Comp score: 91.
Anatomy: 84
Bio/Phy: 83
Micro/Patho: 85
DA: 85.
Such a big relief.
Materials I have used:
Anatomy: Dental decks; Acland's DVD; Clinical anatomy made it ridiculously simple; Gray's anatomy for student; Histology and Cell Biology - An Introduction to Pathology, my college Head and Neck Anatomy textbook.
Biochemistry: Lippincott's Biochemistry, Kaplan books, dental decks;
Physiology: Dental decks, Kaplan books, my college textbooks;
Microbiology: Clinical microbiology made it ridiculously simple; Kaplan book, dental decks;
Pathology: (Robin's)Pathologic Basis of disease, Kaplan book, dental deck.
Dental deck is very important but not enough if you want to get a satisfying score. I studied deck in this way: first I glance the each card to find out the general outline of the content; second, I use a digital recorder to record both sides of each card and save as a Mp3 file. Then I transfer the recorded files to my Ipod. Then I can listen them when I am driving, in the gym and even on my bed before sleep. Some cards I have listened at least 10 times.
Did ASDA paper almost twice (except some from early years). When I started, I only scored 70-80 for each subject, generally, sometimes worse. I studied almost every question and every choice. I asked myself what is question testing, what is the core concept? How do the wrong choices related to correct one? This is very time and energy consuming. But it is the most useful strategy I think I have used.
After 4-5 ASDA papers on each subject, I can finally score 85-90 on each subject. Once I even scored 95 on one subject. Later I found out there are many repeated questions in that paper from early years.
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Decks and ASDA papers are very important but not enough. There are few repeated questions in my exam but not many. My exam was much more difficult than any ASDA paper.
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One advice for all future exam takers: Unlike USMLE, NBDE is testing how detail you can remember the knowledge. The more detail the better. Knowing something doesn't mean you can get a good result in an exam. After each practice exam I saw the mistakes I made and often I told myself: This is such a silly mistake since I know this concept.------Yes, I know it but I didn't remember it. Not remembering it equals to not knowing it at all in the exam.
So if you want to get a high score, you should REMEMBER what you have learned.
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I got a lot of help from this forum. Thank you guys for your kind help. Good luck to everybody.
Anatomy: 84
Bio/Phy: 83
Micro/Patho: 85
DA: 85.
Such a big relief.
Materials I have used:
Anatomy: Dental decks; Acland's DVD; Clinical anatomy made it ridiculously simple; Gray's anatomy for student; Histology and Cell Biology - An Introduction to Pathology, my college Head and Neck Anatomy textbook.
Biochemistry: Lippincott's Biochemistry, Kaplan books, dental decks;
Physiology: Dental decks, Kaplan books, my college textbooks;
Microbiology: Clinical microbiology made it ridiculously simple; Kaplan book, dental decks;
Pathology: (Robin's)Pathologic Basis of disease, Kaplan book, dental deck.
Dental deck is very important but not enough if you want to get a satisfying score. I studied deck in this way: first I glance the each card to find out the general outline of the content; second, I use a digital recorder to record both sides of each card and save as a Mp3 file. Then I transfer the recorded files to my Ipod. Then I can listen them when I am driving, in the gym and even on my bed before sleep. Some cards I have listened at least 10 times.
Did ASDA paper almost twice (except some from early years). When I started, I only scored 70-80 for each subject, generally, sometimes worse. I studied almost every question and every choice. I asked myself what is question testing, what is the core concept? How do the wrong choices related to correct one? This is very time and energy consuming. But it is the most useful strategy I think I have used.
After 4-5 ASDA papers on each subject, I can finally score 85-90 on each subject. Once I even scored 95 on one subject. Later I found out there are many repeated questions in that paper from early years.
----------
Decks and ASDA papers are very important but not enough. There are few repeated questions in my exam but not many. My exam was much more difficult than any ASDA paper.
-----------
One advice for all future exam takers: Unlike USMLE, NBDE is testing how detail you can remember the knowledge. The more detail the better. Knowing something doesn't mean you can get a good result in an exam. After each practice exam I saw the mistakes I made and often I told myself: This is such a silly mistake since I know this concept.------Yes, I know it but I didn't remember it. Not remembering it equals to not knowing it at all in the exam.
So if you want to get a high score, you should REMEMBER what you have learned.
-------
I got a lot of help from this forum. Thank you guys for your kind help. Good luck to everybody.
.......i mean about ur exam date.....................anyways, glad to know about ur study sources but just one week prior to exams, what did u go thru? cant be so many books???....happy, plz, tell about the okeson's doubt ,i had posted in another thread but didnt get an answer....................i went thru the first chapter only and in it , the intermediate zone of disc is above the condyle in closed mouth position ,but in decks,it says the intermediate zone is ! 