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Thank you so much for your help, I am so sorry for bugging you again, but there were lots of complications trying to make schedule and other problems, and I haven't started. sorry for disappearing for while, but I am now back online and ready to go.
I have delayed my test until June, and it is now March. I took NBME in Jan and scored 160. Do you think its possible to increase to 240 range by June?
I have saved up so much loan money and put in so much money and time just planning, but not actually studying. Which was a huge mistake. Not taking the Falcon review course in Jan was quite easily the biggest mistake of my life.
I have Kaplan videos, and 2010 lecture notes. I have DIT videos. I have old PASS videos. I have every book imaginable, I have USMLErx, Kaplan Qbank, and UWorld.
I just don't know how to start, I think its my ADD.
1. I see that you had put BRS for pathology. Why do you not suggest listening to Goljan audio while annotating Rapid Review?
2. I understand Kaplan Biochemisty and Kaplan Behavioral are the best of Kaplan series (maybe physio too) and are best? sources for those subjects. But as these are lecture notes, what is your opinion on watching the videos with them?
I think people say the Kaplan physio videos are best of all videos?
3. What do you recommend for the other subjects,
Neuroscience (I have old HighYield, but some people recommending Kaplan lecture notes)
Embryo? FA only?
Cell Bio? the 1999 HY is famous from Taus religion
Genetics? or is this included with Biochem from Kaplan LE
Behavioral? I was newer BRS by Fadem and really old HY by Fadem, I want to use old because it's shorter?
Biostats? people say HY is best here? or kaplan vids enough?
is FA enough for all of pharm?
I want to read constanzo textbook for physiology, but everybody says no time. but since i lack background, am thinking at least read high yield chapters, like cardio, lung, and renal only?
CMMRS, can i Just read it front to back?
Immuno? Kaplan, HY immuno, and Lange are all discussed
QUESTIONS:
I think this is where I'm having my most dread now. Could you please help me here. Uw is best. qbank is 2. and urx is third. i was going to do all three four times each because I NEED A SCORE. and ALL THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO WHETHER YOU ARE WEAK IN BACKGROUND SCIENCES OR NOT, and ESP IF YOU ARE, A SEVERE amount of QUESTIONS can make you a 230+ because of all the connections they make, no?
Lately I threw out USMLERx and decided that as I studied each subject I would do Qbank on that subject to solidify, and finish all qbank.
Then as I got closer to exam, and actually had enough studying under my belt to answer questions correctly, I would do random UW in tutor mode and annotate FA with information.
Then week before test, do TIMED everyday and read MY ANNOTATED FA AT NIGHT. But how I was going to make Kaplan Qbank and UWorld two times each I had not figured out.
But now because it's March, and test is in June, I want to ask you a very important question. Do you feel throwing Qbank out entirely will hurt my score? I want to do Qbank and world both 2 times each. But is there enough time for that. I do not believe I am as fast as you are, and there are some thought trends and evidence that lead me to believe that the COST of ignoring Qbank entirely is minimal, maybe 5 pts, compared to the BENEFIT of doing UWorld 2 times, or 3 times?
Maybe once i MASTER world, i can then go back to do Qbank until exam if there is time.
I want to take latest possible date IN June I can get, which is 3rd week it seems.
I am so sorry for all the confusion and annoying questions. I deeply apologize. but you are a genius and I would love for your opinion and response to my posts. It seems that your USMLE score can be almost 50% based on STRATEGY alone, which is why am being so difficult to make super plan, and I know it must be difficult for you to put up with me.
I already hole punched and cut the binding of my FA and RR as per TAUS method back in early January, just haven't read them yet. I was going to modify taus and hole punch ALL my texts and create super binders for each system/subject. like I wanted lungs, renal, and cardio, to each have there own binder, with all the FA pages, RR pages, and pharmacology and EVERYTHING for each, in its own binder. Then I would work out the GI binder maybe, and have subject ones too, biochemistry binder, micro binder, and behavioral.
But then i realized this is going AGAINST the PURPOSE and DESIGN of tuas method which is to ESSENTIALLY MAKE ONE AND ONLY ONE SUPER BINDER that can be read everyday the last week of prep as you do UW questions. so am I off in this regard?
And as Taus method goes, how did you actually annotate into FA, and what books did you read and annotate, and which did you just read, because there is way too much to fit it all into FA. Am thinking of annotating everything except path. and keeping RR path on its own? but then I have two big things, and each time I annotate a UW question, i wont know where to put it.
Okay I am going to stop ..
I am so sorry. honestly. I wish I were better at explaining my situation.
Please Please ask me about anything you don't understand and I will clarify for you. sorry. And if you think 240 is impossible, then please tell me and adjust your advice for obtaining a possible score. I know you have insane score, which makes me believe that you know the test in and out, so you can understand the deeper design behind the test and can BETTER PREDICT how these different methods and sources of prep will affect final score. Thank you, i know its 240 long shot from 160, but I am going to study 14 hrs a day, 7 days a week, until June. its only 3 months of my original 6 month plan, but nothing to it, but just to do it now. I feel my score will shoot up initally from studying, but am scared of early plateau. did you have that problem or know how to avoid it?
