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[loveoforganic2]

If it's a question between doing daily questions and doing pathoma, cut the questions and do pathoma, without a doubt. If you've been doing the questions reliably and haven't just recently banked a ****load, I would definitely drop the q's during dedicated time (unless you're under an hour/day review commitment)

 

[peacefulchaos]

I just found this youtube video showing GT--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q06_IfHrWyo

I'm guessing this is an inaccurate tour because there are no MCQ and instead you just have the flash-cards open ended questions as the daily review questions? Is there anything else that's off? Am I correct in understanding that the daily reviews are MCQ's and not flashcard review, like anki?

Also, I'm wondering what the advantage of GT is against Anki, besides having the flashcards made for you.

Thank you!

 

[loveoforganic2]

I just found this youtube video showing GT--- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q06_IfHrWyo

I'm guessing this is an inaccurate tour because there are no MCQ and instead you just have the flash-cards open ended questions as the daily review questions? Is there anything else that's off? Am I correct in understanding that the daily reviews are MCQ's and not flashcard review, like anki?

Also, I'm wondering what the advantage of GT is against Anki, besides having the flashcards made for you.

Thank you!

It's a mix of open ended questions and MCQ's. More open ended than MCQ's. Maybe like, 80/20.

The advantage is the flashcards are premade. That's really about it.

 

[peacefulchaos]

So I guess I have to ask:

Is there anyone who has used GT/FC that now wishes they had just made Anki cards from Day 1 instead of signing up for GT?

I perused some older posts and everyone seems to be whining endlessly about server problems, long MCQ's, etc so I'm just curious if people think Anki could get the job done the same or better than GT

 

[loveoforganic2]

There was one GT user that did end up making their own anki cards (maybe it was icy? I don't remember). There's another poster (achamess here, dr. wilby blog) who made his/her own cards and has them on the blog to share. They look good, but they're not quite as easily navigable as GT

 

[doctoritis]

Prior to opting to transfer data there are 3 things that are bothering me still and I'm wondering if I'm just missing that they have already been updated, or if it is to come soon - and if so , how soon? That will effect whether or not I determine to transfer data just yet.

1) Progress bar.
2) Ability to choose/modify when you will see a question next.
3) I wasn't happy with the delay in how often I saw notecards, especially the first time around - is this changed yet? Is it going to be?

 

[Kip]

prior to opting to transfer data there are 3 things that are bothering me still and i'm wondering if i'm just missing that they have already been updated, or if it is to come soon - and if so , how soon? That will effect whether or not i determine to transfer data just yet.

1) progress bar.
2) ability to choose/modify when you will see a question next.
3) i wasn't happy with the delay in how often i saw notecards, especially the first time around - is this changed yet? Is it going to be?

+1

 

[doctoritis]

You can use the settings page to control when you see cards again:
http://med.firecracker.me/settings

Topic progress bars are in the works, but not live yet.

What about the GT way - where you optimize but we can modify on a per card basis? I haven't tried the 2 options on FC but it appears to me that that is not one of them.

 

[premedmind]

Hey guys,

Is anyone using GT as a SUBSTITUTE for First Aid? I am trying to nail down my study plan and am deciding whether I should do GT alongside FA, or leave FA till the last 3 months of study, and do 2 or so passes through it. I should be able to breeze through it relatively quickly considering I covered all of the material in GT. I'm just confused about how to divy up the time between GT and FA since GT is such a huge time commitment in and of itself. I was also thinking of doing the DIT videos but was thinking I should probably leave that till the end too since they basically read FA to you. FWIW I have yet to make any passes at all through FA so I feel like I'm taking a gamble leaving FA till the end.

My current plan is to get to 100% banked in GT (40% banked now), with a good amount of mastery, making sure I keep on top of the daily review Q's, and do U world questions like every day while reviewing the questions I get wrong (annotations) at night. Supplement with Pathoma, BRS, Goljan along the way. Then leave FA and DIT towards the end ~3 mos out, and go heavy with those once GT has run its course.

Any comments/suggestions?

