Yo i take 4 hours to review 40 questions lol 1 hr is quick i envy your speed
Yeah youre fine man if you know the stuff dont spend time on stuff you know lol
I personally did about a half day of studying two days before and took the day before completely off. Glad I did bc there were very few concepts on my test that I studied in the week preceding it.
Sounds pretty good to me from all the posts I read from the 2019 Step thread. Rx is really nitpicky and most people seem to do better on UWorld, so you should be in a pretty good spot.
Just finished Rx with exactly a 73% as well. From what I have been told 70%+ is not bad at all and is a good foundation. However, the correlation between Rx and actual Step 1 is pretty atrocious if you check the stats lol. Either way I think above 70 is good. I am taking my exam June 15th so I have a lot of work cut out for me yet-starting UWorld this week.
They extended your class into dedicated? I would throw a ****fit omg. Im sorry! Im waiting to hear from my school. I personally dont think were gonna be grouped in step P/F its too far out
It's not official yet. But I don't see how it won't cut in considering how much we now have to make up.
This is what I'm concerned about. My school has converted some labs to online modules but we still have in-person competencies and stuff. I can't see them letting it all slide.
Dude i will riot. Im in the same boat as you been going ham
How long was it taking you? And how were your percentages like?
I make stupid mistakes and average is 67%. 5 Q's decides my faith. However, My last week avg was 80%. I can't replicate the same feeling of test. It takes me anywhere from 120-130 mins to review block
The way I go about it is to not worry about stuff I already know. Don't read over stuff you know already like worrying about minutiae that you may have missed on a concept you mostly know since on test day you are more than likely to get it right. That is time you could be spending on something you don't know at all and on test day you know 100% you'd get it wrong because you know nothing about it. If you understand the big picture about a concept then I'd move on. I spend about 3 to 4 times as long reviewing a question than I took to answer it so like 1.5 mins answering a question on avg and then 5 mins reviewing that question. If you know why an answer is correct and why the wrong answers are wrong then you have won that question. 80 questions using this time frame should take you all together about 8-9 hours roughly which is not bad considering its UW and as HY as you can get. Time well spent good luck!
Can I ask what your review process is like? I haven't started UWorld but I don't spend nearly that much time reviewing questions. I do a block of 40 Rx questions in ~70 minutes on tutor mode. I mostly read the explanations and I have a Word document with bullet points that I just completely didn't know. If it's a reasoning problem, I realize what I messed up and moved on. I'm just worried that I'm not reviewing properly if you guys are spending a days worth of studying just reviewing...
I don't think any way is the "correct" way. I think doing what your doing is a good thing you are spending time on questions which is great. The only thing I can say is questions are king so as long as you are learning from the questions you are doing and it seems like you are doing a good amount per day then that should be good. You seem to be writing down what you don't know and focusing on that rather what you do know which is really important IMO. I spend a lot of time on questions because I simply don't use Anki which gives me more time. I used Rx as my Anki and made it through the Qmax bank spending more time on that and you seem to be spending more time on Anki from your posts so that is pretty much a similar thing. I start UW in a few days and will be spending like 90% of my day on that so I will probably spend 9-10 hours doing 80 questions in the AM reviewing in the afternoon and working my way up to 120 in the AM and then reviewing in the afternoon/night then ending with Sketchy Micro for an hr or so per night. As far as reviewing break up how I review my questions into buckets-why did I get it wrong? is it a concept i didn't know, a fact based issue/fact I didn't know, or is it a test taking skill issue? If its a concept I dont understand I spend 3-5 mins youtubing/looking in pathoma/wiki and try to udnerstand that concept since its a concept once you understand it you got it down and don't really need to look at it again since its not memorization (ie pathophys). If its a fact based issue (enzyme I didn't know) I add it to my question journal on a word document and simply put the fact there for later. At night during my review I spend about an hr looking at my questions journal and after I see it 3 times over a few days I delete it which is sort of like spaced repetition. This is what I do but isn't the golden rule obviously. It works for me. My main thing for board prep is tons of questions just finished Rx and plan on doing UW 2x and half of Kaplan before my exam June 15th. I want to simulate that exam everyday leading up to the real deal and see as many questions as possible that I have never seen before instead of spending time doing UW 100x which I personally think is useless (2x absolute max IMO).
Thank you for being so detailed! I didn't realize you didn't use Anki, your scores are really awesome in that case. I like that bucket idea, I've been doing that in a more passive way but I may transition to identifying the "why did I get this wrong" immediately before I further review the question. I also like the idea of watching a video or something..I haven't been doing anything like that, just kind of jotting down what I didn't know and moving on. I agree with you about UW, planning on only going through it once. You're going to crush it!
Thanks! You too! Looks like you have a good system down. Keep plugging the pain will be over before we know it and we still have plenty of time to fill in our gaps. Good luck!
