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Thanx Jsmart, bm, and Binz. And syea bm, you should just rest a little too, but see i have this other problem that if i stay away from something too long, then its hard for me to get bcak into it and also all the material that is in my head usually goes away very fast, so i got my rest yesterday by sleeping a lot and i guess i'll be on pain killers for a while. My doc thinks that i might be grinding my teeth during sleep and should see a dentist cuz I might need a mouthguard, but who has time for that, i mean dental appointments take forever and i really wanna just pass this exam.
I am getting scared again tho cuz i am reading all these exam experiences on this form and it seems like cell bio and molecular are ruling out of all the subjects, why do that do that to us, i dont remember that many questions in those subjects on my first exam, so i am just gonna have to pray i dont get any again on my second, cuz i have no idea what to study for them. Neways, gotta make today very productive, plan to try to finish atleast 5-6 chapters of BRS path, 3 lectures of Goljan, and 100 Qbank tonite. Then also will try to sqeeze in behavioral, cuz i gotta start reading that, according to qbank, i am doing the worst in that, so i guess will start reading behavioral. Dont know what i should go with tho, kaplan or BRS??? If anyone can advise, will be greatful. Neways, good luck guys and time to hit the books!!!
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Well, got a to finish another three chapters or path BRS, i am trying to go slow the first time so the second time around, hopefully i'll pick up the pace, then i finished 3 lectures of goljan that correlated with path BRS, that really helped me understand it more, and did 50 qbank questions at nite in which again i only got 56%, that depressed me for a while. Made me realize how much of my physio i have forgotten. Well will get to that in due time. So today, will continue the lovely path BRS, then goljan and then behavioral, maybe 2 chapters or so, and then finish it off with qbank at nite.
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Hmm. lets see, never got to staring behavioral, i keep looking at my score sheet, and focusing on the systems i did worse on, but i need to move away from path for a while and start behavioral. Goljan is still going and i plan to finish his cardio today. Just three more chapters of BRS and i will finish that, then plan is to read behavioral in the morning and start BRS path again for the evening, then once behavioral is done, will do micro/immuno with BRS path, then move onto physio and will end with pharm, gotta do pharm at the end, cuz its all memorization for me and that stuff i can only do near the end. And of course, continue doing qbank, my score keeps fluctuation between 56% lowest - 70& highest, and sometimes in between. It hasn't gone below 56% or above 70%. Dont know if thats good or bad, but at any rate, lets see if i can follow my plan.
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woo hoo, finally finished BRS, boy, that took me a long time, but atleast this first reading was slow because i was learning everything and now i can go back again but focusing more on stuff that i suck at, espeically nervous system, female reproductive, and RENAL. I hate renal pathology. Neways, so I finished BRS, did two hours of goljan, and did just path questions and was disappointed when I got 60% because when i went back to review, i had made such stupid mistakes, i always do that, God know why i am always in some kind of a hurry. So now that thats over, i plan to start with behavioral tomorrow, and then again start path BRS, which i will keep doing till the end, and listen to goljan Third day, atleast three hours, and qbank at nite.
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hey mlf, keep going buddy!  u sound so calm and collected...i'm jealous...hehehehehe. j/k. keep working hard. hey, when's ure test date again?? just curious. g'night.
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Hey binz, trust me, i wouldn't be this calm if my exam was coming up, but i have till november, but i am planning on probably taking it sometime late october, haven't chosen my date yet. Don't worry binz, you'll do great, and just remember, try to get some rest the nite before the test, something I really regret cuz i litereally was sleeping after the fifth block cuz i was so exhausted. All the best to you, you'll be in my prayers!!!
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thank u for ur prayers....
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I am so disappointed at myself, i wasted my whole day today, i had no motivation whatsoever, someone in family is sick, so just kept thinking about that, didn't even feel like doing anything. so finally forced myself to listen to goljan and finished his third day off, then did 50 random qbank, and got a 68%. Hmm, still need to improve, before the end, i wanna try to get it in the 80s, and again of course, i made very stupid mistakes, but it does really help reading the explanation. So schedule for tomorrow, finish behavioral, start goljan day four, listen to 2-3 hrs of his lectures, do path BRS one chapter atleast, and then at nite, qbank.....
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Sorry for the sick person .Hope he /she is alright today.
Do not worry much I think 68% is not that bad , it's good!!! Yes keep doing Qs and read where u are not comfortable.
All the best ,hope you will start today with a high speed <:wahtch_where_you_go:> <:wahtch_where_you_go:> <:wahtch_where_you_go:>
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keep going mlf! :icon_salut:
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MLF keep going pal...nice prep urs...
bye
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go mlf,
go mlf,
go mlf,
go
hope ur dear one is feeling better. and 68% is def good....
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thank you jsmart, bm, binz, and smallfidget. You guys are great, and your kind words always motivate me. And thanx Jsmart and binz, that person is feeling much better now. I started physio and been reading it in the BRS, its a great book, for some reason, don't wanna read kaplan physio cuz i read that last time, and i think this time i'll stick to BRS, cuz i like hte wa its written. When i don't understand anything, i refer to another book written by the author of physio BRS, called STARS physio, its a great text for physio but is too big, but it explains everything soooooooo well. My advice to people who have like a year to prepare for this exam is to read that book for physio, because tis smaller than guyton, but still have everything you need to know in a great format. Neways, So gotta continue reading cardio phys and respiratory phys, and hopefully GI phys too, and then listen to goljan, whose lectures I feel like i am forgetting the previous ones that i have heard, i hope thats normal. After goljan, will do lots of qbank till i fall asleep. So lets get to work and can't stop at all!!!!
