Need Some Encouragement

[WiseGuy1]

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I'm starting to freak out a little bit and I wanted some encouragement/advice. I'm taking Step 1 on April 22 (so I've got something like 34-ish days). I started studying on Monday of this week; randomly started with GI. It took me three entire days to get through GI (just finished tonight). Looking through FA, there's approximately 17 chapters, so on average that leaves me roughly 2 days to get through each chapter. I know GI is one of the longer chapters, but I just don't see how I am going to get through each entire chapter (and actually know/remember everything) in just two days. And even at that rate, that doesn't leave me anytime to review. I feel like I could certainly speed things up, but I am afraid it would be at the cost of not remembering what I need to. Any advice?

P.S. My general schedule has been as follows: read chapter in BRS Phys and BRS Path/Goljan, and then read/memorize corresponding chapter in FA. For GI, it took me a day to pre-read the GI chapters in BRS/Goljan/FA and then two days to memorize FA.

 

[Mace1370]

If you are time crunched I would ditch anything that isn't FA/UWorld/Goljan.

The Goljan GI chapter is also a monster (isn't it like 50 pages or something?). I see no reason why you are going through it and BRS. If you are even too time crunched to use the above 3 resources, then cut out Goljan and just use FA/UWorld (but make sure you understand what you are memorizing in FA). Spending a whole day to pre-read stuff might not be necessary. If there are concepts you don't get in FA you can look them up as needed and that will probably save you time.

 

[WiseGuy1]

If you are time crunched I would ditch anything that isn't FA/UWorld/Goljan.

The Goljan GI chapter is also a monster (isn't it like 50 pages or something?). I see no reason why you are going through it and BRS.

Thanks for the response. To clarify, I am reading the corresponding path chapter in either goljan or brs, not both.

 

[warriordoc911]

FA + UW + Goljan audio are the three holy trinity man so focus on these. RR path too detailed IMHO. I have my own RR mechanims notes in word so let me know if you need them.

Thanks for the response. To clarify, I am reading the corresponding path chapter in either goljan or brs, not both.