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Hello every body,im studying for this exam 4 past 3.5 yrs...i have failed once,,and now i took the date for 31st march,,i took nbme 5 last month on 6th feb,,n got 360,,i marked the right answers for 10-12 qs then remarked them ending up in the wrong answer,the rest of nbmes i took downloaded ,,was scoring 28-33/block, i also gave UW form 1,,got 30,31,26,28 can any 1 tell me,,
WHAT TO DO? WHEN TO TAKE THE EXAM? HOW TO PASS?
I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO?HOW MANY SUBJECTS 2 READ/DAY? HOW 2 DIVIDE MY TIME
Im a fm,un-married,,no other priorities,i wasted 4 yrs of my life 4 this exam,,n im standing at the spot i started from,,CAN ANY ONE HELP ME
THANKU AND MAY GOD BLESS EACH 1 OF U ON YOUR EXAM DAY
BYE
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1. Do not appear to the test with those scores.
2. Plan again the strategy in how to burst your scores
3. At your point......I prefer you read 12 hours a day for 6 months, rather than 6 hours a day for 12 months, since step 1 material is very volatil.
I am going to give you a 6 week schedule that i used for my preparation but i want you to be very discipline.
I know you have all day, so lets brake the day in different subjects and lets break your study time like this.
Fist week:
Mornings: do anatomy, histology, and embriology notes
Afternoon: do anatomy, histology and embriology uw question bank
Night ..lets say after 6 pm. Do pathology...read goljan
Weekend: do mix questions about anatomy, histology, embriology and pathology
At this point do not worry so much about wich chapter of pathology, whichever is good since you have 2 or 3 readings so far)
Second week:
Mornings: do physiology notes ( is up to you go over the book, or your notes taken already)
Afternoon: start the afternoon doing 1 hour antomy, or histology or embriology. If you do this in 5 days, you have 5 complete hours of review of what you did last week.
Then
The rest of the afternoon do physiology questions
Night......after 6 pm. keep doing goljan ( read the book, listen audios, go over notes ) whatever...i want you to do pathology every day at night since pathology is kind of 50 percent or more of the test.
The weekend of the second week i want you to do this:
Saturday morning do physiology questions from uw, if find some concept that you are geting wrong, go over notes and review it.
Saturday afternoon: do pathology
Saturday night: watch a movie or go for a walk
Sunday:
mix questions anatomy, histo, embrio, physicology and pathology
Call my cellphone after the second week and i will write you here the plan for 3th and 4th week.
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Hi, would you be willing to share the rest of the schedule? I'm kind of in the same spot and your suggestions seem very helpful. Thanks.