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For some reason, i just never understand cardio physio, so spend the whole day on just that yesteday and doing questions for it, and then did goljan and qbank. I am still avg 58-70. I wanna keep it atleast till 70. Today, plan to finish what i planned to finish with cardio yesterday, which was respiratory and GI, which is cool cuz i am listening to Goljan GI, so hopefully that should be correlated. After that, do questions at nite along with goljan.
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I had the same problem in understanding Cardio...esp the cycle it never entered my heard properly #-o so what I did I copied it and put on the wall beside my computer so that everyday I had to review and read it for few min b4 anything.
Trust me it worked coz I thought it was a very HY thing...In the end I was able to understand it... :wink: kind of psychological thing
I did it for all things which were very HY and so boring to catch (also few biochem diseases like Tay sachs, etc)
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Thanx for the tip Jsmart, i actually did that for the matabolism chart and it kinda did made more sense after a little while. I think i'll try it with the cardio chart too. Thanx for all your prayers Best of luck!!
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Well I took Jsmart's advice and i think am doing pretty well with the cardio physio, but we'll find out when i go back to the questions. finished respiratory physio, and studied it in a lot of detail, and now doing renal phys, i made a diagram of the renal cappilary and the different layers and then opened up my path BRS, and correlated the diagram with the different nephrotic and nephritic disease, boy i tell you, it has never made sense before but correlating it with renal phys made a huge difference in my understanding of renal phys and path, cuz i could never remember these things before. WHy didn't i do this the first time around, oh well, whats done is done, but now will finish renal phys, and off to my fav professor in the world, dr. goljan. Then will do qbank. Have to pick a date for the exam, dont know if should do it early october or late, or november or what, kinda confused. Oh well, better get back to studying..... :roll:
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i'm new to this site and planning ontaking step 1 in nov ... probably mid nov...and am finding ur diary inspiring..... ur going the right way man....just grind away... and u'll have passed with flying colours
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thanx monica76, good luck with all yoru sdudying as well, I pray that we both pass with great scores...............
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I think for the first time I finally understood renal physiology. I actually drew out the renal cortex and the capillaries, and read entire renal phys and went back to path and then read the renal path, and it helped me a lot of visualize where each of the nephrotic/nephritic syndrome take place and what they make the kidney look like, because I would always confuse subepithlial and endthelial and now it all just kinda sunk in better. I am almost done with listening to goljan also but didn't get to do qbank, i think i tire myself out yesterday of straight 7 hours of studying which i normally dont' do without taking breaks, but yesterday was very productive for me and i am happy for that. Hope to make that today also. Now i will do GI and endocrine phys and finish off physiology today, then finish off day 4 goljan and then just one more of his day to go. Starting tomorrow, i am gonna start reading Microbiology MRS, and immuno from kaplan. And of course, gotta continue qbank..............
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Haven't been able to post anything for the past two days, family stuff came up. But I have been reading micro Rediculously simple, plan to finish that up and then once i finish that, will read immuno from kaplan. Also start Goljan Day 5, and continue Qbank. septermber is coming, gotta pic up the pace, and now start doing atleast 150-200 questions for qbank.
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Ok well, not a good weekend for me, I am almost doen reading the bacteria part in MMRS, and still have goljan day 5 to start. Meeting up with a friend to go over some topics that I suck at in path and micro and then will also review pharm. So better look thru my pharm again, which i plan to do straight from first aid. I am taking notes on whatevr I can, i realized that even tho i do'nt really go back to those notes, just writing stuff down helps me remember better, and i have been taking ntoes on goljan throughout, and i look back at them every now and then. So today, will finish bacteriology in MMRS, will do qbank, how many ever questions I can do, still getting in upper fifties, to sixty, need to pick that up, and then start goljan day 5. This week, will plan to finish micri. pharm FA, immuno Kaplan and goljan Day 5. Next week, restart with biochem/anatomy/embryo/neuro. Can anyone tell me if FA neuro is enuf????
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hey mlf,
i thought Fa neuro was enuf. i suggest that if u are weak in a neuro specific topic then to look it up in kaplan or brs. but, overall..i didn't have much neuro. gooh luc studying....keep it up.
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thank you binz, your rite, cuz on my exam, there were only two neuro pics, and nothing else really, so i already did FA, will be dong it again later, and i took notes in it from my kaplan reading, so hopefully that should help two.
Well i finished off micro, must say that MMRS is a great book, has some extra info, but couldn't hurt, and now i know HIV much better than i did before. After finishing up micro, listened to goljan and look over his notes for the first day that I myself made, cuz i dont wanna forget all that stuff. Two more of his lectures and then i am done with him, and can restart again. Then did two blocks of 50 questions on qbank, and got 58% and 64%. Definetely improving and i have to now do immuno tomrrow, then start on pharm and behavioral. So much work to do, and so little time. Ok well better get to it.....
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Long time since I visited our diary :lol: :lol: :lol: But I can see that u are doing great .
Just to encourage you and to wish u all the best in your studies
KEep moving and pray !
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