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@mcloaf and @abolt18 may have a system that works better for them, but I generally suggest flagging gradually as you learn topics in class, regardless of where in the content tree they exist. We mapped our content to the recently-updated USMLE syllabus, and as such it is also organized according to USMLE subject areas. This just means that our content hierarchy might not mirror exactly the order in which you are covering the topics in class. The important part is that you just continue marking stuff as you learn it. It's totally fine if you need to jump around a bit.
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Thanks so much for the kind words @mechanic21511375. That means a lot to us.
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Bit of a question for people who have completed Step 1 etc.
So I just started M2 and need some advice on how to approach learning things. ALL of our classes will be using NBME-made tests rather than in house tests (our normal exams will be made from questions bought from the NBME-bank, professor do get to choose the questions though-also if a professor feels like they cannot find an appropriate question, they can give us a inhouse test with a few more questions worth at most 10% of the test grade, we will also have the cumulative shelf exams at the end). The advantage of this is that you can pretty much study board-prep materials and learn only what is important. Last year Physiology was on this system and I ignored every single lecture, read through Costanza once, and just memorized BRS and did phenomenal on my exams and the NBME Physio Shelf. I saved a lot of time studying this way and would like to do it for m2 classes but Im not sure how to approach it and get a good foundation.
For Path- I was gonna Watch Pathoma Videos, annotate into Pathoma, read Firecracker topics and annotate the extra material there into Pathoma (So I have an organized area of Path Notes for specific exams. I'm doing this because I heard Pathoma is amazing , but can be incomplete, and firecracker does have more detail. If I memorize Firecracker/Pathoma will this be enough?
Pharm-Firecracker + whats the most relevant Board review book that also works as a primary learning material
Same question for Microbio/Pathophys etc.
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So I just started M2 and need some advice on how to approach learning things. ALL of our classes will be using NBME-made tests rather than in house tests (our normal exams will be made from questions bought from the NBME-bank, professor do get to choose the questions though-also if a professor feels like they cannot find an appropriate question, they can give us a inhouse test with a few more questions worth at most 10% of the test grade, we will also have the cumulative shelf exams at the end). The advantage of this is that you can pretty much study board-prep materials and learn only what is important. Last year Physiology was on this system and I ignored every single lecture, read through Costanza once, and just memorized BRS and did phenomenal on my exams and the NBME Physio Shelf. I saved a lot of time studying this way and would like to do it for m2 classes but Im not sure how to approach it and get a good foundation.
For Path- I was gonna Watch Pathoma Videos, annotate into Pathoma, read Firecracker topics and annotate the extra material there into Pathoma (So I have an organized area of Path Notes for specific exams. I'm doing this because I heard Pathoma is amazing , but can be incomplete, and firecracker does have more detail. If I memorize Firecracker/Pathoma will this be enough?
Pharm-Firecracker + whats the most relevant Board review book that also works as a primary learning material
Same question for Microbio/Pathophys etc.
Thanks!
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Yes. It's all about the repetition. Once you get to dedicated period you'll want to have FA ready to go.
I would love this. My school isn't like this and its so hard to keep up with the minutia in lecture in addition to Pathoma and Firecracker.
I fee like Pathoma and FC are highly redundant/similar. I hate videos and can't learn from them, so I'm tempted to use just FC during class and use Pathoma later as a review.
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I flag whatever is relevant to the lecture I got that day. My school is not systems based so I had to do things piece meal, but it works out as long as you pay attention to what content you are flagging.
Here is an example... I just started path and we recently had a lecture on acute and chronic inflammation. I went to to the general path section and flagged ONLY those two topics and tried to do them that day. The next day I had a pharm lecture on stuff like atropine so I went and flagged the relevant topics in pharm. I never mass flag a topic which basically means I don't use FC to study ahead. I use it to parallel my studies. I actually fall behind a lot, but thats ok because I use FC for the long-term goal of Step 1 and not in class exams. I usually catch up because I use FC to study for NBMEs at the end of a course.
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@theKeithF, is there a way to adjust the daily number of cards on Firecracker MD? I didn't see anything under the account settings tab and was hoping that you could help.
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There is no way to adjust daily goals anymore. Your daily goal is your daily goal. However, right now it's currently only based on your desired score and test date. In a few weeks they are going to roll out with the adaptive system which will take into account your past flagged material. percent mastery, etc.
