dont know about 20% of our schools lectures...best approach?

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Hi,

Here's the deal: with all my classes, I pretty much made sure I knew about 80% of the lectures cold, and the rest i wouldnt attend or study whatsoever. i made note of all of them so far. its just the only way I can really study....when I spread myself too thin I just end up getting unmotivated and doing worse, when it comes to each course....so I always preferred mastering 80% of the material.

Anyway, when I start studying for step 1 (im gona have about 12 weeks), should I go over these unread/unstudied lectures for the first month and a half, and then go straight into the board-specific review? OR...should i not even bother, and just learn everything from first aid/RR/CMMRS, etc?

I know for sure I'd be fine with my own personal understanding of hte material if I only knew it at the board-review level. But when it comes to the actual test....do we really have to know things even MORE in depth/in detail than the review books present to us? If not, then I will just hit the review books hard.

Thanks

 

[OveractiveBrain]

Is your medical school called "Board Study Time," "We prepare for the USMLE Step 1," or "Kaplan Medical School?"

If not, why would you EVER study course material for a standardized exam? I got a question on Ras oncogene, but man, i KNEW i was supposed to get a colonoscopy at 50, then q1y. Why didnt they ask me about colonoscopy screening? My GI course taught me about that. Why did they ask me about useless intracellular messenger dysfunction in relation to colorectal cancer!? ZOMFG!?

Ignore your class work. Take your knowledge from your lectures into your Board prep. With TWELVE WEEKS you could easily do all of Kaplan Lecture Series, read First Aid 10 times through, finish Kaplan Qbank, USMLE World, USMLERx, and still have time for a vacation (if you didnt squander your vacation with reading BRS).

I feel like this is painfully obvious, but I guess you need to be reminded. The Stupid Artifical Boards are made up of Stupid Artifical Questions, and you should study material that trains you to answer Stupid Artifical Board Questions and not material that has any semblence to medicine, doctoring, or school. Unless of course you go to the above mentioned medical schools.