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[MCAT guy]

I read that guy's post.. Phloston. He got a 279 I think. I said it in the "review materials" thread and I'll echo it here, his post was the best, most comprehensive study plan I've ever seen hands down, the dude's a real inspiration..

But I'm still happy with what I'm getting out of GT.. though at times it seems like some of the material I'm memorizing are just isolated facts that I'm never going to be tested on, I just do a little research through google/wiki (have a dedicated tab opened where I just type in the search/address box at top) about those information tidbits and it sticks and helps with the overall picture.

Yeah, it's helpful. The question is, is the 3 hours a day on it MORE helpful for doing well on step 1? I always find it funny when people say that their time in GT yields results, as if nearly 30 hrs a week of studying wouldn't yield any results. I'm just warning the new M1s, obviously if you're using gt, good luck and I hope you do well.

 

[bluv1212]

I read that guy's post.. Phloston. He got a 279 I think. I said it in the "review materials" thread and I'll echo it here, his post was the best, most comprehensive study plan I've ever seen hands down, the dude's a real inspiration..

But I'm still happy with what I'm getting out of GT.. though at times it seems like some of the material I'm memorizing are just isolated facts that I'm never going to be tested on, I just do a little research through google/wiki (have a dedicated tab opened where I just type in the search/address box at top) about those information tidbits and it sticks and helps with the overall picture.

just a correction - Phloston just took his step 1 within the past two days. Although he is very capable of getting a 279, it's not set in stone yet.

 

[doctoritis]

How come not everyone received the e-mail about a mandatory December 19th migration?

What am I missing.

 

[madchemist89]

I'm an M1, and I have been enjoying GT. I try to do it alongside my classes, and the daily review is not that burdensome at this point. From my experience, the purpose of GT is not meant to be a Qbank or FA. Although it sticks to FA quite well (which I really, really like), it is not FA. FA is a study source as are the Qbanks. Question banks are great for learning the question style and reinforcing some information here and there, and FA is an excellent, although extremely error ridden, review source. However, GT is so much more than a Qbank or study book ever could be: It is a study system. The point of GT is to not forget what you have already learned by constantly reviewing old and new material. By the time I get to dedicated Step 1 studying, I won't have to worry so much about having the core set of knowledge. I can focus on doing Uworld and FA, using what little dedicated time I will have to polish my skills and fact set. Overall, I believe that GT works best when used alongside classes so that information is not forgotten, and when crunch-time arrives, I'll have a couple of aces still left to play.

 

[MCAT guy]

I'm an M1, and I have been enjoying GT. I try to do it alongside my classes, and the daily review is not that burdensome at this point. From my experience, the purpose of GT is not meant to be a Qbank or FA. Although it sticks to FA quite well (which I really, really like), it is not FA. FA is a study source as are the Qbanks. Question banks are great for learning the question style and reinforcing some information here and there, and FA is an excellent, although extremely error ridden, review source. However, GT is so much more than a Qbank or study book ever could be: It is a study system. The point of GT is to not forget what you have already learned by constantly reviewing old and new material. By the time I get to dedicated Step 1 studying, I won't have to worry so much about having the core set of knowledge. I can focus on doing Uworld and FA, using what little dedicated time I will have to polish my skills and fact set. Overall, I believe that GT works best when used alongside classes so that information is not forgotten, and when crunch-time arrives, I'll have a couple of aces still left to play.

Lol. Really, I've heard all of this before. "Gt is much more than...." reality, if you're an M1 then you have no idea how busy M2 is. Secondly, you're not even close to 50, 60, or 70% banked. You have no idea the workload of have gt done and school. When I was an M1 with under 50% banked I agreed with all the BS you just said. Reality though is any time you put even 1 hour into studying you MUST think about efficiency. Gt isn't much more than a qbank, its much less. Having all of FA memorized before dedicated was always my goal too. You know what, that won't do much because it will take most of your time before dedicated. I know for q fact that anyone using gt could do every qbank twice I. The same amount of time. If you had done Kaplan twice, rx twice and world once before you're dedicated time you'd be better off. Much better off. You'd be studying the best stuff most often and the low yield stuff less often. Gt just focuses on what you don't know rather than what's high yield.