 

[doctoritis]

Hey guys,

Is anyone using GT as a SUBSTITUTE for First Aid? I am trying to nail down my study plan and am deciding whether I should do GT alongside FA, or leave FA till the last 3 months of study, and do 2 or so passes through it. I should be able to breeze through it relatively quickly considering I covered all of the material in GT. I'm just confused about how to divy up the time between GT and FA since GT is such a huge time commitment in and of itself. I was also thinking of doing the DIT videos but was thinking I should probably leave that till the end too since they basically read FA to you. FWIW I have yet to make any passes at all through FA so I feel like I'm taking a gamble leaving FA till the end.

My current plan is to get to 100% banked in GT (40% banked now), with a good amount of mastery, making sure I keep on top of the daily review Q's, and do U world questions like every day while reviewing the questions I get wrong (annotations) at night. Supplement with Pathoma, BRS, Goljan along the way. Then leave FA and DIT towards the end ~3 mos out, and go heavy with those once GT has run its course.

Any comments/suggestions?

In the same boat - curious by what date you plan to have 100% and how much you will be banking per day?

 

[loveoforganic2]

I would do just GT up til dedicated studying time, then dump it. From there, I would make an initial pass of FA, do UWorld and NBMEs with annotating, then one more pass of FA and take the test

 

[Thing1]

I would do just GT up til dedicated studying time, then dump it. From there, I would make an initial pass of FA, do UWorld and NBMEs with annotating, then one more pass of FA and take the test

I'm close to 50% banked right now and don't think I will get to 100%

 

[loveoforganic2]

Then what I would do becomes a bit more variable based on what you're planning to do during the spring semester, what you've already done (including what you've banked so far) etc. If you want to put that info out, I'd be happy to say what I'd recommend. As a disclaimer though, I'm at the same point in the process you are, stepwise

 

[premedmind]

I'm already in my dedicated study time. I don't feel like I can just 'dump' GT at this point though at only 40% banked, I've invested a lot in it and it's helping me remember details. I'm definitely the type that needs constant repetition to learn something long-term.

At the same time I know I need to do FA, but doing both at the same time isn't really manageable....I'm trying to hit over 80% banked from 40% banked in like 2-3 months. I pumped out the Neuro block in like 3 days. So it might be possible to get close to that. Once I'm close to or 100% banked I'm going hard with FA...anybody doing the same or is what loveoforganic2 mentioned the better way to go?

 

[NobodyImportant]

I'm at ~70-75% banked and mastered with 6 months to go til my Step. I'm planning on cranking out 100% and sticking with GT to the end, unless FC really rubs me the wrong way. Still wish that transfer wasn't being forced. I can normally crank out 200 questions/hour, sometimes as high as 300 if I'm really in the zone and hitting all 5s. Assuming I can get to 100% banked and 95%+ mastered by May, I should have 100-200 questions/day; I don't think the extra hour or so will be so much of a demand that I'll abandon the program. I may, however, one week before my exam, do the next 7 days' worth and not touch it in that final week, assuming that's still a feature in FC.

 

[premedmind]

I'm at ~70-75% banked and mastered with 6 months to go til my Step. I'm planning on cranking out 100% and sticking with GT to the end, unless FC really rubs me the wrong way. Still wish that transfer wasn't being forced. I can normally crank out 200 questions/hour, sometimes as high as 300 if I'm really in the zone and hitting all 5s. Assuming I can get to 100% banked and 95%+ mastered by May, I should have 100-200 questions/day; I don't think the extra hour or so will be so much of a demand that I'll abandon the program. I may, however, one week before my exam, do the next 7 days' worth and not touch it in that final week, assuming that's still a feature in FC.

Why's everybody against transferring to FC? GT is great and all but everything loads extremely slowly...did they fix loading speeds in FC? I told them I want to be transferred over, should I hold off?

 

[withrye]

I'm already in my dedicated study time. I don't feel like I can just 'dump' GT at this point though at only 40% banked, I've invested a lot in it and it's helping me remember details. I'm definitely the type that needs constant repetition to learn something long-term.

