Reading Many Review Books vs. Studying only a few more intensely

[OmahaMX80]

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Just wondering what approach people are taking...

1. Read a lot of review books, don't really "memorize" any one book just read a lot of them.

2. Focus on "memorizing" to whatever degree possible only a few books.

I think that I am really non-productive when I try to memorize things, so I'm going more with the read a lot of books method. I'm working through BRS Path right now, then I will do Med Micro Made Simple, then Step Up, then Pathophys for boards and wards, then FA (carefully), and then Goljan Rapid Path Review about 5-6 days before Step 1... the day or two before Step 1 I'm planning to read HY Behavioral Sciences and a quick Pharm review from FA. If there is time I may go through HY Neuro and BRS Phys... but focusing more on Path.

I'll be doing questions along the way and I have a couple days built in to my study schedule to do NMS assessments to check how all this is working.

Just curious about what people think, thanks.

 

[ertugrul]

for me: few books & more re-readings

 

[jennyboo]

I'm not a memorizer either and I love books, but as I found out when overwhelmed by my collection of First Aid plus 7 subject-specific review books in the last month before Step 1, FEWER IS BETTER.

If I were to do it over again, I'd stick with:

First Aid
BRS Pathology
BRS Physiology
Qbank

 

[i61164]

I'm not a memorizer either and I love books, but as I found out when overwhelmed by my collection of First Aid plus 7 subject-specific review books in the last month before Step 1, FEWER IS BETTER.

If I were to do it over again, I'd stick with:

First Aid
BRS Pathology
BRS Physiology
Qbank

I like the simplicity of this approach. I just wonder if biochem and behavioral science are covered well enough. I'm not saying that they aren't, but I guess I would start out with this and add to it only if necessary.

 

[DOCTORSAIB]

I'm not a memorizer either and I love books, but as I found out when overwhelmed by my collection of First Aid plus 7 subject-specific review books in the last month before Step 1, FEWER IS BETTER.

If I were to do it over again, I'd stick with:

First Aid
BRS Pathology
BRS Physiology
Qbank

Don't you think adding HY neuro and HY/BRS Behavioral would make that list almost perfect?

 

[missbonnie]

less is more 🙂 (does anyone get the unix reference?)

No more than 1 review book per topic, otherwise, unmanageable.

-b