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| edie
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I love this journal's title! Amen to that!!!
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What an APT TITLE! We all need to practice it often!!
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just for once..i l continue dilly-dallyign for a few more hours..coz i l be recieving my books in a few hrs...will then proceed with the d-days workings.....
so cheerio...also IMPORTANT..since i v first time used the poll option..i thought it apt to place space between each option..as a result i get 4 options i d place n 3 blank ones..kindly do not vote the blank one..i l be disheartened like anything( the worst thing u can possibly think of...maybe slightly better than that , but worse nevertheless)
cheerio.
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just so as to contribute in the main purpose of this journal...i hope to inshAllah be done with 3 readings by the end of august.
i l mentionmy sources n other plans in detail in the next post, which will be some 10 ,15 min from now i guess.
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books still not here
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ok..first of all , a little about my circumstances....last i can attempt step 1 is uptil this november , no further than that..so i guess this will be my only shot.that leaves me with no dilly-dallying time slot! 
And that means i l have to start with 8 hours a day..only that way i l be able to be on time , to write step 1 by october , inshallah
since i am on a 6 months break from work , i m totally free..thats leaves with 24 hrs a day..7 out of which go into zzzzzzz,about 2 in the bathroom+toilet , 1 in kitchen...these are all must...leaving me with 14 hrs..and if i study for 8 hrs straight , i l still ahve 6 fun hours..ok , now that i m writing it all down..it sounds pretty reasonable.cool.i guess the only applicable condition in this case will be that i m to enjoy those 6 hrs only if i actually sit n study for the first 8 hrs.
so
i study for 8 hrs..thats pretty much evident so i think i should stop writing about it.
well
now the books..ah..well they are still not here..but i l mentions my plans anyway.
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Hi concept,
I think it is definitely doable, you just have to work real hard.. so it depends on your speed and ability to grasp, time allocated etc.
I started on Apr 1, and we are now May 25, and I finished Beh Sc, Biochem, Physio first read.... ( a rapid one). I am hoping to finish first read of remaining subjects by July (hopefully!)I am quite slow, and did not do a full hearted attempt... ie I only studied 4 days a week, (4-6 hrs per day)...
...I hope to do it in a similar time frame as you... so good luck my friend!!!
It's ALL in the STATE OF THE MIND.. IF YOU THINK YOU CAN, YOU CAN!! This message is as much for me as it is for you
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Agree with Acintya !!!!
Another imortant factor is what kind of student you have been. People who have worked hard in their med.school take less time and score high. Having said that , it does not mean that average students cannot do it , only they have to work harder and probably longer.
Good luck.
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thanks acintya and unique1...i l stick to the hopeful words.now that finally i have my books..i l describe a little about my current plan.
have alotted 35 days to my first reading which begins tmrow and ends 5th of july(yeah thats a4 days extra...thats for...yeah u got it right..dillydallying)
i plan to start around 5am each morning and study upto 10.then i l take an hrs break , resume studies and hover over the 'k' factor till 4pm.the first interval supports no breaks at all.in the 2nd one , i am allowed roaming around n staring in space!
in the first reading, i v finally decided upon the following distribution of days and sources.....
behaviour sciences -3 days-kaplan,brs
biochemistry-4 days -kaplan
physiology-5days-kaplan , brs
anatomy + histology 4days-kaplan
embryology+neuroanatomy-4 days-kaplan +mrs
Pharmacology-5 days-kaplan+katzung review
Microbiology-4 days-mrs+javetz
Immunology-3 days-javetz
Pathology-6 days-brs
M still unable to decide if i should be doing q-bank in my first reading or not..my heart strongly favours it , but would love to know opinions of few other minds and hearts as well.Also..i l try doing qbank along with whatever i study in the remaining few may days to get an idea of whether i can afford to do qbank or should leave it to 3rd /4th reading.
to get interested , i v decided to start with behav.sc..if anyone wants to defer me from this decision of mine..kindly post within next 4 hrs or else it l be too late.
wish me luck
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ok,just went through my schedule again..it s some 38 days in total....strating trmow i l have some 4o days so that leaves me with exactly 2 days of u know what.
cheers
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Hey, a quick suggestion: for Path, please do Goljan audio along with Rapid Review or Goljan notes. If you do not have it, look up this thread:
http://www.prep4usmle.com/forum/thread/50372
Almost all in the forum vouch for his lectures as he integrates several disciplines and trains us to think in the right way.
For the order of subjects, it is uncannily similar to mine! Days allocated and amount of dilly-dallying... its your call
Good luck!
