pray4md
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berk,
i honestly dont know if I can ever FULLY be completely ready for this exam. but i definately have some areas that need work that i need to take care of before test day. and a lot of stuff i forget, its crazy. its garbage man style, like i say. im gonna set up a new routine outside of my house and then use form two NBME as my guide as to where i stand in like 2 weeks.
as for what im shooting for, i always shoot to survive man. and depending on how freaked out i get, i perform better the more scared i am. the problem with this test is that i have now scared myself into studying everyday for like almost 3 months straight. so my body is just like, "damn, when is this going to stop?" i need that adrenaline to keep me going, otherwise im the laziest bastard alive.
so in all honesty, if u boil it down, ill be happy to be moving on, and the higher the better of course.....
ok, well im out. hit it hard, and ill keep you guys posted....
p4md
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| berkeleyboy
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I'll hit you up periodically, check up on you. Hope your little break makes ur cramming successful. We'll def. be partying in 3 weeks bro!
berk.
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| berkeleyboy
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I'm sitting here, doing Qbank questions while drinking a beer. And you know what? my score went up! haha
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| pray4md
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berk....hahaha, thats what im talking about dog!!! yo, i swear no matter how much i drank last nite i still had like anxiety/nervousness in my subconscious...hahah. but today, im gonna go to csun for reals. im not staying home anymore. IM GOING DOWN!!! hahaha. im gonna give it a different flavor and see what happens.
berk, u know whats gonna suck more than all of this? after we take our tests, were gonna have to sit there waiting for the friggin results.... i think thats worse than all of this stuff, personally.
well, best wishes to all. we're all gonna do well, knock on wood. ill pray for everyone.
peace out
p4md
ps-ill have my cell with me in case u want to chat, peace....
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| pray4md
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whatsup guys. i got about 2 weeks left studying. im gonna go pure first aid high yield stuff, goljan audio and qbank. lets see where it takes me. followed by NBME form 2 sometime! oh yeah, then there is that 150 q's the USMLE sent us, im gonna do that too. i hope im doing the right thing for this last 2 weeks. ive already gone over kaplan notes a lot.
path and anat ive reviewed like 3 times.
behavioral i did once, but im confident. ill do it again via first aid
micro ive done twice
immuno i havent done!!! haha. but im not that worried, ill set aside a day for that. i havent had a problem with it as far as q's.
pharm, ive reviewed 2x and i feel first aid is all u need for that, hopefully!
biochem ive reviewed like 2.5 times and spent a good deal killing myself over.....
physio ive done 1x!! haha. but it was my best class in med school, i did well in it. i will review it again via first aid and go over weaknesses in kaplan if i feel i need it.
overall, i hope i do ok. and i hope im making the right choices.... lets see what happens...
p4md
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| berkeleyboy
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Sounds like a plan bro. good luck bro, we'll get thru this, and don't worry, I have faith in you. I know you'll be doing the right thing these last two weeks. The important thing is to keep hitting it hard no matter what. Next time I see you we'll be drinking together!
All the best,
BErkkkkk
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| berkeleyboy
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Its ridiculous right now. I thought my plan was intense. You're going to go thru the Qbank in 4 days? oh sh** man. I mean that will do it for you, cram all that stuff in. 500Q a day huh and reading the explanations with goljan audio? wow....
If you can do that bro, you deserve a complementary 99 on step 2 as well. Hit it hard bro, and don't jack around like I did today talking on the phone for an hour. Take breaks only for sanity and keep going....we'll get thru this. Wombat just finished her test. In a nutshell, she sounded pretty confident about it. Sounds promising
anyways
I'll write more laterz,
-J
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| pray4md
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dude, some of qbank pathophys and path towards the end gets wacky dude. i just did some q's right now. im gonna go to bed soon. maybe im tired but damn. and the fuckin physio calculations, god they are wack.
well, going through goljan would be a plus. we'll see what happens.... hmmm
from what i hear, it may be better to do goljan than qbank? i dunno.
im seriously afraid of failing dude hahaha. no joke.
im off to bed
pray
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| berkeleyboy
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From the sounds of it, I'm going to have to incorporate goljan in as well. To start off the day, I've woken up at 7:30am even tho I slept at 2am. nice.....
I'm going to listen to some goljan now, if I don't do it early, I won't ever get to it. If I find that its wasting time, I'll stop.
hit you up later
berk
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hi. sounds like u are ready. relatively new to this forum and stumbled accross this. freaking out cos the pressure is on. quick question did u have to use the web prep with kaplan books or do u get all u need just using the notes.? help please with response. feel the way u feel sometimes. panic??? thanks.mich oops
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hi. sounds like u are ready. relatively new to this forum and stumbled accross this. freaking out cos the pressure is on. quick question did u have to use the web prep with kaplan books or do u get all u need just using the notes.? help please with response. feel the way u feel sometimes. panic??? thanks.mich oops
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| berkeleyboy
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wassup bro? how are things on your end? hanging in there? I had a freak out yesterday and almost postponed my test another week. This test is ridiculous man...can't believe that I'm tripping this hard.
