Firecracker

[JackShephard MD]

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med.firecracker.me

New medical education website rooted in an adaptive learning platform. Looks impressive, check it out.

Cheers.

 

[danse]

Not sure this is correct. They say on the blog that you have to reflag a topic for the questions to be updated. Just did this for a bunch of step 2 topics and began seeing a bunch of new questions.

Pretty sure you have to re-flag.

 

[001100010010011]

Yup, need to re-flag for Step 2 topics. Customer service told me that a while back.

 

[surely]

Yup, need to re-flag for Step 2 topics. Customer service told me that a while back.

But not for Step 1 topics?

 

[Brain Bucket]

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[001100010010011]

But not for Step 1 topics?

I'd assume both. My question to them was regarding their Step 2 topic updates.

 

[surely]

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I mean, part of what supposedly makes Firecracker so great is the fact that it's continuously being updated and refined. But If I'm expected to unflag and reflag all my topics all the time in order to take advantage of updated content, that's...asking rather a lot. And since they were so specific about the Step 2 improvements requiring unflagging/reflagging, I'm hopeful that it's not necessary for Step 1 content.

 

[ChEMD]

I don't think that's the case with the Step 1 content. I have seen new study questions pop up on my questions for the day when I hadn't even flagged any new topics, and they were definitely new questions.

 

[mcloaf]

I don't think that's the case with the Step 1 content. I have seen new study questions pop up on my questions for the day when I hadn't even flagged any new topics, and they were definitely new questions.

Yeah new questions definitely appear as they are added for the Step 1 content.

 

[Brain Bucket]

I mean, part of what supposedly makes Firecracker so great is the fact that it's continuously being updated and refined. But If I'm expected to unflag and reflag all my topics all the time in order to take advantage of updated content, that's...asking rather a lot. And since they were so specific about the Step 2 improvements requiring unflagging/reflagging, I'm hopeful that it's not necessary for Step 1 content.

Heh, no. I'm just constantly surprised that people ask these questions here instead of talking to customer support.

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[Dr Dazzle]

For those that used FC throughout m1/m2, how many topics were you trying to flag on a daily basis?

 

[ChEMD]

For those that used FC throughout m1/m2, how many topics were you trying to flag on a daily basis?

The goal is to flag the topics as you cover them in class. That way you never have to relearn them later on. So how many topics for flag per day really just depends on the courses you're taking at the time.

 

[DrEnderW]

For those that used FC throughout m1/m2, how many topics were you trying to flag on a daily basis?

I never looked at is as number of topics flagged per day. Once you get going, it's more about how many review questions you do daily while trying to flag as much as you can in addition to that. The goal would obviously be to get all M1 material flagged before M2 starts.

 

[Dr Dazzle]

I never looked at is as number of topics flagged per day. Once you get going, it's more about how many review questions you do daily while trying to flag as much as you can in addition to that. The goal would obviously be to get all M1 material flagged before M2 starts.

Since the review questions add up quickly, was there a particular number you decided to do on a daily basis along with classes.

 

[DrEnderW]

Since the review questions add up quickly, was there a particular number you decided to do on a daily basis along with classes.

I tried to do about 130ish throughout the second semester M1 and through M1-M2 summer.

There are definitely people that do a lot more than that but I did not want to sacrifice my target class rank. The FC average for all users usually sits around 100/day.

There are a decent number of days for me when I don't do any questions, like over a free weekend, days leading up to huge exams, holidays, etc so you either have days with hundreds of questions piled up. You can either beast those out in a day or two or reschedule those across the next 7-30 days, which is what I normally did. For that reason, it can been somewhat variable.

 

[LostinLift]

For people in systems based (normal 1st year, path/pharm 2nd) programs, did you basically flag all of the Basic Sciences except for micro, pharm, and path AND everything from organ systems except pharm/path before 2nd year?

 

[GrabSlamBoot]

For those that used FC throughout m1/m2, how many topics were you trying to flag on a daily basis?

85 percent flagged doing about 7-8 topics per day. I always aimed for about 5 and I'm probably 50 topics away from being done because I'm going to leave a good portion of anatomy/behavioral science/ and embryology unflagged until I get closer to my test date (a little over a year from now haha)

 

[Lafakads]

85 percent flagged doing about 7-8 topics per day. I always aimed for about 5 and I'm probably 50 topics away from being done because I'm going to leave a good portion of anatomy/behavioral science/ and embryology unflagged until I get closer to my test date (a little over a year from now haha)

So did you flag pathology stuff already? 85% is impressive!

