(Assume S = Chair of Behavioral Dept.)

What do you guys think of S's teaching in behavioral science? Would you say that his teaching is geared toward helping you do well on exams, or not?

In the few lectures that I went to, I'd say I couldn't make sense of half of what he says. For me, it's his accent and word choice that make the class tough. I guess he's a little disorganized too maybe?

I really have no other way to test myself other than by using BRS review book. And I do pretty good in the little quizzes in BRS. But on the mini's...... I do horribly. I can't figure out if
1) his questions are just not well made
2) his questions are just too good and too challenging
3) I just don't know enough, or didn't put in enough time.


The MPS for mini 1 was 55%, which is the lowest possible MPS that school policy will allow. No one knows what the actual mean of Mini 1 is though. But based on the mps, I'd say that i'm not the only one who sucks at behavioral.

for those of you who have already taken Step 1, are behavioral science questions more like S's questions, or more like BRS questions?

They're more like Kaplan questions...

BRS questions are too easy.

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Go to class. In most of his lectures he'll give little hints to what he'll ask on the exam. He won't directly say it out front but he'll say this is important or so and so. All I did was go to class and put hardly any time studying afterwards and did fine on the minis. That class is kinda strange, it's really hard to prepare for that exam just like ICM will be in 4th.

True. Go to class and take good note. His easy going attitude makes you think what he says is not that important but he's actually talking about the points he will test you. You need to study a little deeper than what he mentioned in class. i.e. he says schizophrenia is treated with Haloperidol. You gotta know how to describe a schizophrenia patient because he's not gonna say the word "schizophrenia" on the test, he just describe the patient behavior and you have to recognize that he's talking about psychosis/schizophrenia patient, then pick the drug.
Anyway, Behavior science was the hardest class I ever take on the island. I was clueless. I can never recognize patient with paranoid, OCD, mania... I read the stem of the question and don't know what heck is wrong with the patient to pick the answer choice for disease management. If they say "bipolar", I'll say "Lithium". But if they say patient is kinda mood swing and spend all her money in her bank account in 3 days. I don't know what the hell is wrong with her. Some people have health background, they skated through the class easily.

but if you do well on your oral exam and paper, your grade will be higher than expected.

I remember getting 60's on his mini's, a C on the write-up, and doing well on the oral and ended up getting an A in class.

Don't worry to much about the minis.

I have the same problem. I guess I'll try to spend more time memorizing typical symptoms and treatments and hopefully be able to apply them.



yeah. that's the good part. the class exams are only worth 55% of the total grade. Hopefully the shelf exam will be more manageable, if the shelf scandal ever gets resolved...

the same thing happened to me in DPS. I don't think I ever got above a 60% on mini's, but the oral portion boosted my grade.