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Tolito
I do at least 50Q per day, benefits me a lot.
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| female doc ny
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i agree but sometimes it is very hard to get the questions in when u are reading a topic
so hows it going tolito your pace is inspiring i will try to follow your example how was the laundry like i said back breaking work
good luck
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| tolito
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thanks for stopping buy wey and female doc. yes that is my goal, at least 50q a day but i have fallen short of my goals . God help me!
female doc, i am half way thro my laundry. i did 6loads and i have that many to go but i have done the essential ones. oh i need some inspiration these days, or a reorganisation of my life . i did not read ANYTHING yesterday and now i am so back in my schedule. i need to complete teh revisions incl qbank. God help me!
so today, i am going to do what i was meant to get done on saturday. my revision, incl go over kaplan, and do 5o qestions.
today's moto
GOD HELP YOUR LITTLE GIRLS AND BOYS
Edited by tolito on 04/24/06 - 07:26 PM
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by the way, i will tell you why i did not get anything done. saturday, you all know what happend with all my friends and going to bed late. sunday, i woke up early and got a few hours in before another snooze. got up for church ( was late tho)
back from church and went to a BIRTHDAY PARTY!. back from party and went to snooze. woke up at 7pm and sat in front of the TV WITH THE HUBBY!! having a romantic night and forgeting about all my usmle cares . stayed up late watching a MOVIE. (the other sister.... will advise you to watch it but hey, caution, you are going to cry!!!:cool
so there you are. it is like just indulging myself in all the things i love to do which i had to give up for this exam. so my girl, YOU JUST FACE YOUR STUDIES OR OUT GOES YOUR 99!!!!!!!!!
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Tolito,
I see that your exam is in June. I think you are in a super tempo. All the best!
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thnaks coolguy. i do need such encouragement.
today has not turned out badly. was able to achieve only half my goals but i am grateful all the same. i had good concentration and i was focussed in my studies. yes micro is a tough cookie but i think one can master it such that it becomes a fallback for one. there is a lot to memorise but with repeated reading one gets a hang of it. it is particularly important to answer questions much inthe same way for pharm. so i only got thro half of the bacteria asterisked in kaplan but i went ahead and answered the review questions. and guess what? my score was a perfect 50%!!!! i am not discouraged. i will move on. tomorrow thou i need to start on path. i will make time to complete the lists i am making for micro. i have just 2 lists left, virulence factors and org and then specific tests per organism. i can see from the questions that they want us to know these tests cold. i will beat them to their game with the good Lord on my side.
tomorrow, i need to take time out to visit friends' diaries. been a while since i got in touch. not good. tres mal.
so i say bon chance to us all and bon nuit.
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| aisha2
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hi tolito , its nice that u took a day off , it does help ur concentration ,i did the same , i was feelin bad as well , as could not study sat n sunday but had a great time , monday was depressed that i didnt do any thing , but u know wat we should enjoy the good times and not feel bad about it ........ u have great stamina and u do bounce back pretty quickin from the fun mood to study mood ( i have a problem there ) .
i have to ask u some thing , how r u doin Qbank are doin accordin to whuch subject ur readin or just random Qs. and how do u think one should do Qs ?
ok then good luck
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| 4mymd
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Tolito,
you seem to be doing great, a friend of mine who got 97 from kaplan, always says, make your plan, if you achieve 80% of it, you are in the right path, so let's try to go for that 80% at least, Hope you can start patho with me soon send you positive energy in your way.
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| rouadefoc
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Hi again tolito,
I hope your studies are going fine.Just keep on going.
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thanks folks. i have deviated so far from my study schedule in times of hours of study cos i ahve had a bunch of added on stuff like the observership, softball games,meetings, friends coming for dinner etc etc. add also the 'lazy day' factor. so i will endeavour to reorganize stuff around my new 'life' in order to be productive.
aisha, i do qbank in 2 styles.. depending on my mood. if i am ready to receive a low score, i take all the subjects i have studied so far. ie pharm, beh, micro, anat, bioch, if i am not ready for a low score and i want at least a 60 then i go for only what i have read after i have read thro at least 50% of the subject. i do 50 q in timed mode and come back to review my correct answers to make sure that my reason for chosing the answer is the right reason. i go back and read again. and do some more questions. i ask for incorrect questions only. this time around, i read the answers to all questions. i do this so i dont get fooled that i know the answer. my brain is a sponge sometimes and it ahs a funny way to remember a questio and the answer. even if i don t understand both question and answer!!!! that is why i do not review answers to incorrect until i have read over that section again. at the moment i have not been consistent with doing them everyday. but from next week, i will stop being moody and start being goal oriented. so i will start 100q timed mode in order to get me in the exam mode. i will increase it to 200 and then 350. just like the exam. i do not care what my scores will be i will jsut do the questions. it will help in focussing my attention to waht i need to study for revision which i will stert last week in may.
thanks 4mydmd. i am starting path today. i sure need some postive energy so send some my way.
thanks rouadefoc. i am just going, whether they are progressing fine or not!!! but i am encouraged knowing that others have been there before and they passed well. they do not have 2 heads so we can also pass well. they were doctors just like us.