 

[Dr Dazzle]

85 percent flagged doing about 7-8 topics per day. I always aimed for about 5 and I'm probably 50 topics away from being done because I'm going to leave a good portion of anatomy/behavioral science/ and embryology unflagged until I get closer to my test date (a little over a year from now haha)

I thought it was better to go along with curriculum. Did you have any trouble with cards you hadn't covered in class yet?

 

[DrEnderW]

85 percent flagged doing about 7-8 topics per day. I always aimed for about 5 and I'm probably 50 topics away from being done because I'm going to leave a good portion of anatomy/behavioral science/ and embryology unflagged until I get closer to my test date (a little over a year from now haha)

Wow, I've never heard of anything like that. Even from people that hit 100%.

What kind of score do you have? And how many questions do you get/do a day of review?

 

[Shjanzey]

Is anyone else having an issue with the new app syncing with the online site? I switch around a lot and I find myself doing the same questions when I do...

This is a known problem that I reported a few weeks ago. The problem is that when you go "offline" the app does not keep track of your progress. I only noticed it when I took a flight and answered several hundred questions with "airplane mode" turned on. When we landed I enabled it for Internet and the app reloaded, showing me hundreds of questions I thought I was done with 🙁

They are working on it.

 

[GrabSlamBoot]

Wow, I've never heard of anything like that. Even from people that hit 100%.

What kind of score do you have? And how many questions do you get/do a day of review?

Talking about my previous post, my school is a one year pre clinical curriculum. I think it is a bad idea to flag topics you haven't been introduced to in a classroom sort of setting because then you are memorizing not understanding, so I never flagged a topic I didn't learn first through Robbins or pathoma or clinical micro ect. And yeah so far I think it pays off. I used rx along with my classes just tutor mode to help me learn fa and I finished with 84-85% ( can't remember exactly). I haven't done u world or anything yet hopefully over the next year keeping up with firecracker and Anki will really cement things and I'll see how things go when I hit dedicated study time after rotations. Good luck to everyone.

 

[surely]

One year ago yesterday (ha!), @Signorina shared her AutoHotkey script for changing the keyboard shortcuts for Firecracker such that you could press one key to both rate your understanding of a question and submit that rating, moving on to the next question. With an AutoHotkey script, you can press 4 to move on to the next question, rather than having to press 4 and enter to move on. Unfortunately, AutoHotkey isn't available for Mac OSX users. Fortunately, after a bit of research, I found a workaround for Mac OSX users. If you're using Chrome, it requires two things: The Chrome "BackStop" extension (free) and the aText application (free trial, $4.99 to purchase).


Keyboard shortcut modifying tutorial for Mac OSX:

1) Install aText. I recommend clicking the "Download free trial" button on the left so you can play around with it before buying it. However, I already had purchased a copy of this, so I haven't tested this out with the free trial. If someone could be so kind as to test it using the trial version and report back to confirm that it works, I'd appreciate it!

2) Create a group. Open aText and click the "New Group" button. Name your group Firecracker. In the "Expand" field, make sure Immediately is selected. In the "If abbreviation is placed after" field, make sure Any character is selected. In the "Enabled in" field, select Only these Applications. A dialog box will open with a list of applications - Since we only want this script to run while using Chrome, select Chrome. The rest of the settings can be left with their default values.

3) Create your first shortcut. With the Firecracker group highlighted, click the New button, which looks like a plus sign. In the "Abbreviation" field, type the number 1. Now click the Insert button at the bottom and select Key. A dialog box will pop up. In the "Key" field, type 1 and click Close. We're going to do this again - Click Insert, select Key, but this time, in the "Key" field, hit the enter key and click Close. This tells aText that when you type 1, what you really mean is "1 enter."

4) Create the rest of the number shortcuts for numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5 using the instructions from step 3.

5) Create a shortcut for showing the answer. I'd rather press the spacebar than press "S" to show the answer. So press the New button again, and in the "Abbreviation" field, press the spacebar. Now click Insert, select Key, and in the "Key" field, type the letter s and click close.

6) Install the Backstop extension for Chrome. When aText replaces the abbreviation with the intended text, it basically highlights the abbreviation and deletes it before inserting the desired text. The problem is, it deletes this by sending a "backspace" command, which, in a browser like Chrome, tells the browser "go to the previous page." Which breaks Firecracker. However, you can fix this by installing the free BackStop extension for Chrome, which tells Chrome NOT to go back a page when it sees you hit backspace.

