Sure, if you tracked them.
This is entirely subjective. I didn't touch any specifically USMLE-related practice questions until the latter half of MS2. Granted, between USMLE Rx, Kaplan, UWorld, NBMEs, and random practice questions given by my school throughout MS1/MS2 I probably completed >9,000 questions. Still, I always prioritized reading and mastering content over doing questions.
I think it depends on what kind of a student you are. If you are great student (which actually most of the kids on SDN are), it's fine to do more content than application, because you know your averages will be in good shape once you do your questions. If you weren't the great of a student and are honest with yourself (like in my situation originally), your averages are going to be very pedestrian initially and you have to churn a lot more questions than a good student to get your averages to trend upwards to the percentile you want.
I think you mean coordination, there is plenty of paint (resources) to use
If you are trying to answer questions without understanding the content it's like scratching dry paintbrushes (i.e. problem-solving ability) against a piece of paper without any paint (i.e. understanding of content).
Yeah I agree with this. Like for me personally I had to take a foundation course to learn the basics, and they would have us do minimal amounts of questions at first, like 5-10 questions, to get use to doing it. Then by the end of the course, we would be doing 1 block a day. After the course, we would be doing 2 blocks a day in the morning and then review content the rest of the day. A balance needs to be made between the two, swinging heavy with content at the beginning of prep and heavy with questions toward the end of your prep.
9000 questions sounds like you did exactly what worldbeater recommended. I don't think I can hit 9000 at this point, aiming for 5000 or more if I can handle it
I'm trying to reach this balance.
I did ~1,200 USMLE Rx questions in the last half of MS2, along with completing Kaplan QBank (2,100 questions). I did UWorld once during dedicated (2,400 questions). I also did 7 NBME forms (200 questions each), 2 UWorld Self-Assessments (174 questions each), the free 138 NBME questions, the NBME CBSE (200 NBME questions), and the NBME BSCE II (400 NBME questions). Finally, I did countless random, class-required practice questions that were USMLE-oriented.
I was able to take form 11 before it was taken down, and form 18 came out a week before my exam. I got lucky and was able to take them all online. Doing every NBME is very important. Also gives you something to look forward to each week if you pace yourself.
Clearly I haven't taken the exam yet, but I was told by M3s at my school to only do random questions during dedicated because doing it section by section will inflate your % and give you hints to the right answer (e.g. it's a lung thing not a heart thing because I'm only doing pulm Qs today).
