lisa25
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Hi everyone
Well I've been looking at this forum for a year now and unfortunately i am still here, i contemplated writing a journal through out studying and now have finally decided to do this. I've been studying since July 2005, yes and haven;t written the darn thing. I have worked pretty hard. Just a week ago i did the NBME to see where i stand, and i got a 160. I honestly can say i thought i'd do better, but at least i know what its like now and how the questions are nothing like q-bank. I'm starting over today and re-reading kaplan, I started with physio since there was so much on the nbme from it. At least i know where i stand which is good, but still feel like i got a long way to go, and how i have managed to study for this long, surprises me. When it comes to doing this I've always had a voice in my head saying that its not possible, but after the 160 i'm starting to think it can be possible cause thats not to far away from a 182. I guess i must have missed 20 questions. Anyhow I'm starting this today to help people in the same position as me. I promised myself that i would not write until i get a passing score on the NBME, it is my only saving grace to let me know i'm ready.
I wonder how much longer i can keep doing this, but hey i made it thru med school and some how i just keep trucking along. I've started to change how i think of myself lately, for a really long time i believed that i wasn't as smart as a lot of people who are doing this. I know i am smart now and i can do it. I will keep going and going till i get this over and done with even if it takes me another year, but i will. I visualize the day that i get my results and i pass, it brings tears to my eyes just thinking that one day i will be done this. Well thanks for listening and i'm now gonna go back to physio. And remember what doesn't kill u can only make u stronger.
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| tolito
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hey lisa, welcome to the forum. dont doubt yourself.you will surely do good. it is all about confidence. it is not the intelligent that pass but the diligent. so dont have any fears about not being smart enough. you made it thro med school so you have the basic intelligence to make it. you need to read more aggressively and in a more focussed manner. make a deadline and try and meet it. if you take too long, you may lose your spirit entirely.
we are all beset by lack of confidence at one point or the other. i started out being intimidated by the exam. i have had my fair share of post graduate exams and i was actually tired of exams but i moved to the states and things changed. i was certainly not just rusty but i was outmoded!!! more like 2 decades when i read all the basic stuff so it was a begin again experience for me. i have only persevered. and the bottom line is you know only as much as you have read. so one needs to read wide and also indepth. one should find out the hows, and whys and not so much the whats. i have shifted the exam for more times than i care to count but i am now ready. i will be sitting it in 2 weeks' time. i postponed it from 2 days' time cos i had not done NBME. i finally took that yesterday and i got 540. so if i can do it, you can do it too. i hope i can do even better at the real exam so i am continuing now with confidence that all things are possible.
i hope i have not been too lengthy.
good luck.
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| lisa25
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Hi Tolito
Thanks so much for responding to what i have written, the encouragement is all i need. I really think ur gonna be fine for ur exam. A 540 on nbme is amazing, keep studying and it will soon be all over for u. As for me I'm gonna keep at it, and understand what u mean when u say read more indepth, i really think that may be the problem, so i'm making notes from the kaplan physio section, just trying to get it all together. Well Tolito thanks again for the kind words and u will be in my prayers, and with a score like 540 it should keep u feeling confident for sure, ok take care.
lisa
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| lisa25
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Well today i'm making notes from physiology, i have to say that its making a lot more sense this time around, i hope to be finished soon so i can read another subject. Plan of action this time is to re-read kaplan making my notes on a separate sheet of paper, and then plan of attack is pretty much this:
QUESTIONS:
BSS
webpath
q-book again and q-bank
iv q-bank
golgian from rapid review 450 questions
physio q-bank
NOW if this doesn't change my score then i'm not sure what will!!!!! 
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| lisa25
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Ok so I'm kinda pumped, I go to the gym everyday now and let me tell u, how great i feel. No crying fits and i seem to stay alert everyday till 12am. Thats when i call it a night, so today its 12pm already, i have 12 hours of studying to put in. Todays challenge to finish some of the physio i have left in endocrine and GI and all of anatomy which i have 300 pages to go. Gonna see how it goes, I'm dying to get kaplan done with so i can just focus on doing questions. Well anyhow thanks for listening.
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| lisa25
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ok so today re-scheduled my exam for august 22 now, so i have to improve from a 160 to a 182 in 4 weeks. Is this possible?? And any suggestions on what i should do??? Gonna re-read some parts of kaplan and am doing q-bank, and more questions, we'll see what happens.
