So I have been doing a few questions everyday of Uworld and it takes me such a long time to annotate! For example, I did 5 questions today and it took me over an hour to read the long Uworld explanation and annotate? I think the problem is that I find everything is important and annotate it into Uworld. Can anyone give me advice on how to pick out what is important from those explanations? or How much time does it take guy guys to annotate?
How to go about annoating Uworld correctly into FA?
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sorry i can't answer your question, but i am starting uworld this week and would also like some advice
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It takes me anywhere between 6-10 hours to do 50 questions and read + annotate.
I would say 5 questions per hour is not a slow speed. It's about average.
This isn't about who can read faster. Some people will say they do 150 Qs/day. But guaranteed they're not reviewing the same amount per question. It all comes down to how much you want to reinforce the material. For others, they might just want to get through the QBank quicker because they're time-crunching. On the other hand, if there's one resource where it pays to go slowly, it's UWorld.
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Lol your amazement actually made me laugh for some reason.
It's possible that there's also some confounding regarding how I'm going through it. Now that I'm nearing my exam and I've seen a lot of the material before, I'm spending a bit of time trying to memorize all of the small details in the QBank that I'm hoping most other people just didn't care to write down. I also click into the articles (the ones after the explanations) sometimes. And when I annotate, I tend to spend a little time reviewing the corresponding FA pages as well. It definitely slows things down. I think knowing all of the small detail from UWorld (e.g. HMWH has >18 pentasaccharidic units) has very diminishing returns, but I'm hoping that maybe it gets me just one extra question correct on my exam.
This is about the pace I had gone through USMLE Rx back in March-April.
However I was able to get through Kaplan, during August, at double the Rx/UWorld speed for some reason.
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Careful, you're going to start another fire on this forum by choosing to do more lol.
I did that for a few, I didn't find their resources particularly useful.
I don't know, I think knowing that HMW-Heparin is a larger molecule helps understand why it can bind thrombin + Xa while LMW-H and enoxaparin etc inhibit only Xa.
Anyway, I hope you're annotating that much into the book because you enjoy it, there is no way I could force myself to do it.
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wow, talk about pressure, ay? i hope if i'm lucky/fortunate enough to achieve an "average SDN score," that that won't be anticlimactic for you guys.
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I think 6-10 hours is entirely too long. It took me ~3-3.5 hours per 46q block. I could sometimes do 3 blocks a day if I was extremely efficient. UWorld is fantastic but also has a lot of detail not really necessary for a high score. It's best to teach you how to think about a question, hence the utility in doing as many as possible.
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On that note, today's 50 Qs just took me ~9 hrs. In a 12-hr period, I had an hour when I went to the gym, about 30 minutes for meals, and about 90 mins for emails, SDN, etc.
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I'm due to finish UWorld + the UWSAs late this month. I'll write something then.
