Freakin out!

[tom10]

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Well I've done about 750 uworld questions and I'm sitting at a marvelous 44%. I'm about 40% done with DIT as well. It seems like every question that I do on uworld I'm guessing. On 46 questions I may definitively know the answer twice. I'm literally panicking so bad that I was encouraged to see my doctor by a professor (a physician).

I am set to take COMLEX June 27th and am rescheduling my USMLE to at least the first week of July (the sooner the better, but I have to pass). I also have to get a 450 on COMSAE June 14.

I would appreciate any advice/strategies. Thanks loads!

 

[HoboCommander]

Why not just take only the COMLEX? Is there any value in taking the USMLE unless you can do well on it?

 

[tom10]

Although you don't need to take the USMLE if you are an aspiring osteopathic physician, it is recommended if you want to do an ACGME residency. Even if you score below average on it and just want to do family practice, it makes it easier for MDs that are picking their residents to compare scores. I would think that most MDs are not familiar with COMLEX. I honestly didn't know how COMLEX was graded until about a year ago haha.

 

[preDoGuy24]

Well I've done about 750 uworld questions and I'm sitting at a marvelous 44%. I'm about 40% done with DIT as well. It seems like every question that I do on uworld I'm guessing. On 46 questions I may definitively know the answer twice. I'm literally panicking so bad that I was encouraged to see my doctor by a professor (a physician).

I am set to take COMLEX June 27th and am rescheduling my USMLE to at least the first week of July (the sooner the better, but I have to pass). I also have to get a 450 on COMSAE June 14.

I would appreciate any advice/strategies. Thanks loads!

You need to slow the questions on uworld and get after some serious content review. 40% when you feel like you are guessing for a lot of them isn't doing you any good, are you taking notes and reviewing in first aid what you get wrong? Look at the analysis they give you and see what you are doing the worst in, review these now. Personally I would ditch dit for pathoma+goljan rapid review+whatever other specific review books you need, but that's just me, if it's not working then move on to another strategy. Everything you do should be focused back to first aid, honestly even the minutiae I have come across in uworld has for the most part been in there, if you read it and get it down your scores will boost big time.

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[tom10]

You need to slow the questions on uworld and get after some serious content review. 40% when you feel like you are guessing for a lot of them isn't doing you any good, are you taking notes and reviewing in first aid what you get wrong? Look at the analysis they give you and see what you are doing the worst in, review these now. Personally I would ditch dit for pathoma+goljan rapid review+whatever other specific review books you need, but that's just me, if it's not working then move on to another strategy. Everything you do should be focused back to first aid, honestly even the minutiae I have come across in uworld has for the most part been in there, if you read it and get it down your scores will boost big time.

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I was sharing DIT and was taking my own notes which took A LOT of time. I finally wised up about 3 days ago and just said screw it and bought the program so I could have the videos on my time. I've just started filling out the study guide today (friend I shared it with wasn't using it) and annotating first aid. 10 lectures was taking be about 9.5 hours a day and that wasn't even annotating first aid.

PLAN: Hoping I can kick it up a bit, get through 12 lectures a day, review the study guide and then maybe get in 25 questions. I think I will continue on with lectures and then go back to the beginning and review those lectures so I can annotate first aid. Hopin to do that in about 2 weeks. After I finish DIT, start doing 100 questions a day and reviewing my annotated first aid. Sound like a decent plan?

 

[Phange]

DIT helped my Uworld scores tremendously by the end of it. Nearly a 20% jump in scores, so be sure to finish DIT.