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| lisa25
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Well today so far I have finished my notes to kaplan anatomy, physio, bichem and now working on genetics, today gonna finish that and immuno and micro. Tommorow makes notes in path and pharm, Once thats done review the sh-- out of them and then do FA and loads of questions. I have my exam on the 22nd of august. Can i do it???? Well we shall see, todays the 24th and by the 26th I should be reading and reviewing those notes. And i've scheduled to do the NBME 2 on the 7th of August, That gives me 2 weeks before the exam, to see where i'm at again. All i want is a 400, i'll be happy with that. Anyhow, wish me luck.
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| jaide
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all the best lisa.....i like the heading of ur diary.....
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| lisa25
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Thanks Jaide, just doing what i can today, still doing immuno. I'm still writing notes, i feel its the only way things get re-enforced. Hopefully will be done to start on micro. When i did my NBME it showed that micro was borderline and thats cause i only used FA, so hope doing kaplan for it will help.
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| lisa25
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Well i started to screw the notes and just read cause the notes are taking way to long to write out and i have no time, so today i am reading path out of kaplan, yes kaplan, i like the way they are written easy to understand and then will do golgian, does this sound like a good plan???? Hope so and then after that gonna just do path questions.
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| lisa25
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Well its another day, and i've been reading path kaplan, not sure if its a waste of time, but its helpful and thats what matters i guess. Today i feel kinda down just cause i'm getting scared. Actually really tired today and think i'm gonna call it a night. Wake up at 6am and hit the gym, oh well.
I shouldn't read the posts where oasis has just been updated cause people fail and are all depressed about it, and its seems kinda discouraging. Well i just have to keep at it and say that i will pass, ok hope to finish path tommrow and read thru golgian tommorow
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| lisa25
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25 days to go, and gonna do NBME on august 7th, hopefully it'll be over a 420. Wish me luck.
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| lisa25
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Ok so done reading kaplan path and finished the q-bank path questions, all 678 of them and today, gonna call it a day, pretty much, tommorow, start new subject. Path is getting clearer, thank God, made my notes and have something to revise.
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| plastic_girl
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Good Luck lisa!!
Its evident you will do great on youre NBME!! Because it HASNT killed you and you ARE stronger!! 
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| lisa25
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Thanks Plastic girl
Today i've been doing rapid review, even though i didn't score the greatest on some of the questions, i see where i went wrong its pretty good, anyhow best of luck to u!!!!!
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| lisa25
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Well its all about PHARM CARDS TODAY!!!!!!!!! Gotta get thru all of them, haven't done it for a while. From today onward i have to make it a thing to do them everyday, cause when i did the NBME, i didn't really remember any pharm, so hopefully when i do NBME on the 14th i'll have a higher score, we'll see. Here i go, another day. 
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| lisa25
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Ok so got thru the pharm cards and doing FA, getting sick of it though, so gonna do questions for pharm tonight, thats the goal, do more pharm tommorow and start physio tommorow, alrighty here i go.
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| lisa25
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Ok so today i realized i won't be writing my exam next week, not ready at all, which means i have to extend it, so frustrated, and was crying all morning, anyhow, i have gotten out of that and have been studying away, i read Study_doc's message and that makes me feel so much better, ok so will continue to move on now and have another 3 months of this crap. Here i go!!!!!!!
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| lisa25
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Ok so had a couple of mini break downs cause i was just completely exhausted. Ok so new plan. I'm doing all the kaplan dvd lectures over. Re-read kaplan, and questions. Taking this week-end and gathering my thoughts need to so badly, i was exhausted. Anyhow the last 3 months, this is it now, otherwise i'll never do it. I've been doing this for over a year and not doing it anymore after november. Ok here i go again.
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| lisa25
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Well here i am again, now i have extended my block, i have exactly 3 months to go, almost finished listening to the kaplan dvds, gotta just do some more and then start seriously reading all that stuff, well here i go, wish me luck.
lisa
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| lisa25
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Ok well i'm back now and i have 2 months to go, just revising FA and starting questions really soon, best way to do this is revise the crap outta FA, i've put everything imp't from Kaplan in this, hopefully it works. Just wanted to say hi and that I"MMMMM BACKKKKKKKK......
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| smal
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good lisa25.
stay here until the tide passes. i 've a little less than 2 months25th nov..when is ur date? so make up a plan and stick to it.keeping a journal really helps to that.
all the best
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