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Hello drkpp,arj,chemamr,
drkpp congratulaions!!!!!,welcome to india
we wud like to know abt ur cs experiences
chemamr,GL for ur residency progr,,
arj r u giving nbme-2??all the best
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| ARJ
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Hey drkpp
where are you
I would like to talk with you
Please mail me at bajarangbali@gmail.com
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| drkpp
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hello everyone.
been away for a while.
But i am back... . just passed the most important exam of my life-----hey i got married.
also came to know that cs is a thing of the past!!! kaplan 5 days course was very helpful. i guess with the course 15 days of prep is good enough..
Gonna start my prep with my worst fear- peds... 3 days to go thro the kap peds notes...
time starts now and it waits for no one......
goodluck to all of us...
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Hi
drkpp
Congratulations
You recommend the Kaplan 5 day course
I will plan to take as soon my college starts
Please keep in touch
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i will do that.
goodluck to you to. hey and how was your step2ck???
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hello everyone,
i know its been a long long time. its like a second comeback.. AND HOPEFULLY THE LAST ONE!!!!
have been totally involved for the past one month with things besides studies. ( HAVE BEEN TOTALLY CONSUMED BY MY MARRAIGE . ACTUALLY THIS SMILEY WOULD BE A BETTER EXPRESSION.
made a new time table and this is how it goes..
feb. 27- mar1 = kap. notes-OBG + kAPLAN qBANK ONLINE Q- obg
mAR2 - MAR3 = K.N.-SUR =KQBANK-SUR
MAR4 = K.N-DIGESTIVE + KAP. QBANK-DIGESTIVE
MAR5 = K.N.-RESPIRATORY + K.QBANK RESP.
MAR6 = K.N.-CARDIOLOGY + KQBANK-CARDIO.
THATS THE GRAND PLAN COMING UP FOR THE WEEK.
HOPE TO FINISH KAP. NOTES ONCE AND KAP. QBANK BY 15TH MARCH. ALREADY DONE WITH PSY. K.N.
SECOND REVISION PLUS USW BY 5TH APRIL.
EXAM ON THE 11TH APRIL TENTATIVELY!!!!! NO, NO, NO-I AM NOT GONNA HISTORY REPEAT IT SELF. THIS IS NO TENTASTIVE DATE, ITS THE FINAL DATE..
THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I AM FACING IS A SEVERE LACK OF MOTIVATION. BUT WITH ALL U WONDERFUL PPL OUT THERE I AM SURE I CAN OVERCOME IT...
SO HERE I START MY PREP AGAIN FOR STEP2CK FOR THE FINAL TIME .....
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| achilles
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hi DrKpp...congratulations on your marriage...wish you good luck and happiness in your married life and may the years that come be all that you cherished for and good luck with your preparation too.
could i join you guys in this journal.i am planning to give my exam sometime around mid may...i sometimes get too relaxed and am usually a slow reader too so that doesnt help either...was just wondering if i could keep up with you guys then i'll do myself a lot of good...
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| achilles
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by the way are you guys from gujarat??
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would be more then happy to have you with us in this never ending saga of sorts as far as i ma concerned.
welcome achilles and u r damn right we r from gujarat. how abou u? where r u from and how is your prep happening.
started with surgery today and plan to do kap. qbank surgery section tommorrow although still have 25 pages to go in the surgery notes( excluding the vignettes which i plan to keep for latter).
obg notes- left with a few pages of kap. notes and will have to fit it in my tight schedule.
Edited by drkpp on 03/02/06 - 10:19 AM
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firstly thanks Drkpp and i hope i can keep up with all you guys here and if i can do that it sure is going to do me a lot of good.
i started my revision 4 days back with abstetrics.this is my second reading of the kaplan notes and also i am listening to the lectures as it helps me to go thru everything in a nice way.i finished obstetrics yesterday and today i started with surgery which i plan to finish in about 5 days( i am a slow reader )...i'll try and do the UW questions too along with this revision. i hope i can cover all the subjects in this one month.atleast thats the target.and keep doing atleast 50 questions from the UW.
and yes , i am from gujarat too.i am from baroda and now in canada for the last 10 months.good luck to all and to me too so that i can keep up with you all geniuses
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Congratulation drkpp....You got married!!!!!!!!!! thats a great news....
I didt gave step2 in india but will be giving in the summer holidays....I am totally engulfed with my studies at the school of public health....with lots of reading and the midterm is also approaching next week......
achilles i liked that name...greatest warrior of Greeks at Troy and killer of Hector
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first- ARJ, good to know that you are enjoying your public health curriculum.
Achilles- the way you plan to do things and if you stick to them, you will definately get a jordar score!!!!
