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I think some people mentioned that they do GT on their iPad on the go? That could be a nice option.
And what's this...a new feature in GT?
"Discuss this topic with members of your community"
Love the continuous improvement attitude these guys have. Can't wait for another round of pictures and dare I say...video/animations!
Well they could easily prevent spam by putting in an approval system- meaning doesn`t get posted until a moderator approves it.
I think its a cool idea because Mnemonics help me a lot however I never create any I always use the medical mnemonics website or search online.
They could just ensure that only paying users can post, or users with certain percentage banked/mastered.
Can someone respond to my question, please
1) You read flashcard
2) You take quiz on flashcard
3) You rate it 1-5 on how well you know it
4) It programs how soon you will be quizzed on it again
Everyday you're quizzed on your scheduled flashcards. All the meanwhile you're 'banking' (reading-->quizzing-->rating) new flashcards.
FYI there's a free trial. Why not be proactive if you're curious?
Hi everyone, I was just wondering if most of you use the comprehensive mode for GT
Comprehensive seems to cover a lot of detail that I feel aren't too important (for example, in some biochem cards). I was told in general that you don't need to know that much detail for the step 1, so I was wondering if it'll be more efficient to do lite mode and read the entire flash card every time if there was a topic I'm not great at.
Also, I noticed that on comprehensive mode, you dont see certain topic for over a month if you rank it 3-5, whereas lite mode you see the same topic more frequently because you are doing less questions for each topic. I feel like for boards purpose its more important to cover more material with frequent exposure (lite mode), as opposed to covering topics in detail and seeing it less frequently.
Thoughts?? And thanks for your input!
Thanks and I am proactive. I do have a free trail but of course it looks different from the website, that's all. So, everyday they will give me a quiz on what I learned previously, right? Also, are most of the quizzes open ended questions or do they have multiple choice? I noticed that my quizzes are opened ended questions and they don't mark my answer right or wrong, it just says show answer.
the free trial should look exactly like the real thing, so i don't really know what you mean by "of course it looks different."
let's put it this way: when you start doing questions from things like UW and NBME tests later in your prep, you will get all the pharm, biochem, micro questions right if you do it on comprehensive mode. all of them. and they will be easy. as in, yawners.
lite mode doesn't necessarily show you things more frequently, it just keeps your overall daily question load down (less time invested) at the price of getting less out of the subscription.
I have a quick question about switching from comprehensive to light mode. I am currently on comprehensive mode, but would like to switch to light for some topics (namely anatomy). If I switch to light while I just bank those topics, will all the comprehensive flashcards I've covered still pop up on my daily schedule or does it pare down everything?
let's put it this way: when you start doing questions from things like UW and NBME tests later in your prep, you will get all the pharm, biochem, micro questions right if you do it on comprehensive mode. all of them. and they will be easy. as in, yawners.
lite mode doesn't necessarily show you things more frequently, it just keeps your overall daily question load down (less time invested) at the price of getting less out of the subscription.
they aren't going to tell you if you're right or wrong. if you write something in the little box they give you, no one ever reads that except you. the whole point is that you respond to the open-ended prompt and then rate your own recall of the answer they give when you click "show answer". There are multiple-choice questions, you tend to get more of those popping up for the first time when you do the review quizzes on the material you banked last week.
the free trial should look exactly like the real thing, so i don't really know what you mean by "of course it looks different."
Yeah I don't get it either. People will make the weirdest excuses to explain their laziness.
Thanks for responding and if you look at the tutorial on Gunner Training my page looks nothing like that. It looks different that's all.
Ok, so it is open ended questions and they are testing me on how I recall the topics at hand. The banked questions are questions I previously did that will show up again in my future quizzes, right?
If you don't have nothing nice to say then don't comment at all because I am far from being LAZY. I just had a couple of questions since they don't have a great tutorial and plus I am using it for the MCAT instead.
I`m surprised at how much detail is in the Endocrine cards. While the number of cards is small the amount of information on each card is a lot. The physiology parts seem to be following BRS word for word almost. I watched Pathoma for Endocrine however I feel like the GT cards have so much more information.
Anyone else depressed when they add new cards and it brings down your % complete? I was looking at posts from early 2011 in this thread, and the card count was at 806. That would easily give me a 5% boost from where I'm at.
I mean I know it's a good thing, but it's really killing my motivation as I don't feel like I'm making progress. It's all mental I know.
Dude the worst is when you bank cards & rate them 4's because you just read them and it's fresh. Then on your next several repetitions you forget some details and are forced to rate them 2 or 3. When this happens too much the line graph on my 'power analytics' section actually begins going down...aka getting worse with more reps
If I miss a card often, I will read a little extra in a textbook or find a good picture or diagram, etc. I try to deepen the conceptual learning of it (when possible).
Then I rate the card low for the next few times I do it (1's and 2's) and I find that the conceptual basis of remembering starts to become associated with the bullet facts. I'm not even 20% banked yet though, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
Picking the core resources.
I think GT is pretty comprehensive and maybe GT + UWorld + FA may be enough.
Is sitting down and reading BRS physio chapters worth it?
I would venture that these are the core resrouces:
FA
BRS Physio
RR Goljan / Pathoma
BRS Behavioral Science
Neuro - nothing
I wonder if this is too much spreading efforts?
Wikipedia is where I go. In my browser, I have a wikipedia tab open right next to my GT tab at all times.
Picking the core resources.
I think GT is pretty comprehensive and maybe GT + UWorld + FA may be enough.
Is sitting down and reading BRS physio chapters worth it?
I would venture that these are the core resrouces:
FA
BRS Physio
RR Goljan / Pathoma
BRS Behavioral Science
Neuro - nothing
I wonder if this is too much spreading efforts?
And what's this...a new feature in GT?
"Discuss this topic with members of your community"
Love the continuous improvement attitude these guys have. Can't wait for another round of pictures and dare I say...video/animations!
How long would it take to go through first year material using this?
157 hrs
Can't tell if joking or not
I understand. I wasn't looking for an exact approximation. More like how much time generally should I be willing to reasonably get through it. As in, would I be fine with starting in the Summer without wasting my summer and getting through M1 stuff?
I'm a first year, about to take my first block of tests for second semester, and I'm following a traditional curriculum.
I assume that if I start GT in a week or so (after my test), I could get through all of first year's material by the end of this summer going at not too extreme of a pace?
Also, how are the notecards divided for you to do? You pick a set number of new cards to do each day, then you just open up a topic and do that many cards + however many reviews you're scheduled for? Are the topics like gross, histo, etc., or is it more like bone histo, head and neck anatomy, etc.?
Thanks in advance!
I'm a first year, about to take my first block of tests for second semester, and I'm following a traditional curriculum.
I assume that if I start GT in a week or so (after my test), I could get through all of first year's material by the end of this summer going at not too extreme of a pace?
Also, how are the notecards divided for you to do? You pick a set number of new cards to do each day, then you just open up a topic and do that many cards + however many reviews you're scheduled for? Are the topics like gross, histo, etc., or is it more like bone histo, head and neck anatomy, etc.?
Thanks in advance!