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Is great!!! Keep it up and your score will still rise!!
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| pray4md
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kiran, youre improving, just keep pushing yourself. it will go even higher.
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| JS
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Hi kiran,
Your schedule is good.How many questions you are doing per day?Is there any possibility to save q bank's qs ?
Thanks
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hi JS
i planned to do 100 Q daily but rt now i'm able to do 50 Q.yesterday was the first day that i did 125 Q.BTW when are you planning to write the exam?
i dont think we can save the Qbank questions.there is no option for either rt click or print.
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| krushna
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Hey Kiran
You ar ereading Immunology i guess.
GUESS WHAT I WAS ALSO DOING IMMUNO ONLY.
I think we go hand in hand only.
Hope to give exam also soon.
So where are you upto?I think i wil finish the thing tonight.Lets see.Though i am bad in immuno questions.Also they say its one of the killer in exam.
Better to sharpen our weapons now!
Happy studying!
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hi krushna
i started immuno yesterday,but you know what i didnot do anything yesterday......not even a single page.i just opened my immuno book.thats it.did not feel like studying at all.so just took a break away from my books.and you know what i watched 2 movies that too simultaneously....VAADA & MITHR.
and now since morning i feel so tensed up that i cud not study anything.now i shud not get up till my luch break and hopefully complete the first 4 chapters of immuno.....
well i feel that sometimes breaks are good but it really raises your tension.
ok will get back now.....
happy studying everyone!!!
~kiran.
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| pray4md
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kiran,
dont worry, its good to take a break. sometimes you need it and dont realize it. hang in there....
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| krushna
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Hey Kiran..
Dont worry at all,its ok to take a break sometimes.
If you can't just concentrate and read ,its always good to go out ,have some fun & refresh your mind.
Things will become good soon.
Hope you are doing well today!
You know what it was "Holi" today in india
.I had warned myself not to go out of the house,but finally few friends came and we just went out for a walk to see "Holi".(i live in maharashtra,tonight they burn piles of wood,just token of all bad to burn in it.And tomorrow morning they will play colors).Festivals are too good,they themselves refresh your mind.Well it was ok for tonight,but tomorrow morning i need to hide myself somewhere to protect from colors.
Happy holi to you and your family also!
& Happy studying!
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hi krushna
ya i remembered it.....i know today is holi.....i really miss my family on such festivals......we used to enjoy a lot during festivals.and i agree with you....its really refreshing on such days.
well i just got the orange card and scheduled my test for may 5.luckily i got the test centre in my place.its just 10 min away from my home.
happy holi krushna and thanks for the wishes.....
happy studying!!!!
~kiran.
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| niti
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Yes...same feelings here..missing everybody on festivals...but what else we can do ?? Still,the positive thing that we have such a nice group here in this Forum...at least we can share our feelings P
How are your studies going on ? Keep doing Qs in subjectwise mode..bec. even u will do random Qs....Qs will be same but from every subject..so,I don't think it will make much difference & afterall it is just a learning tool...not a predictor of real test..
Thanks for your nice words in my diary...it made me realize that I have some caring friends ..no matter I don't know them yet..but,really I hope we will meet someday...
With Best Wishes..
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hello all
today was pretty well.studied for many hrs than usual....and i feel tired now.well i'm done with immunology now.my 2 days schedule for immuno really took 4 days and i'm still not confident enuf.i think i shud wrap it now and go thru it later on.well i scored 72% in the Q-bank in immuno but somehow i'm not satisfied with it.
tomorrow i will start microbilogy....hoping to complete it 2 days...lets see....
hey niti
the subject wise tests are really working for me.but i'm also doing randomly in some of the tests....just to get used to the real test.
all these days i was having the BSS cd but never knew about it and i was doing from the books.i found it yesterday...i'm happy that i can do them in test mode now.dont know how far they are useful but as berk said they really raise your spirits as you get much greater scores in it.today i got 83% in immuno in BSS.i was on cloud 9 for that....but....i know i cant rely on that.and also may be the Q were too easy.....
ok will get back to my studies for some more time after i have my dinner.
happy studies evryone!!!
~kiran.
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| berkeleyboy
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thanks for the post! I'm not using FA much, just trying to go thru my notes one last time. I didn't even read FA yet when I took nbme so I figure the kaplan notes should suffice, and if i have time, I'll flip thru FA.
Congrats on your score improving, I'm really seeing an increase in trend in your scores. hey....80% on any test is great in my book. If you can't be happy with an 80% what can you be happy with?
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hi berk
i'm happy with the score....both 80% and 72%....the thing i'm not happy is the the confidence i have over the subject....somehow i dont feel confident with immuno.i think i shud give it another reading....
your's and niti's suggestion of doing them subject wise is really working well....i'm very happy and thankful to you both for that....
thanks once again.
