USMLERx vs Reading First Aid

[HTxFrog]

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Ok three weeks out and trying to plan strategy, wanted to get some input. I'm using Taus method for the last two weeks which is basically 100 UWorld/day and go through everything from RR path and FA in 10 days plus 3 days with some other plan, but anyways I'm trying to figure out what to do for the next week before that. I've gone through First Aid a few times at least and I feel like I'm wasting a lot of time rereading things that I already know, so I'm considering just doing USMLERx all day (maybe 200-300 Q/day, which might be a little overzealous) for the next week and studying missed questions. Do y'all think that would be better or would it be better to stick with what I'm doing which is 50 UWorld in the morning and study First Aid in the afternoon/night. My reasoning for doing USMLERx is that I figure if I do a bunch of questions on there and read the explanations (which include the page from FA) that would be roughly equivalent to going through FA twice and it would force me to focus more on what I don't know b/c I can see what questions I miss. What do you guys think?

 

[PokerDoc]

Ok three weeks out and trying to plan strategy, wanted to get some input. I'm using Taus method for the last two weeks which is basically 100 UWorld/day and go through everything from RR path and FA in 10 days plus 3 days with some other plan, but anyways I'm trying to figure out what to do for the next week before that. I've gone through First Aid a few times at least and I feel like I'm wasting a lot of time rereading things that I already know, so I'm considering just doing USMLERx all day (maybe 200-300 Q/day, which might be a little overzealous) for the next week and studying missed questions. Do y'all think that would be better or would it be better to stick with what I'm doing which is 50 UWorld in the morning and study First Aid in the afternoon/night. My reasoning for doing USMLERx is that I figure if I do a bunch of questions on there and read the explanations (which include the page from FA) that would be roughly equivalent to going through FA twice and it would force me to focus more on what I don't know b/c I can see what questions I miss. What do you guys think?

I dunno if this helps but this is what I do, and I do it because like you, I cant stand just reading

I do 2 blocks at the end of the day, tutor mode, so im going through them as I get them right or wrong. Then in the morning, I go over those blocks again and this time I annotate all the blocks i 'marked' into FA (I only mark something if I got it wrong for reasons worth writing down, if it was a stupid mistake I dont mark it, just seeing that I made the mistake is enough).

Then I do my reading mid day, then I do the next set of questions at night and repeat.

maybe you can try some variation of that.. maybe do 3 blocks instead of 2, but i think 300-400 questions a day is WAY too much, you won't be able to retain that and you will burn out. thats like taking a Step I exam every single day