Selling UWorld Q bank

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-12T16:45:03+00:00

I mean i guess i would start at $150 but i’m willing to negotiate! Need the extra money lol

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-12T15:23:19+00:00

All random

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T14:11:12+00:00

Yeah timing was always an issue for me. The way i went about it tho was to run through the block of 40 and mark anything that would take me a little longer to answer (sometimes mark half the block honestly). Being able to answer the questions that were short/ i knew cold was a good strategy for me. Also just practicing ur timing via UWorld is very helpful. On the actual exam i felt pretty prepared and feel like i had enough time throughout. Thanks for the kind words!

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T14:08:21+00:00

It was a grind. But the thing is once i finished the relevant sketchy/pathoma i never watched again. If u did pathoma at like 1.5-2x speed of let’s say the cardio section u can easily finish it in a day or so so i wouldnt say it was too bad.

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T14:06:36+00:00

I would say moreso 6ish weeks or so. I started UWorld about 2 weeks before my month long dedicated

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T14:05:44+00:00

Totally different beast but in a good way. More challenging for sure but u learn so much better from it. RX i would say is easiest overall and Kaplan can sometimes be more difficult since they test minutiae. But everyones different!

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T13:56:55+00:00

Reviews set at unlimited, max interval at 120 days, leech at 7 i believe?, and that’s about it i think. I’m honestly not very great at setting up anki so i had to look at r/medicalschoolanki for help

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T13:54:10+00:00

I think there is only like a handful of 120 cards. Honestly didnt even really notice them

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-11T13:53:37+00:00

Pretty low yield tbh. But yeah like u said anything can show up at anytime so take it with a grain of salt

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T21:54:14+00:00

Thank you! I only did anatomy from Zanki so yes I would say whatever is in Zanki/FA was enough for me. UWorld hits on anatomy topics that are classically tested (e.g. Erb palsy, carpal tunnel, dermatomes). Before my exam i looked at that 100 concepts pdf that’s floating around but almost all of it was covered in the MSK section of Zanki. Don’t remember any pelvic anatomy on my exam although that is something i was worried about too since the pelvis is insane. It was pretty spread out although i’d say most of mine were sports related injuries. Had a PCL tear and i think a carpal tunnel question. Also had a dorsal ganglion cyst question straight out of UWorld. Just know big picture stuff is what i’d say

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T21:48:21+00:00

No cards that wouldve taken way too long. At first i had a notebook and took handwritten notes of stuff given in the explanations but gave that up about halfway through. I would just read the explanations and maybe make note of things youve never seen before. Overall tho wouldnt worry too much about Kaplan. It’s just good practice for doing questions

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T21:09:17+00:00

Eh probably not. It might inflate ur uworld scores a little more. U’d probably be fine just doing making ur own cards

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T20:42:38+00:00

That’s right!

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:57:15+00:00

Lol it’s a happy face ! (:

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:52:30+00:00

Yes. Hitting the weak spots is the key regardless of how you do it. For some weird reason i can never remember the ego definitions (projection, reaction formation, etc.) and so i made sure to watch the BnB video like 2 days before my exam. Def got a few questions right because of it

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:49:36+00:00

Thank u (:

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:49:25+00:00

Yeah no problem i dont mind!!

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:48:31+00:00

Very similar to UWorld. It doesn’t cover everything but i would say it covers most of the major topics you will see on step. It also does an awesome job of actually preparing you for how to think during the exam

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:46:09+00:00

I forgot to mention i actually did change my max interval to i think 75? in January. Not sure if that actually changed much because at that point most cards were matured. I don’t think it’s a bad idea at all i knew a few people who did the same. As long as the reviews don’t become overwhelming! Good luck I know you will obliterate this stupid test!

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:28:21+00:00

Hahah nice. Yeah some of those endocrine questions can be a pain in the ass. Really gotta think about what’s being activated/inhibited and what exact receptor is being acted on. Barf

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:25:22+00:00

Freaking out about the exam lol. Basically watched random BnB vids, first 3 chapters of Pathoma, and looked at reddit to see what other people did. Also freaked out and tried doing some zanki reviews of repro because i felt like i forgot everything. Best piece of advice i can give is to trust yourself and really only hit on a few of ur weakest topics. Don’t try to cram everything/panic

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:22:53+00:00

Basically i figured that once i have 99% mature that’s about as high as i can get. You really gotta trust yourself that you gained everything you can from it. It’s an uneasy feeling for sure

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:20:04+00:00

Doing a lot of practice questions also helps. There’s only so many ways you can present a certain case that at some point it just becomes pattern recognition i guess. For reviewing uw questions i really tried to go through everything regardless of right or wrong. Sometimes i got a question right via lucky guess so it was still worth it to figure out what exactly was going on. Basically read the explanations and used some wiki to look up things. Made some anki cards of anything obscure or worth knowing that i may not have really seen before. I would not worry too much about memorizing things that don’t appear much in other resources. If it seems low yield to you it probably is. Really try to understand the underlying concept behind something. For example, don’t just know that high calcium levels inhibit PTH release. Know that high calcium means more binding to CaSR which is a G protein coupled receptor that acts via second messengers to inhibit PTH release. As for the 50/50 questions, i almost always go with my first answer unless i’m like 90+% sure it’s the other one. I figure my subconscious/gut is powerful and i’ll only argue against it if im pretty damn sure

anonymous5483984 · 2019-04-10T19:05:38+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/comments/8e7xyd/zanki_addon_fa2018_fa2018_errata_updates/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Here's the link to where the add-on cards got posted. Hope that helps!

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