sarah99
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hi people
i am new here and from today thats jan 8th i am joining the forum to keep a log diary and to be with all the team force here.
i am starting my studies from patho ..but before that ineed to tell u that i have 5 months in hand only and nothing more than that and besides that i m not going to extend my exam coz I JUST CANNOT......i have to study fast and not be a slow pacer ....coz i know myself i cannot afford more than 5 months for study as delaying the process will cause me to loose motivation ....also i aim for 90s so i better do it .....
i am doing cardiovascular system....and target is january 10 for finishing it....and my job IS NOT TO READ BUT TO MEMORIZE as told by my seniors.....bcoz i cannot read a book from cover to cover ..i have to dissect the concepts,pathophysio and keep on reviewing .....
materials
kaplan for everything and goljan rr for patho
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uw and kaplan q bank
will come back after completing something and will jot down here
happy studyiing to all and thanks fr listening
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| sarah99
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This was motivational for me ..so i am posting it
WHAT NOT TO DO!
1 Don’t run after too much material, so many different books……….just Kaplan(except path), goljan notes, Kaplan DVD, Kaplan q book, usmle world, nbme……..are more than enough
2 Don’t prepare for so many months……u will run out of your energy…make a time limit………BEST SOLUTION IS TAKE EXAM DATE………..rest of things will be managed automatically
3 Try to develop concept than mere reading books and repeating many times.
4 Find out your weak areas and try to work hard on it
5 Don’t ignore strong areas too (Which I had done)
6 Better to evaluate once your preparation 3-4 weeks bfore your exam by doing online NBME and work on those areas….(which I had not done)
7 Sleep well the night before and dont study the last day
8 Don’t be anxious during exam time…..all u need is one grain at a time. One questions at a time
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| Novak75
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hey sarah99, you started with a lot of energy, where are you?, welcome to the forum and hope you are doing fine, keep posting. GOOD LUCK!
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| papio
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Hi Sarah,
Ur post gave me inspiration. I am a big procrastinator, I have been studying for 5 months and all I do is keep forgetting...
Like u wrote, I decided to do it: I payed for the exam a month ago, purchased UW.
Now I am freaking out because my score in 60%.
I study full time and I still have 2 and half months to go-exam date april 15th.
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| sarah99
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60 % in UW is just great..take nbme papio to simulate the real thing and focus on your weeknesses
well trying to finish off cvs but as the system is my weekkness so i am putting some extra effort....and uw is taking a whole lotta time too
thanks alot guys n gals
happy studying all
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| sarah99
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This is what have inspired me from druman advice..its excellent..thanku druman
hye this post is in reply to questions by folks joining step 1:so i thought to reply all of them in a single post,so here it is,"this post dedicated to people whose exam experience posts and support forum posts help me to be able at this time to help others too"
yaeh" kaplan must wid uw "and if can get or download kaplan q bank,good too.so this is esential part and enough for studies,but do not forget to read first aid in 2nd or 3rd rtead ,as it will tell u wat to read concisely and memorize and pin to ur memory really hard,
i always say first get concepts from kaplan and after 2nd read i was able to understand and memorize all imp stuff,so give real nice time to 2nd read of kaplan with adding notes to ur first aid or just marking kaplan notes by looking into first aid,and see wats really important and need to read real good,start uw at same time i started at end of 2nd read ,coz u good grab the concept and twisty questions in uw,uw will help u too cope with all kind of question plus it would supplement ir notes,so u wont need any othe single kind of notes like high yield etc,hmm goljan is must spcially for general patthology u will get heel lot help in solvong questions,goljan uses key words in his notes which help u real good to recognize particular questions.u can read goljan system pathology notes too if u have time,ofcourse it will help u alot ,but dont get confuse ,while reading ur kaplan notes of pathilogy ,either add goljan to kaplan notes or add kaplan notes to goljan,i after reading kaplan added its points to goljan notes,but remeber goljan sometime too much details ,so during revision,its upto u how to summarize,and goljan repeats stuff alot,but it helps u neways as u need revision,so KEY IS REVISION AND BE PRECISE,SO read as 3rd time u dont have all notes and books scattered around
