Poor Study Plan?

[georgew1988]

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So I started doing some preliminary studying for the exam in June since our year started. Basically I've been doing GT for ~1 hour/day since the summer (at 15% banked, 3% mastery) on first-year stuff that I want to review; I don't know if I'll finish it, but I figure it can't hurt.

Also, I've been doing ~10-15 Rx questions per day completely randomly. People here seem to advise doing questions based on the organ system you are studying, but I figured that I'd learn more overall new material this way. Obviously I am not doing very well (between 30-50% on most sets), but I do feel as if I am learning new things. There are certain questions that I simply do not know and don't glean a ton from (mostly the hardcore organ system Q's that we haven't covered yet), but overall I feel as if the exposure has been mostly positive. I at least see the new pathology so that it won't be completely foreign the next time, brush up on stuff from Med1, and get familiar w/ many of the really high yield topics. Yet still I have the nagging feeling that perhaps I am just approaching this thing the wrong way (mostly b/c I don't see many accounts on here of people doing things this way) and I would hate to do 3 months of this and have it be unproductive time spent.

Question is if I would just be better off doing questions on the subject we are studying instead of just doing random blocks of questions?

 

[sharklasers]

if you are learning all of the random questions properly, i don't see why it could be bad...

but i don't see how you would have the time to learn 15 random factoids of random systems on top of all of your second year coursework

 

[georgew1988]

if you are learning all of the random questions properly, i don't see why it could be bad...

but i don't see how you would have the time to learn 15 random factoids of random systems on top of all of your second year coursework

Well, about half of it is random to me because I have seen a lot of this stuff before. And I'm not necessarily memorizing the facts; I look up the associated context behind them, jot down some notes, and then move on. I try to review what I've written at the end of each week, but I'm mostly hoping to just "see and process" the new stuff at this piont.