Is there a way to change what % of my daily goal is review? I don't really want to use FC for in class studying as much as it wants me to. My goal this year was to use FC more as a review rather than parallel study method. Also, is there a way to intersperse the reviews throughout the daily goal cards? So far it seems like they come at the end, and I'm having trouble getting to them. I guess I could do filters for a review deck in "Study Something Specific", but it bothers me that it doesn't take from my card total.
Im frustrated with a lot of things overall like the inability to unmark stuff. I marked neoplasia because thats what I just did in path but it cover about 10x more. The FC neoplasia section goes way into stuff that we will cover more specifically in an organ system later, but I don't want to make it "past" because some of the cards are relevant and I don't want all those cards I don't know clogging up my review. I don't want to use FC to study ahead because I think that is super inefficient. Same thing with endocrine physiology. It contains a TON of path that we haven't gotten to in my schools curriculum. I marked it as past and the only reviews I'm getting are things that aren't really reviews. If I just had the flexibility of unmarking things...
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No and no unfortunately. I think once it becomes adaptive you might get more "past" questions and less current depending on your mastery. This product seems to have been released prematurely and has some major design flaws. Hopefully with all the changes they are going to implement in the next few weeks it will be more usable. I also don't appreciate getting an email telling us that if we don't want to use the unfinished product, to wait. Yet they sent it AFTER the release of the product. It's alright, the algorithm is decent, but this seems to be repeat of the beta testing when everything was a mess. At least the content transferred seamlessly.
I guess its ok if you use the product exactly how they want, but I think it needs more flexibility. I reviewed all MS1 cards over the summer and it was my plan to just keep those fresh and add in everything this year aside from micro and pharm (which I Anki). Honestly, I think I will stop flagging new content and mark everything as past and go from there.
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The only thing I could think of is if you switched some past stuff to current, then you would get those cards more often. If you want complete review control and want to review everything, just make everything current and have no past material.
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The app uses the marks (urgent, current, and past) to determine the ratio of questions that are assigned. If you have marked enough content the majority of your daily assigned questions will be pulled from current and urgent. A streak of urgent will always start the stack and most of the past questions will be at the end. It helps the algorithm better prioritize the incredible amount of material you are trying to cover. Editing the study plan is being completed right now.
We want to make the app much more flexible while ensuring you get the coverage you need for both short and long-term goals.
We want to make the app much more flexible while ensuring you get the coverage you need for both short and long-term goals.
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Yeah the amount of Past stuff/270 cards I'm suppose to do per day seems way toosmall. I flagged like 350 topics over 1.5 months and with only 20-30 cards past cards per day, I dont think Ill retain the old stuff since I haven't exactly seen those cards toomuch yet. If I flag everything in Past then that may be too extreme and not conductive to current studying. Maybe I'll keep new topics Current for 1-2 weeks and then put it into Past, and into Urgent 1 week before a test. But if I keep Current topics low will I just get the same current material every day?
Also is anyone else experiencing crashing of the main site frequently? The Review/Learn parts keep getting stuck at loading and I can't do anything. This is happening a lot to me on all browsers
Also is anyone else experiencing crashing of the main site frequently? The Review/Learn parts keep getting stuck at loading and I can't do anything. This is happening a lot to me on all browsers
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I think I figured out how to unflag a topic (OR if you have a ton of PAST topics (like Anatomy) that you never got to review and now you get random cards from random sections (and without that secondary review at somepoint, you lost the narrative). Go to firecracker beta site m.firecracker.me and unflag what you dont want in circulation, I believe it transitions over automatically to the new firecracker (atleast its working for me).
What would you suggest for someone who doesn't wish to use Firecracker for short-term goals? I actively try to avoid using it to study for class since they don't align perfectly. Since my school doesn't just do NBME I need to cater to the in-class exams.
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Apologies for the radio silence on my end. I've been on the road making school visits, and then I had to move into a new apartment as soon as I got back. The worst. Now that I'm back among the living, let me shed some light on a few of your questions/concerns:
First, regarding the inability to unmark: This was the hardest decision I made when building the new product experience, and - candidly - it was easily the biggest mistake. (I don't mind admitting this.) I still believe the vision behind it is correct (I'll explain some of that in a bit), but it has become clear that many existing Firecracker Legacy and Beta users are far too accustomed to the previous flagging behavior to be able to completely abandon it comfortably. As such, we are adding the ability to unmark back into Firecracker MD and Firecracker DO; this will be available by 8/27 (next Thursday) at the latest. (Just as an aside: we are adding updates and enhancements every Thursday for the next few months. We have a tentative schedule for these updates, but things can be moved in response to the requests of our members. If you want something, just let me know and I can work at getting it in there [email protected].) That said, I'd like to explain why I decided to launch without unmarking.
