Is it just me..

[DrMasochist]

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So I'm a decent student top %25 of a mid tier medical school and 2nd yr classes are just about finished. Now I have my step 1 in a little less than 8 weeks and I started studying a few days ago with the goal of scoring above 240.

I'm using the taus method and I feel like a lot of what I studied throughout the first two years has left my brain. I did well in classes and I didn't cram, but now studying for this beast, I find myself having to re-learn a lot of material.

Don't get me wrong, the material isn't like Chinese or anything, I have some vague sense of remembering this material at one point in my past, but it's just that I find myself saying "Holy ****, I did not know that before" with a lot of facts.

Is this normal? Give me some hope! thanks all.

 

[auburnO5]

So I'm a decent student top %25 of a mid tier medical school and 2nd yr classes are just about finished. Now I have my step 1 in a little less than 8 weeks and I started studying a few days ago with the goal of scoring above 240.

I'm using the taus method and I feel like a lot of what I studied throughout the first two years has left my brain. I did well in classes and I didn't cram, but now studying for this beast, I find myself having to re-learn a lot of material.

Don't get me wrong, the material isn't like Chinese or anything, I have some vague sense of remembering this material at one point in my past, but it's just that I find myself saying "Holy ****, I did not know that before" with a lot of facts.

Is this normal? Give me some hope! thanks all.

You'll be surprised with a lot of repetition in studying at how quickly you improve and learn. I felt like you when I started studying, now going through practice tests, UW, USMLERx, etc. I find myself saying "holy *&$*, how do I know all this stuff??"

 

[shan564]

That's absolutely normal. Before I started studying, I did UWSA1 and was quite disappointed with my score... I thought I should have been much better off after all that medical training. But then, after a month of revising FA and UW, my score went up by 38 points on UWSA2. It's not because I managed to learn 38 points' worth of content in one month, it's because I'd refreshed my memory on so many of the things that I'd forgotten before I started studying.

 

[Phloston]

Don't get me wrong, the material isn't like Chinese or anything, I have some vague sense of remembering this material at one point in my past, but it's just that I find myself saying "Holy ****, I did not know that before" with a lot of facts.

Is this normal? Give me some hope! thanks all.

Actually, some of the material is Chinese. Remember that Corynebacterium diptheriae looks like "Chinese characters" per light microscopy. 😉