ITE game plan for next year

[heathermed]

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since ITEs are fresh in our minds... would anyone like to suggest a good game plan for next year that really delivered for them this year?

any help would be amazing!

I ask since I think I just got destroyed and whatever I did obviously didn't work.

thanks

 

[IlDestriero]

Read for your cases and related topics every night, at least one hour. Take pride in over preparing for your routine cases.
Invest in a few goods books. Miller, faust, coexisting diseases, etc.
Read Baby miller nearly cover to cover in the weeks before the exam as a final comprehensive review. It's pure gold.
Go buy Faust, have Kinko's cut the binding off and 3 hole punch it for you. It's about $5. Bring 2 or 3 chapters with you to work and read them every day during down time. When you're done discussing things related to your cases, use them as a guide to extract knowledge from your faculty.
Do this and you will be in great shape.
Great cases will make your skills strong, but only disciplined study will help you master the testable minutia required to crush the written exam.

 

[fakin' the funk]

2nd the support for Baby Miller for the boards. Literally every sentence and every diagram in that book is testable. Reviewing it once or twice in the 2 weeks prior to ITE is a must.

Also, cram Hall. Try to do it all in the days prior to the ITE.

With this recipe, you'll still get caught out by esoterica, but that's <5% of the questions and certainly not the ones that others get right. If you pound the essentials with this recipe you'll nail the other 95% of the test.

 

[IveGotTwins]

Does anyone use the ACE questions? I did about 700 of these in addition to the hall questions and reading baby miller in the 2 months leading up to the test.

I felt ok about the test (CA-1) but I felt that the ACE questions were a bit too basic and repetitive.

 

[heathermed]

does anyone have a preference for Faust over big blue?
It is my understanding they are both review books, not sure which one is worth investing my time in.

thanks!

 

[Precedex]

Yes, Big Blue sucks.

 

[kazuma]

I just got my score back and I'm pleased with the result. I started out the year reading M&M and baby miller and some barash. I started doing hall questions but got tired of all the outdated questions. Towards the end of January I switched to the M5 board review questions and after taking the exam I wish I had switched sooner. I ended up with a 36/90th so I can't complain. Best of luck to everybody next next year. IMO there's no secret to getting a decent score. Just read and do questions everyday. As far as what q-bank, I thought the M5 was right on the money and an absolute bargain, ITE/written board gold.

 

[txhorn]

Nicely done kazuma! Glad there's a decent qbank to use.