KEROCHI
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Hi guys,
How are you all? I'm almost off the hook in Biochem whew... Physio.. is next & scary... Alot to study too... my God this step is killing me... so much to read & memorize.. 10 hrs is my goal today to make up for friday & Sat. It's more quiet on weekdays.. I can concentrate more. Have you guys seen niti's latest post on questions? it's great we can post q's so it would stick to our brains longer..I hope.
Have agreat day !!
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| KEROCHI
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hi to all our team members,
What's up guys? I hope everyone's reading hard these days...
Yest. was a good day for me. Almost done w/ Biochem videos .. Physio's getting interesting .... Most of the time what I have scheduled i'm late for 2-3 days becoz of distractions but I won't say it's a complete distraction bec. I should get involved w/ family matters too to keep my sanity. My life is not all studying hope yours is the same. My goal is to at least not to let a day pass w/o learning anything...
Hey is it Imbebo's exam already? Good luck man!!! Hope you do well!!
You can do it!!
Happy studying everyone!!!
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| zhouyong
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Hello everyone,
What a day! Keep reading my Kaplan note- pharmacology. Lots of drug need to be remember. Meantime I am going through FA again. Try as hard as I can memorize. Right now Kaplan note and FA are my main reading. Meantime I am doing Kaplan Vignet bank. I am feeling there are very easy and they all have many hints. But anyway I still learn new from them.
As long as I calm down, I am feeling more retained.
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| KEROCHI
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Good Morning Team Members!!
It's good everyone is working hard but Pls. don't forget to say Hi to
us!!
Go Go Go Yong!! That's great! You're all fired up! How's the Clin Vignette
QBank? Is that fr Kaplan too? Have you set your test date?
Sometime this week our friend pinkangel will get her result then off to residency.. Good luck Pink!!
Hi kiran, niti, simi, crock, krushna, suvi, & everyone paging ... motivation team!!!
Today I'll still be doingPhysio Kaplan video & my sked would be 5 hrs of it & in between notes. Wish me luck!!!Honestly Physio is a lot better for me than Biochem. I can't understand the lecturer on the latter or it's really a hard subj. 4 me..Tonight I will be finishing up w/ Goljan HY notes..
Have a productive day everyone :!:
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| bcell
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hello friends,
i am new to this forum, tried to join chat a few times but couldnt keep up with it. I am a repeater , frustrated cannot keep myself motivated , saw ur group & how u encourage one another, please help me . My extended eligibility period is ending this month, i know i wont be able to take the exam, as i took my NBME & didnt score well at all.
Please tell me when u guys are taking the test & what ur study schedule is , i need help & lot of motivation. please help me , waitingfor anyone to reply
thanx
bcell.
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| cynicalutopian
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hello m new to this  i m havin trouble dec what to use for anatomy HY or kaplan any suggestions?
Also they removed goljan lect frm the coolgoose site d anyone send them to me if they ve it ?
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hello team members
sorry for not posting anything for the past few days.well i had a probllem with my ccomputer.
did not do much in these days....still fighting with pharmac....and hopefully today will be the last day for pharmac.doing Q from BSS simultaneously.
hi kerochi...good luck with your physio.....
hi suvi
how is it going
hi yong
good going...keep it up!!1
hi bcell
welcome to the team...you are right...you get a lot of motivation and support from this team and forum.
happy studying everyone!!!
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| suvi
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Hi friends!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for not posting, I also had a problem with my computer.
Well, not do much.Again I had a viral attack & cough last week.So, I didn't study well.Now, everything is ok.I lost 17 days of my original plan.Anyway gone is gone.
So, I make a time table now & I'll stick with it from t'w onwards. So, my actual journey to step 1 will start f'm t'w the 18th , but very very seriously.I promised myself no more excuses / reasons f'm t'w ,even I get any illness.I'll do my best for the next 4 months.
Kiran: how is your studying? .Well I use kaplan for patho.Thanks for your advice to add Goljan lectures.Happy studying!!!!!!!!!
Kerochi: How is your physiology revision?
