Splitting up First Aid into 5 days?

[wolverine09]

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Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had some good strategies/methods on how to split up first aid in 5 days to cover everything. My exam is quickly approaching and i'm confused as to how to best review first aid over a 5 day span. You're help would be tremendously appreciated.

 

[qmcat]

Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had some good strategies/methods on how to split up first aid in 5 days to cover everything. My exam is quickly approaching and i'm confused as to how to best review first aid over a 5 day span. You're help would be tremendously appreciated.

Well there are 2 ways:

(1) Take the total # pages in FA, then divide by 5. Go over that many pages per day.

or

(2) Pick out your weak sections and read over those sections only. This is what I'm doing and I'm testing in 3 more days. I'm by no means a role model student though, so YMMV.

 

[Gullain Barre]

Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had some good strategies/methods on how to split up first aid in 5 days to cover everything. My exam is quickly approaching and i'm confused as to how to best review first aid over a 5 day span. You're help would be tremendously appreciated.

In my opinion, I'd run through the organ blocks first, then save the biochem, immuno, micro, pharm etc. sections for the end. Those are lists and facts (drugs that cause SLE-like syndrome, MOA of tetracycline, etc.) that you can only memorize and you'd probably want that solidly in your short term memory when you take the test.

And if you can, skip over the sections you feel you know the best (consistently done well on that subject in self-assessments, etc.) to open up more time for what you feel you're weaker in.

(Disclaimer: haven't gotten my score back yet, probably not till this coming Wednesday)

 

[Sheldor]

I took a little bit to figure out how many pages there were for each section, and then arranged it so that the memory intense topics were nearest the test. I think I was doing right around 80ish pages per day, with an average pace of 5 minutes per page. No matter how much I tried to go fast or slow that 5 minute average held constant!

I was thankful to have reviewed mostly Pharm and Micro the day or two before the test because there were so many nit picky facts, so I'd still recommend this method!

 

[da8s0859q]

Hey everyone,
I was wondering if anyone had some good strategies/methods on how to split up first aid in 5 days to cover everything. My exam is quickly approaching and i'm confused as to how to best review first aid over a 5 day span. You're help would be tremendously appreciated.

Just my two cents: it might be more worthwhile to cover what you're weak in, and THEN worry about everything else in FA in the last few days pre-exam. That's basically what I did -- my exam was a Friday, so I hit what I knew I wanted to look at again. I'm sure a full FA review in that week would've been great, but I simply didn't have the attention span to do it.

Ended up doing decently though -- in the 240s -- so if you find yourself nauseous at the thought of reading all that one more time, maybe you'd be less burnt out by hitting what you need to hit, and leaving everything else to be done as time/motivation allows. Point of diminishing returns, etc.

 

[wolverine09]

thanks for the great advice guys. much appreciated. best of luck to you all.