I understand the thought process though. And also how naive a person that isnt an m2 and hasn't come close to 75% banked or having 300 qs everyday plus new material. Plus school, lol. Funny thing is that people start saying school gets in the way of their gt actity, as if 100/100 guaranteed anything. You'll see buddy. Look, I'll make a prediction that you'll see, a lot of your M1 buddies will start dropping gt around 2 to 3 months into M2. They will just stop position here. Also watch all the m2 who still use the program. They will start asking people if they should ditch gt for qbanks because its taking all their time and they have 500 qs per day. You know how I know this? I saw it happen last year as I dilgently did my 200 qs a day.

Better yet, go back month in any point in time and read this thread. You will rarely if ever see the same peoe posting 6 months later. Why? They finally understand what I've been saying. Good luck. I won't know what you did, but I will check out this thread come summer to see if people actually stuck with gt during the last semester. Few will. And those that did, no one can really a truly argue that doing every qbank twice in the same amount of to.e would have been worse. If the guy who had 1 year and unlimited time for boards didn't use gt that should tell you soemthing.

 

[piviti]

Lol. Really, I've heard all of this before. "Gt is much more than...." reality, if you're an M1 then you have no idea how busy M2 is. Secondly, you're not even close to 50, 60, or 70% banked. You have no idea the workload of have gt done and school. When I was an M1 with under 50% banked I agreed with all the BS you just said. Reality though is any time you put even 1 hour into studying you MUST think about efficiency. Gt isn't much more than a qbank, its much less. Having all of FA memorized before dedicated was always my goal too. You know what, that won't do much because it will take most of your time before dedicated. I know for q fact that anyone using gt could do every qbank twice I. The same amount of time. If you had done Kaplan twice, rx twice and world once before you're dedicated time you'd be better off. Much better off. You'd be studying the best stuff most often and the low yield stuff less often. Gt just focuses on what you don't know rather than what's high yield.

I understand the thought process though. And also how naive a person that isnt an m2 and hasn't come close to 75% banked or having 300 qs everyday plus new material. Plus school, lol. Funny thing is that people start saying school gets in the way of their gt actity, as if 100/100 guaranteed anything. You'll see buddy. Look, I'll make a prediction that you'll see, a lot of your M1 buddies will start dropping gt around 2 to 3 months into M2. They will just stop position here. Also watch all the m2 who still use the program. They will start asking people if they should ditch gt for qbanks because its taking all their time and they have 500 qs per day. You know how I know this? I saw it happen last year as I dilgently did my 200 qs a day.

Better yet, go back month in any point in time and read this thread. You will rarely if ever see the same peoe posting 6 months later. Why? They finally understand what I've been saying. Good luck. I won't know what you did, but I will check out this thread come summer to see if people actually stuck with gt during the last semester. Few will. And those that did, no one can really a truly argue that doing every qbank twice in the same amount of to.e would have been worse. If the guy who had 1 year and unlimited time for boards didn't use gt that should tell you soemthing.

GT isn't that time consuming. I'm an M2 right now with more than 60% banked. I rarely have more than 200 or so questions a day. I think the key is getting your mastery % as close as you can to your banked %, otherwise you will have too many cards piled up each day.

Plus, my grades have gone up after starting GT.

 

[Thing1]

How come not everyone received the e-mail about a mandatory December 19th migration?

What am I missing.

Didn't get this email either.

 

[MCAT guy]

GT isn't that time consuming. I'm an M2 right now with more than 60% banked. I rarely have more than 200 or so questions a day. I think the key is getting your mastery % as close as you can to your banked %, otherwise you will have too many cards piled up each day.

Plus, my grades have gone up after starting GT.

Sounds good. I will check back summer time to see how you did. Good luck.

I have no horses in this race. Just hoping some M1s learn from my enormous wasted time. Qbanks are the best.