Simi: where r u? Happy studying.
Yong,moc : Have a productive day.
Welcome new members:cynicalutopian,bcell.
Ok, happy studying everyone..........
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| KEROCHI
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hey guys,
first of all let's welcome our 2 new members bcell & cynical utopian!!
Welcome to our group!!
W/ ur question bcell i believe our grp. is aiming for April May June tests. Are you going to R/S your exam since you said you did not do good in your NBME? Did you correlate it w/ lvspro's table?
Anyhow good luck in your studies. Do not let a past failure hinder your
motivation!!!
Hi suvi & kiran.. Hope your computer's running okay now... How's Pharma kiran?
To All Team members,
We are all in this same situation.. hurdling exams... & facing difficulty w/ starting (I had that before) but now I feel so super guilty if I can't study in a day or did not do anything for few hrs. In a way that's good bec. aside from our real life we have the most real life coming for us .. so don't procrastinate ( including you KEROCHI) study study & study!!!
My Physio is running along okay. Since i'm excited w/ this subject i gave myself 5 days for it so i'm super agitated to finish it til tomorrow..
Have a great day everyone!!
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| bcell
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thank u all .
Kerochi, I will be R/S the exam but not sure when to take it most probably end of march but it may go to April, depends how i study & if i stick to my schedule. please tell me abt the lvspro table, dont know abt it. the NBME gives the approx USMLE score , i correlated it with that.
hopefully trying to finish neuro , have 2 days left for it. (today & tomorrow) Have to do qs really scared of that.
good luck to all . Study study study , that is what we need ,
beat the monster !!
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| KEROCHI
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bcell,
lvspro's an examinee also.. go to exam experiences &you'll see the nbme score/pred. mle score he did. It's prob.ly the same as the one given to you after your nbme practice test.
Anyway.. we still have enough time to study.. stick w/ your schedule..
GL..
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| zhouyong
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What a sad day for me! I did NBME test. I did 400 question. I only got 350. Shame!!!!!!!!!!
I guess I put all pathology, physiology reviewed at last. I don't get enough retained. Anyway I am feeling pressure now. I need to rechange my plan and study more intense.
Some questions I have done during the test. They are new to me although I have been through most of Kaplan questions.
Oh guys, I need more motivation. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :?: :?:
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| cynicalutopian
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Thanks for the welcome.i aim to finish anatomy today.i m doing it frm kap supplemented by their DV lectures.however I m a bit confused do you think thats enough as some ppl recommend High yield?
All the best everyone keep posting
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| KEROCHI
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hi Yong,
Don't worry, just keep on studying... How did you correlate your nbme score? Good luck...
cynicalutopian.. sorry i don't use HY but I have seen many people who passed used that. For me I am just focusing on my reviewers mostly Kaplan & FA for now.. I tend to get more confused w/ lots of diff. books in front of me. MAYBE if I masterd my reviewers then I could use some for supplement..
Have a happy studying everyone!!
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hi
yong
you still have time to improve....so dont worry.as you said you may not reatin it for long ....my advice is do all the HY subjects once before the exam
and take another nbme exam before the exam so that you can get an assessment.
hi suvi
how are you feeling now?happy studying!!!!
hey kerochi
how is it going ?did you complete physiology?
coming to me
i completed pharmacology yesterday....did a block of Q from Q-book....got 32/50.....need to improve very much...
to day i started anatomy...infact i shud.did not do anything since i woke up.
ok got to go back to kill neuroanatomy...
study hard my friends!!!
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| usmle1
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Hi, Dr.zhou,
Could you please tell me where I can get Goljan's tape? thanks a lot.
sun
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| KEROCHI
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hi kiran,
good to hear from you again.. Wow you're done w/ pharma? Great!!
good luck w/ neuroanatomy...
this am i am still listening to physio... sooo much things to digest.. I hope i would have enough time to do my revisions...Im quite in a very hectic schedule.. i peeked at the forum to keep me awake..
Have a productive day everyone...
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| bcell
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hello friends ,
thanx Kerochi, lvspro table & NBME (i was talking abt ) look almost same.