At the same time I know I need to do FA, but doing both at the same time isn't really manageable....I'm trying to hit over 80% banked from 40% banked in like 2-3 months. I pumped out the Neuro block in like 3 days. So it might be possible to get close to that. Once I'm close to or 100% banked I'm going hard with FA...anybody doing the same or is what loveoforganic2 mentioned the better way to go?

I don't plan on dropping GT in my dedicated study time. Then again, I'm near 100% banked with mastery only a few percent different, so I don't see more than 250ish questions per day. Once I bank everything, it'll only be 60-90 minutes tops each day, which can practically be considered a mental warm up in the morning.

You're in a slightly different place because you're still actively banking. If you want to add 40% in 2-3 months you'll have to do about 5-7 new cards per da, on top of the turnover of questions that are difficult and show up each day. Five cards per day isn't going to kill you, but it is going to take up a fair bit of time. On top of all of this, you'd be missing around 20% of the bank (no huge deal) and you'd have limited time to do multiple repetitions of each question. One thing you could do, maybe, is once you've banked everything you want to bank, set all your well-known cards at perfect recall. By that time you'll be in FA and other sources, and those particular GT/FC cards won't be a high-yield use of your time. You'll slim down your personal question bank to only the stuff you still haven't quite picked up on and you won't spend too much time on questions each day.

 

[withrye]

Why's everybody against transferring to FC? GT is great and all but everything loads extremely slowly...did they fix loading speeds in FC? I told them I want to be transferred over, should I hold off?

The first attempted migration to FC was a huge charlie foxtrot, with people losing days/weeks of time and being really sore about being left in the dark about what was going on, how soon (if ever) it was going to be fixed. It was a really poorly handled situation and everyone's more than a little gun shy about going through it again. A lot of us have gotten used to the GT quirks, and would rather push through with a system whose flaws we know and have adapted to.

All that being said, if the FC migration goes smoothly it is a faster and more stable platform than GT. Part of GT's problem is handling large loads without gigantic latency (see their recept blog post). It's possible, although pure speculation, that a mass migration to FC would sufficiently reduce the load on GT such that the remaining users will have a slightly smoother or more stable performance, allowing GT to stay online longer. Just spitballing.

 

[NobodyImportant]

Why's everybody against transferring to FC? GT is great and all but everything loads extremely slowly...did they fix loading speeds in FC? I told them I want to be transferred over, should I hold off?

Aside from what was already mentioned about the poor migration experience for many this past summer? FC doesn't have all of the features of GT (some functional, such as setting an individual question's time to repeat, and some which are just psychological benefits, like progress bars), it's a different UI than I've gotten used to using the past year, and I don't normally have the speed issues that people say plague GT. The stability issues that were around 1-2 months ago seem to have largely been resolved; I just want to stick with what I'm comfortable with, this exam is stressful enough. I'll be happy to switch to FC after my test for the clerkship material, but I shouldn't have to worry about resources I'm already happy with.

 

[loveoforganic2]

I don't plan on dropping GT in my dedicated study time. Then again, I'm near 100% banked with mastery only a few percent different, so I don't see more than 250ish questions per day. Once I bank everything, it'll only be 60-90 minutes tops each day, which can practically be considered a mental warm up in the morning.

You're in a slightly different place because you're still actively banking. If you want to add 40% in 2-3 months you'll have to do about 5-7 new cards per da, on top of the turnover of questions that are difficult and show up each day. Five cards per day isn't going to kill you, but it is going to take up a fair bit of time. On top of all of this, you'd be missing around 20% of the bank (no huge deal) and you'd have limited time to do multiple repetitions of each question. One thing you could do, maybe, is once you've banked everything you want to bank, set all your well-known cards at perfect recall. By that time you'll be in FA and other sources, and those particular GT/FC cards won't be a high-yield use of your time. You'll slim down your personal question bank to only the stuff you still haven't quite picked up on and you won't spend too much time on questions each day.

