Step I The Day Before?

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What's everyone planning on doing the day before their test? Studying? Relaxing? Freaking out?

I plan on reviewing some rote memorization stuff (CD markers, chromosomal diseases, etc) for a few hours in the morning. I'll probably lay on the couch and watch Law & Order for most of the afternoon, and go out to dinner with the spouse.

Anyone else?
 
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Starting to compose a list for myself of what I will want to look at. Higher-yield histo and gross organ images will probably make the cut. Will also do a last-minute review of (+)/(-) viruses and which ones are enveloped/helical, etc. Stuff like that.

Will probably stop everything altogether by 4pm the day before my test.
 
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Deferoxamine said:
Starting to compose a list for myself of what I will want to look at. Higher-yield histo and gross organ images will probably make the cut. Will also do a last-minute review of (+)/(-) viruses and which ones are enveloped/helical, etc. Stuff like that.

Will probably stop everything altogether by 4pm the day before my test.
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Good call on the virus stuff; I totally forgot about that. I'm going to add that to my list as well.
 
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Relax and do nothing related to Step 1. I'd rather miss a few hard questions because I didn't cram last minute than miss a few easy ones because my mind was fatigued. No practice questions, no studying, nothing. Just relax, eat some good food, and go to bed early.
 
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ropeadope1983 said:
Relax and do nothing related to Step 1. I'd rather miss a few hard questions because I didn't cram last minute than miss a few easy ones because my mind was fatigued. No practice questions, no studying, nothing. Just relax, eat some good food, and go to bed early.
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I feel like I gotta look at drugs, bugs, and other memorization-oriented stuff just to maintain the tenuous grasp that I have on them. But I'm definitely gonna quit by 5 pm.
 
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how much time do you think should be devoted to memorizing the formulas in the back of FA? i'm not sure how high yield those will be as compared to some of the things you guys have already mentioned to focus on the day before
 
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I would hope you know a lot of those formulas already and wouldn't have to cram them. Things like sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV, Hardy-Weinberg, GFR, Starling Equation, etc. are easy points and you should know the formulas. By the time you take the exam you should have had many questions asking you to calculate these things or at least understand what they are asking for that question.
 
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