How long does it take you to complete a chapter of Goljan RR?

[NoWayOut]

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Have a feeling I am taking tooooooooo long to do a single chapter. Maybe if I knew how long I am "supposed" to take, that will push me to go faster.
So how long does it take you guys to cram a Goljan RR chapter???

 

[Asp]

Goljan RR is low yield for Step I. It's best used in conjunction with pathology class during the school year. Though even then doing Robbins questions and listening to Goljan audio first is a better idea IMO.

Goljan RR is a combined Step I + some Step 2 type book. 40% of the material in Goljan will be highly unlikely to show up on a Step I exam. I really wouldn't recommend it unless you are already scoring 260+ on practice exams, and know UWorld and FA inside and out.

Things I would do before reading Goljan: UWorld (do it twice!), Goljan lectures, FA in conjunction with Rx, Kaplan on "Hard" mode, and even the Goljan QBank.

In general reading is highly overrated for Step I. You don't need to read anything. Getting questions right because you are applying knowledge you read is a bad strategy. Getting questions right because you've seen them or a close enough variant before is a good strategy. Forget the books. Give yourself 6 months and just do 10,000 questions. Unless you're an idiot, you're guaranteed 240+ if you do that.





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[studentologist]

hmmm...if i remember correctly, probably just under 1.5 hours per chapter. some chapters take more time, some less.

 

[strongboy2005]

Goljan RR is low yield for Step I.

Never heard this before.

 

[mq123]

At my best, I was averaging 20 pgs per hour... This was after I had already read it a couple of times and was cramming instead of just reading. However, sometimes it was slower (especially when I got to pages with those super dense tables).

I don't think you should worry about how fast you're going because everyone has a different readying (and retaining) speed. If you find that you're skimming material just to read faster, it could actually end up hurting you. Just try to understand the material first, and when you come back to cram, it'll happen faster 🙂

Good luck!

 

[Bassix]

30-60 minutes hitting high yield and medium yield details.

 

[coralfangs]

Never heard this before.

the concept is high yield but the individual fact is low yield.
I've been doing questions recently and noticed that most of the stuff from UW can be found in FA alone.
Yet, in order to understand FA, you might need RR.

Just my two cents.

 

[NoWayOut]

the concept is high yield but the individual fact is low yield.
I've been doing questions recently and noticed that most of the stuff from UW can be found in FA alone.
Yet, in order to understand FA, you might need RR.

Just my two cents.

I am finding that there are a lot of UW questions that are testing concepts found in RR. e.g citrate decreases Ca stone formation, to quote RR : " Citrate normally chelates Calicium". I don't know FA too well yet to say it can be found there, but a question in UW (which I got wrong) tested this very concept, asking something like what would you change to reduce stone formation and the answer was increase the citrate concentration. I am in the cramming stage now but wish I could go faster and I think I will start concentrating more of FA and then do RR more towards the end of the day..

I know you guys remember seeing the famous trio of previous test-takers:
FA + UW + RR so I don't feel safe leaving Goljan completly out of the picture, agree?

 

[drizzt3117]

I've found Goljan useful. If there was one source that was expendable FOR ME it would be FA. Not a single one of the qs I know I got wrong were in FA.

 

[mrmandrake]

Wow, lots of conflicting info on RR Path here. I guess that's the nature of Step 1 though.

Personally I'm reading RR Path for understanding and about 75% memorization (not really gonna memorize 5-year survival rates, and less common clinical findings) and I'm going to memorize FA 100% if I can.

 

[IMGUSMLEStep1]

I am finding that there are a lot of UW questions that are testing concepts found in RR. e.g citrate decreases Ca stone formation, to quote RR : " Citrate normally chelates Calicium". I don't know FA too well yet to say it can be found there, but a question in UW (which I got wrong) tested this very concept, asking something like what would you change to reduce stone formation and the answer was increase the citrate concentration. I am in the cramming stage now but wish I could go faster and I think I will start concentrating more of FA and then do RR more towards the end of the day..

I know you guys remember seeing the famous trio of previous test-takers:
FA + UW + RR so I don't feel safe leaving Goljan completly out of the picture, agree?

If you have time, definitely do RR (or at least the high yield topics in it). But if you're short on time, I say focus on FA and UW.

 

[physics junkie]

4.5 hours per chapter on the third edition. 😀