The way I looked at it when I was deciding (previously, when I was using GT) was - I've been doing this for a year, I've seen these questions probably a minimum of 5 times each, more realistically an average of probably 15 times each, and while a 1 hour daily commitment isn't all that much, dedicated time is really time to hardcore integrate the information and in that same hour, I can knock out a third of a block of qbank questions and review them.

 

[premedmind]

Thanks for the advice guys.

So you guys don't recommend I transfer over? The only complaint I have with GT is its slow, but now that I think of it FC might end up being really slow too after the transfer

 

[Thing1]

Then what I would do becomes a bit more variable based on what you're planning to do during the spring semester, what you've already done (including what you've banked so far) etc. If you want to put that info out, I'd be happy to say what I'd recommend. As a disclaimer though, I'm at the same point in the process you are, stepwise

Yeah it couldn't hurt to get some advice though, thanks.

I should add that I've basically followed along in class the best I could and shored up some weaker areas from MS1. I'm considering moving away from banking much more than this, maybe just getting some of those 80-90% subjects up to 100% and then move toward doing qbanks and FA. I would keep doing daily questions throughout spring semester.

 

[madchemist89]

For those of you who can do 200+ cards an hour, how do you achieve that speed? I am currently doing about 100 per hour.

 

[loveoforganic2]

Yeah it couldn't hurt to get some advice though, thanks.

I should add that I've basically followed along in class the best I could and shored up some weaker areas from MS1. I'm considering moving away from banking much more than this, maybe just getting some of those 80-90% subjects up to 100% and then move toward doing qbanks and FA. I would keep doing daily questions throughout spring semester.

Honestly, I think getting those to 100% is more of a feel good measure (unless you plan to not use FA until late in the game for subjects you reach 100% for). If you know where you're weak, and it's a memorization heavy subject area (biochem, immuno, micro, anatomy), I would focus on banking that stuff asap to get some repetitions in on the cards. I would also start up a qbank asap and start doing it on random mode. After 10-15 blocks, I'd take a look at your performance and assess where you may be weak, then consider banking heavily in that area (personally, the idea of restarting GT and the daily cards makes me kind of nauseated, but I've been underperforming in micro in qbank, so I might end up restarting it for just micro).

For spring, I'd figure out how many qbank q's per day you need to do to get through a qbank (either rx or kaplan) and do that along with your daily banking. Maybe read FA at night before bed if you want, but you could potentially save that for dedicated time. When dedicated time comes around, I'd stop GT and your current qbank, make a pass through FA, take an NBME self assessment, knock out half of UW, take another NBME, finish UW, take another NBME, one more pass through FA, test.

For those of you who can do 200+ cards an hour, how do you achieve that speed? I am currently doing about 100 per hour.

I used a timer and did questions in blocks of 50 (1-2x at a time, doing something else in between). Keeps you fresh and whatnot. Takes practice though, and the newer the cards are and the fewer you've mastered, the harder it is. I could usually stay at 180+ on average doing that, peaking at a little over 300.

 

[withrye]

Thanks for the advice guys.

So you guys don't recommend I transfer over? The only complaint I have with GT is its slow, but now that I think of it FC might end up being really slow too after the transfer

I plan on doing the transfer. I think FC is going to be a lot better than GT, and provided the migration happens smoothly I don't have any issues using FC from now on.

 

[premedmind]

Ok guys, I'm still undecided (I know different people learn differently) but if you were 6 months out, 40% banked with GT with like 30% mastery, and had DIT, FA, Uworld available, would you quit the GT, continue with banking GT, or do GT and FA simultaneously? What about the DIT? Leave it to the end? I also feel like if I neglect FA till ~3mos out I would miss things that weren't in GT. I only have so much time in a day and while I would like to do all, it's just not even close to possible.

 

[Thing1]

Ok guys, I'm still undecided (I know different people learn differently) but if you were 6 months out, 40% banked with GT with like 30% mastery, and had DIT, FA, Uworld available, would you quit the GT, continue with banking GT, or do GT and FA simultaneously? What about the DIT? Leave it to the end? I also feel like if I neglect FA till ~3mos out I would miss things that weren't in GT. I only have so much time in a day and while I would like to do all, it's just not even close to possible.