But folks the key is to stick to the plan. Today was a total waste as my car broke down and took me and my mechanic a good 6 hrs to figure out what was wrong.
Anyways, tomorrow is a new day and a new beginning.
time to go to bed as am totally exhausted after pushing the 1500kg machine for a couple of k.m.s..... damn this machines
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hi guys, the weekend just passes by so quickly...it was'nt the most productive when it came to finishing targets...you were right Drkpp....we need to stick to plans that we make...and this time i sure did'nt...3 days gone and i have managed to finish just 1/2 of surgery...man i am really slow...and thanks for the encouragement Drkpp that i will get a zordar score...but i guess i need to work harder and stick to the plan and meet the deadlines to get anywhere near to that...
how's it going for you guys ?
hey ARJ, good luck for your mid terms...you are doing a tough thing buddy...studying two things together...thats admirable.
gotta make this week really worthwhile.i got to finish surgery in a couple of days and then go on to neurology and make sure the next weekend is more productive(will finish gynaecology during the weekend)
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Achilles, ditto your case.
wasted another day cause had to make an unavoidable trip. useless me.....
still stuck with surgery myself and hope to finish it today.....
goodluck achilles and i know we can do this...
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getting to the end of surgery now...this reading was good...there is so much i missed in the first reading is how i felt after this one...the 2nd time is always better and there is always something more to discover...atleast thats how it is with me...
how's it going for you guys...Drkpp, looks like you are in for a dream score. i have the harrison book too but i dont intend to do it...i feel i'd rather go thru my material and usmleworld once again...what do you suggest ?
and how's married life Drkpp...i bet ya having a hard time concentrating
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and yes Drkpp...we are going to do it ...we are going to pass this test...for me the usmle is something which i always held in awe...i must get thru with this exam...good luck to you too.
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Hello,everybody!
good to see that you are doing good and life is going.
wishing you the best of luck on your preparation.
see u around.
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achilles- married life man- umm.. dont even talk about it. its a total disaster with the exam lurking over my head. I told my wife that this is just a teaser before the actual movie( meant residency)!!!!!! step1 wasnt as difficult as step2+marraige .
anyways,got to do what has to be done. have started the harissons q bank. i like doing questions after reading a topic and this worked well for me in step1 where i would compare robbins question bank with it. difficult but informative...
Alenka- good to have you back. Whats been happening with you? did you take step2ck yet?
I am getting a little impatient since surgery was taking for ever. So hae decided to start with medicine simultaneously. Finished gastro. kap notes and harri qbank. hope to finish digestive kaplan qbank by tomorrow......
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Back guys for the nth time!!!!!!
doing kaplan qbank. have till 7th of april to finish it and have another 1300 q's to do. Can i do it?????? I would say no if it was the me till yesterday. And a yes if it were me today.....
I guess shorter goals make you realise your dreams..
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hi drkpp, you can surely do it, will be difficult but doable. you will need to stretch your limits somewhat. i guess all of us got a bit busy with our reading and its been a while since i posted something on our post.
my readings have been haphazard but productive. i am taking in concepts and i guess that should help me in the exam. i finished with GIT yesterday and today have started endo. hope to finish it in about 2 days alongwith the 89 questions from UW. and then i will go for infectious diseases.
betcha your wife will be ready to strangle you by the end of this exam for not giving her enough time. mine would, she almost did once when she found out that i went out with my cousin(all this while we havent been going out because of my exam and that really got her worked up and i think rightfully so(and no she is not sitting with me right now).
good luck mate !! and lets step it up.
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i havent done peads even once till now(i dont know why but i hate that subject)...what do you guys suggest...is there a quick way and an effective way to do it...kaplan seems too long. i was wondering if blueprints alone will be ok or how about FA+blueprints.
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have been preparing on and off for almost 11 months now and beleive me still have a phobia for paeds.!!!!! totally useless.....
you are right, gonna get my *** kicked once am done with the test cause have already postponed the test a few timesand still am planning to take it back by another 10 days or so. right now the tentative date is 3rd may.
how about you???? when are you taking your test?????
Yesterday did 50 q's of cardiology from kap. qbank. way to go.......
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thanks for the prompt reply drkpp. so what do you suggest, should blue prints be good enough...or i'll just treat UW as a learning tool totally and do peads from there.
managed to finish just 1/2 of endo(man i am really slow) and plan to finish endo by evening and then go to the questions.
i am planning to take my exam sometime around the end of may...this is my second revision going on but i still dont feel very confident so i guess by then i should be able to do another revision of kaplan and also usmleworld.
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i wld say stick with usw and anyways there is a lot of overlap b/w medicine and peds. But if you have time and patience then go for blueprints.... n suppose to be good for peds and pbg according to ppls review...
finished with 22% of qbank.... planning on doing 50q,s only for today...
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