possible to watch kaplan videos in 1 month?

[lantus99]

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Do you think it is possible to watch all of the new kaplan videos + lecture notes except pathology (switch for goljan) in one month at at home just to get through the information? I am hoping the retention will be better once I am in the remaining 5 weeks.

In the last 5 weeks, I want to do usmleworld questions in the evening and goljan and first aid. I'd like to read BRS physio and High Yield Molecular/Neuro too. I have 9 weeks of preparation time.

I have heard people watching these videos at home by playing them at 1.3-1.8x the speed, but I don't see how they managed to do everything! There's over 180 hours of video I think!

I have about 10-11 hours a day until those 9 weeks are up! My basic sciences at my foreign school sucked! So I just wanted to see someone talking about these concepts again. I think the fear will make me do it! It sounds insane, but I need to brush up on the basics and this is the time I only have.

 

[Med01]

There is a program called Enounce (google it) which can speed up the videos, costs like $30. Well worth it.

 

[34140]

the free GOM player also speeds up the vids.

 

[scube]

180hours divided by 9 -11 hours per day = 16-20 days. you could do it. and thats before taking out path and speeding them up. you could do it in 4 hour days and still do 50 questions and read a chapter in first aid every day. so that would end your month with most of kaplan, a reading of FA and 1000 questions. not too shabby.

 

[lantus99]

Cool breakdown and suggestions!

Gom player is good - I have used mplayer also in the past for non-med related stuff which is free as well. Enounce works but costs a bit of $ if you get the real deal.

I bet some of these people will still probably sound slow at 1.4x. Small speed increments over time don't seem that noticeable as well.
Goljan seems good at 1.3x when I did a test run earlier...

Scube - you weren't including reading the kaplan lecture notes right? I was planning on reading a bit of that before the vids for that day and a bit again after to recap quickly... yeah I'm not sure how long the path section is, but it should be at least 20-25 hours at the least!

 

[soulisatomic]

Wait!!!!!!!!
Dont buy any software- you can speed up the videos on the humble Windows media.

Steps:
1st..Open Windows Media Player;
2nd..Click on the first button on the top right labelled 'Now Playing'.Adrop down menu populates;
3rd..Roll mouse over the button labelled 'Enhancements', a new drop down menu populates;
4th..Click on 'Play Speed Setting', a speed scale will appear at the lower right part of the screen, adjust the spped here to increase/decrease speed of video.

 

[scube]

Wait!!!!!!!!
Dont buy any software- you can speed up the videos on the humble Windows media.

Steps:
1st..Open Windows Media Player;
2nd..Click on the first button on the top right labelled 'Now Playing'.Adrop down menu populates;
3rd..Roll mouse over the button labelled 'Enhancements', a new drop down menu populates;
4th..Click on 'Play Speed Setting', a speed scale will appear at the lower right part of the screen, adjust the spped here to increase/decrease speed of video.

or quicktime. just open AV controls in one of the drop down.

no i wasn't including reading the lecture notes. I read them as they go. if there is something written that they don't address I pause and read it. I also flag any charts. one of the lecturers points out that charts in the notes = memorize this. i find 1.6 - 1.8 speed is very easy to understand and follow if you have the book infront of you. also your player cant distort their voices, if it does 1.4 = alvin, simon and theadore. I am absorbing a lot actually bc it is well explained.

 

[scube]

fwiw. i am watching the vids with the book out. flagging diagrams and charts i like. then am going to annotate it into first aid.

 

[soulisatomic]

or quicktime. just open AV controls in one of the drop down.

no i wasn't including reading the lecture notes. I read them as they go. if there is something written that they don't address I pause and read it. I also flag any charts. one of the lecturers points out that charts in the notes = memorize this. i find 1.6 - 1.8 speed is very easy to understand and follow if you have the book infront of you. also your player cant distort their voices, if it does 1.4 = alvin, simon and theadore. I am absorbing a lot actually bc it is well explained.

Do you know of any software that will 'READ aloud' text from pdf or word? That will the ultimate, so I can close my eyes and listen to the Kaplan lecture notes, as they are more informative than the lectures.

 

[scube]

Do you know of any software that will 'READ aloud' text from pdf or word? That will the ultimate, so I can close my eyes and listen to the Kaplan lecture notes, as they are more informative than the lectures.

that software is available i am sure. however, they explain stuff in ways that the book just can't. way better IMHO to watch vids with book. then skim book again. should be able to do 120-200 pages in under an hour because most of it will be understood at that point and you will have already seen those pages with the videos. for example the anatomy video, WATCH him explain embryology take a few extra notes highlight here and there. then skim it later. I feel that makes best use of the material. May just be me. I actually didn't have any anatomy before med school, embryo wasn't really taught at my school but I get it now, in just a few hours. and I can refresh my memory of what all those words really mean by annotating FA later.-

 

[leahmaria]

This is probably a stupid question, but how do you speed up Goljan? I've got the audio files in itunes, and that won't speed them up. I can't get them to play in windows media player.

Thanks so much!!!!!

 

[soulisatomic]

that software is available i am sure. however, they explain stuff in ways that the book just can't. way better IMHO to watch vids with book. then skim book again. should be able to do 120-200 pages in under an hour because most of it will be understood at that point and you will have already seen those pages with the videos. for example the anatomy video, WATCH him explain embryology take a few extra notes highlight here and there. then skim it later. I feel that makes best use of the material. May just be me. I actually didn't have any anatomy before med school, embryo wasn't really taught at my school but I get it now, in just a few hours. and I can refresh my memory of what all those words really mean by annotating FA later.-

Thanks for the insight Scube.

About the software, I downloaded a free trial, guess what, it did not work as the Kaplan notes that I have in pdf were scanned, they are not, like a original pdf file. But the software is good, works for word and text too. Costs 30 bucks, but since it wont work on my Kaplan pdf, I will just forget it.

 

[soulisatomic]

This is probably a stupid question, but how do you speed up Goljan? I've got the audio files in itunes, and that won't speed them up. I can't get them to play in windows media player.

Thanks so much!!!!!

In which format are the audios,MP3?

 

[leahmaria]

In which format are the audios,MP3?

yeah. windows media player says it doesn't have the right codec to play them

 

[soulisatomic]

yeah. windows media player says it doesn't have the right codec to play them

Certain MP3 players have a 'speed increase/decrease' feature. If your player has that, then its easy.


But ,if not, you may have to convert your MP3 file to Window media with a converter.
Here is the link to one such freeware from downloader dot com of CNET, so its safe, but using a public computer is the safest option:

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Mp3-Wma-Converter/3000-2140_4-10442362.html

Good Luck!!
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[leahmaria]

It worked!!!! Thank you so very much! I really appreciate it!

 

[soulisatomic]

Yippies!! Most welcome!!

 

[nlax30]

Posted this in another thread as well....

Those looking for a media (audio or video) player should check out the VLC player http://www.videolan.org/ It's a simple, free, open source media player with tons of options, and has a slider to adjust playback speed.