So... that's it! Test it out and let me know if you run into any problems or questions. Hope this helps someone.


Fair warning: You'll want to turn this off when you're not using Firecracker, otherwise your spacebar and numbers 1-5 won't work. The easiest way to turn it off is by selecting the Firecracker group in aText and changing "Enabled in" so it says "No Application (Disabled)." When it's time to Firecracker again, change "Enabled in" back to "Only these applications." You can also go into aText preferences → Hotkeys and create a keyboard shortcut that allows you to enable/disable aText at will (though it will disable it in ALL applications, unfortunately). Another way around this would be to use a separate browser solely for Firecracker. Firefox is a good option, and it seems you can disable the "backspace means go to the previous page" setting following these instructions (haven't tested it myself, though).

Also, an aside: BackStop is awesome and I just keep it turned on all the time. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally lost a half-written comment because I backspaced without realizing my cursor wasn't in the text field, causing me to jump back a page. Never again!

aText is ALSO awesome - I have shortcuts set up to auto-complete my email address and insert symbols I use all the time. For instance, typing ",a" inserts the alpha character α, and ",b" inserts the beta character β, ",e" gives me ε, -> becomes →, ",done" turns into ✓.

Ciao everyone,

I posted a while back a way to tweak keyboard shortcuts with AutoHotkey so that the keyboard shortcut I choose enters a score and automatically goes to the next question. 1 click.

I've been busy with my first year of med school, but now I'm back at it and this time I tweaked the script so that it ONLY works when the Firecracker page is open, and it works for any browser, but it won't affect the other browser tabs, since I find myself googling a lot, and I need a full keyboard to search for info at the same time as I'm doing my questions.


1) Install AutoHotkey

2) Right click on the icon and "edit this script"

3) Paste the following:

SetTitleMatchMode, 2
#IfWinActive, Firecracker

h::Send {1} {Enter}
j::Send {2} {Enter}
k::Send {3} {Enter}
l::Send {4} {Enter}
Space::s
return

4) Save script and right-click "reload script"

-- 1 click selects a score, saves the score, and automatically goes to the next question
-- You can edit the script and use any letter-number combination you'd like.
-- The space bar shows/hides the answer
-- The code only activates when you have the Firecracker page open, on any browser, and disables when you're on any other tab/webpage


This way when I do my daily questions I'm just clicking.... space... k... space... l... space ..k ...space... etc.

That's it!

 

[redsoxist]

Just thought I'd add my experience with Firecracker: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...d-scores-thread.1044910/page-76#post-15505046

 

[DrEnderW]

Just thought I'd add my experience with Firecracker: http://forums.studentdoctor.net/thr...d-scores-thread.1044910/page-76#post-15505046

Thanks for sharing that here and congrats on the score.

 

[PumpingIONS]

I'm an MS2 new to FC. I was wondering if you guys had any insight into whether its better at this point to flag all the subjects I've previously learned, or to flag a few master them and flag more as I go. When I flag all the subjects I have learned so far it gives me a ridiculous about of questions to do today (~5000). Just seems like I wont remember much half way through that massive amount.

 

[bobsanchez123c]

I am about to start MS2 and I am new to firecracker. I was wondering if anyone who started at the beginning of MS2 has a daily schedule in terms of how many topics to do in order to finish it all or any suggestions in how to use firecracker throughout the year.

 

[Bancrofti]

Firecracker was worth it

Good luck to all the MS1/2's. There are definitely alternative options, but FC certainly isn't a waste of your time if you do it either.

 

[dyspareunia]

Firecracker was worth it

Good luck to all the MS1/2's. There are definitely alternative options, but FC certainly isn't a waste of your time if you do it either.

Congrats on the 265! I just started MS2 and I did not finish flagging everything from MS1 🙂(). Any advice on how I should move forward with FC? Try to continue banking MS1 stuff along with MS2 stuff? Or just let the MS1 stuff go unbanked...

 

[WhovianDO]

I'm an MS2 new to FC. I was wondering if you guys had any insight into whether its better at this point to flag all the subjects I've previously learned, or to flag a few master them and flag more as I go. When I flag all the subjects I have learned so far it gives me a ridiculous about of questions to do today (~5000). Just seems like I wont remember much half way through that massive amount.

In the same boat. Suggestions?

