How comfortable did you feel with the material going into the exam?

[Medicman13]

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Hey all,

I'm just over 2 weeks out from my exam date. I finished DIT and have been working through UWorld for the past couple of weeks. I haven't had much time to sit down and study First Aid, and instead have been doing questions all day. For those who have taken the exam, how comfortable did you feel with all of the material going into the exam? As if you could recall material from many pages of First Aid? I'm definitely not there yet. Should I be more comfortable with the fact that I've seen multiple questions about high yield topics and that I'm more able to recall those than material straight from First Aid? I know there is a lot of material covered in First Aid and DIT that I haven't seen many questions about...that is what worries me. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Garrus]

Right now, as of today, I am 2 weeks away from my exam as well. I had ~6 weeks for dedicated studying. My strategy has been somewhat different than yours, but I think we are both at places where we can sort of catch up to each other over the next 2 weeks.

During my last month and a half of regular classwork, I went through First Aid once, and I went through Pathoma. I completed DIT during my first 3 weeks of studying. During the last week, I have started going through First Aid again (much easier this time through, but I am still picking up things here and there that I missed and it bothers me a little bit), I went through the Goljan audio, and I read 2/3 of Rapid Review (I will finish it out within the next few days).

During this time, I have gone through 40% of UWorld, but I am currently ramping up my utilization of UWorld (going to start doing >100 Q's/day, and 200/day in the week before the exam).

My current status:
-79% overall in UWorld, ~82% average over the last week.
-I feel like I have a very good grasp of what is going on in FA for the most part. I miss some questions in UWorld every once in a while that are from FA, but not that often.
-My weakest subject BY FAR is gross anatomy. I think I may run through the Kaplan notes over the next few days, but I don't want it to eat into my UWorld time.
-I feel somewhat weak in Biochemistry/Genetics, and Neuro. I pretty much every time I see a question on the inner ear...
-I feel very strong in Path, Micro, and Pharm.

My advice to you is to sit down and get through First Aid twice within the next 2 weeks. I think it really does help a lot. As for myself, I really need to get cracking on the UWorld, and control myself from spending time reading answer solutions in depth for questions I got correct.