How did you spend the last 5 days before the boards?

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This question (... well last 8 days in that thread) has already been asked. I am particularly interested in finding out how those that scored very high (>250 or 255) reviewed material they went through in those last days. A popular way seems to read through the annotated FA. Lord-jeebus did questions. But the thread died, and there seemed to be few detailed responders.

What about the others? Lanky comes to mind, usmle student, etc? You guys must be busy on your rotations, but if you do find some time, it would be great. Basically, did you organize your study in a way that you could 'review what you reviewed' and if so, how. and if not how... and if you did questions, then how did you make sure to review it all...

Thanks.

 

[lankysudanese]

i basically systematically reviewed everything. I had made word documents (organized by organ system) containing all the high yield material, which was collected from all of the resources and qbanks that I had used. Everyday, i went over the word documents for 3-4 organ systems. I then did a day of micro and biochem, a day of behavioral and other miscellaneous subjects (anatomy/neuroanatomy).
at that point, i had run out of questions, so that wasn't an option.

the day before my test: i watched a lot of TV, went to the gym and went to bed early. my goal was to get 8-9hrs of sleep - and I did. I slept like a baby, and I feel like that made a huge difference.

just my experience. hope it helps.