I can assure you that Godschosenone is one of the finest assets that SMU has. Never does Godschosenone do anything to tip the scales, and he is always, not only fully prepared for the exams, but he is willing to help others who have been slacking (which often there are many of). I predict that he will be one of the few to tear apart Step 1, and he will have done so by hard work and determination without regard for complaints and negativity. He is one of the most humble of students out there (even if his confidence is misperceived as arrogance). Integrity and determination goes a lot further than negativity and cynicism. Just my 2 cents.

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hey godschosen one, first of all dr. J did not give us 90% of the questions...Stop exagerating your stuff, Second of all i did well by reading the guytun once and then going over the notes a few times. Thats all it takes just 3-4 hours a day. So dont go calling this class easy when i busted my butt reading that big book and doing well on exams. Keep that crap to yourself... and JTP im sure your a great student but you dont have to defend this dude. If this is the guy i think he is, then he always shows off and is gving his opinion like he is always right....its really that whole group in the front left. Well i just dont like my hard work to be put down. My grade wasnt handed to me. BTW there was like only 8-9 questions that i recognized so thats a far cry from 90%.

Dallasdoc,

Sorry, but you are way off. There were at least 50 questions that were straight from his question bank. NO doubt about it. That's good if you studied hard...it's only going to help you in the end. That doesn't change the fact that we had a very easy test.

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and I predict that you have absolutely no idea who will and who will not tear apart Step 1.

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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” Confucius

Thank You.


If you actually read my complaint, my hard work and yours
was not rewarded, because the grades were dished out.
I dont understand why you people keep lieing to yourselves.

I'd like to first say I'm not trying to disrespect anyone or make the claim that anyone did well on an exam for any other reason other than that they studied hard/well.
But Dr. J may not be the best prof on earth, in fact I think he'd do MUCH better instructing people that are trying to earn a PhD in physio, not an M.D. But that's just my oppinion based on how things were when I had him last semester. I also know that Dr. J is an emotional person and if I had to GUESS this man is trying to please the students AND save his job at SMU.
With that being said, I also think (personaly) that this man WAS a wonderful professor, he pushed me harder than anyone at SMU. I don't know what he's like now...but I sure hope he didn't give the questions word for word.
The reason I say all of this is because I think that Dr. J is a good man and wants nothing but the best for his students, weather his students believe it's true or not.

Rod

If you want to know for sure how the class is SOOOOO much easier this semester ask some of those repeaters in your class this semester. In prior semesters exam questions were never given out before hand. The power point presentations you guys have are great compared to other semesters. I hear that Dr. ***'s lectures are much better too not that they were all that bad before they just had a cell bio/histo focus instead of a physio focus. Dr. *** is not a bad teacher and a heck of a nice guy so if he is making the effort to help your semester don't bite the hand that feeds you. Just make sure you read Guyton, Kaplan and the power points and really understand the material.

My 2 cents

Sounds like good advice to me. And still, it's early. I don't hear the fat lady singing. So I don't know about you, but I am surely going to keep hitting my book--Medical Review of Physio--and I am still going to keep hitting the Kaplan and First Aid. I've been told that, if you know Physio, everything else will be just that much easier to understand. Can anyone tell me where I got this quote, "You gotta know the concepts"? If you know the answer, my guess is that you are on the right track to Step 1 success.

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Hey guys,
I am not here to argue or defend anyone, but I just wanted to share what I thought of the exam. I thought it was not fair to the students that worked hard, like really hard-- from understanding the concepts, to learning everything on his slides. I busted *** in this class, and I hope this entire *** busting will help me on the shelf and ultimately on the boards. I was disappointed in the fact that the students that just memorized questions and passed, claim to know all the concepts and how smart they think they are, sorry guys you’re just fooling yourself. You may have made an A, B…but do you think if you took a US medical school physiology exam, you would have got that grade? I am not pointing fingers, but you should ask yourself that. I just feel bad for my classmates who are being fooled in thinking that they are solid in Physiology because they passed a test that was pretty much given to us. To all my classmates, please don’t take this class lightly now thinking you can study the night before, and memorize questions, so you can study physiology everyday with less stress, and little motivation. I want everyone in class to do awesome on the boards, and beat me….don’t cheat your self, because I surely did in last semesters classes and I’m sure I’ll be paying for it. Hope this forum ends. BTW….JTP3 man, seriously bro…..i love you man, but you don’t have to tell us that you study Kaplan, Pass Programs, First Aid…yada yada everyday. Do it for your self, stay quiet and study hard…..rock the boards. Good luck guys.