When we analyzed the past flagging behavior of users in Legacy and Beta, the rampant flagging/unflagging that occurred seriously worried me. Flagging in the older systems essentially meant 'see/don't see'. The problem with this is that - in terms of longterm test prep - you should never just not see any of the content you've learned in the past. The goal of adaptive, spaced repetition learning platforms like Firecracker is to assist you in curating learned material over time, and then presenting you with that past learned content again at the exact moment before you forget it, ensuring that you keep it fresh during your entire length of study. With the past flagging behavior, members could basically turn off the content they had learned, meaning we could never present it to them again to ensure they didn't forget it. That is a glaring problem as it significantly undermines the promise of our algorithm and the intelligent tutor it drives.
As such, I believed it was better to try to take a stronger hand in directing members to use marking in the appropriate long-term manner: namely, thinking of marking as signifying that content has been learned. And since you cannot simply unlearn something, it made sense to not allow you to unmark, as well. (This is a highly reductionist explanation of our considerations, but you get the point.) The goal of any good product UX is always to direct users towards the best behavior for them. This typically occurs through education and a certain degree of hand holding/trust building. Unfortunately, blocking unmarking in fact ended up being an overly aggressive way of educating users by simply forcing them into the behavior that we believed was best for them. It was a mistake, but I hope now you can see it as an honest one. (I'll stop droning on here, but if you're interested in knowing more, just let me know. I'm down to be uncomfortably transparent.)
But on to greener pastures! By the end of next week, we are adding two core features that will remedy 95% of all concerns I've received since we launched:
- The ability to unmark content. (When you go to unmark, I'll warn you that you should only unmark if you either incorrectly marked something or realized you haven't learned it yet. However, you can dismiss that warning and unmark anyway.)
- The ability to reset your study plan. (Yep. It seems many students either rushed through it the first time or were a bit too... aggressive... regarding their lofty goals. We are actually aiming on adding this today, but you know how software is...)
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If you only care about long-term test goals you should mark the content you wish to focus on as current. It will then make up the majority of your daily questions. As you master that material you can move it to past and then add more to current.
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@theKeithF @firecrackerJason I have been using the new MD system. I have a few questions. When I do questions under study something specific, it does not take away from my daily goal. For example, if my daily goal is 300 and I do 50 questions in the topics, I still have 300 questions left to do. It does show up on the week long bar graph that I have done questions that day, but it does not subtract from my review. I know when I was using beta, no matter where I did the cards from (i.e. new topics or the "Do Today's Questions" tab) then it counted towards my daily goal. Is this an error or is this how the site was designed?
Also, when marking new topics, do y'all recommend to go into the topic, mark as current, read the info, and do the questions right then for that topic? I did not know if I should do that or if I should mark as current, read the information and not do the questions and just let them eventually work their way into the deck as the algorithm allows. I'm just trying to understand how I can best use the system to my benefit.
Also, when marking new topics, do y'all recommend to go into the topic, mark as current, read the info, and do the questions right then for that topic? I did not know if I should do that or if I should mark as current, read the information and not do the questions and just let them eventually work their way into the deck as the algorithm allows. I'm just trying to understand how I can best use the system to my benefit.
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AWESOME question regarding the impact that the questions done in Study Something Specific (SSS) has on your daily recommended questions on Today's To-Dos (TTD). Exactly why I love building products for highly-intelligent (and highly-stressed) audiences - you will find every nuance and idiosyncrasy. Here's how it works:
The questions assigned to you today on TTD are not arbitrary or random; they are carefully selected as the ones that you are at the highest risk of forgetting, and as such are the ones you need to refresh through review as soon as possible. This is why doing questions in SSS doesn't always affect your review task progress. However, if - by coincidence or not - you happen to do review of questions in SSS that also exist in your TTD review task, those questions will be counted toward your task progress. In summary: Doing any review is a great thing, but your tasks on TTD are the ones you're most at risk at forgetting, so we hold those on a higher pedestal of importance. Hope that makes sense, but if you're interested in going a bit deeper down the algorithm rabbit hole, here's a basic and more advanced explanation of the new Firecracker MD/DO algorithm.
