How many pages of FA per day second time around?

[Lord_Vader]

How many pages of FA should you be able to read in a day during your second passthrough with time left for questions in the afternoon? I'm planning to do 50 pages in the morning/afternoon and then spend the rest of the day doing 150 questions (75 UW and 75 USMLE Rx). I've been annotating as I've been doing Uworld so I'm already more than familiar with certain parts of the book but I'm wondering if 50 pages in a half a day is feasable the 2nd time. Thanks.

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[tylus]

How many pages per hour did you read the first round?

 

[mcloaf]

50 pages is definitely doable.

 

[Lord_Vader]

How many pages per hour did you read the first round?

Around 4-6. I'm aiming for 10 per hour the 2nd time.

 

[seminoma]

I would think the second pass would be slower since you've presumably annotated stuff from UW and potentially other sources. First pass for me is going to be fast to refresh my memory of stuff, then second pass slower to pick out more details and get things to stick.

 

[PL198]

4-6 pages per hour? are you rewriting every word multiple times

 

[Bancrofti]

seems like a bit much to me. So many people say they read first aid 4-7x during their dedicated period, but what is the utility of speed reading through it? Are you really retaining everything? If you were to read through 50 pages and I was to ask you a question based on page 7 of your daily reading, are you 100% sure that you'd get it right? If the answer is no, lighten your load. It's better to take your time with the reading. Read FA for comprehension and understanding. If you read it like a book, for the sake of getting through it and to just get some major points along the way, you're doing yourself a disservice. Your question load seems a bit heavy as well... How far out from test day are you and why are you using Rx along with Uworld?

 

[seminoma]

seems like a bit much to me. So many people say they read first aid 4-7x during their dedicated period, but what is the utility of speed reading through it? Are you really retaining everything? If you were to read through 50 pages and I was to ask you a question based on page 7 of your daily reading, are you 100% sure that you'd get it right? If the answer is no, lighten your load. It's better to take your time with the reading. Read FA for comprehension and understanding. If you read it like a book, for the sake of getting through it and to just get some major points along the way, you're doing yourself a disservice. Your question load seems a bit heavy as well... How far out from test day are you and why are you using Rx along with Uworld?

4-7x? Wow. I plan on doing 2 dedicated read throughs, but that's not including all the other times I read a specific section that pertains to a Uworld question.. So I would guess depending on how many times UW hits on a particular topic that I might read that particular topic in FA 4-7x during dedicated.

 

[Lord_Vader]

seems like a bit much to me. So many people say they read first aid 4-7x during their dedicated period, but what is the utility of speed reading through it? Are you really retaining everything? If you were to read through 50 pages and I was to ask you a question based on page 7 of your daily reading, are you 100% sure that you'd get it right? If the answer is no, lighten your load. It's better to take your time with the reading. Read FA for comprehension and understanding. If you read it like a book, for the sake of getting through it and to just get some major points along the way, you're doing yourself a disservice. Your question load seems a bit heavy as well... How far out from test day are you and why are you using Rx along with Uworld?

Well I'm taking it on May 21st and I'm starting my 2nd runthrough of FA on May 1st. So yeah. I'm using UW and Rx so I can do more questions lol? Plus it's a nice reinforcer of FA. I'm only going through each Qbank once though.

 

[Bancrofti]

4-7x? Wow. I plan on doing 2 dedicated read throughs, but that's not including all the other times I read a specific section that pertains to a Uworld question.. So I would guess depending on how many times UW hits on a particular topic that I might read that particular topic in FA 4-7x during dedicated.

Was just quoting random numbers from what people have said. Do whatever you feel is effective and will help give you a solid enough baseline to answer questions properly. I suppose some people are speed readers, but I know I struggled to get through ~20 pages/day and 2 blocks of UW, so it's just crazy to me that some people can read upwards of 50 pages/day and do questions on top of that. Maybe I'm just inefficient

 

[tpsreport]

Was just quoting random numbers from what people have said. Do whatever you feel is effective and will help give you a solid enough baseline to answer questions properly. I suppose some people are speed readers, but I know I struggled to get through ~20 pages/day and 2 blocks of UW, so it's just crazy to me that some people can read upwards of 50 pages/day and do questions on top of that. Maybe I'm just inefficient

I'm right there with you on the length of time it takes to do UW. When I read a word or a fact, I need to know why it's there, and whether it fits into the paradigm of things I understand about the topic. If not, I look it up. I'm on my 2nd run through of some of the material and 3rd of others. I think it all depends on how familiar you are with the chapters. Otherwise, I'm averaging about 30 pages a day averaged from the difficult and easy chapters.

To OP: Do however many Qsets of UW you think you can fit in. As long as you know how long it takes you to go through FA, and how long it takes to review each Qset, it doesn't matter how quickly other people go. It takes me 1 hour to do the 46 Qset timed, and 1.5 hours to review it on average. I usually go through explanation of right and wrong answers, and if I see a sentence that seems important to me, I write it down on a big list of these tidbits. Reviewing this list from time to time helps solidify my weaknesses. Try that if you have time, I think it helps a lot.