Need opinions pretty quickly (please)...

[Shades McCool]

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Ok I take the test on the 13th and I have been reading about how people have been raving about USMLE world. I have done 70% with an average of 76% on Q-Bank. I had planned to do nothing but review FA until my eyes bleed and finish/redo Qbank until my test. Is it too late to pick up USMLE world?

I am trying to decide what I should do. I don't know if it would be more beneficial to memorize FA with all my annotations along with Goljan notes or to try USMLE world. I had even thought about USMLERx since it is basically FA.

What do you people think? Also I think I am banking on FA anatomy + Q-bank for gross because I just don't think I can stomach a ton of anatomy review. Any suggestions there?

 

[Pinkertinkle]

So wait you've done 70% of Usmle World?

 

[Shades McCool]

So wait you've done 70% of Usmle World?

70% of Q Bank

 

[GOGETA]

Gogeta will advise you but before he has to do math problem:

1- you have 76% on qbank
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2- You post on this forum
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= let Gogeta think 🙄, ok Gogeta has the result, you will pass with more than 220.

Learn FA the same way you know your name, also take NBME3 to see where you are.

 

[G0S2]

My advice: Cram FA and Goljan

I am done with my systems based review today (my exam is June 12) and have been annotating my FA with Goljan, Costanzo etc. My plan is to read my FA and Goljan (I have read it 3 times now). I have been using UW (70% done) and will do those Q's every day as well to finish it out.

I also haven't really spent that much time on anatomy. The day before the exam I am going to flip through Moore and Dalley and read the blue boxed high yield clinical anatomy sections.

In general, spending time with your annotated FA seems to be the way to go according to many test takers.

Good luck!!

 

[Shades McCool]

Gogeta will advise you but before he has to do math problem:

1- you have 76% on qbank
+
2- You post on this forum
______________________

= let Gogeta think 🙄, ok Gogeta has the result, you will pass with more than 220.

Learn FA the same way you know your name, also take NBME3 to see where you are.

Yeah I think that is what I was leaning towards. I think my time is better spent knowing FA+annotations like my name.

Anyone have embryology advice. I am just going to learn FA. Sound fair?

 

[Shades McCool]

My advice: Cram FA and Goljan

I am done with my systems based review today (my exam is June 12) and have been annotating my FA with Goljan, Costanzo etc. My plan is to read my FA and Goljan (I have read it 3 times now). I have been using UW (70% done) and will do those Q's every day as well to finish it out.

I also haven't really spent that much time on anatomy. The day before the exam I am going to flip through Moore and Dalley and read the blue boxed high yield clinical anatomy sections.

In general, spending time with your annotated FA seems to be the way to go according to many test takers.

Good luck!!

Thanks for the advice. Sometimes reading SDN can do more bad than good because you get too caught up in what everyone else is doing. I will continue with FA and listen to Lizst.

 

[Pinkertinkle]

70% of Q Bank

Then I recommend not starting UW.

 

[Shades McCool]

Then I recommend not starting UW.

You think it way too late in the game at this point?

 

[Pinkertinkle]

You think it way too late in the game at this point?

USMLE world is known for its extensive and detailed answers which is good for learning the concepts but probably more than necessary for reviewing the week before the test.

 

[Shades McCool]

USMLE world is known for its extensive and detailed answers which is good for learning the concepts but probably more than necessary for reviewing the week before the test.

Thanks and props to you!

 

[myershurt]

agree with all - if you have been using one specific qbank and have been progressing well - no need to try and start all over with just a week to go...

in my experience the people who did well are the ones who had the least amount of study materials the closer the test got - the FA and any one question source...any more than that during the last week and you are spreading yourself too thin...

 

[Law2Doc]

agree with all - if you have been using one specific qbank and have been progressing well - no need to try and start all over with just a week to go...

in my experience the people who did well are the ones who had the least amount of study materials the closer the test got - the FA and any one question source...any more than that during the last week and you are spreading yourself too thin...

I would agree with that if World and Qbank had greater overlap. But I'm finding them quite different and I would think it could only help you to see more questions or similar questions asked very differently. A lot of people who do well on one qbank do poorly on the other, and there is certainly mixed opinions on this board as to which is closer to the real deal. So my thinking is by doing all of one bank and some of another, you hedge your bets a bit better. Better to spread yourself thin but increase the odds of having already seen a similar question when you get to the real deal. (There was another poster on here who is taking this to the extreme and doing 3 qbanks). But everyone approaches these things differently, and everyone's brains work differently. Know what works for you.