 

[Bancrofti]

I am about to start MS2 and I am new to firecracker. I was wondering if anyone who started at the beginning of MS2 has a daily schedule in terms of how many topics to do in order to finish it all or any suggestions in how to use firecracker throughout the year.

@WhovianDO
Seems like you guys for the most part have a similar question. You have to just try to set your own schedule. It's been mentioned a couple times in this thread, just set a target completion date for yourself, figure out how many days or weeks that is from today and then divide by how many topics you have left.
I also started in the summer as you guys are. I think I flagged all of Immunology, ~30 topics in Biochem, half of Embryology, and I had bought Clinical Microbiology made Ridiculously simple and read the first 2 chapters, so I also flagged the general Micro info since I was comfortable with it.

During the year the system I finally settled on was do questions in the morning, go to classes/study, then sometime in the evening flag a few topics that I had been studying. In an ideal world, you'd be able to flag everything relevant to your classes in that week, but at times you will fall off, or at other times it may be a little overbearing to try to handle too much. I think normally my goal was somewhere between 30-50 topics flagged per week. I only finished with 1000 topics flagged though, so clearly there were many weeks where I wasn't getting the job done. There are other who post here who have gotten through it completely, it is very doable if you're diligent.

Congrats on the 265! I just started MS2 and I did not finish flagging everything from MS1 🙂(). Any advice on how I should move forward with FC? Try to continue banking MS1 stuff along with MS2 stuff? Or just let the MS1 stuff go unbanked...

Find a happy medium of flagging both. However, at this point I would transition more towards flagging MS2 material. It makes FC a more efficient use of your time as it won't just be a long term step-prep tool, but an extra study tool for your courses. That's in addition to the fact that the step will be more MS2 weighted anyway. This isn't to say MS1 content isn't still very important, just that if you had to give preference to 1 over the other, then MS2 stuff would be more high yield IMO to get done first. In the end you should try to flag everything anyway, so you might as well do it in a fashion that lets you profit from it the most.

 

[Lafakads]

@WhovianDO
Seems like you guys for the most part have a similar question. You have to just try to set your own schedule. It's been mentioned a couple times in this thread, just set a target completion date for yourself, figure out how many days or weeks that is from today and then divide by how many topics you have left.
I also started in the summer as you guys are. I think I flagged all of Immunology, ~30 topics in Biochem, half of Embryology, and I had bought Clinical Microbiology made Ridiculously simple and read the first 2 chapters, so I also flagged the general Micro info since I was comfortable with it.

During the year the system I finally settled on was do questions in the morning, go to classes/study, then sometime in the evening flag a few topics that I had been studying. In an ideal world, you'd be able to flag everything relevant to your classes in that week, but at times you will fall off, or at other times it may be a little overbearing to try to handle too much. I think normally my goal was somewhere between 30-50 topics flagged per week. I only finished with 1000 topics flagged though, so clearly there were many weeks where I wasn't getting the job done. There are other who post here who have gotten through it completely, it is very doable if you're diligent.



Find a happy medium of flagging both. However, at this point I would transition more towards flagging MS2 material. It makes FC a more efficient use of your time as it won't just be a long term step-prep tool, but an extra study tool for your courses. That's in addition to the fact that the step will be more MS2 weighted anyway. This isn't to say MS1 content isn't still very important, just that if you had to give preference to 1 over the other, then MS2 stuff would be more high yield IMO to get done first. In the end you should try to flag everything anyway, so you might as well do it in a fashion that lets you profit from it the most.

Did you find embryo useful? I swear some of those topics seemed pretty low yield with 40+ questions.

 

[dyspareunia]

@WhovianDO
Seems like you guys for the most part have a similar question. You have to just try to set your own schedule. It's been mentioned a couple times in this thread, just set a target completion date for yourself, figure out how many days or weeks that is from today and then divide by how many topics you have left.
I also started in the summer as you guys are. I think I flagged all of Immunology, ~30 topics in Biochem, half of Embryology, and I had bought Clinical Microbiology made Ridiculously simple and read the first 2 chapters, so I also flagged the general Micro info since I was comfortable with it.

During the year the system I finally settled on was do questions in the morning, go to classes/study, then sometime in the evening flag a few topics that I had been studying. In an ideal world, you'd be able to flag everything relevant to your classes in that week, but at times you will fall off, or at other times it may be a little overbearing to try to handle too much. I think normally my goal was somewhere between 30-50 topics flagged per week. I only finished with 1000 topics flagged though, so clearly there were many weeks where I wasn't getting the job done. There are other who post here who have gotten through it completely, it is very doable if you're diligent.