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done with today's studies. did cell injury. i love path so it was not boring at all. at long last i am reading something i enjoy.
tomorrow it is inflammation.
tomorrow, i will be at the dept meeting and sneak home. i would have gone to the library but i feel so sleepy there. then i show my skills at softball in the evening. no sliding tomorrow guys !!!
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| dipti
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hey tolito,your planning is amazing!!i can assure you right now that you gonna score 99,and we all gonna see that in your exam experience!!good luck!
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| wey2002
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When will you do NBME?
that can show your weak areas, so you can improve
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thanks for your vote of confidence dipti.
wey, i will do nbme in 3 weeks' time. then i will still have time to revise on my weak areas. i still have teh whole of path, and immuno and genetics so i dont think it is worth it to do it now. so i will wait a little bit.
oh my gosh! it is almost may and i have just about 6weeks to go........i will make it by His grace.
today, i study inflammation. i think that is wide enough so i donot want to be too ambitious. hopefully i can add fluid and electrolytes to it...
God help me i am so weak.
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THE BRIGHTEST OF ALL, SHOW ME THE WAY
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inflammtion u would think it would only take us an hour to read that topic but instead a day well keep it moving i have decided that i will not let my house be messy so instead befor i go to sleep at night i clean my house wash the dishes and put the clothes in the laundry basket b/c wheni come home from the library i feel anxious in a dirty home b/c in the end i know i will have to clean it so it really helps to come home to a clean house it eliminates a lot of stress and u can realx when u come home
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yeah female doc. i have not even gone thro half of the stuff. i went for my softball game.. had fun. we lost 13 - 14. much better than the wacking we got the last time 5 -20!!!
anyway i am sitting down now to study. hopefully will get suffitcient done.
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well i struggled thro and i almost made it but i am tired. nothing is going in anymore. i can only think about my bed. got stuck at hypersensitivity reactions. so i will read that up before i continue. these texts are prettry sketchy and certainly i do not have time for robbins.
i need a histology text or website. can anyone suggest a site for me??? i can recognise just a few tissues. eg, skin, liver, lung, finito!!!! i am ok with gross but histology.....
so i go to bed with a heavy heart cos i cannot recognise tissue of origin except the question tells me.. .
tomorrow, the struggle continues. i need to look pretty for the dept pic we are taking for our website. i wont tell you so you dont go looking for me....
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http://www.meddean.luc.edu/LUMEN/MedEd/Histo/fram...
Histology on the Internet
http://www.meddean.luc.edu/LUMEN/MedEd/Histo/fram...
http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/histo/
http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medicine/anatomy/...
http://www.med.uiuc.edu/histo/small/atlas/slides....
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hi tiloto , how r u doin , well i found some website that u needed but , i have never used any of these my self , u might have to spend some time and see which one u like .
hope this helps , good luck
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Hey Tolito,
I thought you were gonna do patho well anyway I hope you are studying very well. Hope to check some quests buddy. don't torture yourself trying to be an expert in histo, remember this exam is for 2nd year students, at kaplan, professors didn't advice to master that stuff but the part of neuro paths, lower and upper limbs, heck, they really come a lot, I have checked many quests from nbme. that needs more attention I think, just an advice pal . Hope you are doing great !
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Tolito how is it going? Histo is somewhat important not that much. At least from Qbank I beleive that there are hints in the text and pictures are mostly unclear..very few at the best can help you look at the tissue..you can see the difference if you visit webpath sildes..they are so clean.
Anyways...good luck with prep
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thanks guys for your great support. without you where will i be????
aisha, thanks. i will browse thro and see which ones are useful.
4mymd, yes i am doing path. i am done with cellular injury and i am almost done with inflammation. i just thought to deviate a bit to hypersensitivity reactions in immuno cos of the link to inflammation. thanks for reminding me that this is a test for 2nd year med students and not pathologists or biochemists or pharmacologists. that is very reassuring.
sacchida, i am a nervous human being when it comes to exams. my secret in recording good success at home was being 'over' prepared for every exam. that was my formula for 'stress management'. the more prepared i felt, the less anxious i got after a while. so if i feel like i need to be able to recognise tissues then i had better spend one day looking at slides, otherwise, i will get tense whenever i see a slide at the exam. i am doing webpath slides and i tell you i get so excited when i recognise some of the pathology!!! i must tell you that i had a credit in pathology in med school and my prof wanted me to be a pathologist but i deferred to surgery instead.
today's motto:
AM WEAK, SHINE ON IN ME
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wow, scored a beautiful 40% while average is 65%!!! i did just 20 q in qbank of principles of path. well it is all good in the neighbourhood so i press on.
i wanted to have a feel of the questions in path and i must say, they are not tough but a little tricky. it is either you know it or not. so i keep trucking on.
it is 2am and i am really fagged out. am off to bed but i give myself a little treat of ice cream. i think i deserve something to lift up my spirit.
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Tolito,
Keep on going, you seem to be doing good, thanks for the support in my darkness, appreciatte it buddy Now I am up and ready to accomplish our goals for today. wish you a good one!
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tolito you are doing simply so great..tell you I am so scared of the days as it approaches for me to solve Questions from Q bank..I dont how I am gonno manage my study..I always wonder how should I start, once I ahve done with my first reading..how will I face that very low score I may get..
tolito..you have already overcome this, and you are moving forward...thats great, keep moving buddy..All the best
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