*Re-upload* 00:00 Letting go of Control 02:23 My Inefficient Study Method (First Half of First Year) 05:25 My Inefficient Study Method (Second Half of First Year) 07:54 My Efficient Study Schedule
Geez u have great communication skills. How did you study for boards (USMLE)? I just took a practice exam today and really making me wonder if i'm even retaining any of the practice exams im doing.
Wow thank you, what a nice compliment! Not going to lie, USMLE was a struggle for me. I think it was a combination of not being a good standardized test taker (I tend to subconsciously give up when I see questions I don’t know) & not having a good foundation on concepts because it took me 1.5 years to figure out how to learn well. I did not take any practice exams during my dedicated period (same for the MCAT). I went through all the UWORLD questions untimed & watched a lot of sketchy + boards & beyond. Personally, I know practice exams would do me more harm than good. If I see a bad score, I know I’d mentally shut down & probably postpone my test, waiting for that perfect practice score. I know there’s some people who thrive off of a bad score & use it as motivation. There’s also people who love having a baseline & working towards a positive trend throughout dedicated. I would say just figure out which person you are in that range & stick with that. My way was risky because I basically had no way of knowing if my study schedule was working or not. My gage was if I was emotionally & physically doing well. If uworld questions were dragging me down into an anxiety spiral, I’d spend more time doing concepts that day. If concepts were becoming tedious, then I’d do questions or take the day off. I can’t remember a single moment I felt like I was improving & ready to kill the exam, but I can tell you that I felt really good emotionally the whole dedicated. To me that was a personal victory which made me willing to risk not having a great score. Probably not the answer you were hoping for but maybe something in that can help you! Best of luck you’re almost through the toughest part
Well spoken! I need some help with the situation I’m facing. I’m done with my medschool and intend to attempt STEP 1 exam by Jan ‘22. I’m practicing 30 questions of UWORLD everyday and create anki cards of their explanations to be reviewed after. But that takes my whole day and I’m not satisfied with my prep. I intend to learn from BnB or other resources. What is your suggestion on this? Should I change my startegy?
thank you for watching Naveen! This really all depends on your schedule. If you're working full time or are in class full time then basically take what I say, and split it in quarters or halves. This was my schedule: 80 questions per day, with one hour review per 20 questions (80 q's = 4 hours). Whatever time remaining, I would watch sketchy and B&B. I tried to get through sketchy twice and B&B once. so this was a good ten hour day. Not sustainable if you aren't taking until January. So space this schedule out and add more questions if you can. Definitely would've helped me if I could've gone through all of Uworld + all my wrong questions again.
True that reviewing does take a lot of time I’ll thus try amping up my speed, I do make Anki cards from the reviews I’ve done so that I may not forget the stuff I’ve learned. Then going through that takes a minimum of 4 hours for me. Tell me what you think about that?
@@lifetime_learner whatever you told me really helped out with my exam and I can’t Thank you enough for it 💕 looking forward to step 2. Really hope to see you in future In any professional capacity :)
How do you adapt this method to written exams? Im second year pharmacy student and we have pharmaceutical analysis or biosynthesis or math exams were you get open questions. How do you practice for these?
Hmm not to sure about this one. I haven’t taken a written exam since my undergrad. I would assume those would take just more practice questions so the open ended ones don’t come as much of a surprise.
@@lifetime_learner I see, thank you! Can you also explain how you find a good resource? My university only offers lectures and other RU-vid or websites are too much more than what is gonna be in the exam so it'll be unnecessary for a 3-5weeks period of the course to learn
I think pharmacy is a whole different ball game. Those are all the resources I used for medical school. You can give those a shot or trying asking classmates or googling the best resources for your board exams! Sorry I’m not much help in this area.
