Just Questions Strategy. Please give your input

[jaguar1]

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As outlined before, I have failed the exam once before at borderline.

Here is the new strategy, Do all you high scorers feel I am thinking logical this time. I only did Usmle World once last time.

Here is new strategy -
1) Finish Goljan by Aug 31 along with audio (No Ques until Aug 31st)
2) Plow through Kaplan Qbank from Sep 1 - Sep 10th @ 200 ques/day (2000)
3) NBME - 5 (Sep 11)
4) Plow through USMLE Rx - Sep 11th - Sep 25th @ 200 Ques/day (3000ques)
5) Sep 26th - Sep 30th (First Aid Q+A) - 1000, again@ 200/day
6) NBME 6 - Oct 1st
7) Oct 2 - Oct 12 (Usmle World @ 200 / day) - 2000 ques
8) Oct 13 - UWSA 1 + NBME 7
9) Oct 14 - Oct 24th (Review Uworld Ques @ 200/day) + F.A ofcourse

So technically I am doing approx - 8000 Ques this time.
Take exam somewhere around Oct 25th

Am I thinking logically this time? Especially since I was borderline.

So basically, all i am doing is Goljan in beginning and Questions and F.A. along the whole way.
Is this even realistic in the amount of time I have or am I over or undershooting? Please help!!

 

[sexyman]

how are you doing 200 questions a day? make sure you are actually learning something from the questions and not just speeding through them-

8000 questions in 3 months seems extreme to me-

I would consider doing significantly less questions and also get DIT

 

[psychforme]

focus more on studying, less on strategy

 

[2012mdc]

As outlined before, I have failed the exam once before at borderline.

Here is the new strategy, Do all you high scorers feel I am thinking logical this time. I only did Usmle World once last time.

Here is new strategy -
1) Finish Goljan by Aug 31 along with audio (No Ques until Aug 31st)
2) Plow through Kaplan Qbank from Sep 1 - Sep 10th @ 200 ques/day (2000)
3) NBME - 5 (Sep 11)
4) Plow through USMLE Rx - Sep 11th - Sep 25th @ 200 Ques/day (3000ques)
5) Sep 26th - Sep 30th (First Aid Q+A) - 1000, again@ 200/day
6) NBME 6 - Oct 1st
7) Oct 2 - Oct 12 (Usmle World @ 200 / day) - 2000 ques
8) Oct 13 - UWSA 1 + NBME 7
9) Oct 14 - Oct 24th (Review Uworld Ques @ 200/day) + F.A ofcourse

So technically I am doing approx - 8000 Ques this time.
Take exam somewhere around Oct 25th

Am I thinking logically this time? Especially since I was borderline.

So basically, all i am doing is Goljan in beginning and Questions and F.A. along the whole way.
Is this even realistic in the amount of time I have or am I over or undershooting? Please help!!

I would cut down on the questions to 150 or 100 a day and do more FA. I never did more than 96 questions a day unless I was doing an assessment. You want to make sure you read the explanations thorougly

 

[DrDrToBe]

One question strategy I've heard of is to do questions one at a time on the first pass of your Q bank. For every question, go to the corresponding section of FA, read that section, make sure you completely understand it, and annotate as needed. Don't worry about how much time you spend on each question or your score, focus on the concepts. So for example if you do a question, even if you get it right, do you know the pathophysiology of the disease, symptoms, drug of choice etc? If you hesitate on any of this, go to the corresponding section in FA and make sure you understand it before moving on (google things if you have to, it's faster than trying to go through texts)
In the early part of your prep, don't do a bunch of questions back to back without understanding them, otherwise it won't really be beneficial. Make sure you get through at least two question banks with complete understanding, instead of doing a ton of question banks.
Good luck!

 

[H2DO]

I would highly recommend getting DIT and the last 5 days just reviewing first aid and if you really want to do questions, limit yourself to 25 questions/day. I went through first aid in 4 days before my exam and it made all the difference.

 

[sexyman]

^ good advice from H2DO

 

[BigRedder]

I think that is a fine strategy, considering you have already studied once. ~200 questions a day is doable. Exhausting perhaps, but if you have already gone over material once then you will do it again quicker.