As for your second question regarding how to best go about marking new content as learned. I have a few thoughts here. First, the correct answer is obviously "whatever works best for you and your schedule." That said, the process you've outlined - mark as current, read the topic summary, and then immediately do the review questions - is absolutely the ideal. Here's why: When you mark new content as learned, we set the related questions at a very high priority because you haven't yet seen them. We then take those questions, and split them out over your next few days of review tasks on TTD. As such, you won't be bombarded with all of them the very next day, but it will take a few sessions to finally see them all. Now, if you instead follow the process detailed above and immediately do the review questions, we're able to much more accurately determine when you should see them again because we can base that recommendation directly on your performance with those questions. Put simply, every input you make (whether that's telling us more about yourself or telling the system more about how well you know certain concepts), the better Firecracker gets as knowing what concepts to assign you, and when to assign them.
Great stuff. Thanks for asking.
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As @Ophthoseidon mentioned, we will not be allowing students to directly adjust their daily question counts. However, you will be able to adjust many of the variables that affect that recommendation (by the end of next week, at the absolute latest). The reason is because that daily recommended question count isn't arbitrary, nor should it be. You can read my response to @pacman2018 right above this for a bit more info., but to put it simply: Your experience is an equation. I totally get enjoying the feeling of having achieved something for the day, but we want to make sure that the thing you're achieving is meaningful. It would be irresponsible for us to recommend something like 25 questions per day simply for the sake of letting you feel like you can easily and quickly complete them. Our first responsibility is to your success, and we have to constantly use that general maxim as one of our guiding principles.
So while it may appear a bit burdensome at first, just keep in mind that we have your ultimate goal in mind. And since the recommendation will soon be truly adaptive, this will change over time as you get ahead or behind. Plus, you can always update your study plan a bit by making it more conservative; this will typically lower your daily recommendation. (Also, you should be able to knock out about 5 questions - plus or minus a few - each minute. If it is taking you substantially longer than this, I'd love to hear how you're going about your review sessions.)
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@theKeithF How would you recommend shifting current to past? A set amount of time? Or maybe, once we have an exam on the current material, we put it into past?
Also can you explain the breakdown of Current vs Past material in the daily goal. I've maybe flagged 30-40 topics since starting school, and almost 300 over the summer and many of those very recently. Of my 270 cards/day, my usual breakdown is only 30-40 past cards covering my 300ish topics and 240 cards covering my 30 topics. I really feel that this is not enough to remember the 3500-4000 cards i learned over the summer, many of which I have only seen a few times and definitely dont have long term grasps on (since they were recently learned/flagged). I've solved this by essentially changing all the technically past material that I've relearned/flagged over the last month into Current. I plan on keeping it there for a few weeks before shifting them back to past. Is this wise?
Also can you explain the breakdown of Current vs Past material in the daily goal. I've maybe flagged 30-40 topics since starting school, and almost 300 over the summer and many of those very recently. Of my 270 cards/day, my usual breakdown is only 30-40 past cards covering my 300ish topics and 240 cards covering my 30 topics. I really feel that this is not enough to remember the 3500-4000 cards i learned over the summer, many of which I have only seen a few times and definitely dont have long term grasps on (since they were recently learned/flagged). I've solved this by essentially changing all the technically past material that I've relearned/flagged over the last month into Current. I plan on keeping it there for a few weeks before shifting them back to past. Is this wise?
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I'm interested in how you came up with the number of questions you get done per minute? Maybe we're doing something wrong, but the majority of people in my class think I do firecracker pretty fast and when I was on beta and was focused I'd only get about 120-130 done per hour (like 2/ minute). Right now it goes a little bit faster since you are seeing almost the same questions everyday in the current content, but I don't know how accurate it would be to say 5 questions per minute is the average (again, unless I'm doing something wrong). How many questions does everyone else get done in this amount of time?
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Can the people who switched over from the old version post their experiences so far? I'm at like about 40% flagged now and I'm a little hesitant about switching over.
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Can we not simultaneously study material for Step 1 and Step 2 CK anymore? This used to be a feature. Would it be difficult to implement on Firecracker MD?
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Thanks for the response. As for my review sessions, I prefer a systematic, topic-driven approach as opposed to focusing on doing X amount of questions per day. I like to flag topics that we're covering in class for that particular day or week, read the topic summary, maybe make some notes, and then go straight to the questions for that topic. Answering the questions doesn't take too long using this method.
