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its 11:45 at my end now. so my dinner break got a bit extended.
i'll set to work now.
startewd on page 63 at 11:45 pm my end.
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| shrunt
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whew... its 12:45 in the night now. am feeling too sleepy. still on page 85. falling short of the target for today by 15 pages.
i hope i'll be able to reach my target tomorrow.
for now going to sleep so i can wake up fresh and ready for another day.
goodluck to everyone preparing for step 1.
keep the faith and we shall do it guys!
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
i guess this site was down today as i couldn't open it.
i woke up todat at around 8:30 am so started late at 9 am.
todays target: Immunology 155 pages.
estimated time: 16 hours.
started at 9 am. expect to finish it 3 am (including break of 2 hours)
progress so far: completed 1st 6 chapters. now starting chapter 7: lymphoid system.
pages remaining: 100
good luck to everyone!
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
since yesterday my net coonection was broken so could not report my progress.
anyways completed my yesterdays target of immunology from kaplan lecture notes.
today had some work to take care of, so am starting late today. i shall start today around 1 pm which is almost an hour from now.
todays target would be pharma from page 85 to page 150 from lecture notes.
estimated time: 10 hours.
should finish by : 1 am (including 2 hour breaks)
so would be starting at 1 pm today and would keep recording my progress here for the rest of the day.
good wishes to all of u!
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
i am very late today in starting. its 2 pm now. target page 85 to page 150 pharma.
am starting now...
hope i can make up todays really late start.
see u...
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| shrunt
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its almost 2 and a half hours since i started on todays target. so far my speed is really slow...
in 2 and a half hours just have managed 14 pages. now on page 99.
so 51 pages more to and hours left 8 and a half including breaks.
doesnt seem too good but lets see, maybe i am able to pick up speed now...
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| shrunt
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its almost 8:30 pm at my end now. thats 4 hours since my last report.
progress has been really slow.
currently on page 120. still 30 more pages to go to meet todays target of 150 pages. time left 4 and a half hours including breaks.
considering how slowly i've been able to take in pharma today that still seems rather a tough target to acheive today unless i increase my speed or increase my remaining hours from 4 and a half to maybe 7 which would mean going to sleep 3:30am... that doesnt sound too good to me...
guess i should try to increase my speed by about 30% to be able to keep things manageable.
now am taking a break for dinner.
would be back soon. hopefully with a fresher mind...
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| shrunt
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am back after dinner break. will start at page 120. target for tonight page 150.
i'll take it hour by hour coz during night its not just studies one has to struggle with but when sleep starts overpowering, it becomes double hard...
lets see how it goes tonight...
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| robin082006
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when is your exam shrunt?
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The Key to Succeed is Patience.
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| shrunt
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hi,
whew its a relief... complete my today's target... just when i thought i won't be able to do it, it happened.
i'm glad that i reached my todays target coz now i can relax and have a good nights sleep.
hope to start tomorrow by 9 am latest.
to robin: i havent taken any date as yet. i want to feel confident before progressing to that stage.
good luck to u all.
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
connection was down again this morning so couldnt report progress so far.
started a little late today too.
ie 10:15 am.
todays target: pharma: page 150- page 200
micro: page 150 - page 200
time required: 15 hours
should be done by 3 am (including 2 hour for breaks)
will keep my progress posted...
goodluck to each one of u...
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you are amazing shrunt - keep it up! it must be very satisfying to be able to stick to your schedule.
are you watching the videos as well or just reading the kaplan LN? how do u divide your time, i.e, how many pages per hour to you manage to read?
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| seems
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hi shrunt
good going ,keep it up,
GL , happy studying
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hi guys,
again couldnt get net connection so couldn't update my progress.
well today its again been painfully slow so far. today my brain is just wanting to revolt against me... so far not been able to do much really...
since last almost 5 hours just managed a total of 15 pages so far in pharma... so am page 165. still 35 more pages to go in pharma alone today not to mention that i havent even touched micro as yet today.
this doesnt feel good to me at all.... but still got almost 12 hours left including breaks, so i am still hoping i pick up some speed.
i always knew i'd be terribly slow in pharma coz i find it really tough to assimilate but today its far worse than even what i had thought i'd be doing.
lets see how i can go the rest of the day...
to zenith: well i see dvds of subjects where i feel i am being helped. i dont watch them indiscriminately. like in biochem i saw all the dvds coz i felt lionel raymon was incredible. havent been doing it with pharma or micro though. i guess all that really matters is that we understand what we study. everything else is secondary coz without understanding the concepts its as good as not studying at all coz usmle tests our understanding of fundamental "preclinical" concepts and their "clinical" relevance/applicationin 60-70% of its questions.
about 20% questions are very simple single-step recall of tid-bits as we find in First Aid.
the remaining 10-20% questions involve a mixture of recall of "obscure facts" and/or some complicated/unfamiliar concept/ and/or some multi step hard-to-get reasoning. these are the sort of questions that would make even people like askdoc doubt themselves, what to talk of lesser mortals like myself. fortunately they say many of these questions are just "experimental" ones and dont count in our final score. but how would we tell that during the exam? it's anybody's guess....
so zenith my primary emphasis is to read first and then see how well i understand the concepts. if i dont understand only then i resort to watching the dvds.
and as to how many pages i manage to read per hour, that is extremely variable and depends on a lot of things like how fresh my brain is that point of time, how much comfortable i am with that subject, what time of the day it is, how motivated i am feeling at that point....i feel i am faster in subjects i liked during my med school than the ones i ignored but its not always true each and every time i study... so i guess its more of a day to day thing and mood and motivation play a huge role in it.
hope i was able to answer ur question.
now getting back to studies...
goodluck to all..
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
today didnt even reach anywhere near my target.
target was 50 pages of pharma and 50 pages of micro.
actual performance: 30 pages in pharma. 0 pages in micro. that's all.
guess it was just one of those days...
hope i can do better tomorrow...
am feeling very sleepy now so am going to go to sleep.
goodluck to u guys.
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| shrunt
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hi everyone,
yesterday couldnt even get near my target, so it did not feel all that good.
so i'll try my best to meet my target today, both in micro as well as pharma.
todays target:
pharma from page 180-230 (50 pages)
micro: 50 pages
so not wasting much time i'll get to studies straighaway.
see u soon. goodluck till then.
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| shados
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hi shrunt even i m starting biochem from 15 lets meet at 7 am in moring here bye
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
so fr progress is much better than yesterday. will post my final progress report for today before i go to sleep.
am keeping my fingers croosed for right now...
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| shrunt
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hi guys,
its close to midnight at my end. so far its been much better day than yesterday.
so far the progress is that i've completed my pharma target for today and now am onto micro. would hope i can complete todays micro target within next 3 hours.
lets see how it goes...
will keep posting how it goes on as i start feeling sleepy...
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| shrunt
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whew.... its almost 3 am at my end and i'm dropping off my seat with sleep. not much is going into my head now so i guess i should sleep.
progress report:
pharma: target: 50 pages. actual: 50 pages
micro: target 50 pages. actual: 30 pages.
all in all it was a lot more productive day then yesterday.
i hope this continues tomorrow as i would try to cover as much as possible tomorrow coz the next day being sunday would be a holiday for me.
see u guys tomorrow. now am off to sleep.
good luck to u all.
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