 

[Plib23]

GT user here. 60% banked. The question load is becoming overwhelming (hitting ~300 per day). For the last couple months before my study period I figure I will only be able to do max 200 per day. My question is how does the "clear today's review" option work for pushing questions back daily? If the questions are added to the "end" of my daily review then I might not ever see them again. Are they added to the end? And I know we are switching to firecracker soon. How does setting the max number of questions per day work?

 

[piviti]

Sounds good. I will check back summer time to see how you did. Good luck.

I have no horses in this race. Just hoping some M1s learn from my enormous wasted time. Qbanks are the best.

Thanks.

I will say, though, that I don't think GT is good for everyone. Plenty of people would probably do as well with just Uworld + Pathoma + FA. But I think it fits my style of learning more because I a) tend to forget things pretty easily and b) suck at cramming.

It's also nice to have a resource that has everything you need to know right there in an online format.

But then again, I think it's pretty hard to prove if solely doing qbanks is better than GT. I manage to fit in some qbanking on weekends so I'm not putting all my eggs in the GT basket.

I guess the difference is that with GT, you get the repetition of the facts as quickly as possible (without reading and reasoning through a long clinical vignette). And I guess if you're heavily qbanking throughout the year you get used to the clinical presentation and can synthesize information early on.

Anyhow, I guess we'll see in the summer.

 

[piviti]

GT user here. 60% banked. The question load is becoming overwhelming (hitting ~300 per day). For the last couple months before my study period I figure I will only be able to do max 200 per day. My question is how does the "clear today's review" option work for pushing questions back daily? If the questions are added to the "end" of my daily review then I might not ever see them again. Are they added to the end? And I know we are switching to firecracker soon. How does setting the max number of questions per day work?

If you clear today's review, you can spread them over the next week or next 2 weeks. You'll see them soon, just added on to the daily question load of the following days.

Also, you might want to bank slower, and perhaps forgo some of the lower yield cards, so you can get your mastery up higher.

 

[Plib23]

What I'm saying though is that I want to do this every day. So everyday I would spread them back 2 weeks. If they are added to the "end" of my daily review questions then I would never see them again. As for banking yea I went at it kind of fast but I'm really trying to see everything before my test which is coming up soon. Might switch to light mode but I have no idea how that would affect how many daily questions I get or the "yield" of the material.

 

[piviti]

What I'm saying though is that I want to do this every day. So everyday I would spread them back 2 weeks. If they are added to the "end" of my daily review questions then I would never see them again. As for banking yea I went at it kind of fast but I'm really trying to see everything before my test which is coming up soon. Might switch to light mode but I have no idea how that would affect how many daily questions I get or the "yield" of the material.

Hmmm I dunno. Maybe you could try letting them pile up, and then do the ones that get kicked to the catch up pile whenever you have the time.

 

[WarriorMD]

If we don't migrate by then do we lose the opportunity to migrate?

If we do migrate do we lose the data from gunnertraining then? I'm worried about migrating and regretting it, so I wouldn't want to lose the data from GT.

 

[Thing1]

Where exactly do we state our preference on what to transfer? I'm not seeing an option to do this anywhere.

 

[doctoritis]

I'm not sure what exactly is going on - some people do have the option and others don't. So I'm not sure on what basis those e-mails were sent out and what was done ...

maybe it's based on our 'haterade' on SDN, JK ;p

 

[NobodyImportant]

I really like GT; I've been using it for just shy of a full year, and I have over 60% banked and mastered. The daily question load is enough that I can usually knock them all out in between classes during the day, unless I recently banked a substantial amount of material. It's great for me because it organizes the material in a way that forces me to see it and study it daily - I just don't have the discipline to read FA for 1-2 hours a day, but GT questions are no problem. Sure, qbanks are great, too, and I've been working on Kaplan and USMLE Rx, but if I only relied on those, I'd be out of new questions in just a few months. GT is a huge time commitment, but it's put my knowledge of the material on a much higher level.