In the same boat as you, it's tough to decide.

Edit: personally DIT never sounded too enticing to me, though

 

[Thing1]

Honestly, I think getting those to 100% is more of a feel good measure (unless you plan to not use FA until late in the game for subjects you reach 100% for). If you know where you're weak, and it's a memorization heavy subject area (biochem, immuno, micro, anatomy), I would focus on banking that stuff asap to get some repetitions in on the cards. I would also start up a qbank asap and start doing it on random mode. After 10-15 blocks, I'd take a look at your performance and assess where you may be weak, then consider banking heavily in that area (personally, the idea of restarting GT and the daily cards makes me kind of nauseated, but I've been underperforming in micro in qbank, so I might end up restarting it for just micro).

For spring, I'd figure out how many qbank q's per day you need to do to get through a qbank (either rx or kaplan) and do that along with your daily banking. Maybe read FA at night before bed if you want, but you could potentially save that for dedicated time. When dedicated time comes around, I'd stop GT and your current qbank, make a pass through FA, take an NBME self assessment, knock out half of UW, take another NBME, finish UW, take another NBME, one more pass through FA, test.



I used a timer and did questions in blocks of 50 (1-2x at a time, doing something else in between). Keeps you fresh and whatnot. Takes practice though, and the newer the cards are and the fewer you've mastered, the harder it is. I could usually stay at 180+ on average doing that, peaking at a little over 300.

Do think this advice makes sense though

 

[minwoo]

I'm probably in alot worse shape than most of you guys..I'm registered for Step 1 in mid-June and only have 21.7% banked w/ a 6.1% mastery. Reading the above posts and considering the upcoming forced migrations to FC, I have a decision to make. History has shown that I do learn best when doing practice questions but I just don't know if the type of questions that GT provides will give me the same results. Time limitation is the major issue for me at this point (taking micro, pharm, path, and psych this semester). Should I dump GT and just start UWorld so that I can make sure to get 2-3 passes through it? Any suggestions/advice are appreciated~

 

[fleshwound]

History has shown that I do learn best when doing practice questions but I just don't know if the type of questions that GT provides will give me the same results.

you prob know yourself best. you can start uworld qs and see how you feel re whether you're learning from it

 

[fleshwound]

I'm having trouble grasping this fact. Rather it seems incompatible with the version that I have in mind. Hypokalemia would trigger a decr in aldosterone so less K+ would be excreted. Such a decr in aldosterone would mean less H+ gets excreted, and that points toward acidosis, not alkalosis. 😕

 

[strive01]

"Ruby on Rails application could not be started"

ANY ONE ELSE's GT NOT WORKING AND GIVING THIS MESSAGE???????????

 

[Throwsheat313]

"Ruby on Rails application could not be started"

ANY ONE ELSE's GT NOT WORKING AND GIVING THIS MESSAGE???????????

Yep I got that message too. GT fail

 

[NoHumbug]

"Ruby on Rails application could not be started"

ANY ONE ELSE's GT NOT WORKING AND GIVING THIS MESSAGE???????????

Getting the same message. Good thing I woke up early on a Saturday to get through my cards and now I can't do anything. Thanks a lot GT!

 

[Suncrusher]

...Rather it seems incompatible with the version that I have in mind. Hypokalemia would trigger a decr in aldosterone so less K+ would be excreted. Such a decr in aldosterone would mean less H+ gets excreted, and that points toward acidosis, not alkalosis. 😕

Don't go so far as to assume the hypokalemia would cause a decrease in aldosterone; this patient's primary problem is hyperaldosteronism. The alkalosis happens due to increased H+ excretion via urine and because normal body cells will take up H+ in order to deplete themselves of intracellular K+ in order to try to keep K+ levels in the blood at a normal level.

 

[withrye]

GT team tries to migrate users to FC because it's more stable: "I want to stay on GT, I don't care about stability issues!"
GT goes down: "$#*@, why can't GT have more uptime?!"

