Boy_wonder
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Dr. Stephen Daugherty is very inspirational. I recommend everyone to listen to him before making a plan for this exam.
There are a few things he emphasises to the best of recollection:
1) Familiarise yourself with the tutorial for the exam so you have 15 mins more for your break when you are in there.
2) Actively recall the content you are studying.
3) When you are doing questions, do not look at the answers, and try to figure out the correct answer from the information given, then verify your answer by looking at the options given as answers.
4) Study for it is a test of patience, perseverence and persistence.
5) If you are enjoying studying something, this means you are good at it and should be studying something you are not good at and feeling miserable. The more miserable you feel the better!
Edited by praying4a99 on 05/03/08 - 10:10 AM
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| Boy_wonder
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6) Aim for higher than a pass, have a target. He says a good score is >200. A competitive score is >220.
7) The two digit score is not a percentage and the three digit score is not the number of questions you got right. They are the equivalent to temperature in celsius and farenheit. The higher they are, the hotter you score.
8) The mean of the test is 200 with a standard deviation of 20 (I think he said 20).
9) Do not learn anything new in the last week and do no study on the final day before the exam but go shopping etc.
10) Study the material and then practice questions.
11) When doing practice questions, do not check answers after completing each questions. Finish them in blocks and then review the answers.
12) His research tells him that most people tend to do worst in the last 10 questions of each block. This he says is due to people keep looking at the clock. Have a set strategy of when to look at the clock.
13) Watch out for red herrings in questions that try to put you off.
14) If you are stuck between two choices, make a random guess and do not waste time by procrastinating or rereading the question. You are not going to know every answer!
15) His research on long questions also tells him that most people tend to read halfway down and then skip the rest, thinking they know the answer. The exam has therefore reacted to this by tailoring questions with most of the relevant infor in the last 25% of long questions. If you are going to skip most of a question, then read the last part.
16) The USMLE does not test your intelligence or how good a doctor you will be. It tests how competent you are at sitting a computerised multiple choice timed examination in medicine.
17) Answer questions as if you are in the ideal world. Doctors in th real world often do not perform best practice e.g. sit behind desk when they should sit to right of patient.
18) Pick the answer most of your residents would pick. He gave example of senior resident who flew through step 1 and 2 but failed step 3 a number of times. The reason for this was because he/she thought they knew extra info that the exam wasn't actually looking for.
19) If they are a lot of answer stems e.g. A to 0, then it means they had to give a lot of answer options because the question was easier than normal.
That's all I remember for now but if I remember more, then I will post them 
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| praying4a99
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Nice work boy-wonder. I hope you do not mind making a separate thread for it.
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| Boy_wonder
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Not problemo. Thanks for posting the link for his lecture in the first place
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