And that is why I am infuriated at the forced migration. I have no doubt that I'll want to migrate to FC after I take the Step in June; my account will be valid for another year after, and at that point, I'd love to start fresh and work on clerkship material. Right now, however, GT works great for me; I've looked at the FC interface, I've seen others use it, and it lacks both the UI and features that I absolutely rely on. Furthermore, going from >60% banked/mastered to... what? 40%? 30%? Do you even see your % banked/mastered on FC? Would be a mental defeat, and I'd lose the ability to get to the 100%/100% I've been working so hard to achieve. It feels great to knock out a handful of cards a day for a week and watch the % banked and % mastery skyrocket.

Why do we need a forced migration? Disable new GT account making, let those who migrate by choice do so, and eventually, you'll phase out existing GT users. I don't care if I'm missing clerkship material right now; I won't care about that until July. I'd love to revisit that after the Step. Right now, I have a study plan, and GT has been unbelievably useful for that; FC, from what I've seen, is not for me -right now-.

 

[thawunandonly]

Where exactly do we state our preference on what to transfer? I'm not seeing an option to do this anywhere.

I think the option is actually on the Firecracker account - remember everyone with GT had a FC account automatically made for them.

 

[Suncrusher]

Why do we need a forced migration? Disable new GT account making, let those who migrate by choice do so, and eventually, you'll phase out existing GT users...Right now, I have a study plan, and GT has been unbelievably useful for that; FC, from what I've seen, is not for me -right now-.

👍👍👍

This is exactly what I want, too.

 

[SOML]

👍👍👍

This is exactly what I want, too.

"seconded"

 

[ebolainfected]

So what happens if we select "No I do not want to transfer my data?"
Will we still be able to use GT or will the GT website be taken down and we will have no option but to start over? Will we still be able to use GT for now? And if there is a forced migration when will it happen?

I don't think this has been made clear at all - and these questions need to be answered since we have to decide by tomorrow the 19th

 

[SOML]

When I was younger, I would be excited to get home, throw my backpack aside and turn on my current favorite game (usually an RPG). I was hooked on gaining those levels and making my characters stronger, getting better equipment. Then one day, my "saved file" was erased, a file with more than 80 hours of gameplay.. lost.

Every day I work with GT, I get home, open my Macbook Air, and settle in. I open my browser and type in "Gu" in the address tab, hit right, then enter. I'm always logged on so my "dashboard" screen shows up to greet me with the questions I have for the day. I think to myself "time to gain experience points" (I know this is a bit geeky, bear with me). I do a large part of the questions relatively quickly (I rarely do all of them), then I check in on my progress by hitting my "topics" tab. Oh what a joy it is to see all those little %'s on my subjects, steadily improving day by day, week by week. Building up my % mastery for each subject is like building up my characters when I was a kid, same feeling...

please don't erase my game =(

 

[piviti]

When I was younger, I would be excited to get home, throw my backpack aside and turn on my current favorite game (usually an RPG). I was hooked on gaining those levels and making my characters stronger, getting better equipment. Then one day, my "saved file" was erased, a file with more than 80 hours of gameplay.. lost.

Every day I work with GT, I get home, open my Macbook Air, and settle in. I open my browser and type in "Gu" in the address tab, hit right, then enter. I'm always logged on so my "dashboard" screen shows up to greet me with the questions I have for the day. I think to myself "time to gain experience points" (I know this is a bit geeky, bear with me). I do a large part of the questions relatively quickly (I rarely do all of them), then I check in on my progress by hitting my "topics" tab. Oh what a joy it is to see all those little %'s on my subjects, steadily improving day by day, week by week. Building up my % mastery for each subject is like building up my characters when I was a kid, same feeling...

please don't erase my game =(

haha as corny as it sounds i kinda feel the same way too

 

[thawunandonly]

Hey random question:

Are you guys still using some sort of reference text for Pharm? Or going strictly by GT?

 

[Chirurg]

So what happens if we select "No I do not want to transfer my data?"
Will we still be able to use GT or will the GT website be taken down and we will have no option but to start over? Will we still be able to use GT for now? And if there is a forced migration when will it happen?

