I've gone the opposite and slowed down, but at the cost of my time (and burnout and class grades and mental health) lmao. I used to do 1 or 200 more per hour than I do now, but I would realize I didn't truly know some of the information so I scaled back. But 1000-1200 cards is much more terrible when you go at .75 the speed you used to so really will have to be up to you to decide.
just gotta pray to our lord and saviors dr sattar/dr ryan/zanki and we’ll make it to the other side
just gotta pray to our lord and saviors dr sattar/dr ryan/zanki and we’ll make it to the other side
60k in 30 days?!
It's kind of interesting to me that on Reddit these kind of numbers seem to be the standard. I made a post on there suggesting doing much more than ~200 cards/hr was likely sub-optimal and got like 20 downvotes. I think the best learning happens when you sit, ponder and look things up, but that's just me and I don't have much to back that up with yet.
I would take off the max interval. Maybe do a quick search through your cards and look at the ones that have a 4-month currently - how many are a stupid waste of time that you'll still remember 2 years from now probably? For cards that seem important or that I'm likely to forget, I'll often mark them wrong even I knew them, just to make sure I'll see it again before Step.
I find past 300/hr, sometimes I press spacebar prematurely and am like "oh yea I knew that". I used to also cheat by being stingy on the again button. Then I got a few wrong on tests that I should've known from zanki and stopped doing that pretty quickly (unless of course I have an exam in a day or 2 and the interval isn't too long yet.
60k in 30 days?!
It's kind of interesting to me that on Reddit these kind of numbers seem to be the standard. I made a post on there suggesting doing much more than ~200 cards/hr was likely sub-optimal and got like 20 downvotes. I think the best learning happens when you sit, ponder and look things up, but that's just me and I don't have much to back that up with yet.
I would take off the max interval. Maybe do a quick search through your cards and look at the ones that have a 4-month currently - how many are a stupid waste of time that you'll still remember 2 years from now probably? For cards that seem important or that I'm likely to forget, I'll often mark them wrong even I knew them, just to make sure I'll see it again before Step.
As in 200 new cards/hour, or 200 reviews? Or both?
Hm, interesting. I know we've had the discussion on increasing intervals in the past...I'm just afraid that I'll forget things, although I guess my % correct shows that I'm doing pretty decently. This is roughly the amount of time I spend on Anki per day, doing anywhere from 170 - 300 reviews/day (whatever is due) + 50 new cards/day (will probably ramp this up in second year).
Woah now, don't be silly. If our schools wanted us to succeed and actually taught us the content we needed, while also having people to pass, we would end up with many more competent physicians. You wouldn't want that, would you?
its not that simple. Last I checked there was no relationship between step scores and quality of physicians.
The correlation that is drawn is step 1 performance and ability to pass future in-house and licensing examinations.
Yep. Not sure if our school gains anything from failing and making people pay tuition again, but it almost seems purposeful. We sometimes get exams where there are 5 options or more, select the true answers. The stems aren't even NBME based, and some of the select all that apply answer choices are actually just statistics (what % of people in 2018 have a stroke) or other useless facts (what complication did we think USED TO be caused by this bacteria (but actually doesn't). Or even tests based on the specifics of medical testing BRANDS (not like flow cytometry analyzes what, but what flow cytometry product do we use and it just lists a bunch of trademarked products). So you could know everything about a pathology and miss one of the above bull**** facts I listed above thrown in to wreck the curve and fail people if you didn't select it or selected it as a guess. IDK if any other school is like this it's ridiculous.
Wow I’ve never been more greatful to go to a school with NBME exams haha
i highly doubt that an LCME school is failing 5-15% of the class intentionally to keep them back a year. Schools get dinged for this from the LCME. Yes professor written exams suck, but most of the time they try to do their best with the time and resources and directive they have. And lets be clear the material we learn here, some may be relavent but a vast majority of it will be expunged from our brains by the time we graduate, even step related "high yield" .
I hope to expunge the vast majority of it tomorrow around 5PM
Im sure you killed it dude
I hope so. These next few weeks are gonna go by slow haha
Congrats on being done!! Did you do any other qbanks other than UW? How long was your dedicated period for? Thank you!
I did Kaplan right before dedicated just going through one block a day. Didn’t really use rx except for a few questions but didn’t really like it. It seemed most similar to uworld with super long passages haha. But a lot of the passage was just normal physical exam and vitals. At least I hope they were normal I kinda stopped reading them towards the end haha. Dedicated was 5 weeks
Thanks for the response! Did you stick to UFAPS for dedicated? What did you think of Kaplan?
Only UFAPS yeah. Kaplan was good. I would say it definitely helped me out going into Uworld. But idk how much of it I actually remembered going into the real thing.
60k in 30 days?!
It's kind of interesting to me that on Reddit these kind of numbers seem to be the standard. I made a post on there suggesting doing much more than ~200 cards/hr was likely sub-optimal and got like 20 downvotes. I think the best learning happens when you sit, ponder and look things up, but that's just me and I don't have much to back that up with yet.
I would take off the max interval. Maybe do a quick search through your cards and look at the ones that have a 4-month currently - how many are a stupid waste of time that you'll still remember 2 years from now probably? For cards that seem important or that I'm likely to forget, I'll often mark them wrong even I knew them, just to make sure I'll see it again before Step.
how many cards did you do per day before step?
I personally don't feel like it matters because UW does such an excellent job of testing you on applying a fact not remember the fact. In that regard, I don't think doing Zanki cards for UW "spoils" anything as some people say. You still have to recall the fact, apply it, and then review it. If you get the question right, great! You managed to connect the dots which is the whole point and it reinforced the concept in your brain via question stem. If you get it wrong you just learned something new and you won't miss it again. I do not buy the idea that it matters. You get to the same place.
Didn’t use anki for step one but for step 2 I can do maybe a couple hundred new a day. Using wiwa plus my self made ones added
Thanks for the response! Any idea on how best to prepare for the anatomy? Seems like its a big part of the exam nowadays
boards and beyond
