Help. Step 1 advice in a bad place.

[uNiq1]

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Hey All,
Cutting to the chase.

I have 25 days before my test and I have just started world. I've been through pathoma (all except chapter 3). I started doing DIT but felt I wasn't learning. They were flying through FA topics and they were throwing in some HY stuff here and there but I don't know how useful that is versus me learning the material. I haven't used FA at all or done questions at all throughout the year (I thought I could do well w/o I'm ashamed of my stupidity + long story)
At this point I'm really really worried as to what is going to happen to me.

I feel that my pharm is weak (I learned from kaplan 2010 vids but I forgot a lot of it + reviewing that takes a lot of time.
I worry bc I haven't reviewed physio, epibiostats, neuro, psych, and biochem metabolism+nutrition + path (Except GI and a little heme)

I finished all of pathoma throughout the year except chapter 3.

I've done average or a little above on all my test during the year however I feel overwhelmed by material and can't seem to find out what the right thing to do is.
Part of my problem is that I feel FA is completely foreign to me.

Sorry for the ramble but I'm pulling at straws as to what to do.

Thanks.

 

[HelpPleaseMD]

Can you delay your test? I would normally recommend doing UWORLD random, but in your case its probably better to do it along with FA since you haven't touched it. Maybe you can just skip the path sections in FA till u have time for it? U might need BRS physio to digest some of the FA physio cause they just through a lot of charts and equations at u

 

[uNiq1]

Can you delay your test? I would normally recommend doing UWORLD random, but in your case its probably better to do it along with FA since you haven't touched it. Maybe you can just skip the path sections in FA till u have time for it? U might need BRS physio to digest some of the FA physio cause they just through a lot of charts and equations at u

Hey, its maximally delayed i.e. I start the day after my test. If I read FA and go to questions should it be sufficient?
After studying GI for 2.5 days I started world and started getting about 50-70%
I know there is no perfect indication but roughly based on this what kind of scores am I looking at? (ballpark)

 

[RedSoxSuck]

Hey, its maximally delayed i.e. I start the day after my test. If I read FA and go to questions should it be sufficient?
After studying GI for 2.5 days I started world and started getting about 50-70%
I know there is no perfect indication but roughly based on this what kind of scores am I looking at? (ballpark)

I would suggest to start with a system that you are in weak in. And then work your way through rest of the FA. At this point it would be very wise to work through FA in a strategic manner rather than cover to cover. Work on HY stuff and your weak areas supplemented with uworld.

I wouldn't try any sort of video's or anything because you need to try to maximize your time on FA and uworld. Thats all.

 

[HelpPleaseMD]

Hey, its maximally delayed i.e. I start the day after my test. If I read FA and go to questions should it be sufficient?
After studying GI for 2.5 days I started world and started getting about 50-70%
I know there is no perfect indication but roughly based on this what kind of scores am I looking at? (ballpark)

2.5 days for GI is way too long to spend on it given how much time you have left. Put in the work and hope for the best.

 

[FSAP]

I was in a similar situation with only five weeks to study. I barely touched first aid in the first two years and only did like 300 questions in the second semester. My schedule last three weeks or so has been grueling but I am finishing up first aid now and I think I am in decent shape with another two weeks left. I started in low sixties high fifties on UWorld too and now it is much more respectable. Put in the work and you will be fine.