in summary
PATHOLOGY:either add goljan points to kaplan or kaplan important points to giljan ,but again first read kaplan 2 times real god so u could understand wat u rteally need to add in notes,no short cuT BEWARE
PHYSIOLOGY; read ur kaplan 2 times and 3rd read ,concisely do FIRST AID topics real good,after reading ur goljan in path,it would supllement ur physio too,but again for physio be precise sometime kaplan way too much detail,if u cud get medessential then add first aid and medessential,but if dont have ,dont worry KAPLAN NOTES its graphs and keep on looking first aid to see what u really need to memorize
BIOCHEMISTRY,oh kaplan real good my formula first 2 reads kaplan,then grab FIRST AID ,its just a must,i know i know u deadly want to read kaplan and its details but trust me ,diseases well covered and reapeated in ur path ,so u just need to MEMORIZE FIRST AID,u may add points from kaplan but end of day u will see ,everything else covered in pathophysiology,so biochemical pathways and details good enough in first aid while diseases well covered in path and genetics part
GENETICS;FORMULA FORMULA,read kaplan 2 times add its points to FIRST AID,its suffficient enough,kaplan last chapters of biocehem conataining genetics way tooooooooooo detailed,must read ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS at end and just do them again and agian and ur first aid,u are a genetics specialist
MICROBIOLOGY AND VIROLOGY AND PAHRMACOLOGY,;for GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY and AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM,kaplan read MUST MUST add notes to FIRST AIDS,PRACTICE KAPLAN QUESTIONS,for SYSTEMIC PHARMA no kaplan at all ,just 1 reading and go straightly to ur FIRST AID AND chew and digest it well,ur PHARMACOLOGIST
BIG BOLD NOTES,KAPLAN QUESTION AND ANSWERS AT END OF EACH CHAPTER IN EACH SUBJECT MUST A MUST,THEY TAKE U REAL POINT,so do them in each revision ,i rathe add imp explanationa nd point to my first aid
MICRO AND VIROLGY; i didnt do KAPLAN AT ALL AND I SURVIVED REAL GOOD,so trust ur guts and FIRST AID morethan enough,but hold on kaplan Tables and QUIEATOION specially of virolgy and end of bacterilogy biiiiiiiig MUST ,i even got all question frm there,ur GOLJAN notes always supplementing and revising points is u miss somewhrere,so leave details of kaplan micro notes
BIOSTATISTICS AND BEHAVORIAL ;2 read kaplan must,u really need to get familiar to terms ,dont forget answer questions,em telling u SECRET OF CENTURY,they will save u and make u hero not all details,details to pin the memory and qnwer question to turn it into golden mega memory and usmle survivor and hero
ANATOMY HISTOLOGY EMBRYOLOGY;hmm FIRST AID enough,but dont forget to do kaplan CHAPTER SUMMARIES at end of all histo and embryo chapter ,filter frm there and add to ur FIRST AID,HAY HAY histolgy question in kaplan notes,i got almost all question frm there,which not given in first aid,UPPER LOWE LIMB ABDOMEN,again answeer qusetions,CT scan,radiographs in KAPLAN must,make u 99% with FIRST AID.dont forget to look at electron micrographs in histo section,no details of emryo and histo just just chapter summaries and first aid,plus kaplan only electron micrographs,ct ,radiographs,u allllllllllllllllllllllllll done
i would emphasize just on NEUROANATOMY from kaplan,do all,and ofcourse ur 3rd read partner FIRST AID to memorize all mega things,dont forget kaplan revison of neuro with first aid
hay u r doing UW ,i know,aftr 2nd read start doing it ,it will help u to deal with tricks,but usmle questions are comparable to NBME,not that tricky as in UW,so UW will polish ur knowledge and skils,keep on marking questions whisch u do wrong,or done by guessing,or whose explanation interesting and useful,adavantage of doing UW aftr 2nd read of kaplan and 1 read of FIRST AID and after doing goljan notes ,that u will not have to add all details from uw,u will find almost 90% in ur kaplan,goljan and first aid,rest of mini micro super detail u can add,so it will save add 90%of ur time,and at end make notes and solve marked questions,u will be surprsingly left with very few things left in UW u really need to add to notes,and ur score wont be disappointing,as most of us take uw score as our final destiny and ride it our nerves,so it wont hurt u that much after 2 readings and notes,and ur ego be satisfied too(plz dont mind em really trying to take burden of shoulders as i felt same wy,after 50%score of uw ,which made me feel low)
