FA + UW enough for Biochem + Respi?

[student456]

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I only have few weeks to improve. How do I improve on these 2 subjects? These were my weak subjects on last NBMEs. Will FA + UW be enough to improve on my next NBME? I'm planning to re-do all the UW questions on these 2 subjects and going over FA again.

Anything else I should do? Please, let me know soon.

 

[worldbeater]

Do the UW questions, and review them along side FA, don't do it separately. Focus on your incorrects first. For the questions you get incorrect, figure out what intermediate in what pathway you got wrong, and figure out the logic of what made you get the question wrong. Then review your corrects in each block quickly, pausing to review any corrects you "accidentally" got right. Mark all the pathways in your reading source, and systematically review the pathways as a whole at night and first thing in the morning, you will spend the minimum time with maximum retention.

For respiratory, make you memorized and UNDERSTAND each diagram in your reading source. RV, ERV, FRC, IC, etc, is a crucial one. Make it logical in your head. Same process, do the World questions, review incorrects throughly and corrects pretty fast.

It's very doable, these coincidentally are my weakest subjects on my NBME that I have been working on as well, it's about 400 questions total in the bank. If you have any specific questions on UWorld, you can PM me, and I'll try to help what whatever I have figured out.

 

[student456]

Thanks for responding. So, I will stick to UW and FA for now. I was thinking about maybe doing Kaplan qbank too or going over Kaplan biochem and respiratory, but now I think I should cover FA+UW first and then if I still don't improve then move to Kaplan.

 

[worldbeater]

No problem..yeah, that's a good strategy. Kaplan has some really awkward questions, but I think they are derived from some harder NBME questions. I feel like they are testing the 10% of questions that don't follow the most common differentials. Don't get too down about having a "low" section on an NBME, because it's a really small sample size (like ~10 questions/200 are resp, biochem, etc), so it's really easy not to do well if your miss them. Once you iron out your weakness on the topic, you can easily flip those incorrects to corrects and have you bar move towards the right.