That being said, I'm like 18 cards away from 100% banked and I'm itching to finish up on GT before the migration, for personal satisfaction reasons.

 

[jhamaican]

forget it.... would not recommend this program to people....

 

[MCAT guy]

forget it.... would not recommend this program to people....

The #1 reason I quit is that I found I was more focused on getting good @ GT than I was @ getting good at Step 1.

One poster asked if they should use Pathoma instead of trying to bank 100%? Lol, yes. Yes 1000 times. The people who use GT and do well are those who use it as a supplement to things like Pathoma, Qbanks, FA. I.e. it's an enhancer to a well designed prep program. It's not meant to be a primary source, nor does it replace things like Uworld, FA, Pathoma, or extra questions. If you aren't doing those key activities, then GT isn't for you. If you are, then I'm sure you can get a crazy score if you supplement with GT. Unfortunately it took me until the thick of M2 to realize this.

 

[thawunandonly]

GT team tries to migrate users to FC because it's more stable: "I want to stay on GT, I don't care about stability issues!"
GT goes down: "$#*@, why can't GT have more uptime?!"

That being said, I'm like 18 cards away from 100% banked and I'm itching to finish up on GT before the migration, for personal satisfaction reasons.

Wow... did you just bank Pharm or whatever ahead of time (assuming you are on your last semester of basic sciences)?

God I wish I started GT during 1st year...

 

[withrye]

Wow... did you just bank Pharm or whatever ahead of time (assuming you are on your last semester of basic sciences)?

God I wish I started GT during 1st year...

I started GT the summer before MS2. I banked MS1 stuff during that time, give or take. Then I banked all my fall MS2 stuff during the fall, getting ahead by winter break. Once you bank MS1 stuff you're over halfway done, because all that's left is micro, pharm, and the path/pharm for each organ system. When I say "MS1" stuff I mean I did all the anatomy and physio for all the systems along with the basic science stuff.

 

[strive01]

what's GT's email address??!?!??!?! i hate when GT is down and i have like 2x as many questions to do for the next day!!! 🙁

 

[thawunandonly]

Then I'm banking too slowly, lol damn.

I aimed to have as much as I can banked before the final semester, so that all I would be going through is Goljan, FA, GT daily reviews that I should be bulleting through, and QBanks. But I only banked 25% of Micro during the Fall semester, so I'm spending my winter break relearning the subject with GT+FA...but I did good progress on Pathology.

GT was my primary source during pathology, and I supplemented this with Pathoma (whereas the majority do it the other way around). I realize Pathoma is probably an overall better resource but once you get the gist of the presentation/powerpoint lecture, I feel it's better to focus on the associations and little details more (via GT and Goljan). Don't get me wrong, I still use Pathoma, looking through the book frequently as I've annotated it with all the little diagrams Dr. Sattar has drawn... 😍

I would *cough* still *cough* recommend GT to this day (FC is also looking nicer)...

But with downtime and errors like today's ordeal (I swear I thought it caught a virus or something has been hacked when I opened up my homepage...), GT is NOT helping ME help IT.

 

[thawunandonly]

I started GT the summer before MS2. I banked MS1 stuff during that time, give or take. Then I banked all my fall MS2 stuff during the fall, getting ahead by winter break. Once you bank MS1 stuff you're over halfway done, because all that's left is micro, pharm, and the path/pharm for each organ system. When I say "MS1" stuff I mean I did all the anatomy and physio for all the systems along with the basic science stuff.

Oh, just out of curiosity... how long did it take you to bank, e.g. MS1 subjects. Like, just give me examples of a subject, e.g. biochem, genetics, immunology, etc. I was slow starting out so it took me like 4 days banking just the physio of systems when I first got GT during summer of MS1. But I covered entire pathology systems in like 2-3 days (except for the ridiculous cards that have like 25-30 questions on it 👎).