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| pray4md
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whatsup guys? right now im doing pharm. trying to clean it up and then do all the pharm questions on qbank. i friggin thought i was decent in pharm, but dang i forget so much in a matter of like 2.5 weeks. its a bitch and a half. it comes back, but its scary as hell. i know by the end of the nite i should be decent for pharm, but where ill be in 11 days on test day, i have no idea....... i will definately have to review first aid again those days right before. i think im gonna have to go through like the whole book in two days before the exam, seriously.... so many things need to be fresh in my head.....
im gonna hit it hard and pray my ass off guys. this is ridiculous, though!!! damn my memory! i hope i can survive
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| berkeleyboy
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the night before the exam. I feel like its the only way it'll stay in my head.
the nmbe was full of pharm.
j
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| pray4md
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does anyone have any vaseline? my asshole is sore now. i need some lube atleast.
guys, also, dont forget to bring your KY, vaseline, ultralube or any other form of lube for the exam......its gonna be a big, long and thick one!!!
IM GOING DOWN!!!
payce.....
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| pray4md
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dude, im beginning to realize that basically 90% of the questions in qbank come straight out of first aid. atleast 90%. i just finished up pharm and pure first aid. good lord!! i think im fried tomorrow is either biochem or phys. we'll see how i feel in the morning...
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| berkeleyboy
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you have read the kaplan notes like 3X prior so you could fill in the gaps that FA is missing. Honestly dood, in my opinion, that book is garbage as a learning tool. It should soley be used as a review of your review to get the most out of it.
I'm hitting up physio, going to finish it today no matter what. I took notes from the kaplan lectures so I'm just reading those.
good luck studying bro,
peace,
berk
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| pray4md
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ive finished all the pharm and biochem questions in qbank. and i can tell 100% as a fact, there is nothing in there that is not in first aid. there may be some random points here and there that kaplan covers. for pharm, they even use the same pneumonics in their explanations in qbank, its hilarious. back to work...
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| wombat
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Just want to say hi. Happy studying. 
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| pray4md
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guys, im freaking out about pharm, shit im freaking out about everything. im using first aid as my primary source for pharm at this point in the game and qbank online. is that enough? i looked at qbook for a moment and im just like freaked out by it. i have never liked that book, and i dunno why!!! i cant stand it! haha, im going down!!!
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| Moctopod
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Hey Pray
Dude, no you're not (going down)! You're QBank scores seem to be going up, and you've been hard at it for months now. It's pleasantly surprising how much you can recall in the right environment.
Go for it, Pray!
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| pray4md
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well guys, last nite i had some bad anxiety. i couldnt eat dinner and i really couldnt concentrate. i was going through first aid and looking at reactions and thinking, "i hope this is helping me." well, i tried going to bed and i couldnt fall asleep, so i decided i was gonna take the NBME 2 tomorrow morning, meaning today. i ended up sleeping at 2:30am.
i woke up and i was tired, but hit some stimulants and ran with it. i paid the ridiculous 45 dollars and i began the test. the test, as usual, wasnt as straight forward as form 1. curve balls galore. i dont want to give it away for those who havent taken it, but lets just say that it literally tested the topics i completely neglected.... haha. one topic i havent even done in my review: immuno. the first 2 sections were smooth, the last 2 sections i felt i got destroyed.
so i finished the exam with time remaining, probably 10 or so minutes in that last section. i wanted to make sure that i remembered that feeling, and it was a horrible feeling...so i could correlate it to my exam actual performance.... so i turned out to be a 510, a friggin 70 point improvementn from my 440 on feb 28. so i was pretty happy about the improvement.
so, at this point, im just gonna review and do questions galore like i planned and take this test next thursday, 8 days from today......
at this point, i have a 66% cum on qbank. although i did better in the latter half, i had some serious fluctuations from anywhere from 50% to 90%. i have covered some topics a lot, while others i felt like i neglected.....immuno, embryo, histo..... i might spend a day on those or something........
i just looked at the correlations and they look improved but all over the place compared to the last one...... well, im gonna go eat, take a nap, and then proceed for the next week.
pray for me guys. do u guys think im in good shape to pass at this point?
its really weird, because i feel like i havent really accomplised shit in this last month, even though ive studied everyday except for a couple of days.
pray for me, and ill keep you guys posted...... good luck to all you guys and ill do some praying in my behalf to all those positive people....
-p4md
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| pray4md
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by the way, thanks to all for the support on here!!
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hi p4md
you really inspired me.i just started doing Q-bank a couple of days back and i'm scoring very low....around 60%.with hard work you improved from 440 to 510....you still have 8 days left and you can do much better.
i wud say dont panic...try to stay calm.i know its difficult.eat well,sleep well....study well.
i'll be praying for you.
good luck!!!
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| pray4md
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on a serious note guys, i need some advice. when i took the nbme this morning, i drank some serious coffee before the exam and a redbull. it was great, but the problem was that i had to pee like a racehorse. i tried to wait until the end of the block, but like 2-3 times i got up in the middle of the block as the time was going to pee. u guys might think thats good in terms of time, but there is no way i can do that in the middle of the test. that is definately something i need to work out... maybe drink my coffee earlier and pee as much as i can before the exam? this is gonna be the challenge of challenges right here...
what do u guys think? and we cant bring water in there can we?
pray
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