Our NBME's are nationally scored, so the people I am competiting against is the same. Our NBME's are standard and not selected by professors. Which is why it is even weirder. My score in the class is the same ( which just goes to show how poorly on average my class is doing compared to the nation.
We can suffer on the 4th day of February together
Does the Kaplan bank organize its questions better, where I can better narrow in on a subtopic, even if they're aren't many questions related to it?
O i totally am. You do know uworld has errors too, right? Lol. I've found quite a handful that directly disagree with uptodate. Mostly about kidney/ abdominal imaging and abx. But, you're right, how could a pleb like me match up to the 75o club. I forgot sdn is mainly for the elite circle jerks: my apologies.
It is elitist to blindly accept errors in one, while diminishing said errors, while ignoring errors in the other, so much so to build a strawman on something the opponent never even said. Sounds kinda like psychosis to me. At any rate, I disagree about comquest but apparently you only consider those with a 750+ to be worthy of your two-sided brainwaves (see first sentence for understanding). I'll bow out, o great one
I mean who actually believes anything the NBOME/AOA/admin would say anyways? Naive people and people living under a rock? Who gives a **** what you get on the Comlex anyways.
One thing I would recommend is varying your number of news each day based on your workload for the day. Some days I can do 300 new cards and some days I can only do 75 or something. Prioritize unlocking new cards on current class material (duh) and absolutely do not sacrifice doing your reviews. Get up in the morning and do reviews to start your day. Get them done. That is the whole point of anki. If you absolutely feel like you need to prioritize other things to Zanki for whatever reason, make sure you do cards on the things you are weakest in (duh) over trying to complete the cardiac embyology deck for example. Obviously doing all this without doing questions is pointless and you will have to figure out how to do more questions and less anki. I would consider adding that focus add-on some people use. Perhaps you are taking way too long on each card.So I'm averaging about 1k reviews+news per day, set to 150 news per day. Its definitely causing me to fall behind in classes lol, any suggestions on what to do to free up some more time while chipping through zanki? Considering setting a max review or just lowering my new cards to 100 or so on class heavy weeks. I feel I'm just not efficient enough at the moment, can never seem to finish the cards, practice qs, and classwork I want done each day. Hoping I get get faster at cards/reviewing qbanks because this just doesnt feel sustainable with classwork, at least with how well I want to be doing in class.
Hope everything is going well for y'all, we got this
Are you taking breaks? Some days I absolutely have to do the cards pomodoro style and other days I can do 500 cards without looking up from the screen. Sometimes I will do 200 reviews and then switch from pc to phone or vice versa just to change something up.
judging by your name , are you sure it wasnt just a b12 deficiency?
I'm a 5 minute break every 45-50 min guy when I know I need to do pomodoro that day. Get up. Don't get on the computer or whatever for your break. That just isn't a real get your body moving and refreshed break.
my school uses both. The class below us only use NBME. Plenty of schools have transitioned this way. There is a school out there that straight up just uses CBSSE every quarter and only does quizes besides that from the start.
Most of the NBME's were first maybe second order and a reasoning question or two. The Pharm one tho, After i finished, I was touched by how beautifully the questions were written. Straight up third order all day requiring integration from path, phys, antomy, micro , and biochem. It is what I imagine step 1 will be like.
Yeah, my questions are like "remember that fuzzy caption on slide 54 that I skipped after talking for 30 minutes on this one particularly important point that absolutely won't be tested on? Yeah, so what page is this referenced in the JAMA article I linked?"
Why do you think schools don't just use nbme questions? What is the point of the faculty developed questions if they aren't helpful in developing the higher order reasoning that step desires?
they are expensive. It encourages students to only focus on board studying vs studying extra stuff in the curriculum. Students dont learn what they got wrong.
arent there memory issues with that?
I suppose the reason I brought that up was one of the well known side effects of beta blockers. That being said, I personally would require a lot of evidence of efficacy in this context or lots of personal trials of the medication in the context of exams before even thinking about using it in such a manner. I do understand that they might be great for performance in other contexts that are dependent on muscle memory compared to the cerebral nature of taking a step exam. That being said, I think the appropriate first line would be cognitive behavioral therapy and other psychoeducation, mindfulness training etc , which is less chemically dependent and more focused on training. I say this with the personal experience of having terrible anxiety during the mcat where my first section was 4 points below my average on other sections. But iwould take everything I say with a grain of salt considering I am merely an m2.
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