 

[withrye]

Oh, just out of curiosity... how long did it take you to bank, e.g. MS1 subjects. Like, just give me examples of a subject, e.g. biochem, genetics, immunology, etc. I was slow starting out so it took me like 4 days banking just the physio of systems when I first got GT during summer of MS1. But I covered entire pathology systems in like 2-3 days (except for the ridiculous cards that have like 25-30 questions on it 👎).

I really just summed the cards I intended to do in a given time frame and divided by the number of days in the time frame. I think it's been somewhere around an average of 5 cards per day, but it depends on how many questions show up (sometimes you can get 15+ cards done in a day if it's stuff you already know well and there are only <5 questions per card). My pacing was done entirely on a target cards/day model, where I targeted subjects and cards that I already knew well before moving on to harder and less familiar material.

 

[Suncrusher]

The #1 reason I quit is that I found I was more focused on getting good @ GT than I was @ getting good at Step 1.

One poster asked if they should use Pathoma instead of trying to bank 100%? Lol, yes. Yes 1000 times. The people who use GT and do well are those who use it as a supplement to things like Pathoma, Qbanks, FA. I.e. it's an enhancer to a well designed prep program. It's not meant to be a primary source, nor does it replace things like Uworld, FA, Pathoma, or extra questions. If you aren't doing those key activities, then GT isn't for you. If you are, then I'm sure you can get a crazy score if you supplement with GT. Unfortunately it took me until the thick of M2 to realize this.

it does pretty much replace FA, but yeah, obviously I'm not using GT to the exclusion of pathoma and thousands of qbank questions. I can do 200 GT questions a day and all that other stuff.

 

[fleshwound]

what's GT's email address??!?!??!?! i hate when GT is down and i have like 2x as many questions to do for the next day!!! 🙁

[email protected]

lol @ current operation status http://status.firecracker.me/

 

[thawunandonly]

[email protected]

lol @ current operation status http://status.firecracker.me/

Nah, the best was when we had that big downtime about a month or two ago.

NOBODY addressed it for a long ass time, not even mentioning it on the forum or Facebook.

Then all of a sudden it went something like:

2 min ago - System down. (when in reality it's been down for hours or days or something)
2 min later - Everything up! GJ WE DID IT GUYS WE SOLVED EVERYTHING IN A RECORD BREAKING 2 MIN WE DA BESSSSSSSS 👍 *U-S-A chants*

 

[MCAT guy]

it does pretty much replace FA, but yeah, obviously I'm not using GT to the exclusion of pathoma and thousands of qbank questions. I can do 200 GT questions a day and all that other stuff.

Well, I enjoy that you used "pretty much" in that statement. I know they copied a lot of FA before adding tons of extras, but still, FA is the best resource.

So, you aren't going to buy or read through FA? You don't own a single copy of FA?

Fun uses of pretty much:

They pretty much won that playoff game.

I pretty much passed that test.

She's pretty much attractive.

 

[Suncrusher]

Well, I enjoy that you used "pretty much" in that statement. I know they copied a lot of FA before adding tons of extras, but still, FA is the best resource.

So, you aren't going to buy or read through FA? You don't own a single copy of FA?

Fun uses of pretty much:

They pretty much won that playoff game.

I pretty much passed that test.

She's pretty much attractive.

no, I don't own FA and I'm not going to buy it. It is full of errors anyway. My friends go through each section of FA together with me before every organ system test, and there is never anything new in FA, so I don't see the point in buying it for step1. GT definitely doesn't replace qbanks/pathoma though; those have been more valuable for my learning than GT and I have never said otherwise. But I know I won't have to spend any time at all on FA during my dedicated step1 study time if I keep up with GT.

 

[MCAT guy]

no, I don't own FA and I'm not going to buy it. It is full of errors anyway. My friends go through each section of FA together with me before every organ system test, and there is never anything new in FA, so I don't see the point in buying it for step1. GT definitely doesn't replace qbanks/pathoma though; those have been more valuable for my learning than GT and I have never said otherwise. But I know I won't have to spend any time at all on FA during my dedicated step1 study time if I keep up with GT.

Well, that's impressive. Hope you do well.