For those of you who have taken it, who wishes they had focused MORE on FA and

[HotLikeSauce]

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spent less time reading other books? I'm struggling because I have about 4 weeks left, and I've got this nagging gut feeling that I'm wasting too much time reading non-FA books (I have the Kaplan set, plus CMMRS and RR path) for a 2nd pass. I've already made 1 pass through all of the books I've wanted to use (although the passes were not SUPER in-depth and wasn't trying to memorize every detail, was mostly reading and then annotating into FA for SOME of the details that seemed to be missing) and annotated in wrong questions on qbanks into my FA. To be honest, I'd love to get 245+ and would really really love a top score, so I'm struggling with the whole "FA doesn't have everything and that's what separates the top students from everyone else" vs "just know FA cold and do lots and lots of questions" theories.

Does anyone have any input? I've done the 2 UWSA assessments (UWSA1- 247, UWSA 2- 260), and I feel like when I've done them, for the stuff that I didn't know that I could usually isolate it to a page of FA. I guess I'm just anxious about abandoning these other review books when people keep saying that a lot of stuff isn't in FA and that that's what separates people, especially since even though I've annotated stuff in, it's obviously impossible to annotate in EVERYTHING haha...

Does anyone feel like more passes of FA would have helped them more on the exam vs. spending some time with other resources?

Thanks for any input! 🙂

 

[mrmandrake]

I was in the same situation. Take an NBME (you can find offline ones) and see how many you get wrong. If you are getting less than 15 wrong, you are probably in the 250+ range. Look at the ones you got wrong and see if material in FA could have answered the question.

For me, I think a 250 is possible without too many extra resources besides FA and UW. I am in the 245-250 range on NBMEs and the 260 range on UWSA's. The questions I miss on the NBMEs are just me being stupid most of the time and overthinking things. This is just my opinion though.

 

[SlaveOfTCMC]

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[jfgavina]

what about anatomy? is it possible to answer in actual exam just by reading UW and FA?

 

[HotLikeSauce]

what about anatomy? is it possible to answer in actual exam just by reading UW and FA?

I have heard that if there is one section where the whole "FA doesn't have everything you need to know" is true, that it's definitely for anatomy. I'm going to supplement my FA/UW knowledge by reading another book closer to my test date (I'm sure I'll forget it if I read it now haha) and go from there and pray that I somehow retain some of that into my short term memory. I'm not sure that anatomy is really one of those things you can annotate into FA either, but I'd imagine that I'm just wasting time reading it now because I literally won't remember it in a week...