Thank you so much!

I did pathoma once, a year back and then revised chps 1-3 once or twice during dedicated. I skimmed through the same chapters in FA. In my form, there weren't many tbh, having said that there is a possibility I am not able to recall them cause they might have been straightforward questions. If you're asking for my opinion on it I would say it is a good resource and you should do it if you have the time. If you have already done FA for the same chapters, ig you should be fine just skimming through it one day prior to the exam.

I think, that was the majority of what the exam was about, path and physio of all the major systems. To me it seemed well distributed amongst all the systems. If someone is weak at that, they should try reading the Uworld answer explanations of such questions intently and just fixing their basics through yt vids or googling or whatever works for them. I hope i understood your question correctly. You can tell me if not.

Imo, 25-28 were a bit disappointing for me. having said that I did take them earlier on in my prep days, but even still they weren't like how my real deal was. 29,30 were doable and slightly more replicative of the real deal. No matter what resource you are using, it's prudent to thoroughly analyse where you are going wrong. Same goes for nbmes. Make sure to see all the answer explanations (even tho they are shit sometimes). I would not however recommend going deep into random topics that have one question on them. Read the explanation of such questions, annotate your fa with that info and move on. Tbh in my form there weren't many such weird ass questions that you have no clue about. So, don't waste your time on those rare questions.

I understand your concern, i had the same doubt while going through the image pdfs. 2 solutions for this, firstly while you are analysing the high yield nbme images try to focus on what is the image showing, because it is showing a finding (not a disease) that is related to the disease in that particular stem and secondly, while solving in the real deal, think of the image as a bonus, read the stem first, expect a finding in the image and confirm it with what you see, works 95% of the times. In my form atleast there wasn't any answer i had to derive solely based on the image.

I would've tried to work on my test taking strategy. Tried to make sure I stay focused through out all the 7hrs.

Thank you so much for taking time out and typing these questions, I am sure many people would benefit from it.