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hey doc68
U r more than welcome here.... this prep journal is really very helpful.
We will definitely keep each other motivated. Just keep working hard.
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| kity
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hi just do it.
My methodology is very simple. These days I am doing UW qs full time.
I do time mode tests...while reading explanations I am making notes of important points...it takes atleast 3hrs.
I dont refer back to textbooks or kap notes... may b this is the reason I am taking lesser time.... Earlier I also used to take lots of time in explanations... but this time I am just focussng on the concepts in the explanations.
Hope it helps.
keep studying.....
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took 4 hrs to read explanations of 2 blocks.... still 2 blocks remaining.
will not do today's blocks till I am done with yesterdays explanations..
Now going back to my usmle world......
keep studying all.
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done with dermat from FA. .. still 70 explanations left.
back to UW now....
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| sima
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thanks kity,am starting cardi today,till now did pulmo,neuro,1 bl each and 2 bl from obgyn,.i read kaplan text 3 hrs, next 4hrs i do a bl with expln every day topic wise.keep goig kity u r doing great,i wat to do FA also at this point.happy studying.
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Good morning !!
starting IM with Um today will do 2 blocks and read FA and explainations .
aim is to do atleast 100 Q and learn them .
Good luck to you both
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Not advertising Kaplan but think Mr Steven R. Daugherty has made a point here .Motivating. Got this from Kaplan Edge - the newsletter I subscribed. Read on and absorb.
Think and Know versus Grab and Go
Steven R. Daugherty, Ph.D.
Director, Education and Testing
Kaplan Medical
Who is in charge when you take you exam? Do you control you exam, or does the exam control you?
The USMLE* requires you to be able to think on your feet. The exam is not testing your knowledge, as such. Rather, each question is designed to assess your ability to sort out what is important, integrate the relevant concepts and solve the problem presented. You do not master this type of question by memorizing a lot of facts and spitting them out. USMLE questions require you to decide early what is relevant, ignore what is not, and pick the option that offers the most optimal solution. Grabbing for the first answer you see will not get you the score you want. You need to learn to think with what you know and come up with the very best choice.
Mastering this thought process for the USMLE is difficult for two reasons. First, much of medical school education is oriented towards strict memorization. Testing in medical school, whether by oral or written exams, often focuses on the subtle details and minute distinctions which demonstrate an in-depth exposure to the material of interest. When you show that you know these details on an exam, the faculty member feels confident that you have spent adequate time and attention on the content of most concern to them. But, being good at memorization and being good at thinking are two separate things. Even if you can think clearly and efficiently, medical school often rewards you for memory, not thought. And after spending time getting good at the processes of memorization, you may have lost the impulse for and habits of thinking well.
Second, the time pressure of the exam forces even those students who have retained the skill of thinking to abandon this higher intelligence and hope for salvation by reaching for the first option that looks familiar. Time pressure degrades our willingness to spend the moment thinking requires and induces us to value speed over effectiveness. We short-circuit our thinking processes by using what cognitive psychologists call "heuristics." Heuristics are ways of generating an approximate answer without fully considering all of the information presented. The two most common heuristics are Availability, where what comes to mind first is given most credibility, and Representativeness, where things with similar features are deemed as being the same in all respects. Both of these heuristics serve you well in medical school. What is most available mentally is likely to be what you just studied as you crammed for an exam. What you have just learned is what will most likely be on the test ( Availability). When you crammed for your exam, you were required to know a finite set of information. All you had to do on the exam was know a relevant detail that let you discriminate within this finite set of material (Representativeness).
But, the Availability and Representativeness heuristics, so valuable in medical school, interfere with the core thought processes essential to do well on the USMLE. The breadth and depth of the content covered by the exam you will face on the USMLE convert these mental heuristics from valuable short-cuts to disastrous dead-ends.
Most medical school exam are about "grab and go." You see an answer that looks familiar and reminds you somewhat of the issue presented in the question, so you grab for it and go on to the next question. A good USMLE score, by contrast, depends on "think and know." You must think about what is presented, compare this with your knowledge base, and reason though to the best possible answer. Sometimes the answer is something you have already seen and already thought about. These are the easy questions. However, increasingly, students say that USMLE questions present material in unique ways, from a perspective they never really considered before. These questions are harder, but are becoming the backbone of the exam. You must answer these integrative questions by applying your knowledge in new ways to situations that are distinct.
The key issue is this: The knowledge needed for the USMLE is the same as that you learned in medical school. What sets the USMLE apart is its insistence that you learn to combine the different threads of the knowledge you have learned and weave them into a new pattern. Doing well depends not on grabbing all the right treads, but learning the art of weaving. On the USMLE, you will be asked to use your knowledge in ways that you may never have before. Not grab and go, but think and know.
The exam is not a quiz show where you get points for spouting esoteric facts. The USMLE is a screening test to see if you have mastered the perspectives and thought processes essential for medical practice. A physician, a good physician, makes a living by thinking and reasoning. Take the time to relearn and practice this art of reasoning and you will reap the reward of a higher score.
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| kity
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hey sima, doc68
U both r doing great.. keep stuydying!
Thanks ksh for the newsletter.. I read whole of it, it's so true.
Ok, now my studies.
yesterday read explanations of 4 blocks.. did 2 blocks more
Now explanations of 2 blocks for today ...
Have to do next 3 blocks of today's Quota.
Happy studying all
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| doc68
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started reading endocirne from kaplan, aim is to read rheumatology, and do uw q electrolytes and infectious ds
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| kity
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good going doc68
yesterday was bad day for me...didnt felt like studying
did only one block..thinking about revising too, as my scores r very low. .
reading explanations is really very boring .... still 70 explanations r remaining.
10 days over!
will do 1 or 2 blocks today with pathphysio of boards.
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| sima
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till now i solved 2 blocks of cardio,have to do expln's today and 1 more block with expln,have to fiish cardio thui much today,tomorrow i can start afresh.
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sima when are you appearing for exam.i think u are doing great
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| kity
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11th day over.
These days I am revising texts once more... 'cos my sore in UW is really low.
doing surgery n pathphysio these days.
done with 3 chaps in surgery, 3 chaps in pathphysio.
my speed is low these days..
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| doc68
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kity which book are u referring for patho physio , good luc on studying
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| sima
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hi kity,whts pathophysio chapters u r doing,is it some text
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| kity
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hi doc68, sima,
How is your studies going?
I am doing Pathphysio of boards and wards.
Not able to study much these days this whole week will go like this probably due to family function in our house.. feeling so anxious..but I cant study This is 1:30 am night Hope I can study for 2hrs atleast b4 I sleep. I am done with first 5 chaps.. Hope to complete nephro today. will do GI later
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| doc68
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kity its ok , take a break and start fresh , dont be hard on ur self, I dint do much since saturday , planning to do nephrology in UW and cardiology today . goodluck
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| sima
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hi i am back now ,will do epln's of cardio bl,big mistake i din't finish expln's same day,so this is last thurs 's bl,so i will have to read q's again.so its frustrating,will take long time,but i have o choice.i will finish tonight,
kity i make notes from UW,i also open kapan books defiitely for q's i did wrong,somtimes i open CMDT for cardio right now.
doc68 keep ur jounal moving sit and finish off,wht r u waiting for,there is no miracle going to happe,its all hardwork and we have to do ourselves,better finish fast.
remeber those days when we used to push off studies and got slaps by our Dads.so get studeying kity and doc68.
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| sima
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sorry doc68 if u feel i am bit rude,but yaar where do we think are we going by not studying,i don't know abt u,but all the time i have some reason to not study even though i enjoy studying.
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