jqd29
09-30-2006, 07:42 PM
i studied off and on for about 4 months. i would go hard for a few weeks, burn out, take a week off and start again.
so finally sat it on thursday...
my form was so heavy on molecular bio... omg.. so many things i had never seen NOT in fa or q bank.. not trying to be discouraging at all but wow.. i will say this:
i doubt i passed. i think thats supposed to be the way you feel but really wow i just dont think i did..
time was an issue on a few blocks. i skipped the tutorial and saved that break time gosh it came in handy.. i always took about 9-10 minutes between forms.
rarely though did i feel an answer "on the tip of my tongue" pretty much either knew it or didnt..
i would say i probably knew cold about 20%, another 15% i had a very good idea.. another third i could get to 50/50... and the last third, well, either had no clue or had never even heard of it...
so different from q-bank. many 2-3 tiered questions.. a few strait up, a select few...
i did all of q-bank (hitting 50's by the end) and nbme 1,2 and free 150... i saw ONE question that i had seen before. there are SO many ways to test a concept..
if i had it to do over again, i would have read first aid one more time. so many easy q's i left on the table b/c i didnt have f/a in my head quite enough. i did however take first aid with me and during the breaks i would read some random page of info i hadnt covered well in the past hoping for God to help me, and it was pretty awesome because i got an extra q EVERY block that way, once i got 3!
pharm was strait up, as was embryo. not enough anatomy.. behavioral science, my strong subject, was suprisingly tricky.
my advice then: just study consistently. absorb the concepts, dont worry about rote memorization... forget buzzwords, also they dont really ask strait medical terms always.. ascites could be a pendulous abdomen, a fluid filled peritoneum, a hard stomach, an inflammed abdomen, a swollen belly.. you get the idea...
anyway, best of luck friends. i hope you will take a deep breath and relax. the numbers are in your favor. :) God bless.
so finally sat it on thursday...
my form was so heavy on molecular bio... omg.. so many things i had never seen NOT in fa or q bank.. not trying to be discouraging at all but wow.. i will say this:
i doubt i passed. i think thats supposed to be the way you feel but really wow i just dont think i did..
time was an issue on a few blocks. i skipped the tutorial and saved that break time gosh it came in handy.. i always took about 9-10 minutes between forms.
rarely though did i feel an answer "on the tip of my tongue" pretty much either knew it or didnt..
i would say i probably knew cold about 20%, another 15% i had a very good idea.. another third i could get to 50/50... and the last third, well, either had no clue or had never even heard of it...
so different from q-bank. many 2-3 tiered questions.. a few strait up, a select few...
i did all of q-bank (hitting 50's by the end) and nbme 1,2 and free 150... i saw ONE question that i had seen before. there are SO many ways to test a concept..
if i had it to do over again, i would have read first aid one more time. so many easy q's i left on the table b/c i didnt have f/a in my head quite enough. i did however take first aid with me and during the breaks i would read some random page of info i hadnt covered well in the past hoping for God to help me, and it was pretty awesome because i got an extra q EVERY block that way, once i got 3!
pharm was strait up, as was embryo. not enough anatomy.. behavioral science, my strong subject, was suprisingly tricky.
my advice then: just study consistently. absorb the concepts, dont worry about rote memorization... forget buzzwords, also they dont really ask strait medical terms always.. ascites could be a pendulous abdomen, a fluid filled peritoneum, a hard stomach, an inflammed abdomen, a swollen belly.. you get the idea...
anyway, best of luck friends. i hope you will take a deep breath and relax. the numbers are in your favor. :) God bless.