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Any opinions on usmlerx??
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I have been using it for last few weeks, and I think it's not too bad. Again, I am using it to drill fa into my head. So it's doing it's job.
Uworld is 10 out of 10 on a scale and I would put usmlerx at 7. It seems to be doing its job.
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Personally, I prefer Kaplan... but I think I'll still end up using Rx, since I seem to be on pace to exhaust all of Kaplan and UWorld well before my test. Rx will be a good way to make sure that I know my FA material.
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I like Rx as it falls in well with my DIT course weekly questions and my reading of FA.
I finished it on Sunday and ended up with like 70% overall but I did a lot of questions without having read the material as more of a pretest to assess my knowledge and emphasize where I should study in FA.
I'd rate it 7-8/10 for concurrent use along with FA reading/DIT
Started UW yesterday and scoring in the 80% range with about 150 questions knocked out.
Once I get further in, I'll compare Rx to this.
I finished it on Sunday and ended up with like 70% overall but I did a lot of questions without having read the material as more of a pretest to assess my knowledge and emphasize where I should study in FA.
I'd rate it 7-8/10 for concurrent use along with FA reading/DIT
Started UW yesterday and scoring in the 80% range with about 150 questions knocked out.
Once I get further in, I'll compare Rx to this.
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I am ~2000 questions through USMLE Rx at the moment.
I've found that it is fantastic for reinforcing FA, since there are many details in the book that I hadn't realized I had overlooked initially, but I had.
Rx has also made me realize that FA is not nearly as comprehensive as everyone makes it out to be.
I've annotated FA considerably using Rx, with information that is not only elaborative of FA's, but also unique to Rx itself. I can definitely tell that my score has already been augmented substantially by having used this QBank.
The big thing is that Rx teaches trickery. In other words, as I've progressed through the QBank, I've found that the questions which had stumped me earlier don't anymore, and they are the same questions that <20% of people get right, so a progressive score increase must be occurring. To that effect, that is why I would recommend Rx to anyone and everyone.
I started USMLE Rx in early-January. I did ten 10-question blocks = 100 questions, and got exactly 67/100. I spent all of February strictly reading FA cover to cover (8-12 hrs/day), and have been getting between 80-96% on 48-question blocks since (subsequent ~1900 questions), with a cumulative performance of 86% so far (latter ~500 have all been >90% correct). The cum report predicts a 271 on the USMLE, which obviously isn't true, so Rx needs to get their calculation scheme worked out.
I'd say about 3/7 of the questions I've been getting wrong in Rx are directly out of FA, and I merely had overlooked the minutiae the first time; 3/7 have been based on info that is purely unique to the QBank (not in FA), and 1/7 have been just dumb mistakes. Rx definitely caters to FA, but in the end, FA does matter.
I almost forgot to mention though: USMLE Rx has lots of errors and it is very aggravating. I find ~2 or 3 per 48-question block that are blatantly incorrect, and I feel like I'm reprimanding first-year medical students by having to write in the comments section constantly.
Hope that helps a little.
~Phloston
I've found that it is fantastic for reinforcing FA, since there are many details in the book that I hadn't realized I had overlooked initially, but I had.
Rx has also made me realize that FA is not nearly as comprehensive as everyone makes it out to be.
I've annotated FA considerably using Rx, with information that is not only elaborative of FA's, but also unique to Rx itself. I can definitely tell that my score has already been augmented substantially by having used this QBank.
The big thing is that Rx teaches trickery. In other words, as I've progressed through the QBank, I've found that the questions which had stumped me earlier don't anymore, and they are the same questions that <20% of people get right, so a progressive score increase must be occurring. To that effect, that is why I would recommend Rx to anyone and everyone.
I started USMLE Rx in early-January. I did ten 10-question blocks = 100 questions, and got exactly 67/100. I spent all of February strictly reading FA cover to cover (8-12 hrs/day), and have been getting between 80-96% on 48-question blocks since (subsequent ~1900 questions), with a cumulative performance of 86% so far (latter ~500 have all been >90% correct). The cum report predicts a 271 on the USMLE, which obviously isn't true, so Rx needs to get their calculation scheme worked out.
I'd say about 3/7 of the questions I've been getting wrong in Rx are directly out of FA, and I merely had overlooked the minutiae the first time; 3/7 have been based on info that is purely unique to the QBank (not in FA), and 1/7 have been just dumb mistakes. Rx definitely caters to FA, but in the end, FA does matter.
I almost forgot to mention though: USMLE Rx has lots of errors and it is very aggravating. I find ~2 or 3 per 48-question block that are blatantly incorrect, and I feel like I'm reprimanding first-year medical students by having to write in the comments section constantly.
Hope that helps a little.
~Phloston
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