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Does MD have a search function? I can't seem to find it and its making flagging topics annoying.
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Are there any past firecracker users who have taken the the big test already on here? I'm curious as to what your study plan was during 2nd year and how you studied during your dedicated study time.
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Is it intended behavior on Fc MD that I see nearly 0 questions from topics marked "past"? I've been using Fc since the beginning of M1 and have flagged all that content as "past", and now, in our heme block, the only qs I see are ones I've marked in heme. I do 350 questions/day and haven't seen a single M1 question come up.
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It's intended behavior. Good for new users because it makes sure they know the material ridiculously well before putting it into the "past" category. Difficult for us that transitioned over because a lot of the things we haven't seen as often, and we're only getting 10% of questions on "past" material. The way to combat this is have more topics as current, or what I do is keep 5-10 flex topics as urgent and switch them out when you feel you know that topic well enough to put it into past.
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Oddly enough, my 350 questions for today have been, so far, all M1 material and nothing I marked as current. I don't really understand what's going on.
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Eek! Apologies for the delay and marking annoyance. I decided to launch without a few smaller features such as search simply because I didn't want to delay getting the new experience out to our members. That said, the plan is to have search added by next Thursday (9/4).
Just FYI: We will be adding updates and enhancements every Thursday over the next few months. This coming Thursday I'll send out an email announcing the addition of both unmarking and study plan updating. I'll also include a link where you can follow our progress week over week. If you have any features you'd love to see sooner, let me know so I can look at reprioritizing accordingly.
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Totally happy to shed some light on this. As @Ophthoseidon pointed out, the present ratio of Current to Past content is an ideal start for M1s and M3s who are relatively early in their preparation for their board exams. Since they haven't accumulated a large amount of material yet in their courses/clerkships, this starting ratio ensures that they have really mastered their Current content before transitioning it over to Past. This more intense focus on Current (for these groups of students) also means that when they transition that content over to Past, the required frequency of review to keep these concepts fresh is much lower. This is a great given the large volume of Past content that accumulates over time.
But that doesn't completely satisfy our past members and M2s who didn't start with Firecracker MD, does it? This is why we are actively working on an adaptive Current/Past question blend based on your progress, performance, and mastery. (I actually met with our data scientists again today to hammer out more of the specifics.) That said, this is an ongoing project and - in order to do it well - it will take us some time. So in the meantime, a few thoughts on handling your marking:
Urgent, Current, and Past are essentially just priority levels that you set, although we named them as such so new and future students would better understand how their marking behavior should align with their courses/clerkships. In the ideal situation, you will mark all current course/clerkship material as Current, meaning roughly everything you're responsible for this semester (up until your finals). At the end of the semester, you should transition all of these to Past. However, since some of you have accumulated a large amount of learned material that isn't being thoroughly enough reviewed as Past, you should feel comfortable keeping the stuff you have a good grasp of as Past and moving the remaining topics to Current. Once you have reviewed them a few more times, go ahead and transition them to Past. This will serve you well while we continue implementing a more adaptive Current/Past blend. Hope that helps.
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Just gonna copy/paste the relevant part of my post from the Step 1 experiences thread.
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Wow you had a lot flagged going into MS2. I should have probably been more aggressive flagging in MS1 🙁
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Are you guys really doing 5 questions a minute? My rate is more like 2 questions a minute as I'm sitting down to think through each question and trying to recall all the facts about it. Also, a lot of questions I don't know and so I take time to read and try to learn/memorize it. It takes me about 2.5 hours+ to get through 250 questions. The only way I could see myself doing 5 questions a minute is if I knew them completely.
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This was what I alluded to in my previous post. Once you see the same questions for so long you get faster. I still don't know anyone that does 5/min. There are times where I can hit a stretch of 10/minute but normally I get 2-3. To do 300 questions it takes about 2 hours for me
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Is anyone else having problems with the new algorithm? I will rate something a 3, 4,or 5 and literally see it as the next question or 2 or 3 questions later. It happens a lot when I hit "review more." Not sure whats up with that.
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I get through about that many, and about 400-500 in 2 hours. Here's my thinking: if I don't know it and keep marking it as a 1 after quickly reading it, I'll see it 100s of times before test day and it will inevitably get memorized. Sure, poring over it and trying to memorize it then and there would probably work, but it will become an unsustainable strategy as you get to having 300, 400, or 500 cards a day.
