Questions about the CBSE

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I have just finished up D1 year and we have this summer off until August. I am not doing research or anything and felt that maybe I should begin my studying for the CBSE since I am not really doing anything else anyway. If I began soon I was wondering if February during my D2 year would be too soon to take the CBSE. Any thoughts? Also, what is the best way to go about studying for it? I feel like once I get started I will be good but I honestly just have no idea where to even start. Thanks in advance!
 
I have just finished up D1 year and we have this summer off until August. I am not doing research or anything and felt that maybe I should begin my studying for the CBSE since I am not really doing anything else anyway. If I began soon I was wondering if February during my D2 year would be too soon to take the CBSE. Any thoughts? Also, what is the best way to go about studying for it? I feel like once I get started I will be good but I honestly just have no idea where to even start. Thanks in advance!
Not too soon at all, having a good score before you apply will make your life a lot less stressful. The best person to give you advice about the CBSE is somebody at your school who has already taken it. Timeline for studying varies a lot based on which school you go to.

If you message me with what your schedule/breaks look like I am happy to do my best to give you some advice on how to plan, but still I would listen to people at your school, they will know best.

Good luck, and feel free to message me if you think it would be helpful!
 
I would take advantage of the time and do it for sure! That’s great you’ve got a whole summer off.
 
Definitely take advantage of your break now to try and build a stronger foundation. I don’t know how much research you’ve already done about the test, but if you want to do well in February be prepared to give up your entire winter break to studying, you’ll need that too since after then you’ll be juggling studying and class. I have a summer break after D1 too and I’m taking advantage of that to study for August and it’s no joke just how much information is on this thing.
 
Not too soon at all, having a good score before you apply will make your life a lot less stressful. The best person to give you advice about the CBSE is somebody at your school who has already taken it. Timeline for studying varies a lot based on which school you go to.

If you message me with what your schedule/breaks look like I am happy to do my best to give you some advice on how to plan, but still I would listen to people at your school, they will know best.

Good luck, and feel free to message me if you think it would be helpful!
I am trying to message you but it is not letting me for some reason. Not sure if it is a privacy thing or what. I'm also new to sdn so it could be user error.
 
Gonna suck knowing all your other classmates are out traveling and having fun while you are stuck in your room hammering UFAP. But that’s what separates OS’s from other specialties. Absolutely take advantage of this break to build your foundations, You won’t learn all the material the first go around but it is possible to get a respectable score 70+. Some geniuses can break 80+ in one go but that’s not the norm.

In terms of studying for it, you can start with boards and beyond to build a base then hammer first aid with pathoma. After one run through with first aid and pathoma I would start a uworld anywhere from 3-4 months out from the exam so you can actually complete it. Don’t be that person who gets halfway through uworld and runs out of time. You will have to probably sacrifice some grades during your D2 year all the way up to the exam. Unless you have previous experience with the material it is highly unlikely everything will make sense even after studying the whole summer break.
 
Gonna suck knowing all your other classmates are out traveling and having fun while you are stuck in your room hammering UFAP. But that’s what separates OS’s from other specialties. Absolutely take advantage of this break to build your foundations, You won’t learn all the material the first go around but it is possible to get a respectable score 70+. Some geniuses can break 80+ in one go but that’s not the norm.

In terms of studying for it, you can start with boards and beyond to build a base then hammer first aid with pathoma. After one run through with first aid and pathoma I would start a uworld anywhere from 3-4 months out from the exam so you can actually complete it. Don’t be that person who gets halfway through uworld and runs out of time. You will have to probably sacrifice some grades during your D2 year all the way up to the exam. Unless you have previous experience with the material it is highly unlikely everything will make sense even after studying the whole summer break.
I am just hoping I will have enough time to be prepared by February. I have already been out of school for a month and have just been relaxing until now so hopefully that won't come back to bite me (kinda anxious about that). Do you think the hit you take in grades at school to study for it is worth it? I guess what I mean is would having a better CBSE be more beneficial than having a better class rank?
 
I am just hoping I will have enough time to be prepared by February. I have already been out of school for a month and have just been relaxing until now so hopefully that won't come back to bite me (kinda anxious about that). Do you think the hit you take in grades at school to study for it is worth it? I guess what I mean is would having a better CBSE be more beneficial than having a better class rank?

That’s something you will want to balance out. Ideally being tops on both but class ranking is a tough cookie and depends a lot on school as well.
 
One q to add - Boards and Beyond's Infectious Disease section is almost 12 hours, on par with Cardio and Neuro. Is it worth going through all those hours for that section, i.e. is it tested significantly in the CBSE?
 
One q to add - Boards and Beyond's Infectious Disease section is almost 12 hours, on par with Cardio and Neuro. Is it worth going through all those hours for that section, i.e. is it tested significantly in the CBSE?

Anything and everything can and will show up on the exam. Infectious disease will definitely be on there, but so will every other subject.
 
Quick question. To anyone who used Boards and Beyond. While watching the videos did you take notes on his slides and know all of the details and then also take notes from FA when you went through it or did you just strictly watch the B&B to get the foundation and then take notes and commit the details in FA to memory? So far I have been doing it the first way and it is proving to be fairly time consuming. Just wanted to get some feedback as to what worked for y'all.
 
Not sure if this helps. I have friends that are studying for CBSE after 1st year. Since they went through all the systems already they are doing Uworld and keeping track what they get wrong and go back to FA and read those topics. Then do some sketchy micro in their limited free time. More effective and sustainable they have told me. Hope this helps. They are doing this and then taking in February and self-assessing after.
 
One q to add - Boards and Beyond's Infectious Disease section is almost 12 hours, on par with Cardio and Neuro. Is it worth going through all those hours for that section, i.e. is it tested significantly in the CBSE?

The above shows microbio in the 15-20% basic science, but I feel there is bound to be overlap with the specific organ systems as well.
 
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