What percentage of First Aid is covered in Uworld questions/answers?

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Would anyone who has been through all of Uworld be able to guesstimate this?

I'm trying to gauge whether spending majority of my time doing Uworld will pay off at the end, versus spending a lot of time studying straight out of First Aid.

Thanks!

 

[hartbot]

The content is very similar, but I'd imagine you'd get frustrated getting a lot of questions wrong if you don't have a decent grasp of the material first hand.

 

[TexasTriathlete]

The content is very similar, but I'd imagine you'd get frustrated getting a lot of questions wrong if you don't have a decent grasp of the material first hand.

I did my first pass through UWorld without reading FA at all. And I got a lot of questions wrong, but I think I learned more that way. I don't care what I can remember 30 minutes after I read it. My thought is that if I get something right without pre-studying, I probably know it pretty well. And if I miss it, then I go back and do it again and again, and I keep reading the UW explanations until I've got it down.

Once I've got it all down pretty well, then I'll fill in the gaps by reading FA, doing other qbanks, etc.

 

[kryptik]

90% of uw is in FA

 

[coldweatherblue]

I really have no idea the exact percentage but I can say that most of UWorld questions would be answerable by knowing and *thoroughly understanding* everything in FA.

You will get far more from using these resources together than using either alone. I notice that after doing a lot of questions, when I come across a UW concept in FA (it's usually one tiny sentence in FA that would otherwise be ignored) I can remember the question and connect the important concepts from UW with that section of FA. Once you can do that, you got it; that piece of info is in your head and you will rock any question about it on boards. 👍

definitely do both. a lot.

 

[emcee1109]

Hey guys,
I've been doing USMLE World, and at first, I did blocks of 48 and then read every single explanation for each answer choice (right and wrong) afterwards, but this took a couple hours to do. And I also thought that most of the explanations were in First Aid, so I'm wondering what you guys think of just reading the educational objectives at the bottom of each explanation, and then looking back for more detail if you feel it to be necessary...I'm trying to get through USMLE World at least twice...

 

[Dirt]

Hey guys,
I've been doing USMLE World, and at first, I did blocks of 48 and then read every single explanation for each answer choice (right and wrong) afterwards, but this took a couple hours to do. And I also thought that most of the explanations were in First Aid, so I'm wondering what you guys think of just reading the educational objectives at the bottom of each explanation, and then looking back for more detail if you feel it to be necessary...I'm trying to get through USMLE World at least twice...

Read the full explanation on anything that you didn't know/guessed/got wrong.

Read just the summary on the rest.

 

[DrBowtie]

90% of uw is in FA

Maybe. My FA has a lot of annotations in it. I'd say there are more than ~200 questions that aren't in FA.

 

[illixir]

If all you want is a crude estimate, I'd say probably 15% or 300ish questions have something that's not in FA needed to get question right. And I'd say that UW probably covers around 70-80% of the material in FA. It probably hits alot of the obvious stuff very tangentially though because questions always focus on some aspect rather than teaching all about it so i think having gone through FA or all the material in it is a must.