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So I know some of you were interested in seeing how I did on step-1, and I found out right before clinic earlier this morning (at 11 a.m. EST exactly). My score is 245. My NBME practice scores on 7, 11, 12, & 13 were 254, 252, 254, & 259, respectively. I have stuff this afternoon, so I can't type a long post now but I'll try to come back later.
100 percent banked in micro! Micro, which is like 15% of Gt is easily the worst subject to have banled...too much info and straight up blind memorization
Congrats!!!. I can't bank micro for $h!t!! I don't like all the drugs it keeps asking. I stopped banking after parasites. We weren't taught drugs in ms1 and I hate learning drugs. I'll resume banking micro with classes in 3 weeks when we start learning treatments. Can't believe my break is over.
Great job by pizzy and lrk. I'm sure both will do well 3rd year + match whatever.
I'm taking an SDN hiatus for a few months, just wanted to say congrats. Good luck to all the gunners on their prep.
I thought of you a few hours ago and wondered why you hadn't posted (im not a creeper lol). Figured you were busy on wards. That's a great score buddy!!! Are you happy with it? Please post soon with some general tips and comment on how/if gt helped!!
Great job by pizzy and lrk. I'm sure both will do well 3rd year + match whatever.
I'm taking an SDN hiatus for a few months, just wanted to say congrats. Good luck to all the gunners on their prep.
Congrats to peterparker7 too check the step1 forums guys...265
Man, micro was my favorite part of GT! Lol, somethjng much be wrong with me...
If you have clinical micro made rediculously simple, try usin that to learn then bank the cards... Antibiotics is poorly taught at my school, so basically had to learn that way anyway 🙂 goodluck!
I sent GT an email. There will be a price change with the new program, I was told the bump will likely take place in early August. I was also told if we can get a group of 25 students to sign up then we could get a 25% discount, which would bring the year subscription to about $173. Send me a message if you're interested and lets see if we can get 25 by the price jump.
I'm not terribly strong on the math, but isn't $173 after a 25% discount an original price of $230? As in, the 12 month subscription for FC is the same price as for GT right now? They might change the shorter subscriptions plans though, to force more people into the bigger packages.
With this in mind, would it be reasonable to start GT at the beginning of M1? Keeping the cards only to the class material, the workload wouldn't be unreasonable. Also, I'm on a P/F unranked system, so I'm not worried about honoring classes. Thoughts?
I started GT at the very beginning of 1st year not because I had a compressed summer but because I really liked the idea of the program and thought I could benefit from it during classes, and I personally think that's the best idea. It did help me in classes and on shelf exams a lot. I got in the upper 80 or lower 90 percentile on first year shelf exams (histo, physio, biochem) by doing no studying outside of the daily GT reviews and card banking. I feel like the program works the best when you have a long time to use it and bank cards as you learn material in classes.
Try the free month trial at the beginning of M1, if you like it after a month than keep it up.
Ive been using GT for over a month now, and I just noticed something, though I am embarrassed that I am just catching it now.
On the picture of the calendar shown on the main page, it looks like it shows a series of numbers. I assume these numbers represent the daily review questions.
I dont recall doing any questions today, but it says 0 for today. However, this morning, I did complete some questions that I was too lazy to do yesterday.
Does that mean I have no questions scheduled for today and I can just chill?
Early August is the date they gave me for the anticipated price jump. For those interested in the 25% discount please email me at [email protected] as it is much easier for me to keep track and communicate with everyone. I started looking yesterday and we are at 14 so I'm hoping we can get to 25 people for the discount so we aren't close to the price jump.
To be clear, are you looking for 25 people who currently don't have GT subscriptions to start new ones? Or 25 people to pledge to use FC when it opens, garnering us a 25% discount each?
Looking for 25 people to start new subscriptions, or sign up for another year if they have an expiring one.
This has my attention.If we get 50 people, do we get 50% off?![]()
Hey guys, might have a repeat question here but this thread is huge and all so bear with me.
I start classes in about a month and was planning on using GT every day from here on. My school follows a systems-based curriculum. I don't work or anything so I would be able to study consistently every day. My questions are:
1. How many flashcards can I get through each day if I study for around 6 hours each day for a month? How much of the GT will I be able to complete or will 1 month not be enough?
It depends. I'm really strong in immuno so I banked about 10 immuno cards a day (20 cards a day in total with an additional 10 cards on other topics), and I was 80% complete for immuno in about 2 weeks. I also had a full time job and only did gt about 2-3 hours a day. I completely mastered all the immuno in this time (80% complete, 81% mastery). I'm skipping the drugs for now because I hate drugs, that's why I'm not at 100% yet.
I started banking right after exams so I still remembered a lot, which was why I was able to bank 20-25 cards a day for the first two weeks in June. After that, things got harder and I was seeing some new material. My banking slowed to 10-15 a day. Now things are REALLY hard and virtually everything I am seeing is new, so I'm only banking 10 cards a day till ms2 starts in 2 weeks. During school, I will only bank 3 a day. This should bring me to 100% banked by the end of January.
Im no expert in board prep, but if I were you, 6 hours seems like a lot to waste on gt daily. You should cap gt at 2-3 hour. I plan to do gt at school. It's really easy to fit it in between classes, lunch time, useless classes, etc. With this plan, I won't be doing gt when I get home, and I will have another 6-8 hours daily to study other things.
2. If I encounter something I didn't cover over MS1, should I skip it or learn the material anyway?
You should learn it
3. What books are good to supplement material that I am not familiar with and/or would like to more completely understand?
You can't learn things in gt for the first time, at least I can't. So you need other sources to reinforce - eg costanzo for physio.
I've heard epic things about Pathoma, Goljan audio and Goljan rr. I plan to use all these sources. If I were you, cap gt at 2-3 hours and use these other sources as well
If anyone can provide some advice or suggestions regarding my study plan for the next month I would greatly appreciate it.
Looking for 25 people to start new subscriptions, or sign up for another year if they have an expiring one.
Looking for 25 people to start new subscriptions, or sign up for another year if they have an expiring one.
please send me a link. I too want to start using GT 🙂
How many questions do you guys get assigned to you per day? I'm only 12% banked (9% mastered) and I'm at upwards of 60-70 questions per day already! If I miss a day I'm into 120+ questions which is kind of excessive. Just wondering if I'm too conservative in rating my recall or something. Oh, and I'm doing the comprehensive mode, not the lite mode- which is probably half my problem, haha.
I am interested as well!
This is why I'm looking forward to firecracker. You can set a cap for the daily reviews. I have 386 questions scheduled for tomorrow and I'm not looking forward to it.
Why don't you just do the questions based on subject? Like, for example, do all the orthopedic ones, then psychiatry, then derm, etc. There's an option to do that. Makes those 350+ questions much less daunting since you're doing them in bite-sized chunks. That's what I do and I love it.Smh. It's almost 7 and I'm avoiding those review questions like the plague. I still have to work out and eat dinner, watch two hours of tv, and be asleep by 12. -_- I've banked 20 cards today so it wasn't a total waste of time. I'll probably do the questions during commercials 😀
Why don't you just do the questions based on subject? Like, for example, do all the orthopedic ones, then psychiatry, then derm, etc. There's an option to do that. Makes those 350+ questions much less daunting since you're doing them in bite-sized chunks. That's what I do and I love it.