Find a happy medium of flagging both. However, at this point I would transition more towards flagging MS2 material. It makes FC a more efficient use of your time as it won't just be a long term step-prep tool, but an extra study tool for your courses. That's in addition to the fact that the step will be more MS2 weighted anyway. This isn't to say MS1 content isn't still very important, just that if you had to give preference to 1 over the other, then MS2 stuff would be more high yield IMO to get done first. In the end you should try to flag everything anyway, so you might as well do it in a fashion that lets you profit from it the most.

Thanks! I think I remember reading somewhere that you didn't start FC until MS2, but you still managed to bank all of MS1 info? How did you handle doing all that?

 

[Bancrofti]

Did you find embryo useful? I swear some of those topics seemed pretty low yield with 40+ questions.

I don't recall having much embryo on my exam, but I know that whenever I got embryo questions on qbanks I typically got them right, even when the user average for the question was fairly low. It can be annoying to flag those topics with a crapload of questions, especially in something like embryo. At the same time, some of them aren't as bad as they seem, because quite a few of the questions ask virtually the same thing.
There is nothing wrong with getting a score like a 230 or 240, but if that is someone's goal, I have no idea why they would waste their time with FC, because there are definitely easier methods of scoring in that range. If your goal is to score as well as possible, then your objective should be to make full utility of the program, no matter how monotonous it may be or low yield some topics/questions may seem.

Thanks! I think I remember reading somewhere that you didn't start FC until MS2, but you still managed to bank all of MS1 info? How did you handle doing all that?

I'm not sure that was me. I started summer before MS2, yes, but I didn't finish all of MS1 info even until the end. I only got through about half of the Anatomy topics and I didn't even finish flagging Biochem topics until around April.
In general flagging during the year isn't easy though. There were definitely some times where I was too overwhelmed by Path to keep up with my intended weekly flagging numbers. There's no great way to do it really. Just know that you want to get through it and do as much as you can, when you can, without letting your grades suffer.

 

[DrEnderW]

For those interested that haven't read it yet:

http://blog.firecracker.me/2014/08/01/firecrackers-averaged-a-245-on-step-1/

 

[dyspareunia]

Thanks for the info @Bancrofti .

Does anyone know of any group buys right now? I only need about 6 months to carry me through Step 1 and I don't want to pay full price... Didn't know that the 45% off thing ended a few days ago.

I just saw that email saying they aren't going to do anymore 45% off sales during the 2014-2015 school years.. Not sure if I believe them though. I've been buying 3-4 months when they have sales and in most cases I've paid roughly $20/mo. Do you guys think they'll roll out more sales like that?

 

[abolt18]

I've only flagged a bit over 100 questions and I want to be done flagging 40 weeks from now. I figure 30 new flags a week will hopefully be manageable and get me done early so I have more focused study for that last month before taking boards. Also, @DrEnderW I saw that post today as well and I find it exciting, although I look forward to seeing more data supporting it rather than just a few points on a graph.

 

[olecranon4]

Just thought I'd share for self-therapeutic reasons. I start 2nd year in a week and I have about 430 topics tagged. I'm trying to tag 4-5 topics per day, but it's getting harder and harder because I think I left all the "long" MS1 topics until now (25-40 questions), so I'm spending like 1-2 hours tagging new topics these days. I don't think that's sustainable. My hope is that 2nd year topics will open up a lot of the shorter topics, so that I'm only spending <1 hr every day tagging topics for second year. Thank you for listening.

 

[dyspareunia]

From the Transcription card in Biochem -> DNA&RNA.

 

[dyspareunia]

Need some help with this.. Why would an alpha2 blocker increase cholinergic tone and decrease adrenergic tone? I would have expected the opposite.. alpha-2 agonists decrease release of norepi and alpha-2 antagonists increase release of norepi.. Right?

Yohimbine is a non-FDA approved drug that blocks presynaptic alpha-2-adrenergic receptors, resulting in increased cholinergic and decreased adrenergic tone, and has also been used in the management of erectile dysfunction.

 

[DrEnderW]

For the M1s that may be reading:

http://blog.firecracker.me/2014/08/05/the-best-anatomy-flashcard-study-plan/

 

[dyspareunia]

For the M1s that may be reading:

http://blog.firecracker.me/2014/08/05/the-best-anatomy-flashcard-study-plan/

Nice, thanks. Also useful for M2s who didn't flag anatomy and don't want to flag everything.