I have delayed my test until June, and it is now March. I took NBME in Jan and scored 160. Do you think its possible to increase to 240 range by June?
I have saved up so much loan money and put in so much money and time just planning, but not actually studying. Which was a huge mistake. Not taking the Falcon review course in Jan was quite easily the biggest mistake of my life.
I have Kaplan videos, and 2010 lecture notes. I have DIT videos. I have old PASS videos. I have every book imaginable, I have USMLErx, Kaplan Qbank, and UWorld.
I just don't know how to start, I think its my ADD.
1. I see that you had put BRS for pathology. Why do you not suggest listening to Goljan audio while annotating Rapid Review?
2. I understand Kaplan Biochemisty and Kaplan Behavioral are the best of Kaplan series (maybe physio too) and are best? sources for those subjects. But as these are lecture notes, what is your opinion on watching the videos with them?
I think people say the Kaplan physio videos are best of all videos?
3. What do you recommend for the other subjects,
Neuroscience (I have old HighYield, but some people recommending Kaplan lecture notes)
Embryo? FA only?
Cell Bio? the 1999 HY is famous from Taus religion
Genetics? or is this included with Biochem from Kaplan LE
Behavioral? I was newer BRS by Fadem and really old HY by Fadem, I want to use old because it's shorter?
Biostats? people say HY is best here? or kaplan vids enough?
is FA enough for all of pharm?
I want to read constanzo textbook for physiology, but everybody says no time. but since i lack background, am thinking at least read high yield chapters, like cardio, lung, and renal only?
CMMRS, can i Just read it front to back?
Immuno? Kaplan, HY immuno, and Lange are all discussed
QUESTIONS:
I think this is where I'm having my most dread now. Could you please help me here. Uw is best. qbank is 2. and urx is third. i was going to do all three four times each because I NEED A SCORE. and ALL THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO WHETHER YOU ARE WEAK IN BACKGROUND SCIENCES OR NOT, and ESP IF YOU ARE, A SEVERE amount of QUESTIONS can make you a 230+ because of all the connections they make, no?
Lately I threw out USMLERx and decided that as I studied each subject I would do Qbank on that subject to solidify, and finish all qbank.
Then as I got closer to exam, and actually had enough studying under my belt to answer questions correctly, I would do random UW in tutor mode and annotate FA with information.
Then week before test, do TIMED everyday and read MY ANNOTATED FA AT NIGHT. But how I was going to make Kaplan Qbank and UWorld two times each I had not figured out.
But now because it's March, and test is in June, I want to ask you a very important question. Do you feel throwing Qbank out entirely will hurt my score? I want to do Qbank and world both 2 times each. But is there enough time for that. I do not believe I am as fast as you are, and there are some thought trends and evidence that lead me to believe that the COST of ignoring Qbank entirely is minimal, maybe 5 pts, compared to the BENEFIT of doing UWorld 2 times, or 3 times?
Maybe once i MASTER world, i can then go back to do Qbank until exam if there is time.
I want to take latest possible date IN June I can get, which is 3rd week it seems.
I am so sorry for all the confusion and annoying questions. I deeply apologize. but you are a genius and I would love for your opinion and response to my posts. It seems that your USMLE score can be almost 50% based on STRATEGY alone, which is why am being so difficult to make super plan, and I know it must be difficult for you to put up with me.
I already hole punched and cut the binding of my FA and RR as per TAUS method back in early January, just haven't read them yet. I was going to modify taus and hole punch ALL my texts and create super binders for each system/subject. like I wanted lungs, renal, and cardio, to each have there own binder, with all the FA pages, RR pages, and pharmacology and EVERYTHING for each, in its own binder. Then I would work out the GI binder maybe, and have subject ones too, biochemistry binder, micro binder, and behavioral.
But then i realized this is going AGAINST the PURPOSE and DESIGN of tuas method which is to ESSENTIALLY MAKE ONE AND ONLY ONE SUPER BINDER that can be read everyday the last week of prep as you do UW questions. so am I off in this regard?
And as Taus method goes, how did you actually annotate into FA, and what books did you read and annotate, and which did you just read, because there is way too much to fit it all into FA. Am thinking of annotating everything except path. and keeping RR path on its own? but then I have two big things, and each time I annotate a UW question, i wont know where to put it.
Okay I am going to stop ..
I am so sorry. honestly. I wish I were better at explaining my situation.
Please Please ask me about anything you don't understand and I will clarify for you. sorry. And if you think 240 is impossible, then please tell me and adjust your advice for obtaining a possible score. I know you have insane score, which makes me believe that you know the test in and out, so you can understand the deeper design behind the test and can BETTER PREDICT how these different methods and sources of prep will affect final score. Thank you, i know its 240 long shot from 160, but I am going to study 14 hrs a day, 7 days a week, until June. its only 3 months of my original 6 month plan, but nothing to it, but just to do it now. I feel my score will shoot up initally from studying, but am scared of early plateau. did you have that problem or know how to avoid it?