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Shwehope....those are some nice questions u raised that i forgot to mention.
Yes if u can get a small atlas or online web site to review the most common CT and MRI do that. very basic CT and MRI appear on the exam. although u can do most of the questions from the stem you might get one or two questions only in which u have to decipher the image.
Yes there are tons o graphs on the exam in pathophysio and pharma. however they are none of the graphs u see in your books! of course that doesnt mean u shouldnt read the graphs in the books, you should read them but more importantly understand them very very well. they will help u indirectly in the exam.
I didnt get any purine pyrimidine ring forms in the exam.i.e. no chemical structures.
In neuro anatomy u can get those things u mentioned study it very well it is a very imp subject
i did read the books 3 times.
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| rezaaa
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OK ID LIKE TO ADD this as well:
DO watch the last Kaplan Pathology DVD for slide reciew
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Saleha... for step 1 is better to do the online version. however if u cannot afford or some other reason then use the book version which is not very widely available as yet for step 1. Even doing all kaplan should be good.
june to december is six months should be enough if u dont take long breaks like a week or so in the middle.
I will be posting a list of high yield topics soon which everyone
should revise in the last days of ure prep.
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| aim99
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excellent score - congratulations and good luck for step-II. looking fwd to your HY list.
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| P4a99
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congratulations...
great score & great post !
i have a question if you may:
DO YOU THINK ITS A GOOD IDEA FOR ME TO PREPARE AND TAKE THE EXAM WHILE IM STILL IN MEDICAL SCHOOL? & HOW LONG DO YOU THINK MY PREPARATION SHOULD TAKE?
Edited by praying4a99 on 05/16/07 - 09:08 AM
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| rezaaa
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praying for u...well yes u can but it depends on where r u from and which medical school you are studying in. so if u could give me that info i can tell you
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heartiest congrats rezaa,ur experience makes it all sound so easy.keep posting!best of luck for whatever u pick up next...InshAllah
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I would like to give some general advice to people who have been asking me HOW to study for the exam. The advice is simple. The test is as much memorization as concepts. If you understand the concepts, keeping them in your memory will be easy. Some of the stuff is just simple learn and regurgitate. But dont be so alarmed if somewhere in some subject u dont understand something. It is the same with all the people even with high scores. Just try to get as much understanding as possible, but remember you have to do some memorization as well. you cannot go through this exam by just fast reading through the books.
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Thank you for your last post, what im concerned about, is how to keep all these books on the tip of your tongue in order to be capable of answering the Qs in one min.?! Do we have to memorize all of them as we memorize in school, just repeat repeat repeat?
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i think praying4a99 what reza means is that get the concepts as much as you can and when you think you cant get ahead in a making a concepts rata it (memorize it) eg
chrug strauss syndrome! it has eosionophilia allergic rhinitis and asthma besides vasculitis! this is to me a rata. similarly rata the chromosomal nos. trisomies , diseases associations and so many things! the reason they say to finish your course atleast 3-4 times is that you get that page imprinted in your head and its easy for you to recall in 60 sec in exam
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inkspot ... thank you for your comment ... so, the whole idea about the many readings is memorizing! ... but what should you do when you have many sources for each subject:
Kaplan+BRS+made R.S.+ and maybe some text book !
What do you do in this case? Stick to one or copy the others on one!
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try 2 limit your resources!
like this is what i am doing! i m currently reading goljan and am adding stuff from FA and robbin review to my goljan, on my subsequent reads i may not read FA and robbin again! rather only goljan! condense the HY stuff. and i have gained from my expierence that its better to make ur own notes than to follow others
sorry rezaaa for hijacking your post !
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rezaaa,
Thanks for the detail reply. I thought I have replied but my post just not get through I guess.
So one more Q , re CT, MRI , etc images, if can solved with Q, just v. few Q are not, in that case can I spend time on review, read more LN kap & Q etc than do all on line web pictures .
I will do kap patho last picture review , FA 2007 & golj RR latest books pictures, & kap Q bank, UW Q pictures , HY neuro, BRS anatomy, neuro pictures, diagram,
....without doing any other web pictures .. namely ... netanatomy, web path, etc all web images to speed up my study .
Please advice openly if it were you, what will you do re those pictures, images, slides.
Thank you.
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inkspot ... thanks , just one more thing: werent we supposed to write on "fill in the gaps" FA, not the other way around?
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ShweHope99.9998 : yes in the long run review will help more but do look at the images whenever u have time, look at the angiograms for cerebral circulations
Inkspot: no prob dude  keep giving the healthy advice
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it depends on indiviuals approach praying4a99. i like adding stuff to my goljan rather than FA. on my last reads i plan to read LN and goljan and not FA ( different than what most ppl do or follow here) but its my approach and i think it will suit me, do what ever u think will work best for you.
rez thanks you are an inspiration dude! sure will follow ur footsteps
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thank you, rezaaa & inkspot
between us two inkspot : i think your method is better. i mean, i dont think i will be confidant at all just reading one book at the end for whole 7 subject! ... GL
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good luck! when is ur exam?
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WOW! MY SALUTE TO SUCH A GR8 SCORE! BRAVO.....
I AM DOING UW QBANK THESE DAYS....I HOPE THE EXAM WILL HAVE THE SAME FORMAT.BUT MY AVERAGE SCORE IS NOT SO GOOD IN UW!
ALL THE BEST FOR STEP 2!
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praying im looking at 2009 match InshaAllah
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junoon dont worry about uworld score as long as it is around 50%. use it as a learning and revision tool. keep the faith
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Congradulation
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Congradulation
i would say its an honor 4 me to write my 1st post here
ur a great inspiration i would appreciate it if you give me an advice about what source 4 pathology slides review should we use
CT and MRI
and what about kaplan patho pic ? does any 1 know if they are available or just in his course coz he keep explaining on them in his audios and say they r very imp
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http://www.megaupload.com/sa/?d=7E0BAZB4
here you go ...
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