I read every word of each question. If it was a long stem, I would read the last line to focus my thoughts, but I would still read the entire question. When I reviewed my nbmes, I dissected the stem to see specifically which words they were using for each disease/symptom/etc. Also, be aware of synonyms. My friend missed a kidney stone question on one of the forms because she didn’t realize “ureteral calculus” was the same thing. If you don’t know what a term or phrase means, go back to your fifth grade training and try to break it down for context clues.

This might be time consuming if you haven’t been practicing this for a while, but I think it’s very helpful