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there are few steps by which you can increase your speed.
1) firstly read all the choices
2) read the last line
3) when you are reading a question dont read it scan it, means skip the words of common english lanuage. for example:-
Q) A 60 year old man, h/o ischemic heart ds., is brought to emergency department in unconsious state. he fell down while trying to clean the window.you examine the patient and he is unconsious, bruised. his PR-- BP---( ALL THE VITALS).
now in this question, what do you think you should keep in mind-
60, IHD, fell, unconsious etc.... and try to make a picture with the help of these skaned words. process it and at the same time you already have the idea of what are given choices. start eliminating them as you go down the question.
4) the above process means 1st reading of that question.
50 % of questions can be done this way. now you will ask what about other questions or what about if i could not eliminate.
then go for 5th step.
5)2nd time reading of Question means reading once again those scanned words, not the whole question . if still you dont know the answer then look at the answers and few of the options will be odd man out. the rest of the options read next step.
6) what ever options (choices for answers) are given definately has a clue OR triad or something.....( at least i know this much that all the USMLE questions has to have a clue ,95% of the time) for example-
Mitral valve prolapse-----systolic clik, increase of murmer while performing valsalva.(most of the other murmers are opp.)
7)if you still dont know the answer that means for that particular topic your concepts are vague. thats the reason some candidates say its vague. i beleive if there is a question there is a answer. otherwise there lies a fault with in us not on the examiners. one should point fingers on oneself and learn. thats called learning.
8) regarding lab values.(60% questions with lab values are normal) scan fast and pick up the relivant but yes one should be well versed with the normal values.
9) practice lots of questions.
though i did only UW and Qbook(main books) but i did a lot of questions from blue prints, swansons, pre tests etc... in total i did approximately 7000 questions.
10) take up any medical topic from any book. try to read fast and try to scan that paragraph and take out the main words and the meaning.
if you do these 10 steps
you can make sure not only your time management will be perfect ,at the same time one will ahead for a great score.
thats it.
take care
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