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hi,
this thread provides immense strength to my morale.Thanks tolito.This thread will motivate people who will follow us.God bless u.
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| tolito
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thanks USMLEGladiator. i hope your studies are going on fine.
i am not happy about how i spent yesterday. i did not read a line. i woke up early at around 4am cos i had pain in my right shoulder and neck ( i had tweeked the shoulder earlier on). got up at 5am took some pain med, tried to study, was too sleepy. went back to bed at 7 and got up at 8:30 and dashed to the lab. was done around 5pm but was exhausted. made dinner and at 7 took a nap till 8:30. did a few q's and back to bed at 10pm!!!! sad, cos i have 23 days to the exam. i moved it to june 29th from 19th.
so today is the day of determination. i need to be done with the wbc and lymph nodes. so many things there to confuse one. so i need to order tham and associate them in order to remember them. i wont forget CD 15,30 POS cells are Reed-Sternberg cells so if they do not talk about the mirror image cells, i know it is hodgkins. i need to find such associations with the rest.
i continue the struggle. am encouraged by folks like sacchida and pearljam and particularly askdoc cos he is an old img as old as myself. God give me the perseverance to succeed.
TODAY' S MOTTO
HE WILL CROWN US WITH SUCCESS>
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| tolito
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today has turned out well. i read thro wbc a third time and i think i now understand the diseases and i can pick them out from both clinical ad lab. such a mix of the lymphomas!!! tried to answer q from robbins but was too tired so i did just 9 and missed 3. i stopped. now i can understand thoroughly why i need to ahve a day's rest before the exam so i do not get too fatigued to think.
i was delighted by something today. i cut a rosebud 3 days ago and today, it had opened to this beautiful fragrant flower. it is in a vase in my kitchen window. isnt it amazing what God does?
like it or not i will need to countdown. i am scared to take NBME now cos i worry imay score so low i will get discouraged. so i will wait and take it in 2 weeks. if i do not do well then i will postpone the exam. God has a purpose for my life and it will unfold in due course. i cannot force it (like the rosebud, cos i will only destroy it) so i will wait on Him and He will give me strentth for each new day.
COUNTDOWN BEGINS 22 DAYS TO GO
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| goodgod
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Hi tolito
I think there is some mistake. I hav rescheduled my exam . May b will give in july 1st or 2nd week. I am revising all the subjects again. not getting above 65% in tests. Will give NBME may b end of this month.
U will definitly score well in NBME. so come out of ur fear n give NBME, belive me u'll do well. Ur hard work will definitely payoff.
Good luck
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| wey2002
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Take NBME, it is almost the same with test.
Will do good!
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| seems
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hii tolito
u r such a great inspiration to all the beginners. u r almost done ,and u ll do gr8 INSHA ALLAH.
these r last few days ,and u have to be really confident ,and why not ,u have been studying soo hard, go ahead and take the test ,and dunt worry abt he scores ,even if GOD FORBID they r low ,u wud have time to go thru the stuff u r week in .
its always good to find out the disease that u r suffering frm ,otherwise how will one treat it .
so take the test ,its a good time to take it , bcz u ll have time to go thru ur week points, which im sure will be just very very few may b 2 or 3.
best of luck 4 everytrhing ,and will wait for ur NBME scores.
u can do it, just decide a day which is the most difficult part. u ll go smoothly once u decide to take the test.
good luck ,and may ALLAH be wz u in everything u do .
GOD BLESS U
take care
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| tolito
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thanks guys for your votes of confidence. good luck in july, usmlegladiator. i pray for excellent scores for you wey. seems, you are right. better to know my defect early than later so i will do the test next week. i will prepare my mind for a low score cos i have done just about 70% path. and on an average, i have done 80% of all the other subjects. i need especially to revise bioch and anat. so from today, i will revise what i have read in all subjects and read a bit more new things everyday. it is better for me to know what i know very well rather than being vague in everything. who knows maybe my 70% knowledge is good enough for the exam. i would have loved to be done with systmic path before doing the test.
am so unhappy at the moment. not unhappy like crying but just not happy. i tried doing the q in robbins on wbc and i got just 50%. i stopped after doing 10 q. it is either my mind is not in the test or i did not understand well what i read. so i will leave that in the 'cooler' and go back to it another day.
so friends, i am going to think up a new countdown schedule and i will post later. for the moment, i will revise physiology.
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i was determined not to let today go wasted. i spent the best part of the day at the operating theater observing a doctor and it was fun for me. i kept imagining i was the one performing the surgery. i kept looking at doctors and nurses and the staff genrally as they pased me and i kept saying that one day, iwould also be a member of staff in a nice hospital. is that not enough to want to make me study hard. anyway, i lost all of that feelingwhen i got home.
i must thank you guys for encouraging me to sit the NBME cos it gingered me up. i now have a schedule. hope it works. i will need to read at least 100pages of each course a day at an average of 25 pages per hour. does not look too bad.
june 9 4hrs physiol......4hrs path
june 10 4hrs physiol.....4 hrs path
june 11 4hrs bioch........4hrs path
june 12 4hrs bioch........4hrs path
june 13 4hrs pcl ...........4hrs path
june 14 4hrs pcl ...........4hrs path
june 15 4hrs micro........4hrs immuno
june 16 4hr micro .........4hrs immuno
june 17 all day anatomy
june 18 whole day FA and 4hrs behav
june 19 NBME I
after that i will plan next strategy.
so i did 50pages of physiol. took me 3hrs. too many graphs and equations. i am hoping tomorrow will be better.
