UWorld January - May

[doctoritis]

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M2 here .. looking to start Uworld over winter break - exam is in June. My goal is to have one complete run through before school ends (May), and then a second full run through during dedicated study time (perhaps a third run through for only incorrect questions). Over winter break and spring break I plan on dedicating myself to boards entirely - so I feel I can knock out a decent amount of the Qbank. I tried searching answers to this but didn't find any threads that outlined this specifically enough. If I find come dedicated study time that I happen to have extra time (lol...) - I may try Kaplan then - any thoughts?

So I have 4 full months to make it through Uworld once along with winter and spring break - while school is still ongoing, I obviously don't have too much excess time to dedicate to this, but am willing to do what is necessary :

How often should I be doing questions?
How many questions should I be doing per sitting?
Exactly what should my approach be in terms of reviewing the answers? Annotating FA, keeping a notebook?
Any other organizational tips?
Should I be looking at other resources too?

How many questions are there total?

I can obviously do the math and divide the number of questions by number of days and figure out what I need to do be doing to meet my goal - but I'm looking for more strategic type of advice & recommendations, realistically - I'm not going to be able to do questions every single day, especially around exam time. Let's say 3-4 times a week is realistic. Or perhaps daily questions (aside from exam time), but not a full block of 50/day.

Open to any advice ... Thank you.

 

[thatsmate]

I'm an M2 too, in a similar situation, so I can't speak from experience. But I can tell you what my strategy is, to compare.

I'm using Kaplan during the year. I made the choice to save Uworld for dedicated study time. I've heard its so high yield that I want to use it when I feel I can benefit from it the most, when I already have a baseline level of knowledge about many of the topics. I plan to go through it twice during my dedicated study period, or maybe start it a little earlier.

During the year, I do Kaplan by subject type. For instance, while my path and pharm courses do our pulm block, I do 20 or so Kaplan pulm Qs a day, to teach myself and to get practice doing board style questions. Thus far I've found it supplements the course work very well, and I feel much more comfortable with the material as a result. Exam periods aren't really an issue, as I finish the Kaplan questions about the organ system well before the exam. At the beginning of the block, I'm usually scoring 55-60% on a block, but it goes up to ~80-85% as lectures progress and I actually know stuff.

Over Christmas break, my plan is to go over the systems we've covered in Kaplan and edit it into FA. When that's done I'll start to put some work into the lower yield M1 topics, like immuno, anatomy, and biochem.