I don't think this has been made clear at all - and these questions need to be answered since we have to decide by tomorrow the 19th

second this.
plz, GT people, answer the above questions so I know where I stand.

 

[bbaggins]

So in the same boat as many people, NOT wanting to migrate. GT is not perfect, but with taking Step 1 in a few months I would much rather just keep with I know and am familiar with. I looked at their Facebook page, and someone said this

"The 19th is just the day we would like you to indicate your preference. You won't lose any data whether you continue to work on GT or Firecracker."

It's not completely explicit, but sounds like we can stay on GT without any issues or problems. Hopefully that is correct, if anyone from GT can confirm this is true that would be very helpful.

 

[crunchymedicine]

Thumbs up for the search function on firecracker.

 

[madchemist89]

If migration is not occurring on the 19th, when is it going to happen?

 

[ebolainfected]

A friend of mine sent an email to GT. This is the response he got. Hope this clears things up for people:

Hi _______, we're sorry for any confusion caused. We're going to write an email / blog post attempting to clarify these and other related questions at the end of the week.

In short, we will be shutting down GT but not until we get some more features on Firecracker that make it equivalent to GT. We are also writing a more technical description of the reasons why we've built a new platform (main reason is to be able to deliver more value to you guys more consistently going forward).

For those who want, we will be transferring their review schedule and recall score history from GT to Firecracker in early Jan (we are automatically transferring notes). If you can go to your Firecracker account page and let us know that you want us to transfer your data, that would be very helpful in helping us prioritize our efforts. Thanks!

Let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks!

 

[WarriorMD]

I'm worried about this whole situation.


I selected yes for bringing my data over, but I'm worried about ending up on firecracker and hating it. I would then be forced to use it because if I let it sit around I'll be backed up thousands of questions whenever they do decide to shut down GT since I doubt they'd be willing to erase my FC account and bring over my updated gunnertraining info if I were to continue using GT instead of using the updated FC account.

 

[wrathofgod64]

So let me get this straight.

For those of us planning on taking the Step 1 in May, and using GT until then, do we really have no choice but to select "transfer my data to Firecracker" since GT will be shut down anyway?

 

[hrain]

I'm taking Step 1 in April and in the same boat as a lot of you regarding the transfer, so I sent the GT folks an e-mail. Here are my questions and their responses:

Q: My USMLE Step 1 will be in April of this year, and I'd like to keep GT in place of Firecracker until then. If I choose to transfer all my data to Firecracker, will it still remain on GT so that I can finish out my Step 1 review there before moving on to Shelves and Step 2 for 3rd year? Or, should I simply continue with GT until Step 1 and then start fresh only with clerkship info on Firecracker once the time comes? (I have bought GT to last through 4th year...wish I'd known about the 50% off and waited!)

A: "It is not certain whether or not GT will still be up in April. There has been some discussion internally about possibly leaving GT up for the users who are taking Step 1 within the next 4 months or so. We want to bring you all over to Firecracker because it's much more reliable and less buggy and it is where all our new features and content will be. But we have to weigh that against our mission to help you all score as high as possible on Step 1. So if the disruption of forcing you off GT will compromise your score, we don't want to do it.

Follow-up Q: Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it. If I choose *not* to migrate right now (I think once I move on to Shelves/Step 2 stuff, I won't want all my original stuff on FC), would I be able to move it over if you guys end up deciding to take down GT before April? The ideal situation for me would definitely be to finish out my study time on GT (just because I'm used to it and have it all figured out), take the test, and then start with a clean slate over at FC for next year...But, of course, I don't want to get into the situation where I choose the "Do not migrate stuff" option and then GT gets taken down in March and I have nothing on FC...

A: If you choose NOT to migrate and then we end up shutting down GT before your test date we'll definitely accommodate you and pull things over at that time. No child left behind ;-)

....SO, it sounds like we can choose NOT to migrate and then, if they end up taking GT down before our boards, we can migrate our stuff over then. That said...I'm seriously hoping they hold off until at least this summer, to get the next big round of Step 1 takers through before shutting down GT and forcing the migration.

