wow, your scores are amazing. as someone who will take the exam later this year, how have you been studying? you obviously have the right formula!
Well, I really listened to the 3rd years at my school who said to "focus hard" on 2nd year material. Particularly, I put a lot into path and micro (path is weighted more at my school anyway so I guess it was a good investment
😀 ).
I bought the Rx question bank early in 2nd year. I don't hear that much talk about it, but it is really nice because it forces you to pay attention to little details in first aid through the year. I also read FA and RR through my 2nd year with my classes. I added little notes to FA of stuff I thought seemed generally important and not something real specific for the topic or whatever the lecturer thought was important.
The only thing I really added extra during the school year was behavioral sciences because my school does a horrible job on BS/epidemiology.
I did DIT (and I know I might get flamed for this, but...), which I felt really just reads you FA. I think that is good though because it really forces you to pay attention to those little details in FA that your brain has a tendency to start skimming through. I again made little notes in FA of stuff they really emphasized and marked down anything that they said was "4 or 5 star topics". While I did DIT I started Uworld. I also did Anki flash cards, that program is amazing--I wish I had found it in second year. There is a FA HY with DIT updates on the shared decks. I added some of my own decks as well (like sphingolipidoses and lots of other biochem and embryo stuff which just seems to be recall).
At the end of DIT I did my first NBME, then spent the next 7ish days really hitting my lowest 7 subjects hard and doing more Uworld. Took my Next NBME and did the same thing (lowest 5 or so subjects) with more Uworld.
Then I did a 1 week read through of FA (that was Jenkin's advice to do a pretest week go through of FA--Seemed like pretty solid advice to me), paying attention to my notes and what not. I also took little notes of the "lower yield" stuff and things that didn't really seem to "stick" on paper and started off each day with reading the prior 2 days notes.
Finished that then did the free 150. The last 2 days I've been reviewing my marked questions in Uworld. I marked anything I got wrong, pictures (too keep them fresh in my mind), ethics questions and anything I felt like I didn't understand why I got right.
Day before I'm looking over my tabs in FA of stuff I've marked as "5 stars" and some of the tables I've tabbed (like the PTH/Ca/PO4 table in bone, etc).
I guess well see if it worked in a couple of days
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Do you think anyone can give you that kind of answer? Clearly you have the ability to perform better than 99.99% of medical students. Don't choke.
Obviously you're not, nor is anyone else, a psychic. I asked because I don't really hear people saying "I'm hoping to get a 260" and I'm sure like a lot of people, after taking these practice exams I feel iffy about how I did. Even though my scores have kept going up, I have a hard time believing what I am seeing--you know what I mean? I've read some of the score correlation threads on this forum and others, but despite that I'm not all that reassured by
practice tests. So I thought maybe some of the fine members here could tell me if it's realistic to hope for such a score.
Right, don't choke. That's pretty solid advice, think it goes without saying. Do you have any more worthwhile thoughts?
