Its a foreign school. Im not sure if its black mail but supposly you can take only 1 yr leave of absence. So maybe thats the issue. Although I am trying to get a extention it is just adding more than needed stress in my life right now.

I have done the extened kaplan in chicago. I droped $16,000 + plus for the review and housing (not including cost of food and transportation). It didnt help.

What might have helped was doing PASS program first and than kaplan. So I recommend if anyone that has the funds and want to do both programs do PASS first and than KAPLAN.

Well I do do first aid. I felt the only thing first aid really helped me with was the pharm and micro sections on USMLE. For everything else it seemed like those basterds (USMLE) were asking everything else that was not in first aid. So i dont know if memorizing is enough. I need to learn to put 2 + 2 together to get 4. This is probably the problem I am having. I think my knowledge is there but applying it is a issue.

16,000 ? - just for kaplan ? ...then u did pass also ? ....man these things don't necessarily work - they play on your insecurities ..they use your fear for their benefit

maybe u should do the videos and go at your own pace ?
Whats your highest NBME ?

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Yeah it was like 8 or 9 grand for the course plus like 8 grand for the housing.

Highest NBME was 370.

I have the old kaplan videos but some are very bad quality. I have purchased new ones from someone last week and waiting for him to send it to me. He says it takes time to copy all the videos. I dont think I have time to wach them all but was planning on atleast doing the weaker subjects. My systems (renal, cardio, resp, etc..) are good but my subjects are weak (physio, genetics, hiso, cell bio, etc..) so i was planning on doing the videos for them.

Although I foucused mainly on physio and biochem my physio score was 1 of the lowest scores on my exam. I cant understand why. I know like physio renal prob fall under the renal part but according to the report my physio was low. Not sure why.

I used my knowledge about physio with pharm and path questions and those scores were ok. Simply what I did was pharm is how you can rev up physio or inhibit physio. And Pathology is PHYSIO GONE WILD. So my scores were alright for those.

I have recently purchased the Kaplan Medical Essential book and have been doing that along with my kaplan books (the older ones that I got from the course) and FA, and UW.

Im not sure what I should do to increase the scores. I am just stressing and fustrated.

1. stop stressing and being frustrated
2. take some time away from the books - maybe 1 week ...no studying , just fun stuff ..clear your mind
3.return to work hard ...with just a few resources
4.pray hard and don't think about failing

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Sounds good but 1 week is too long if I need to meet the deadline for the school

so take one day or two days ...u'll return with a fresher mind

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there's plenty of schools that will let you transfer into their 5th semester. there was a guy in my ICM who had to transfer because he failed the first time and was close to being dismissed because of time limits also (i think he was from Ross). after he transfered, he studied and passed partly because he didn't have that stress anymore.

i'm NOT endorsing my school by any means, i'm just saying if you are close to being forced into something you don't like, transfer. on the other hand, buckle down, break out the coffee, and study like hell.

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he;s been in it so long that having more time would not necessarily do him more good . Maybe they have time limits for a good reason .

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a year is a long time, i started forgetting things the day after the exam. maybe it was due to the excessive drinking.

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