Hope that helps, guys.

 

[Plib23]

How do you "select" if you want to transfer your data over to FC?

 

[thawunandonly]

I'm taking Step 1 in April and in the same boat as a lot of you regarding the transfer, so I sent the GT folks an e-mail. Here are my questions and their responses:

Q: My USMLE Step 1 will be in April of this year, and I'd like to keep GT in place of Firecracker until then. If I choose to transfer all my data to Firecracker, will it still remain on GT so that I can finish out my Step 1 review there before moving on to Shelves and Step 2 for 3rd year? Or, should I simply continue with GT until Step 1 and then start fresh only with clerkship info on Firecracker once the time comes? (I have bought GT to last through 4th year...wish I'd known about the 50% off and waited!)

A: "It is not certain whether or not GT will still be up in April. There has been some discussion internally about possibly leaving GT up for the users who are taking Step 1 within the next 4 months or so. We want to bring you all over to Firecracker because it's much more reliable and less buggy and it is where all our new features and content will be. But we have to weigh that against our mission to help you all score as high as possible on Step 1. So if the disruption of forcing you off GT will compromise your score, we don't want to do it.

Follow-up Q: Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it. If I choose *not* to migrate right now (I think once I move on to Shelves/Step 2 stuff, I won't want all my original stuff on FC), would I be able to move it over if you guys end up deciding to take down GT before April? The ideal situation for me would definitely be to finish out my study time on GT (just because I'm used to it and have it all figured out), take the test, and then start with a clean slate over at FC for next year...But, of course, I don't want to get into the situation where I choose the "Do not migrate stuff" option and then GT gets taken down in March and I have nothing on FC...

A: If you choose NOT to migrate and then we end up shutting down GT before your test date we'll definitely accommodate you and pull things over at that time. No child left behind ;-)

....SO, it sounds like we can choose NOT to migrate and then, if they end up taking GT down before our boards, we can migrate our stuff over then. That said...I'm seriously hoping they hold off until at least this summer, to get the next big round of Step 1 takers through before shutting down GT and forcing the migration.

Hope that helps, guys.

Two things then: if they hold off on migrations for the "early" round of test takers, then ideally they might as well hold off for all the test takers to be fair, because I'm sure by then everyone will want to keep the status quo. But that's probably counterproductive to what they're trying to do...

Secondly, maybe I don't know, but what's the big deal with transferring data over or not transferring data over? In GT you could reset your account as far as I know. Can't you just do that? Migrate with your data and reset on your own leisure.

I kind of want to get to FC now rather than closer to my test date. Get it over with; we can all hold hands and brace ourselves for the transition as if it was - *cough* 12.21.2012, the "Apocalypse" - but I still need all the features of GT in there.

 

[jhamaican]

Please consider keeping GT up and active until the end of July went most Step 1 takers will be done. People using GT will phase out eventually on our own as we take the step

 

[Thing1]

To the FC staff: if we could know the exact date you are planning on migrating, that would be nice. I would hate to bank cards only to find they haven't transferred over to FC.

 

[Transformers]

guys what are the advantages of FC honestly over GT, seriously? I think I'm at a loss as to what advantages FC provides now

 

[chopped1989]

I am new to firecracker...just started a few days ago. I read through cards and then do the questions but I haven't been getting any review questions for the past few days. I haven't been rating anything 4 or 5. Does anyone know why? Thanks!

 

[tarsuc]

I started off fresh with FC early this month. i did use GT for a week, some months back. Now im pretty satisfied with FC. I dont know what exactly is better, but it is, i think.

But again, i hadnt banked enough in GT, to be complaining about this mandatory shift.

 

[tarsuc]

I started off fresh with FC early this month. i did use GT for a week, some months back. Now im pretty satisfied with FC. I dont know what exactly is better, but it is, i think.

But again, i hadnt banked enough in GT, to be complaining about this mandatory shift.

