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Congrats!
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| usmle12
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congrats nadia
wish u welll
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| nadiabarati
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blueprints pediatrics is excellent. I rate it as 5/5.
blueprints IM,psych, ob/gy are ok.
But please never even touch surgery blueprints.
I strongly recommand kaplan DVDs, they are excellent.
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| nadiabarati
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I didn't like kaplan notes ata ll so I just put them away.
Thanks every one, I wish you all the best.
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| jaisiyaram
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Thanx Nadia. U mean rather than read the material u just went thro the dvd? Actually it is a great idea. Please do reply
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| nadiabarati
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yes. I started studying kaplan notes but they seemed like a torture to me. I hated them. So I put them away and started studying blueprints I did all blueprints twice and watched DVDs for IM, obstetrics, surgery, epidemiology and ethics. I fell in love with kaplan DVDS and I believe they are the best materials for preparation. It's a pity that I didn't have time to watch them all. Kaplan DVDs are extremely good.
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| vanshita
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Great score GOOD LUCK for match
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| jaisiyaram
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Thanx Nadia. U have a great help. Actually even i dislke those notes. Thanx for replying. GL to u
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| NE
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congrats, nadia! Best of luck for the match!!!
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| alr
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congrats Nadia!!
Did you do Kaplan q-bank as well?
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| nadiabarati
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No. I just used UW and also the questions at the end of each blueprints book. Nothing else.
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| coolmavs
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Hey Nadia, congrats you deserve it! Just a couple of queries:
1. Most people believe that Surgery prof is just reading from the notes. Do you think it is still useful?
2. Did you do UW more than once? Also, how much of the exam do you think is covered by UW alone?
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| khorshid
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congrats nadia best of luck with the rest of process
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| nadiabarati
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thanks everybody for nice wishes.
coolmavs. You know it depends on how you learn? with your ears or eyes. I'm kinda person to like to listen of course listen to great teachers not every teacher. I love Dr. Pestana who does kaplan DVD surgery. I love him and I beileve he is a GREAT teacher. The way that he presents the cases and discusses them with a strong voice and very appropriate emphases on the points made me feel like a surgeon. I alos heard a lot that people don't like his DVDS and I'm simply surprised!! As you see every body studys kaplan notes and I think I'm the only who did study blueprints. It means people are different and you can never get same ideas from different people. For me he is GREAT and I enjoyed every second of his lectures. He never said a single useless word.
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| nadiabarati
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oh about your second question, as I posted before I did UW once but I did my wrong questions in IM again.
UW has covered a lot of unimportant and strange subjest to make itself unneccessarily difficult. In real exam you don't see such questions and all the questions are fair and can be covered by your basic knowledge about the clinical concepts. On the exam day I had fever, diarrhea, sore throat and stomachache and had slept just 2 hours he night before, so my condition was terrible. Otherwise exam was totally fair and nice.
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| alexaE
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you made me laugh Nadia.. you poor thing!
" On the exam day I had fever, diarrhea, sore throat and stomachache and had slept just 2 hours he night before, so my condition was terrible. Otherwise exam was totally fair and nice. "
congratulations once again. you're done!!!
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| nadiabarati
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laugh?!!! It wasn't funny at all!
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| ing
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Congratulations! Great score.
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| doc1981
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Congrats!! Thats an awesome score. I'm currently studying for CK. How long did you study for? Did you do Qbank as well or just usmleworld?
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| sahota
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congrats
good score
all the best
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| coolmavs
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Thanks Nadia for the reply. Have you taken your CS? Best of luck for all your future endeavors.
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| nadiabarati
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doc 1981, it took me around 9 months. I didn't do Qbank.
coolmavs, No my CS is in July and I'm not confident about it, because I need to be fast in it so I'm scared.
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