Thread: Semester 2 Final Advice Please

With the SHELF examinations gone for the time being, they now have local finals written by the professors. Could any current 3rd/4th semester students please offer their advice on how to do well on the final?

For anatomy, I know it is recommended to do Dr. M's questions on the G-drive, especially the head and neck questions. I am more worried about biochem and DPS. If you could offer advice/tips on all the subjects, what to focus on, how to study, how in-depth, what resources are the best, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Although it's been a long while since I was in 2nd semester, I don't think my advice would be much different.

Head and neck is extremely important as is cardio. What you want to do is figure out how much time was spend on each topic during lecture and use that to determine how much time you spend studying for each area... They normally test more on what they spent more time on during lecture...

Any hand outs giving during lecture containing practice questions are usually pretty golden... as are the questions on the g-drive. Essentially, focus on what was covered in your lecture notes, payer close attention to anything clinically relevant. Best of luck!

BTW, why did they get rid of the shelf exams??? Those were great!! Although hard, they were very predictive of the comp and eventual step... plus it was nice having an external means of testing... Will Ross be bringing them back?? B/c they were truly great exams.

That I know. The semester ahead of me when I was in 1st semester (I am 4th right now) were passing files around that had roughly 80% of the questions from the shelf exam in it.

for Biochem, try to integrate 1st semester material with 2nd semester material. For vitamins, don't go in detail. get the general picture. Biochem final for me was hard but very doable. For the french guy's tri nucleotide repeat, know just the general, too. U def. have to know how to do the calculations. esp. for Dr. S and there was another prof. i forgot his name. Anyway, they gave u the breakdown, right?

Originally Posted by wingedevil

for Biochem, try to integrate 1st semester material with 2nd semester material. For vitamins, don't go in detail. get the general picture. Biochem final for me was hard but very doable. For the french guy's tri nucleotide repeat, know just the general, too. U def. have to know how to do the calculations. esp. for Dr. S and there was another prof. i forgot his name. Anyway, they gave u the breakdown, right?

Just that we have 80 questions, 61 hours taught in semester 1 and 54 hours taught in semester 2. That's the only information they've given us.

when i was in 2nd, they gave us the breakdown like Dr. S would have 10 Qs and Dr. L might have 6 Qs. There were some prof who had only 4 Qs like Dr. B and I didn't bother looking at any of his lecture.

Yeah, well our class is supposedly the smartest class to go through Ross and the class with the lowest attrition rate. Something has to give this semester right? Biochem dept is pushing it hard to make students repeat.

Originally Posted by RossMERPMD

Yeah, well our class is supposedly the smartest class to go through Ross and the class with the lowest attrition rate. Something has to give this semester right? Biochem dept is pushing it hard to make students repeat.

Dude stop coming up with excuses......you aren't studying hard enough its not that they are failing you on purpose ..... go studying instead of lingering on VMD

Originally Posted by DEQNY85

Dude stop coming up with excuses......you aren't studying hard enough its not that they are failing you on purpose ..... go studying instead of lingering on VMD

dude RossMERPMD is one of the smarter guys I've talked to. He's doing really well at Ross.