Study tips for CBSE?>

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Hey. I have to take it this Friday and we just had our last module exam today. What do u guys recommend studying just to pass it.... First aid and Goljan HY notes? Any thoughts welcomed.
 
Most people in my class (included me) took it without having started to study for the USMLE. It's good to get a baseline score. We were told to expect a 30 to 40 point increase from baseline.
 
Just making sure, but CBSE is not the same as CBSSA (aka NBME forms), right? Pretty sure the answer is yes though.

What have people told you about point increases over a baseline NBME? I've heard anywhere from 15-30+.
 
Thanks for the reply ucla dude. Yeah, it would have been nice if it was only as a diag and to get my baseline before i started studying. My dumb school is making it 20% of our entire second year grade. Kinda sucks but supposedly its curved twice (once by the nbme and then again depending on your school).
 
Thanks for the reply ucla dude. Yeah, it would have been nice if it was only as a diag and to get my baseline before i started studying. My dumb school is making it 20% of our entire second year grade. Kinda sucks but supposedly its curved twice (once by the nbme and then again depending on your school).

OMG, that's crazy! Well, good luck with it. I'm sure you'll do fine. 🙂

BTW, I'm actually a UCLA dudette.
 
Thanks for the reply ucla dude. Yeah, it would have been nice if it was only as a diag and to get my baseline before i started studying. My dumb school is making it 20% of our entire second year grade. Kinda sucks but supposedly its curved twice (once by the nbme and then again depending on your school).

I think pathology would be the highest yield, perhaps the red book. Also it would help if you did maybe 50 practice questions or so to get the timing down. Also review any physiology that you're really rusty on.

BTW, I'm actually a UCLA dudette.

I get the reverse sometimes, what is it with the internet and gender confusion?
 
Thanks medkit for the input. So in your experience the path in first aid wasn't sufficient for CBSE thats why your recommending brs path (red book)? Its just that with 3 days left i thought FA would be the best bang for the buck focusing on its path/physio and micro sections? Oh and by the way any idea on the breakdown for this exam...ex 50% path/phiz and 50% first year topics or is it all pretty equal? Our school didn't really provide us much info. Thanks for any help you can provide.
 
We took it 7 weeks ago or so, thus I don't remember too much about the breakdown. One thing that does stick out to me was that there seemed to be quite afew secondary messanger questions. I think that FA will be good enough to study if yoy only have a few days. I hadn't started boards prep when I took it and I still got a pretty good score(and I am not at the top of my class or anything).
 
Thanks medkit for the input. So in your experience the path in first aid wasn't sufficient for CBSE thats why your recommending brs path (red book)? Its just that with 3 days left i thought FA would be the best bang for the buck focusing on its path/physio and micro sections? Oh and by the way any idea on the breakdown for this exam...ex 50% path/phiz and 50% first year topics or is it all pretty equal? Our school didn't really provide us much info. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Well, no I didn't think it was that great at all, perhaps review the first 3 chapters of either BRS path or Goljan path instead combined with honing in on high yield systems (not neuro) where you feel you might have forgotten a lot of things.
 
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