NBME 3 to4 weeks before,not all essentially but atleast 1 online to assess ur performance,online will give u graphical and good analaysis,rest nbme u can download and sole
usmle simulated exam or cd ,must do it twice,add points of wat u did wrong and u wont have to revise it again,same with nbme forms,add notes of question u did wrong,save ur time of revisisng
last month KEY REVISON,UR NOTES/kaplan/goljan,UR MARKED QUESTINS,UR NBME,UR USMLE SIMULATED,NO NEW STUFF
,just do FIRST AID at start of final revison,grab ur 80 TO 85% first then comes the rest of15 to 20% and ur weak points revision u assess from nbme,
SLIDES CT RADIOGRAPHS MRI,ur golgan slides and kaplan more mopre than enough
well if u r not satisfing soul,doWEB PATH,along with ur 2nd read,but dont leave it for rd read or so,do in 2nd read or dont do,rather revise ur golan and kaplan
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm,this all from my experience,and all effort summary, iknow everybody different and read differently too,so its not books or notes,ur choice of books,but make concept ,then revision and trusting ur skills and notes ,not shuffling and rolling 1 to other books,i said KAPLAN AND GOLJAN AND FIRST AIA,as mostly recommended 1 and my own experience
i wish i could do some of things that i mentioned here,and things i learnt in real hard way,cud read from here b4 my exam,i know sounding silly,then my post tiltle would b how to get 260/99%
but em sure u can do it,thsis post also summary of exam experineces of nice bussies posting there marvellous experience and really learnt all this from them ,so its summary of all buddies here,and its basically summary of their and my effort in my wordings,ireally want to thanks people who helped me by their experience and nice suggestions and i wish and i hope ,this post would also help newcomers and fullfilling their dream to get real nice scores,BEST LUCK ALL
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| ShweHope99.9998
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 it is very wise to have dr ruman's post re exm prep in own journal , & we can come see here in journal world , instead of looking for it in other site deep down in the posts .
Good job sarah 
Welcome to journal world , ur name sound like my long lost frd  sarah , anyhow , lets study hard together here with lots of support, care , help each other .
Yup, We Can Do it
GL GL GL happy success study to us all 
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| sarah99
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thanks alot shwe.....right now i m in need of a study partener in US..anyone interested plz let me know..
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| sarah99
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i like this..thnka acintya
Some pearls from Dr. Daugherty: For those who don't have time to listen to it all.
You are preparing for a test: not for the practice of medicine.
You CAN’T LEARN EVERYTHING! Decide where the gap in your knowledge is and learn it.
Repetition: is the KEY.
Sleep is important.
Take short breaks. About every 50 minutes. Walk around. Stretch a bit. Go to the bath room. If the study breaks are getting longer, and you cannot control yourself, BUY A TIMER to control your breaks. When it goes BING after 10 minutes, time to study again! Don’t sit for 4 hrs at a stretch-you basically wasted the last 2.5 hrs!
PRACTICE RECALL
Summary:
THE USMLE IS MORE THAN AN EXAM, IT IS A QUESTION:
DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS? DO YOU REALLY, REALLY WANT TO DO THIS? ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO DO THIS?
Every day, ask this question, and need to have a YES as an answer.
The minute/day you have NO for an answer you are out!The exam is one BIG MOMENT WHERE YOU GET THIS QUESTION again and again. Do you want to do this? Do you really want to do this? The exam makes you answer this 350 times. It is not about how smart you are!
The simple thing the medical education system is set up is for:
PERSISTENCE, PATIENCE, AND PERSEVERENCE.
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| sarah99
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another one
suggestion
there is a chapter in the qbook about prep strategies & test taking strategies prep by dr. daugherty it is almost the same of what he explained in the audio & with update "it mentioned about the new softwere , u can highlight, do things that r not in old version of the exam"
so i think reading that chapter is wothwhile especially since the audio quality is
GL every1
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