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[IzzyMD09]

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NBME's not good enough

please help me !!!!!

First AID vs Goljan 100 pages

i.e. what should I be reading this last week when I am not doing 200-350 questions of UW a day

or will doing 1700 UW questions while going over first AID help me cover first aid

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

its almost here

dun dun dun


izzy

 

[SoCuteMD]

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NBME's not good enough

please help me !!!!!

First AID vs Goljan 100 pages

i.e. what should I be reading this last week when I am not doing 200-350 questions of UW a day

or will doing 1700 UW questions while going over first AID help me cover first aid

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

its almost here

dun dun dun


izzy

If you are doing 250 questions a day you are probably not learning from your mistakes. Read the explanations THOROUGHLY. I took notes on my wrong answers as I went, and then spent part of my afternoon paging through First Aid or Rapid Review to look at the relevant pages and highlight (in a unique color) the pertinent facts.

 

[Arctic Char]

agreed with her cuteness. as far as review and/or questions go: quality sticks, quantity just makes you tired.

i'm pulling for ya mate

 

[lord_jeebus]

In my opinion, Goljan 100 pages is trash. If you're going to read, read First Aid.

I don't know much about your circumstances, but for some people I think that 250-300 questions (or 500 questions) per day is fine. If you know why you're getting questions right, and you're doing well, don't waste time reading all the explanations. Especially in the last week, it's important to stick to what's high yield, and if something were particularly important, chances are UW has included it in a question's correct choice, not just in the wrong answers.

Again, this all depends on your current performance. If you're concerned about passing or breaking 200, focus on reading, and read all the UW answer explanations closely.

 

[treasurefull2]

First, don't panic, but make a plan/schedule...

FA is a must, and should be your focus towards the last few days, because it is a thorough review of everything, and will keep everything fresh...

QUESTIONS second... as you don't want to stop doing questions for 3 reasons (1) to continue learning HY info (2) To continue challenging your brain (3) Keep your brain in "question" mode

Goljan HY 100p is good, but overrated... don't worry about this TOO MUCH. I mean, it's not bad, if you can do it, do it. IF NOT, don't kill your self over it...


Good luck, stay calm, study hard, and you'll do fine...

 

[Balle]

Do whatever will give you the most comprehensive overall review, sounds like FA in your case. But make sure you rip through as many UW questions as possible; it is crucial! Always go slowly over and re-read those that you miss; fly through the ones you got right.

 

[IzzyMD09]

Do whatever will give you the most comprehensive overall review, sounds like FA in your case. But make sure you rip through as many UW questions as possible; it is crucial! Always go slowly over and re-read those that you miss; fly through the ones you got right.

I simply just cannot read First Aid although I have annotated it several times and continue to do so while doing the UWorld problems, I just cant read the book

a. its covered in annotations
2. even if i chose just to read what is written its not enought
thirdly. I have read the step I experience thread and no one has flat out said that reading First Aid a gajillion times helps because the test is 2 and 3 step reasoning

now I know people who have read first aid several times through along with one or two other books and thats it....but it seems like from Qbank Uworld and 2 NBME's that First Aid is lacking big time

I tried looking up some of the stuff i was tested on in the 2nd NBME in First aid and its not there

mechanisms of Listeria I mean c'mon

I am trying to do between 200-350 questions per day this last 6 days, i hope that by doing so many i will have covered most if not all of what is in the first aid, and more than hopefully all if not most of what is on the board

of course feel free to tell me im stupid/******ed if necessary, but even if i read first aid i would forget the little things, i remember getting questions wrong better than reading sparsely detailed things

let me know if im making a big mistake😱

 

[Balle]

I simply just cannot read First Aid although I have annotated it several times and continue to do so while doing the UWorld problems, I just cant read the book

a. its covered in annotations
2. even if i chose just to read what is written its not enought
thirdly. I have read the step I experience thread and no one has flat out said that reading First Aid a gajillion times helps because the test is 2 and 3 step reasoning

now I know people who have read first aid several times through along with one or two other books and thats it....but it seems like from Qbank Uworld and 2 NBME's that First Aid is lacking big time