Howz ur physio going? Everybody is talking abt graphs in physio, I am sure u know abt those . Anyways best of luck.
Kiran , i too am doing neuro, have to do CHap 6-9 today ,dont know if i will be able to memorize them? :roll:
Did just 30 qs last night not enuf.
How is everyone else doing? Yong hang in there , when are u taking the test?
best of luck everyone...study hard
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| zhouyong
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Hi team member,
Thanks for your message. I really appreciate your words. I was planning to take the exam in the beginning of April. I will still stick this plan and take another assessment in the middle of March. See what it would happen. I think the early warning is necessary for me. I think the problem is that even though I put some efforts on the high-yield, lately I have been doing lots of questions test which many of them are not high-yield. Finally I get confused between HY. I think I need to solid those HY first before I do more other reading. But step 1 test seems like it covers everything.
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| KEROCHI
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Good morning to all team members,
I'm glad everyone's working hard in their review!! That makes me motivated to study well too.
Yong & Kiran & all
got a question .. when did you start doing q bank & qbook.. After 1st reading? or what? I have not gotten serious thru it bec Im still finishing up with all my subjects... As of now I am loving Physio.. I'm not finished yet.. hopefully to complete this by Sunday night..
I do the Goljan notes in between but not solely doing that as of now.
I am doing good w/ my studies but need to push myself more to accomplish things faster & to retain more(how possibly could I do that?)
Well read..read.. read... to get into questions...questions...questions...
Good luck to all.. Have a productive day!!!
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| zhouyong
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HI Kerochi,
Glad to hear you are moving solid and making steady progress. I started my q bank after I finished my second reading. Right now I am trying to finish 50 question each day. I think sometimes q bank really help me retain what I have learned because when I am studying but didn't realize master this knowledge very well, the question remind me some here and some there. But sometimes I am feeling the questions distract me and discourage me. In reality you answer all the questions right. This is impossible. However the goal for us to take this test is to reach maxium correct rate. Try as hard as you can. My feeling is that this is motivation and suffer. Wow, this is the way it is I guess.
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hey kerochi
my advice is to start q-bank after your second reading.if you have q-book then start q-book after ur first reading and start q-bank after second reading.i started q-bank after second reading.i didnot do qbook also till now....started it now.doing q-book subject wise after every subject and doing Q from q-bank almost everyday.my aim will be to do 100 q from q-bank daily but will end up doing very little no:of questions...
today i booked my slot for may-july......shud work harder from now and my count down started.
happy studying!!!!
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hello friends
how is it going with everyone?
tension is building up slowly.i hardly read 3 pgs since i got up....woke up at 5 in the morning.i was not able to sleep in the night....was awake till 1:00.i just keep on thinking about the application that i sent ......how its going to work out....and all those stuff.and on the other side i keep thinking about the exam....how i'm going to face it......how i'm going to prepare for it?
how can i reduce this anxiety?
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| KEROCHI
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hi kiran,
That happens to me too.. If I read a lot or I accomplished a lot one day the next day my brain just want to do certain task but not as much as the previous day.. I think anxiety develops bec of the thinking that we have to finish a lot of this overwhelming notes & reviewers.. Just stick to your plan.. do a lot of reading-- do your questions as you've planned then you'll do it.. our success depends on the effort we put into it..
Good luck to everyone in our team..
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| zhouyong
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"KEROCHI" wrote:
hi kiran,
That happens to me too.. If I read a lot or I accomplished a lot one day the next day my brain just want to do certain task but not as much as the previous day.. I think anxiety develops bec of the thinking that we have to finish a lot of this overwhelming notes & reviewers.. Just stick to your plan.. do a lot of reading-- do your questions as you've planned then you'll do it.. our success depends on the effort we put into it..
Good luck to everyone in our team..
Hi friends,
I think anxiety is increasing common in our group. Because our test day is coming. This is the fact. But anxiety doesn't help us retain anything. Anxiety is one of our biggest enemy. We need to face this challlenge and overcome it. Let us do it together.
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