 

[abruzz75]

I'm curious about how you guys are using FC. How many questions/day are you all doing during the semester along with classes? And how long does that typically take you?

 

[DrEnderW]

I'm curious about how you guys are using FC. How many questions/day are you all doing during the semester along with classes? And how long does that typically take you?

I'm starting M2 with about 40% banked from 1st year. I do about 150-200+ questions a day, half of which are during required activities or during down time (during a lunch break, while profs are setting up, while kids are asking dumb questions). Once you get rolling, it's easy to do 100qs in a hour. My outside time, if I am not banking new material, is at a maximum of 2 hours. There are often days I don't get to use FC and reschedule those questions over 30 days.

There are so many people in my class that "use Firecracker." I don't think you're going to get much out of it unless you keep a solid routine and do a substantial amount of questions a day.

 

[mcloaf]

I'm curious about how you guys are using FC. How many questions/day are you all doing during the semester along with classes? And how long does that typically take you?

~75% banked, ~80-150q's/day. Question load is relatively low since I haven't been adding stuff as quickly over the summer. Generally spend 20-45 minutes per day in the morning before I start my other work. During the rougher parts of M1 I was averaging 300/day which was usually 1-1.5 hrs. My global average is still a bit under 200/day, which I think is an accurate representation of what to expect if you're doing it along with class.

Also very much agree with @DrEnderW that FC is not worth it unless you stick to it consistently. I know many kids who paid for the program, fell behind, and then complained about how FC "didn't work" for them. It's worth being honest with yourself about whether or not you're willing to put in the daily time before you shell out the money.

 

[DrEnderW]

~75% banked, ~80-150q's/day.

How do you keep your questions/day that low with that level of content?

I know many kids who paid for the program, fell behind, and then complained about how FC "didn't work" for them. It's worth being honest with yourself about whether or not you're willing to put in the daily time before you shell out the money.

This is a great point! There is a huge different between having an FC account and doing it every now and then and being a dedicated user.

On a side note, has anyone ever used "normal mode" opposed to legendary?

 

[abolt18]

I started on normal mode (not knowing the difference) and did all of GI so it was about 600+ q's done. When I switched to legendary it added over 300 questions to my 'do today' so it took me a bit to get caught up. Legendary is WAY more questions and I appreciate that. More detail.

So far I've only got about 15% flagged with 85% mastery. I do a minimum of one hour per day then do more if I have time. I average about 100 q's per day. As I'm getting more used to it I'm finding I go a lot faster but I used to only do about 50-60 in that hour.

 

[mcloaf]

How do you keep your questions/day that low with that level of content?

~95% mastery keeps things at a manageable number. I'm probably a little more generous with my scoring than some, depending on the topic. I also banked pretty aggressively during M1 (~60-65% banked by the end) so a lot of that stuff I've seen many many times already.

 

[DrEnderW]

~95% mastery keeps things at a manageable number. I'm probably a little more generous with my scoring than some, depending on the topic. I also banked pretty aggressively during M1 (~60-65% banked by the end) so a lot of that stuff I've seen many many times already.

Makes sense - I think I need to be a little more liberal with what I score myself so I have more time to bank.

Thanks for the insights. I'm hoping the "vacation mode" comes out soon so there is less backlog if you skip a couple days before big exams, etc.

In case any DO students are interested, there is an OMM section now available.

 

[dyspareunia]

~75% banked, ~80-150q's/day. Question load is relatively low since I haven't been adding stuff as quickly over the summer. Generally spend 20-45 minutes per day in the morning before I start my other work. During the rougher parts of M1 I was averaging 300/day which was usually 1-1.5 hrs. My global average is still a bit under 200/day, which I think is an accurate representation of what to expect if you're doing it along with class.

Also very much agree with @DrEnderW that FC is not worth it unless you stick to it consistently. I know many kids who paid for the program, fell behind, and then complained about how FC "didn't work" for them. It's worth being honest with yourself about whether or not you're willing to put in the daily time before you shell out the money.

Nice. Only 25% banked and I have about 60-100 questions per day. Going to start getting aggressive with it this week.

 

[Lafakads]

Nice. Only 25% banked and I have about 60-100 questions per day. Going to start getting aggressive with it this week.

Im at about 25% too. I'm going to start trying to flag 6-7 topics per day now that MS2 is starting soon. Either for my classes or previously studied topics.

Lets do this!