doing questions

[buddindoc]

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any thoughts on how to do the questions on q bank,nms etc..should i concentrate on doing questions from the subject i have studied or am studying or do them at a random without regard to the subject???
i am scared that i will become depressed if i get them wrong.....please help with your input

thaznks

 

[ckent]

The way that I did questions through q bank was to read up on a subject in the morning and early afternoon, then do practice questions on that subject later in the afternoon and the evening. You should do a few random question tests just to see how you do, but for the most part, I found that my method helped reinforce topics by making sure that I was reading them thoroughly in the morning. I also had the opportunity to go back and re-read stuff on the questions that I missed as well.

 

[Cristagali]

Just curious, How can you gauge yourself on q-bank performance, if you set the questions for just one subject? Did you take enough mixed tests to get a true feel of how you were progressing? What were your beginning and ending q-bank scores? Don't get me wrong, if it worked for you, then great, but I personally want to simulate the actual test as much as possible..But I appreciate ny advice...Thanks

 

[ckent]

Originally posted by Cristagali
Just curious, How can you gauge yourself on q-bank performance, if you set the questions for just one subject? Did you take enough mixed tests to get a true feel of how you were progressing? What were your beginning and ending q-bank scores? Don't get me wrong, if it worked for you, then great, but I personally want to simulate the actual test as much as possible..But I appreciate ny advice...Thanks

Well, I was able to gauge my performance by just seeing how many questions I was getting right. My way worked well for me, because you can't study every subject every day, and it doesn't feel fair to test yourself on subjects that you haven't "studied" yet. I always thought of simulating the actual test as just as a way to decrease pre-test anxiety. I always took q-bank under non-test like conditions, meaning that I was took it under the tutorial mode so that I could read answer explanations right away. I think that's the best way to do practice questions. It's not all similar to the MCAT in that there being some sort of test taking strategy and process of elimination that you need to learn. My memory of step I is a little more fuzzy then step II, but I can tell you that in step II, they had tons of questions where they had a bunch of "key words" in the question and answer choices that would have mislead you if you didn't know the actual answer (eg question has the word: wilson's disease, incorrect answer choice has the word: copper).

 

[Cristagali]

Thanks for the info. And congrats on knocking two steps out already!! good luck!😎