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[cpb80]

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Hello-

I am planning on reviewing UW a 2nd time during my last wk of study by doing ~150-200 questions/day and reading the abridged explanations (ie educational objective) in order to drill the concepts. I am also reviewing Goljan RR + audio for the third time and reading FA.

1. to those who have already taken...do you think this is an appropriate use of time?

2. in order to redo questions a second time and without resetting my account... could i "mark" all of the questions that i've done the first time, do them a second time, after which time they'll be unmarked and deducted from the remaining marked questions. i know that was sorta confusing

Thanks!

 

[lfesiam]

Hello-

I am planning on reviewing UW a 2nd time during my last wk of study by doing ~150-200 questions/day and reading the abridged explanations (ie educational objective) in order to drill the concepts. I am also reviewing Goljan RR + audio for the third time and reading FA.

1. to those who have already taken...do you think this is an appropriate use of time?

2. in order to redo questions a second time and without resetting my account... could i "mark" all of the questions that i've done the first time, do them a second time, after which time they'll be unmarked and deducted from the remaining marked questions. i know that was sorta confusing

Thanks!

REDO THE WRONG QUESTION BANK.
I went over UW 2-3 times.

Took my exam 6/18. 221 NBME form 2 (midway into studying)

 

[blz]

just review FA/notes for this last week. what good is doing questions you've already done before. you probably have them all down whether you realize it or not. as much as everyone orgasms over usmleworld here, there's still a lot of material not covered in it thats on the boards too. make sure you got down all of FA. that last week of reviewing only FA/pharm was key for me. I did usmleworld and all, and it was ok - but i dont think an single question i had on the test was only answerable because i did usmleworld. it's good practice, and thats about it.

 

[Law2Doc]

what good is doing questions you've already done before. you probably have them all down whether you realize it or not.

While I basically agree with the rest of your post, I think it's pretty common to forget a lot of what you've done more than a couple of weeks ago. I definitely picked up points thanks to review of already completed questions I hadn't seen for a month.

 

[blz]

While I basically agree with the rest of your post, I think it's pretty common to forget a lot of what you've done more than a couple of weeks ago. I definitely picked up points thanks to review of already completed questions I hadn't seen for a month.

fair enough, but the fact that you forgot information just supports the idea that you should be reviewing FA since you're probably forgetting a lot of other information too. doing questions again will just review one fact at a time (many of which may not be high yeild), while reviewing FA can cover a lot of facts quickly, all of which are high yeild.

 

[cdql]

I'm in my final week and I've taken an approach that combines both methods: 50 UW questions/day just to stay "sharp" and a massive, panicked, frenzied review of FA.

Hoping to get through it a second time before exam day!

 

[blz]

I'm in my final week and I've taken an approach that combines both methods: 50 UW questions/day just to stay "sharp" and a massive, panicked, frenzied review of FA.

Hoping to get through it a second time before exam day!

doing some questions is fine - just make sure its not the bulk of your seven day cram-a-thon

 

[dr.weiner]

I redid all the UW questions i got wrong . i started using it in january with coursework, and i definitely forgot a lot. i would sometimes get the same question wrong another couple times before i got it right. i definitely think it helped as i took the boards today and it just felt exactly like taking 7 blocks of UW. just took it and dont know how i did, but i defnitely think it helped and was quite similar to the actual exam. and the familiarity of the format was quite comforting. whats that? ah... the sound of self-medication calling my name.

 

[cpb80]

I'm in my final week and I've taken an approach that combines both methods: 50 UW questions/day just to stay "sharp" and a massive, panicked, frenzied review of FA.

Hoping to get through it a second time before exam day!

did you ask UW administrative peeps to reset your account or did you just mark all of the questions after your first round and redo those?? good luck and muchas gracias.

 

[cdql]

did you ask UW administrative peeps to reset your account or did you just mark all of the questions after your first round and redo those?? good luck and muchas gracias.

I probably should have selected from a pool of "incorrect". But what I did was to just click on "all" and have UW randomly select from all 2100 that I had done previously.

I believe the 4 options are unused (0 left for me), all (2100), incorrect, and marked (0 for me as I didn't use that tool)