I tried looking up some of the stuff i was tested on in the 2nd NBME in First aid and its not there

mechanisms of Listeria I mean c'mon

I am trying to do between 200-350 questions per day this last 6 days, i hope that by doing so many i will have covered most if not all of what is in the first aid, and more than hopefully all if not most of what is on the board

of course feel free to tell me im stupid/******ed if necessary, but even if i read first aid i would forget the little things, i remember getting questions wrong better than reading sparsely detailed things

let me know if im making a big mistake😱

It is a reasoning test but based in large part on a foundation of facts. I myself hated FA and never read it, but I did flip through key review pages in Kaplan in the days leading up to the test. I think you are on track with UW; I would say UW is the one source that leads to the biggest boost in scores over a short period of time. However, you do not want to give up easy, basic questions that you just need a quick brush-up with. For instance, the morphological changes/time course of an MI. Not hard, but if you get 2 or 3 easy questions on it, you want to instinctively hit the answer and move on.

If you can quickly go over easy topics like this in say half a day, maybe ignore most annotations in FA but go over major figures/facts/notes you have, and spend the rest of the time you have going over UW as you are, I think you will be in good shape. Good luck!

 

[IzzyMD09]

😀😀😀😀that is the best response i have ever gotten on SDN ever

thanks for that

only question, when you say peruse first aid, do you think its the same as going over practice questions with first aid

or should i actually sit down with just first aid and go through it, i have the tendency to go over everything on a page, and when i cant finish on time (slow reader) i panic

izzy

 

[viostorm]

#1: get off SDN and start studying 😀

#2: I'd do FA + goljan audio during downtime and cut the questions down to 100-150/day. Questions are ok but I think they are best when used early. However, I did get a few questions by going through the anatomy ones in tutor mode the day before the exam so I'd recommend that.

#3: Don't give up now! You've studied for 2 years.

#4: The most important day to sleep well is not the night before the exam but the night before the night before. Go to bed early that night.

 

[IzzyMD09]

ok...appreciate it

SDN is between blocks for me, i cant just do 4 in a row, i need to be social somehow

i was just asking if going through first aid is going to be beneficial for those of us that dont memorize and seeing if doing questions and going over wrong answers might not be a better idea because it requires active thinking rather than just staring at pages that have been written on

you bring up a good point on the sleeping thing, the night before the night before i was planning on taking an ambien at say around 9 ish = out by 10:30

than the night before night before, taking one around 8ish and being out by 9

how do you guys beat the after lunch im going to pass out thing

 

[Law2Doc]

how do you guys beat the after lunch im going to pass out thing

Eat something with protein and complex carbs, and have a beverage with caffeine. Go outside and get some fresh (not recycled) air and breathe for a bit. Tell yourself you are halfway (or more) done.

 

[Arctic Char]

Tell yourself you are halfway (or more) done.

yikes. that'll be spooky . . .

izzle, listen dude, you know your facts - i know you know your facts. trust your intuition, don't second guess yourself, employ occams razor, then finish the beast and go have some fatty salmon at Onami . . . wish i could join you . . .

you're gonna do great

 

[IzzyMD09]

you got that right pizzle
especially the intuition part
geez i could be scoring in the upper 80's if i just stuck with my first choice/guess on these Qbanks rather than pulling in the dregs at mid 60's

i guess im still traumatized by the MCAT

will that PTSD ever go away

 

[canedoc]

ok, gotta tell ya...didn't use SDN during studying

do usmleworld...go for 20 question blocks as FAST as you can

hit up FA repeatedly...just tell yourself that this is all stuff that WILL be on your exam in its own right

you don't want to be driving home from the exam thinking " I wish I had read through FA more than once/twice"


good luck!