COUNTDOWN DAY 20
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| jaide
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inshallah...tmrw will B better!!.
tolito.....u can do this... hard work doesnt go unrewarded... just be sure of urself...
u have so many ppl praying for u here....
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| 26malik
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you CAN do it And Inshallah you WILL.
thats a nice idea posting your schedule here. it will keep you on target. All The Best .
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| USMLEGladiator
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Good luck Tolito. 3 weeks ahead of step1, NBME is a good strategy.Take form 3 or 4 as people suggest.God bless.If u take NBME too close to step1 ,then u will have litle time to improve week areas.thanks
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| tolito
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thanks Jaide, malik, usmlegladiator.
i went to bed late (around 3am) last night and i was up by 7am today. read from 8 to 12 and took a nap. woke up at 2! i have the end of year party of my dept to attend so i am off. it has not been bad so far. i have been doing questions based on what i read yesterday in physiol. been good overall, average 85% in most and 50% on exercise!!! i suppose not much of htat was covered in the text. when i return, i will go over the answers and then pick up path. i am hoping to return by 7 and to read 5 hrs when i return. God help me.
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came back from party at around 8pm and put in just 2hrs. am up this morning at 4am so i hope to compensate for yesterday today. i am keeping my goal in focus and am revising hard and only doing 4hrs of new stuff each day. my colleagues agree with my 80% well done theory. let us hope we are all right!!!
by timetable i should be done with physio today. hmmmmmm
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| Slacker
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don't worry. u'll do well. ur a great inspiration. i need to plan myself too
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| cool_guyp4u
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Tolito,
Is your exam date set? I see that you are going great guns. Keep it up.
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| tolito
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thanks slacker. we just need to keep going. i just look at the success stories of others and believe i will join in with mine.
coolguy, i had to postpone from 19th june to 29th june. i will take nbme on 19th june and then decide what my fate will be.
spent more time on path than physio today so i did not reach my phsio goal for today. i will go to bed early and wake early. i rather liked being up at 4am today so i will see if i can do same tomorrow. if i do, i can put in 4hrs of physio before church and when i return (after a nap) 2more hours physio and then 4hrs path. will be alone in the house so no distractions. i pray God for strength to carry on.
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woke up at 5am. so i will do as i set out for myself.
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I like yours motto, keep on doing what you are doing, i's great. 
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thanks rouadefoc.
today has been good so far. i braced up myself for qbank and did random mode of all subjects with fresh questions. i scored 58% average score was 60%. i am delighted cos it means my revision is doing me good. so i will continue this style of studying. i am also missing fewer q that more than 50% of test takers know. YIPPEE!!!!
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hi tolito
keep the good work up.
INSHA ALLAH u will be fine.
good luck ,we r praying 4 u .
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| tolito
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thanks seems.
i have been promoted to forum guru. i hope to be a USMLE guru too!!
i am starting late today cos i went to bed late yesterday. wlll be continuing with the 'combo' to borrow a phrase from malik. i will need to modify the time schedule tho. i have done respiratory and cardiovascular physiol. will be starting renal. i hope to be done with physiol today.
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| aisha2
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hi toliot , its so great to see u progress , u have done so great and im sure u will do great in the exam as well ....... good luck
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thanks aisha. i wish you good luck too.
i am not making my schedule but i do not despair. i hope to conclude physiol today and do a bit of bioch related to hormones and receptors and glu, fat, protein metab of clinical importance. then spend a couple hours with renal path.
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oh micro, thou will not be my waterloo.
'finished' physiol today. have left out adrenal cortex and heart cos i will forget them quickly and they take so long to grasp. will look them up sunday. did 50q in qbank. poor score ..56%. not too discouraged though cos most of the questions were from genetics, micro, renal and cvs path which ihave not done. good thing i am getting questions from areas i have not read. that will gear me up to read them.
did 40q in kaplan (git) and i got 38 correct. was happy with myself. it was a better performance compared with my dec 2005 result when i last read the section. i was encouraged that i have not forgotten the physio that i read and i also improved on it. hope to say same for bioch which i will read tomorrow. am not looking forward to doing that. i am only going to read congenital and genetic disorders and inborn errors of metab. ONLY. no point trying to understand more than that. i will only end up spending a lot of time on stuff i will only forget soon as i drop the book.
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woke up late today at 8. feel renewed and envigoured like i can take on anything. that is a good feeling. i hope it lasts me thro cos today is for bioch and pharma. i took a peek at genetics and it did not look too difficult.
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