Kaplan Flash Cards, useful?

[Bhavesh]

I find that they're not. When I start looking at them:

-the first 10 are too elementary to be useful (ie. what are the units for length?)
-there are many flashcards that contain information, I simply won't forget
-there are many flashcards that contain information that just won't be on the test
-there are way too many to review before a section
-by the time I find ones that are useful, I'm out of time

So for today and tomorrow (Thursday, Friday), I was planning on just going through all of them once, and stripping them down to a stack of ~20, that are useful (ie. orgo reactions).

Does anyone else use them? If so, how?

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[Khanal007]

I went through all of my kaplan flashcards about a month ago, and I agree with you, not all the content is relevant, some stuff too easy. I was wasting time reciting stuff, that I already knew intuitively, so I didn't think it was good in hitting my weak areas, etc.

Maybe if u seperate the flashcards and have a stack that targets ur weak areas, I dunno.

As for me, on monday and tuesday of this week instead of going through Kaplan flashcards (which was the original plan), I went through all my old practice tests that I took and made a long list of notes of just odds and ends, and small things I need to remember. Good example: those damn "ductus venosis" and "ductus arteriosis" questions which I REPEATEDLY was getting wrong....

but yeah, kaplan flashcards...not worth doing in my opinion, especially this late before the test, I'm just targeting weak areas.

 

[jon0013]

i dont know a thing about the flashcards but i have heard positive things from people who did kaplan...

what i did was take notes of topicals/diags i did when i went through the tests and just write down information i shoulda known...i have amassed a good portion of a spiral notebook so i was planning on going through that last night but it just stressed me out seeing how these lil things i forgot...

i have my own set of flashcards i've made...just planning on goin over the areas that i have to learn/memorize such as electronic geometry and little things here and there...

just keep it light and sign off the latest at noon tomorrow...

 

[Bhavesh]

I separated out a handful, but I'm not studying anymore. Maybe if I need to check on something, I'll refer back to a specific card, but I'm not going to "flash" through each one of them.

 

[SensesFail]

I've gone through the Kaplan flash cards a few times already. I found them pretty helpful initially, at least with remembering equations and common concepts. Depends where you're starting from I guess. True, a lot of them ask stuff we probably won't need to memorize (i.e. B=[iu]/[2pie(r)] for a current carrying wire). Stuff like that would probably be given in a passage. Nevertheless, I found them useful. I'll probably go through them all tommorow one last time since I really don't want to be doing any more passages and it's pretty light review.

 

[Sondra]

You're right. Some of the cards have info that is either too simple or will never be directly tested. I went through all of them once. Then, I seperated out the cards that had info that I was weakest on.