Are question banks something that I should be doing as a MS I?
Our curriculum included some path, pharm, micro, etc. in the second half of M1 -- I didn't do questions then, but I would have if I'd thought to. We did do some organ system work late in the year, and I did start to do questions then.
I'm just selective about how I study. I would much rather spend time reading and re-reading notes provided by lecturers and trying to connect the dots in my head, think things through, figure out how to remember things I just can't get to stick, etc., than I would spend time making flash cards or doing Gunner Training flash cards or anything like that. So for me, doing questions is just another way to study interactively and pick up how the information I've studied recently would be presented in vignette form -- which is a big part of our exams here, and needless to say, it's huge on Step 1.
And like I was saying, practice questions won't lie to you about whether you really know your **** or not. I started with GT with the intent of saving Rx and World for the time leading up to the test.
At this point, since Step 1 is just around the corner for me, question banks are becoming a little more important every day.
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