 

[cage92]

hey reallllllly i am feeeling happy with this new feature of costumize review waitinnng for more features

 

[withrye]

Want control over how soon you see questions again in Firecracker? Now you can change this in "settings".

This is probably the only time you're gonna hear this, but I'm actively looking forward to the migration to FC. Do you have a sense for when that'll start?

EDIT: I just discovered how to read. Mid-January.

 

[ebolainfected]

One of the features I liked the most about gunner training was the ability to see what % you've covered in each of the topics, as well as seeing overall % added and overall % mastery. For me (and im sure for many others), this was a metric for me to track my progress. This may seem kinda trivial, but nothing really motivated me more than seeing my % go up after adding the 5-10 cards I do on a daily basis.

I made a trial account to test out firecracker, and for me, the "flagging" mechanic just doesn't give me the same sense of accomplishment. Do you guys have any plans on implementing a % bar next to each topic like you did for GT?

 

[ebolainfected]

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[thawunandonly]

One of the features I liked the most about gunner training was the ability to see what % you've covered in each of the topics, as well as seeing overall % added and overall % mastery. For me (and im sure for many others), this was a metric for me to track my progress. This may seem kinda trivial, but nothing really motivated me more than seeing my % go up after adding the 5-10 cards I do on a daily basis.

I made a trial account to test out firecracker, and for me, the "flagging" mechanic just doesn't give me the same sense of accomplishment. Do you guys have any plans on implementing a % bar next to each topic like you did for GT?

YES PLZ

 

[WarriorMD]

YES PLZ

I agree as well.
Nothing was more motivational then banking a bunch of cards and seeing the % completed jump up, I would even sit there and smile at the screen when I hit 50%.

 

[SOML]

Yes Progress bars! I mentioned it in an earlier post (the RPG gaming analogy)

Anyway, had a random thought/idea while doing review questions just now:
I think it would be cool to have an indication on the number of times we've encountered a particular question, like maybe a small red number on the bottom-left corner on the question screen.

I come across many questions I've seen multiple times, and in deciding whether or not to render it as "perfect recall", or a 4;5, I go back and forth in deciding if I can do without seeing it again.. or if I'll need to see it in a few months or so to really get it down. Knowing how many times I've encountered it would help me in deciding.

For example, if I've consistently scored a question "5" multiple times, and I see from the indication it's the sixth time I've done the question and feel comfortable with it, I'll mark it perfect recall.

Thoughts?

 

[withrye]

Yes Progress bars! I mentioned it in an earlier post (the RPG gaming analogy)

Anyway, had a random thought/idea while doing review questions just now:
I think it would be cool to have an indication on the number of times we've encountered a particular question, like maybe a small red number on the bottom-left corner on the question screen.

I come across many questions I've seen multiple times, and in deciding whether or not to render it as "perfect recall", or a 4;5, I go back and forth in deciding if I can do without seeing it again.. or if I'll need to see it in a few months or so to really get it down. Knowing how many times I've encountered it would help me in deciding.

For example, if I've consistently scored a question "5" multiple times, and I see from the indication it's the sixth time I've done the question and feel comfortable with it, I'll mark it perfect recall.

Thoughts?

I don't think this is necessary, but then again I come from the perspective that nothing should be placed on perfect recall. Ideally, a spaced repetition system has no upper limit on its maximum recall limit, so if you have marked something a 5 many times in a row, it might be years until you see it again. This isn't necessarily the wisest thing to do for a learning/review program, hence the "perfect recall" option. Regardless, I think trying to micromanage your cards too much just wastes time and is counterproductive.

 

[withrye]

double post

 

[Thing1]

So it's beginning to look like I will be about 70-80% banked a few weeks before dedicated study time starts. I'm planning on leaving out lower yield subjects such as embryo/anatomy, not because I don't want to do them but because I won't get to them. So I have a question, especially for those who used GT before:

Did you continue doing daily questions during dedicated studying?
How did you use FA?
Did you use a path source (Pathoma, Goljan)?