Saturday, January 25, 2014

Step 1 of Step 1

Now that I've had some time to do the things I need to do for Step 1, I've had to make some adjustments.  I'm still trying to keep up with DIT questions and primers because I do think I learn from doing these.  People are rather critical of the DIT questions, but I find them useful.  I'm trying to do 20 questions from UWorld each day and my goal is to go through the QBank once before my dedicated study period.  I am also trying to read ~10 pages of First Aid per day so that when my dedicated study period rolls around and I start doing the DIT video series, I will already be familiar with it.  I haven't been sticking to my schedule because I'm finding that juggling classes with Step 1 studying is harder than I thought, but I've been using this weekend to catch up.  I'm averaging about a ~40% on my UWorld questions which is rather demoralizing, but I'm just starting out, so hopefully that will start going up.  As for First Aid, I don't even know how to annotate the darn thing!  Everyone is like, "annotate it from UWorld", but I'm jumping around so much that I don't find that it's useful to annotate after doing UWorld questions.  Maybe I should just do questions from whatever section I'm reading, but people tell me not to do that because then it gives me a false sense of knowledge.  That said, I think I'm going to try doing one subject at a time rather than all of them because that way I can focus in and see what I suck at and what I...suck less at. ;) Wish me luck and if you've already taken Step 1, I would love to hear some study tips, strategies, and well wishes (from everyone/anyone).  


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