What to annotate from Kaplan Qbank

[phd89]

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So it seems that quite a handful of questions in Kaplan's qbank are low yield form my experience and from what others say, what should I be annotating from the Kaplan bank, I don't want to over annotate my first aid since I already have a lot form Uworld in it which would only increase the clutter. How do you know what to annotate and what to leave out?

 

[LRAccord624]

Annotate anything that gives you a better understanding of a concept, or something that adds to a concept that you've seen multiple questions over.

 

[HotLikeSauce]

I annotated both UW and Kaplan into my FA.

This will sound crazy, but I had a "color" pen for each--only used black for UW and used purple or something for Kaplan. I'd annotate the same things from Kaplan that I did from UW (main points, side effects of drugs, links between diff fields like path to pharm, etc.). I did mostly Kaplan early on, and by the time I got to UW and went to annotate things, I already had had a lot of the same annotations from having done Kaplan.

If your gut reaction is "omg this is so dumb" or you automatically roll your eyes when you read the explanation, then don't annotate. It's OCD, but I liked having Kaplan in a diff color because then I knew I could train my eyes to just glaze over anything in that color if I felt like it was useless or that Kaplan wasn't that great.

 

[HelpPleaseMD]

I annotated both UW and Kaplan into my FA.

This will sound crazy, but I had a "color" pen for each--only used black for UW and used purple or something for Kaplan. I'd annotate the same things from Kaplan that I did from UW (main points, side effects of drugs, links between diff fields like path to pharm, etc.). I did mostly Kaplan early on, and by the time I got to UW and went to annotate things, I already had had a lot of the same annotations from having done Kaplan.

If your gut reaction is "omg this is so dumb" or you automatically roll your eyes when you read the explanation, then don't annotate. It's OCD, but I liked having Kaplan in a diff color because then I knew I could train my eyes to just glaze over anything in that color if I felt like it was useless or that Kaplan wasn't that great.

thats a great idea. i wish i had done that