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| berkeleyboy
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test. Even tho I'm happy with my scores, I never feel like I have complete mastery with the material....which is why I'm re-reading everything again. Its weird, but I don't think its possible to have complete mastery when we have to continue moving on to diff. subjects. This is why doing Qs is important. Not only are they for learning, but they gage whether or not we have a grasp on a subject matter. In a limited amount of time, if I'm scoring in the 80s consistantly, than its time to move on, b/c that means, I have enough knowledge to at least get 80s. Good enough for now, but this will never feel like complete mastery of a subject. I was scoring almost 90 in biochem during my last revision, but as I'm reading it over again, I feel like I don't remember anything...wierd...
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| niti
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Hey kiran,
Getting >70% in qbank...still feel not enough...the same problem here with me....I don't know why.."enough" never feel enough !! How much enough is ENOUGH !! 8) really, I wish somebody can answer this Q ? Maybe I can tell u why I don't feel enough though...I think..when I do Qs...I feel that I already did those somewhere...so feel familiar...or sometimes I just think the answer before clicking as a right answer..& then check the expl. ..if rt...then I click that oops ..so, its like cheating ...rt !! so, in my heart ...I know its not enough !!!..and sometimes,I do just after revising that particular subject..so, when gets high score...then again,not feel enough !!..bec. again I know...its a kind of cheating | Well...now, u tell me...why u don't feel its not enough ?..
Its good to know that u can say that your score is increasing with practice ( same is true here..)...so, just keep working...u r on the rt path..
with wishes..
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hi niti and berk
even i feel that i have seen many questions before though i dont check the explanation before clicking it.so even i'm doing.....that.but one good reason why i'm facing similar questions is i'm doingt the Q-bank in both UNUSED AND INCORRECT MODE.i think you got me,what i'm saying.i felt in this way i can repeat the wrong questions once again and will read the explanation once again.afterall we are using the Q-bank as a learning tool.on an average i think get around 5-6 questions which are familiar to me.but at the same time time to be honest though i'm familiar with the questions i just stumble with the answers......
and ya i'm doing the questions subject wise just after completing the subject.i think may be this is the main reason for me to get such high scores.....then, can we believe these scores?????oh ya we shud at least for our psychological happiness.
yesterday i didnot study well.did not do the questions.didnot study anything imp except parasitology and general bacteriology.
will get back to my studies now....
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| berkeleyboy
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scores or not you'll lose motivation and drive. Its a constant ego killer to get low scores. If you can't be happy with high scores what can you be happy with?
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hi all
march will be over today and from tomorrow its april.....this one thought made me so nervous yesterday that i cud not sleep well last nite.i can feel my heart pouncing...just 35 days to go for me.hope i'll study well.it shud not be ahope...i shud study well.shud work more harder.
anyone can one guide me as how i shud proceed in this last month preparation....
thanks
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| berkeleyboy
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As I sugesst, are you using FA? If you are not don't worry. If I could do it all over. I would take abbreviated notes of the kaplan books or whatever materials you are using and make an outline summary of the notes. For example, Maybe you could shorten biochem instead of the 450 pages in kaplan into 50 pages that you could easily read in half a day. This way you can reread all the material even more times thru. These notes should contain the most important parts of the text that you would most likely forget. I found recall difficult during the exam so this is what I would do. Another plan would be to write all the notes in FA. And keep reading that over and over again. I would focus on more questions after each revision. I don't suggest taking notes for path since most of path is important and your going to want to memorize whatever path source you are using. It was very hard to go thru all the material again for me in the last week. I went too fast and missed a lot of detail and coudn't memorize. ON the real test, I remembered I had read these things but I couldn't remember the exact detail. HY personal notes would have been key for me to read and re-read during my final days of prep. Plus taking notes helps you to put things into memory.
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hi berk
i'm using FA and i'm half way thru it but i dont think i'm ready with that.as people say it should be read cold,i'm planning to read it once again for a second time.
and thanks for suggesting the idea of making notes...its really good.
now what i'm planning on doing is hear to goljan once for a final time and then do the corressponding FA and his notes....daily and then revising thru kaplan once again and then do as many Q as possible.all the sources i have.you know rt now i'm doing Q-bank.how is this plan.do you think i shud add anything else?
thanks
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goodmorning everyone!!!
now the exam is just around the corner....and my tension is building up daily.and in one way this nervousness is helping me a lot.its helping ,e to push myself and study more.
i completed microbiology but i've to look up into few more pgs.then i'll start beh sci.
so my goal for today is :finish up micro and then read the same in FA.
do 150Q from Q bank.
then hear goljan's audio (fluid & hemodynamics).
lots to complete....
will get back now...
~kiran.
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| niti
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Hi kiran,
Its so good to see your progress everyday.Now,I feel this last mth. is most imp. time when we can consolidate our studies...
Keep Up my friend..
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| berkeleyboy
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I think the only sources should be kaplan, FA, goljan, and questions. This is good enough. I know I should have looked at more pictures and diagrams but I don't know where to find a source that has all these great pictures in them. On the exam A lot of theory was converted to find this on the picture or diagram which made it really hard for me to convert what I knew into finding it on pic/diagram.
If you can find a picture source I guess.
Good luck with your studies today
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