doing quite well in classes, not on shelf. How to adjust studying?

[ronaldo23]

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I'm always top 20% in classes, but only getting 50-60 percentile on shelfs. I use BRS and first aid sections alongside each class and generally feel like I'm learning and understanding the material well, but it's not translating on shelf exams. This worries me for boards next year, as it meakes me think I'm approaching my studying a wrong way.

Has anyone been in a similar spot? Any tips for altering board study habits now as a first year, so that I have a shot at doing well on step I, rather than just doing a good job at learning Dr. MalePatternBalding's novel transcription factor that he discovered? Much appreciated

 

[redpanda]

I'm always top 20% in classes, but only getting 50-60 percentile on shelfs. I use BRS and first aid sections alongside each class and generally feel like I'm learning and understanding the material well, but it's not translating on shelf exams. This worries me for boards next year, as it meakes me think I'm approaching my studying a wrong way.

Has anyone been in a similar spot? Any tips for altering board study habits now as a first year, so that I have a shot at doing well on step I, rather than just doing a good job at learning Dr. MalePatternBalding's novel transcription factor that he discovered? Much appreciated

We only had one pre-clinical shelf and it was a self study course where there wasn't a whole lot of physiology involved, but for that I used Golijan and did every question in my qbank from that subject (~200). From that, the shelf pretty much resembled the qbank questions.