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Hello everyone,
so far my second week in preparing for Step1 is coming to an end.
I read through Biochemistry (FA+Kaplan here and there, HY CELL/Mol.Bio) and Microbiology (CMMRS and FA), along with daily Pathology Goljan Stuff.
I´m doing some QBank Micro and Biochemistry Questions to retain the stuff I read while concentrating on systems right now (Cardiovascular), and while I´m scoring low 50´s to low 60´s in both, most of the questions I get wrong is stuff that needs serious memorization, like "What kind of Virus is this?" (double-stranded DNA etc.), "What Antibiotic did they give him?", enzyme stuff from Glucose-metabolism and so on...
Well, to come to a point...how should I memorize this stuff?
Did you make Flashcards for this kind of info and put Mnemonics on them?
While I hated my Flashcard bank back in school when I had Latin (>600 cards at the end), it was a very effective way to retain vocabulary.
On the other side it is pointless in memorizing stuff right now, because until the test on 1st October I will forget most of the info.
Maybe it´s more effective to memorize stuff in the last days?
I also heard QBank is too nitpicky on the mentioned subjects...
Any advice?
so far my second week in preparing for Step1 is coming to an end.
I read through Biochemistry (FA+Kaplan here and there, HY CELL/Mol.Bio) and Microbiology (CMMRS and FA), along with daily Pathology Goljan Stuff.
I´m doing some QBank Micro and Biochemistry Questions to retain the stuff I read while concentrating on systems right now (Cardiovascular), and while I´m scoring low 50´s to low 60´s in both, most of the questions I get wrong is stuff that needs serious memorization, like "What kind of Virus is this?" (double-stranded DNA etc.), "What Antibiotic did they give him?", enzyme stuff from Glucose-metabolism and so on...
Well, to come to a point...how should I memorize this stuff?
Did you make Flashcards for this kind of info and put Mnemonics on them?
While I hated my Flashcard bank back in school when I had Latin (>600 cards at the end), it was a very effective way to retain vocabulary.
On the other side it is pointless in memorizing stuff right now, because until the test on 1st October I will forget most of the info.
Maybe it´s more effective to memorize stuff in the last days?
I also heard QBank is too nitpicky on the mentioned subjects...
Any advice?