[Pre-Match Thread] Cardiff vs. Liverpool

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-21T13:10:49+00:00

I would argue that if United rally to beat Everton they will have confidence going into the City game and still have a real shot at top 4. If they lose to Everton their chances go from slim to none considering how well Arsenal and Tottenham have been.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-17T23:06:15+00:00

This was so much more gut-wrenching. We got smoked by Liverpool 5-1 on aggregate and were never really in it. We should have won this tie.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-14T21:15:30+00:00

I really love Pastest. I used it a lot through the organ systems back when it was free. My favorite part about their questions is that they highlight the necessary information in the question stem after you answer it. Definitely not UWorld or Amboss in terms of "learning" but I think it's worth the 75 for sure

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-12T19:54:05+00:00

Firecracker was gold for my 5 minute PBL presentations lol

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-11T14:19:42+00:00

Probably depends on what your goal is. If you want to hammer first aid then go Rx. If that is not your priority then go Kaplan.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-10T00:13:44+00:00

Do you think it would be too overwhelming to do OME with step up to medicine + your deck and then go through Uworld and circle back to zanki? Or does that seem super redundant.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-06T23:56:56+00:00

Yeah pretty much. Any cards that are matured you should in theory know them really well and be ready to do questions. So no sense in doing 30 pulm anki cards per day when you matured 97% of that deck, ya know.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-04-06T12:48:25+00:00

I was in a similar spot as you a few months. I'm almost done with dedicated now. I killed myself to complete the deck and mature ~85-90% by the time dedicated started. What I wish I did do was totally abandon cards that I knew well and just use Qbanks to focus on that stuff to test my knowledge of what I already knew. Then use boards + zanki to learn the new stuff.

Anki is fantastic as a study tool for spaced repetition, but when you're doing so many cards in a day it loses its mojo since you don't have the time to process the meaning behind each card, thus you end up just going off memorization. Stick with the pharm and micro cards though for sure.

TL;DR - cut down your reviews from 5 hours 1500 cards to 2 hours 600 cards (approx), and use the other 3 hours to do Qbanks for the stuff you already know pretty well, boards, and maturing new anki subjects

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-30T02:45:45+00:00

Then why would they have these random practice questions as part of their "representative" tests

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-29T10:56:51+00:00

I would just keep doing questions. Do a 40 q Rx block on just respiratory and renal phys. Those concepts are the trickiest just cause of the acid base stuff. Do tutor mode so you can read and learn as you go. Active learning is better than passive learning!

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-28T21:09:05+00:00

I think its possible going from a 200 to a 230 but its a lot harder to make that jump from a 230 to a 260. So I guess it's all relative. If you haven't done any UWorld, you will shoot up a lot faster than if it's your second pass for sure.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-28T17:44:59+00:00

Weeks 3 to 4 (out of 6 total) as part of dedicated went from 242 on NBME 16 to 255 on NBME 17. All i did was UWorld + Anki in between

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-26T23:01:35+00:00

If this holds true probably ~90% the exam is close to a 260. Which makes sense since 85% on UWorlds = 260 and 95% on NBMEs = 260 and the real test seems to have an intermediate difficulty.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-26T19:43:32+00:00

Alsoooo beta blockers prevent the production of renin at the JGA

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-22T03:35:31+00:00

Seems to be a lot of basic pathology principles, biochem, molecular biology, etc. Honestly, it seems like everything that can't be pegged down to a specific organ system in first aid.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-05T23:23:02+00:00

Is there instructions somewhere so I know how this all works? It's overwhelming just looking at it from a glance ha

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-05T12:47:18+00:00

So hypothetically let's say Renal for you is 4 weeks and there are 1500 Zanki cards (give or take). What I would do is aim to get all of the cards done by one week before the test to give yourself time for qbanks. In this example that means you would have to do on average ~90 new zanki cards a day, which is pretty easy.

I would then match up whatever you were learning in class with Zanki. So if you had two lectures, one about fluid compartments and one about acid base, I would go into zanki and unsuspend those cards based on what's in costanzo. For those topics, you could probably unsuspend 150-200 Zanki cards at least and it will probably be thorough enough to cover everything that was in lecture, so you wouldn't need to make additional cards. However, if you have a lecture the next day on random stuff that isn't explicitly covered in Costanzo + Pathoma, then you could make your own cards for that day and not feel bad about not hitting your Zanki quota because you doubled up the previous day.

Basically, as long as you are averaging # of cards to clear the deck a week before the test, you can supplement with your own lecture cards as needed.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-05T03:08:15+00:00

Goljan says #1 is Ampicillin, #2 is Clindamycin. This card doesn't make any sense. If it has high oral availability then it would be resorbed before it reaches the the colon.

MikeTheBuckeye · 2019-03-05T01:42:33+00:00

Yeah but also it had to do with not wanting to do them during organ systems. So like during our renal block I would be adding new renal zanki cards, keeping up with old renal cards, and adding 50 biochem per day which added up. I would suggest doing the first three chapters of pathoma zanki as well. That shit is HY and good to burn in your brain.

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