between the two, or doesn't it matter?

 

[QTpieDMD]

I was looking at board review material, and it seems that the vast majority think Dental Decks are a must. I was wondering if anyone has any experience with Dental Stax. I have found that they are less expensive, color coded, and have diagrams and pictures. There are also more cards in the set. What are everyone's opinions between the two, or doesn't it matter?

I don't know from personal experience but someone told me the stax were the better of the two. She said something along the lines that the material was organized in a format that's easier to remember.

 

[xddsx]

Stax has 500 more cards than Decks, but you'll still get through the Stax faster, because they are organized better and read more like a board review material (concise, high yield, and focused on retention), whereas Decks reads more like an encyclopedia (overly wordy, too much useless information). Also, Stax will emphasize what has appeared more often in the last 2 or 3 years and point out which cards are considered "high yield". Just beware there are a lot of typos so it is a MUST to download their corrections sheet. Also, the anatomy section is overkill as they go into a lot of detail on muscles and nerves that are non-head&neck related. Finally, throw out any of the pathology cards that cover NBDE Part 2 material. For some reason they included that material in the Part 1 Stax.

 

[captaintripps]

I thought the stax were well constructed, although the errors are more than typos but inaccurate info altogther. Just download the modifications. The material is similar to board exam questions, with useful background and reminders.

 

[enamelina]

I thought the stax were well constructed, although the errors are more than typos but inaccurate info altogther. Just download the modifications. The material is similar to board exam questions, with useful background and reminders.

ARE there DENTAL STAX for nbde part 2 ???

 

[ItsGavinC]

Are there? Not yet, but there will be soon: http://www.dentalstax.com/

 

[ItsGavinC]

I thought the stax were well constructed, although the errors are more than typos but inaccurate info altogther. Just download the modifications.

Agreed. LOTS of errors.

 

[rocknightmare]

lots of errors.. hrm i remember kaplan/topscore had numerous errors for dat, is this the same way?? --0- or will they degrade your quailty of studying?

 

[umkcdds]

Agreed. LOTS of errors.

the guy who started Dental Stax (and did most of the writing) is from umkc. it seems that a lot of the Stax questions are focuses around board questions, especially recent material and material that shows up often. my opinion is that if you study Stax, then you really don't need to spend time looking at old exams, because everything is covered in Stax, and questions are fairly similar.

There are a lot of errors that should be gone from the next version for 2006. As far as the 2005 version goes, i don't know if this is available for everyone, but here, the owner is offering to sell a supplemental 80 card set that contains corrections to the 2005 sets, for $15.

 

[ItsGavinC]

i don't know if this is available for everyone, but here, the owner is offering to sell a supplemental 80 card set that contains corrections to the 2005 sets, for $15.

Can you do me a favor and see if I can get in on that deal for the corrections?

 

[rocknightmare]

is 2006 coming out soon?

 

[NBDE4Sale]

I used dental stax and dental decks and found them both to be very helpful. I liked the stax because they focused on a lot of the questions from the more recent (and unreleased) oldies. I feel that they are both essential to achieve the highest score possible. If anyone is interested I am trying to sell my stax from this year they are in great shape and I already made all of the corrections. Please PM me if you are interested.

 

[2thgirl]

NBDE4SALE, did you get my pm? If not I'll send it again. Thanks

 

[umkcdds]

i talked to jim today. he said he is only selling the correction set to students at umkc - mainly so those of us that have already passed will have a better chance of re-selling our sets.
he said that anyone who has ordered a set within the last few weeks will also get the correction set for free with their order.

Can you do me a favor and see if I can get in on that deal for the corrections?

 

[umkcdds]

lots of errors.. hrm i remember kaplan/topscore had numerous errors for dat, is this the same way?? --0- or will they degrade your quailty of studying?

the errors really aren't that big of a deal. there are quite a few, but for the most part they are really obvious. the errors are mostly typo's. there are only a few things that are just flat out wrong. in most instances, there will be an incorrect answer to the questions listed at the top of the card, then the explanation given will be correct.
all errors are listed in a downloadable word document on the dentalstax website.

 

[Monica Sampaio]

I used dental stax and dental decks and found them both to be very helpful. I liked the stax because they focused on a lot of the questions from the more recent (and unreleased) oldies. I feel that they are both essential to achieve the highest score possible. If anyone is interested I am trying to sell my stax from this year they are in great shape and I already made all of the corrections. Please PM me if you are interested.

Hey i'm interested in buying, can you tell me more info on this, please

 

[RDH2DMD]

the guy who started Dental Stax (and did most of the writing) is from umkc. it seems that a lot of the Stax questions are focuses around board questions, especially recent material and material that shows up often. my opinion is that if you study Stax, then you really don't need to spend time looking at old exams, because everything is covered in Stax, and questions are fairly similar.

There are a lot of errors that should be gone from the next version for 2006. As far as the 2005 version goes, i don't know if this is available for everyone, but here, the owner is offering to sell a supplemental 80 card set that contains corrections to the 2005 sets, for $15.

To me that is crazy to charge for the supplemental 80 card set of corrections. Is that from the company???? Just goes to show how many errors there actually were in the decks. I used them for part I and would not recommend them. The dental decks were more focused on the boards in my opinion. If you have the cash for both I think they're agreat supplement to the decks, but I would never use them alone! I ended up using someone's dental decks and used them both for part one.

 

[ItsGavinC]

the errors are mostly typo's. there are only a few things that are just flat out wrong.

Not my experience at all. Typos are when the answer is correct but is misspelled, etc. The bulk of the errors on the Stax are simply incorrect answers! Those aren't typos in my opinion.

 

[umkcdds]

...the biggest problem was that the answer to the question would say one thing, but then the explanation to the answer would say something else. the explanation was always correct. there were very few cards (probably less than 4) that were just flat out wrong all together.

it's not that i'm trying to get anyone to buy dentalSTAX. the owner hasn't made any money off of them yet. he has just broken even thus far (or so he says). i didn't think the mistakes were that big of a deal, more of an annoyance. i fully expect them to be as error-free as dentalDECKS in the next version.

i used both sets of cards. went through both completely once, then went back and focused on the "high yield" cards from STAX, and tried to separate out the same types of cards from DECKS to focus on as well. i would estimate that more time was spent on DECKS for me.

Not my experience at all. Typos are when the answer is correct but is misspelled, etc. The bulk of the errors on the Stax are simply incorrect answers! Those aren't typos in my opinion.