How many questions/day ?

[Tadalafil]

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I was wondering how many questions people are doing per day. I can't even finish the going over 50 UW answers in a day since the explanations take forver to read. May be I am too slow, still have over 1100 to finish in 4 weeks.

Any tips on maximizing question yeild?

 

[cdql]

I think that's a personal call. I do about 100 UW, 50 Qbank, and 25 IV Qbank per evening but I also don't do a very good job of reading the explanations.

If you feel that going slowly and reading over the explanations carefully is the way to go, then I'd stick with that (probably the best choice)

I find myself getting restless when going over the answers to questions I already know so I often skip the ones I get right and only read the explanations to the ones I get wrong (which is why I can fit a few more questions in each night)

I don't think you can go wrong with either method. The first one probably allows for better learning and the 2nd one allows for more exposure to different topics (I should finish both question banks in time for my exam. I don't think I'll be able to do that with IV Qbank but that's a joke of a question bank anyway 😛)

 

[cubsrule4e]

I managed between 100-150 UW a day... even if i felt like i could do more, had i done so i would probably be blind now from continuous retinal irradation

 

[Law2Doc]

I managed between 100-150 UW a day...

Ditto.

 

[UCLAstudent]

In the last few weeks before the test, I was up to 40 questions in the morning and 40 at night. It doesn't sound like a lot, but I was pretty meticulous about going over answers.

 

[Taus]

imo....do as many as you can while still having time to read the answers and get through whatever other material you have planned for the day....you're gonna need a little trial and error at 1st to get it right for yourself....also....the real thing is in blocks of 50....might as well get used to doing 50 non-stop....

 

[cubsrule4e]

imo....do as many as you can while still having time to read the answers and get through whatever other material you have planned for the day....you're gonna need a little trial and error at 1st to get it right for yourself....also....the real thing is in blocks of 50....might as well get used to doing 50 non-stop....

Well, at least for me, doing 25 questions with explanations was basically the equivalent of 50 questions, if not worse. I usually did 1 block of 50 a day and then broke the rest of the blocks up to prevent myself from getting worn out. Like i said in the experiences thread, doing all the explanations is another helpful way to build up endurance, because when you get to the real thing and you can finally just click and go, it seems to fly by since youre not reading a page of explanations every time.

 

[Taus]

Well, at least for me, doing 25 questions with explanations was basically the equivalent of 50 questions, if not worse. I usually did 1 block of 50 a day and then broke the rest of the blocks up to prevent myself from getting worn out. Like i said in the experiences thread, doing all the explanations is another helpful way to build up endurance, because when you get to the real thing and you can finally just click and go, it seems to fly by since youre not reading a page of explanations every time.

fair enough....to each his/her own....we've all been in school long enough to know what we need to do

btw.... please tell me that the a,p,e in your sig aren't in that order to resemble a ribosome....

 

[cubsrule4e]

fair enough....to each his/her own....we've all been in school long enough to know what we need to do

btw.... please tell me that the a,p,e in your sig aren't in that order to resemble a ribosome....

I was bored and just coming off the step 1, what do you expect? 😳

 

[Taus]

I was bored and just coming off the step 1, what do you expect? 😳

actually its probably even more sad that the first thing that came to my mind when I saw those letters in order was a f*^&%$^ ribosome

 

[5150]

As my UW scores go up it seems like my Qbank scores go down. I tend to forget a lot of little details that Qbank likes to quiz on. Anyone else have this problem?

I'm a little worried because I'm taking my test soon and I'm not sure which to focus on. There's no way I can finish either one at this point. What do you guys think?

 

[Taus]

As my UW scores go up it seems like my Qbank scores go down. I tend to forget a lot of little details that Qbank likes to quiz on. Anyone else have this problem?

I'm a little worried because I'm taking my test soon and I'm not sure which to focus on. There's no way I can finish either one at this point. What do you guys think?

UWorld was representative of around 50% of my test in both style and level of difficulty....~40% was way easier and maybe ~10% max was really nit-picky like Qbank...

I sound like a fricken testimonial....but after about a month of studying (when I got through all the info once) I took nbme 4 and did ok.....I started UW the day after that and my score on NBME 3 two and a half weeks later went up 100 points....and a week later 20 points higher then that on NBME 2

yeah of course I knew more and more material the longer I studied....but UW was great for practicing how you need to think on the real thing

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

As my UW scores go up it seems like my Qbank scores go down. I tend to forget a lot of little details that Qbank likes to quiz on. Anyone else have this problem?

I'm a little worried because I'm taking my test soon and I'm not sure which to focus on. There's no way I can finish either one at this point. What do you guys think?

I would definitely pay more attention to UW. The USMLE wants to know that we can think; the nitpicky detail questions will be minimal.