Doing questions instead of reading first aid

[Eokpar02]

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I am kind of sick of First Aid. It is just gibberish and I don't remember any of it. I purchased USMLE Rx a while ago and I am wondering if it would be a good idea to dump First Aid and just do USMLE Rx questions and read the First Aid excerpts on the bottom. I have tasked myself with reading an organ system a day in FA but I think it is a huge time waster. I also do 40 - 50 Uworld questions a day before I go to bed.

 

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1) When you read First Aid, do you actively quiz yourself on what you read?
2) When you do questions, do you feel that you retain what you read?
3) Do you own UWorld as well?
4) How much time do you have left to study for your exam?

My thoughts: Rx questions are a bit too superficial to rely solely upon them as your method for acquiring information. It's true that it hyperlinks you to an excerpt in First Aid, but it is not nearly as detailed as UWorld. If you were to only do one question bank, in my opinion it should be UWorld as that is the gold standard. I felt like I was in a similar position where I tried to do one system at a time, but wasn't retaining as much as I should. I then jumped to only questions but found that was also ineffective for improving my score as much as I desired. I detailed my Step 1 study experience in another thread that I posted tonight.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/step-1-taken-august-2014-used-dit.1128357/

Hope it helps!