light09
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Hi diary land,
I am planing to take the exam in sept. one read of kaplan books e/psychiatry till now and doing UW. I wasted too much time and I hope this diary will help me to focus.
I will try to do 2 blocks of q before going to bed.so help me God!
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| light09
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I couldn't do 2 blocks last night. But did one block on nephrology and scored 64. Today I am going to do the infectious disease questions.
I was reading and reareading the kap books for step 1 instead of doing many questions and the result was not as I wanted. so for step 2 I should concentrate on soloving many questions and learn from them. There are 107 infectious d/s qs and i will do them in tutor mode and learn from them.
Help me God!
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| light09
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I have done 35% of UW with 65 cumulative score. I am doing them in tutor. I know if I do them in timed mixed mode my result will be lower. But in tutor mode I can use the knowledge I accuire from one question to answer another qs in the same block. I guss this will help me to retain more information.
I don't know why I get distracted easly.Baby number 2 is on its way. I have to finish ck and cs before the baby comes but I lack the determnation and motivation. what is the matter with me?
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| GOGETA
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HEY I have a suggestion just give OB/GYN to baby number 2 and you study the rest, you see right there one less topic to study
good luck on your test
UW is a learning tool, use NBME for assesment
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| draashna
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Hey, My baby no1 is coming....in august end...i want to study as much as possible before that. I am on my 1st read left with physch and peds..but took a long time to read so havent retained nething. Am trying to revise some int med topics along with peds. Will do ques later on ..simply don have enuff confidence to do them now. Hope your prepartions go fine....just keep a positive attitude...we can do it!!
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| abusedpostdoc
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Hi Light 09, I am also planning to take the exam at the end of September. I thought maybe I could join you in encouraging each other. I do not have a baby, but work part-time (which I know is less than a 24 hr mom work, but is still a distraction). I think so far you are doing great with juggling your studies and family!
I am done with the first read of Kaplan notes. Now I am doing the second read. I am left with Internal Medicine and Pediatrics for a second read.
I started doing Qbook. I did 70 and 72 % on the two Psych tests that are there, untimed, checking the answers after every 5 questions. Is that an ok score?
I am planning to take UW for couple of months starting on August 1st and doing it untimed.
Today is my first day of Internal Medicine second time read. I calculated that if I read 35 pages per day than I will be done in 10 days with Internal Med. I will try doing UW questions by sub-specialties, because I am concerned that if I do Kaplan Q book IM tests they have all the sub-specialties mixed up and this will only bring my score and confidence down and will not help me learn. After I am done with the UW IM Qs than I will do the Kaplan Qbook Qs in IM. Do you think this is a good plan?
I am also working part-time, so I take this into account - some study days will be less than a whole study day.
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| neuroblastoma
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count me in --september exam takers.
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| drpearl
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Wow , light 09 you are like me but i am not pregnant alhamdolillah, i have two babies and just started almost 7-8 days back. i left my little baby with my mom and 2 year old is mashallah more than enough .I wish you goodluck and hopefully we all will get our dreams come true.
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| abusedpostdoc
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Hello,
Today I was working so I am starting a little bit late my studies. It's already 3pm, but I'll try to do my best for the next 8 hours. Light 09 - how is your day going?
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| light09
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Thank you all,
I am glad to have freinds to encourage me.abusedpostdoc I am on my second read of kaplan like you. I too started today's reading late. I am reading hematology from kaplan. If I manage to finish it I will try to do questions from UW on the same topic.
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