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Hello all, I stumbled upon this forum doing some google research and I'm amazed by it. I wish I could have found this sooner.
Brief story: I am from EU, I got into med school at 18 and everything went fine until 22, I did all my exams and grades were good. Then I had my fair share of personal problems, diagnosed depression, the whole lot. It wasn't fine but lucky enough most of this is past me now. I'm 28 now.
Lucky enough my family was nice enough to keep my university tuition alive and six months ago I timidly started passing exams again. But I'm way too behind and I have, for several reasons, to speed up things by a very big amount.
I want to try to be done with all my exams by October, or by the very least, February. This of course means a huge workload. Keep in mind, we have oral exams here, so facing the professor can be a little intimidating sometimes but I want to get all of this behind me and my family.
So, I need strategies to handle the workload and how to prepare each exams. The only plan I can come up with means that I will have 50 days of absolutely full-time study, then a big (BIG) streak of crammed up exams with just a few days between each other, ranging from 2 to 8). Then I have 35 days of again, full-time study and then another streak of exams like the previous one.
My idea would be to synthesize the material (mostly hand-outs and textbooks), keep reviewing them each day (maybe with anki?) and then focusing on reviewing the upcoming exam for ~2days. What do you think? Do you have better options in your mind?
Also, I don't know if in such little time I should still create my own supercondensed material or just color-code textbooks and use just that. Some insight on this would be extremely helpful. I am a fast typer but I am a little scared that will be a waste of time.
I hope I will not get criticized too much for such a superficial plan, but given all the personal, family and financial circumstances I really have to do, or at least try, this.
Thank you in advance, deeply.
Brief story: I am from EU, I got into med school at 18 and everything went fine until 22, I did all my exams and grades were good. Then I had my fair share of personal problems, diagnosed depression, the whole lot. It wasn't fine but lucky enough most of this is past me now. I'm 28 now.
Lucky enough my family was nice enough to keep my university tuition alive and six months ago I timidly started passing exams again. But I'm way too behind and I have, for several reasons, to speed up things by a very big amount.
I want to try to be done with all my exams by October, or by the very least, February. This of course means a huge workload. Keep in mind, we have oral exams here, so facing the professor can be a little intimidating sometimes but I want to get all of this behind me and my family.
So, I need strategies to handle the workload and how to prepare each exams. The only plan I can come up with means that I will have 50 days of absolutely full-time study, then a big (BIG) streak of crammed up exams with just a few days between each other, ranging from 2 to 8). Then I have 35 days of again, full-time study and then another streak of exams like the previous one.
My idea would be to synthesize the material (mostly hand-outs and textbooks), keep reviewing them each day (maybe with anki?) and then focusing on reviewing the upcoming exam for ~2days. What do you think? Do you have better options in your mind?
Also, I don't know if in such little time I should still create my own supercondensed material or just color-code textbooks and use just that. Some insight on this would be extremely helpful. I am a fast typer but I am a little scared that will be a waste of time.
I hope I will not get criticized too much for such a superficial plan, but given all the personal, family and financial circumstances I really have to do, or at least try, this.
Thank you in advance, deeply.
