How many days did you have left after your first pass of FA?

[qmcat]

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Just wondering if I'm in good shape right now or if I need to change anything. I just finished my first pass of FA yesterday and I have 11 days left until my exam. I'm planning to take a day this weekend to do an NBME since I haven't done one since I started studying. Other than that, is it feasible to make 2 more passes of FA in 10 days (actually 9 days b/c I don't want to study the day before the exam)?

So far it's been taking ~5 min to read a page of FA, but I think that my first pass took too long b/c I'm an idiot and had to look everything up. I want to step up my studying like 3-4 blocks of UW a day and 100 pages of FA, but I'm not sure if that's overkill. I'm feeling kind of anxious/nervous about the upcoming exam and any advice would be great. Thanks!

 

[septoplasty]

3 - 4 blocks of UW + review sounds insane and on top of that 100 pages of FA? What are you some kind of super human experiment? lol

Yea, it does sound like an overkill (at least in my opinion), I can barely get through a section of FA after doing 2 blocks of UW (and reviewing them)

You're on a time crunch, so I can understand what you're getting at, but I dont think you should sacrifice quality over quantity.

 

[qmcat]

3 - 4 blocks of UW + review sounds insane and on top of that 100 pages of FA? What are you some kind of super human experiment? lol

Yea, it does sound like an overkill (at least in my opinion), I can barely get through a section of FA after doing 2 blocks of UW (and reviewing them)

You're on a time crunch, so I can understand what you're getting at, but I dont think you should sacrifice quality over quantity.

Haha, thanks. Yea I want to step up both my UW and FA usage, but I'm not sure how to split it up.

At this point, I feel like I've seen everything before, but I just don't have good memory of everything yet. Like, when I do UW questions, I'll recognize everything, but I don't remember the details I need to answer the question. Then when I'm reviewing, my reaction after reading the explanations is always "oh, I knew that"... My UW percentage is around 66% right now, but I keep feeling nervous that I don't remember a lot of the small stuff.

Should I use the next 5 days to just do 3-4 blocks UW a day + review (I still have 40% UW left to do), and then use the final 5 days to do a final run of FA? Or maybe reverse that? Or should I just do UW for the next 10 days and hope that by reviewing all the questions I'd be doing an unintentional pass of FA? Any suggestions would help!