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God its tough!
beh.sciences is nt exactly very interesting.At first i though i should probably change my choice of subject.but then the truth dawned upon me.....if i cannot even stick to a schedule i made..how do i expect myself to go on the entire 4 months of agony..?is that how much focussed i am?is that how much driven i am?is that the weight of my decision?my will power.
so i decide no!
i can and will go through whatever i d planned.i may not be able to be ontime buit m definitely not going to alter it deliberately!
so
its a new day.
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KNOW SOMETHING....just went through my timetable n nowwhere in there have i mentioned the order in which i l proceed.!lol
but i m still sticking to beh.sciences.tried starting with development...seems too statistical , therfore starting with statistics n epidemiology..a favourite.hope i hit jackpot this time.cheerio
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Hi concept, thanks for dropping by with your encouragement. I am glad to hear you are sticking with your decision to do behav sci. I am not sure when I am getting 'round to that one, but I'll be checking out what you have to say about it anyway, good studying to you!
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Hello concept,
Do not get discouraged... its what we all end up doing, peering at the pebble on the road like it is a mountain. Treat it the way it is, just a pebble, look at it from a distance instead of the magnified view!!
Stick with it, I loved Dr. Daugherty's lectures, he makes it so interesting.. that's why I started with that.
Good luck!!
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i know its audio acintya ..just updated my dap but it took me some 4 hrs to downlaod the notes.took me 2 hrs to download the slides.however..the slides files are not openeing giving a corrupt error msgtoo abd i know.
have not yet attempted at downloading the audios since that is by far the largest file.i l let my pc rest for 2 whole days before attempting that.lol.
lifes good so far.
m enjoying the dawn a lot.thats all i v been doing since the the day i started waking up at 4 am.
one of these days i l actually study for 8 hrs straight.
about right noiw..its 5.27am local time.m fresh.wil get a cup of tea for myself n start at the holy book of k....
i l post my progress in 6 hrs time.
i should be done with atleast 50 pages.i know it sounds too mathematical..but i guess thats the only way i can set a goal for myself.
ciaos then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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OOOH I would love to be a dawn person... have been trying to wake up that early but the earliest I get to is 5.30 am!!
It is said that in those wee hours of the morning, whatever you do will reap good, cos it is in the mode of goodness!
If you could pm me your email, I will try to send the slides across...
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Hi Concept, how's it going? Did you get your files going?
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Hi Concept, Love the title.Reminds me of what I should be doing..
How is it going for you?Sticking to your time table.I like the fact that you are being realistic and you know you will be doing you know what.
Well good luck.Hope to see regular updates on your journal.
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i definitely the worst planner i l ever have the misfortune to meet.and i feel like throttling myself for that.
due to a certain issue i could not study the day i d said that i l be studying for 6 hrs straight.i took a day off today to cool myself down.just started studying about 2 hrs back.done with epidemiology and part of biostats.feel slightly better now.maybe there is still some hope for hopeless case like me.
hello acintya,i l pm u my email .it is such a kind gesture on ur part,offering to send me the slides..thank you so much.
hello edie.no i could not bring myself around downlaoding the 9 hrs long files of audios..i l just have to do without it i guess.i l check ur prep journal to c how u v been doing so far,a thousand times better than me , i hope.
helllo medocuk,i think the the name of the journal is a bad luk..seriously.d-d is all i m doing..or atleast had been doing until about 2 hrs back.yes , m still sticking with my original plans..
i wasnt updating this journal since i think the original purpose was to mention how well m i doing in my prep,not how worse.i do hope that sometime in near future i l be able to say that i did it(means i studied for 8 hrs uninterrupted)
till tmrow..wish me luck!
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Yeah well don't worry.i did the same most of last month..but I kept sticking around.I even came around and wrote in the journal that I did nothing.I wasn't planned until 2 days ago..We all go through the process.Idea is to find your niche..Talk to people who are studying. See how people achieve what they do.Identify what works for you and then stick by it.Don't kill yourself just because u decided to study yesterday and you dont have a plan and all that in place yet.It takes time and you need to give yourself that time.
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i keep deciding to not to write anything in my journal until i m done with whatever i d planned for ..but i m failing at that misearbly.feel so down
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dont feel down concept. we all know u can do it.
i immensely enjoyed going thru ur posts. u are very creative and i am sure very hard working too...so please dont lose hope and do as much as is possible for u. Sometimes its not just important to FINISH a task at hand, but to do it as GOOD as possible, even if that takes long!!. so dont lose faith and restart with a SMILE.
insha allah all will go well for you!!
all the best.
loved the quote and the posts!
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