Review missed questions in last week ?

[7abiby]

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Hey guys,

I was wondering if any of you would recommend spending the last week of a 4 week board prep reviewing all the questions you missed before. This would include Qbank, USMLEworld, First Aid Q&A, Qbook, Goljan questions, and Robbins. To me this strategy would seem more efficient than just re-reading things in FA for example that I may already know. I think I probably have 1200-1500 questions to review. What do you guys think? Is this a good strategy or is my time better spent reviewing FA and/or doing new questions?

 

[mudphudwannabe]

In my opinion, the best time to review practice questions is immediately after you've taken that block. I can't really see the value in reviewing a whole slew of questions at once -- I think it just has the potential to be confusing. Anyway, I think it's best to review the answers to *all* the practice questions you've done in that block, to make sure you really understand the concepts even on the ones you got right (since you might have guessed right or gotten them right with the wrong reasoning).

There are mixed reviews of doing questions in the few days before the exam -- I continued to do my usual schedule of questions in the morning (1-2 blocks of 50 random, unused questions, then spending 1-2 hours reviewing the answers), and review in the afternoon from FA or BRS Path and Phys until the day before the exam. That day I quit at 1pm and relaxed in the afternoon and evening. I used the last few days to catch up on any subjects I felt needed a little more time and to page through FA one more time to attempt to find any weak spots and go over any stuff that might be easily memorizable again.

ETA: I forgot to mention that some people recommend not doing questions in the few days before the exam since it could potentially shake your confidence if you aren't scoring well, or because they think the last few days are best for review.