UWorld repeat strategy

[myershurt]

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needed some advice -

two weeks exactly until test (June 8th) - finished UWorld once with about 800 incorrect and 300 I marked...

Unused my final percentages were in the high 50's low sixties - cum. of 52%

In my second round - I either do all previous questions and can score 75-85%, or just incorrect and still be in the 40s-50s. Kind of a false hope vs. demoralization path...and honestly i feel like i am learning from either just as well.

Anyone in the same boat - or have a method of approach to redoing a qbank while seeing improvement, not gettign discouraged, and still learning?

I'm just worried that I will stray from big concepts and HY info to focus on minutiae I keep getting wrong - don't want to lose the big picture - maybe a few blocks of each throughout the day?

 

[Taus]

I'll be in the same boat in about a week...can you reset the program though?...w/o that I think its gonna be annoying to go back to questions you did b/c the answers are highlighted...theres gotta be a way around that...

 

[myershurt]

in uworld?

i don't think that you can reset it - and all highlighting/crossing out is erased when you see a question for a second time - so don't worry about that

the answer does jump out at you though if it was a difficult question you looked up/ thought about forever - and seems more like memorizing answers than understanding concepts

the incorrect does count down as you get each of them correct though - so you can work first to count down your unused to 000, then your incorrect to 000 and in theory you have answered every question correct at least once....

 

[blz]

i don't see how redoing usmleworld is really gonna help - you're better off just reviewing like crazy and memorizing FA. if you got another qbank you can try, do that too.

 

[dr.weiner]

The UW rep said in the UW forum this week that you can reset the account if you've bought at least a 6 month subscription, although Im not sure how to get that, I guess email them.

 

[Taus]

in uworld?

all highlighting/crossing out is erased when you see a question for a second time - so don't worry about that

you're right..im a *******....

 

[Roy7]

Dr. Daugherty from Kaplan reallly stressed the importance of NOT doing repeat questions:

If you did and corrected your questions properly you shouldnt be getting them wrong again in the first place - if you are, go back to the source material and review again. Do another question look at questions on familiar concepts asked a different way and learn from there.

This coming from a guy that teaches FOR kaplan seems to make a lot of sense (he suggested USMLE World).

Personally, I finish World on Monday/Tuesday (Test 18th of June). I'll probably still redo the questions I got wrong to make sure I learned those concepts (I'm not sure I studied those questions enough the first time), then finish the rest of Qbank, and maybe do some more USMLE World to make sure that if there are any questions that show up on the exam I at least have those memorized.