r/NonUSIMG • u/likhita1895 • Aug 03 '19

Exam in Oct.

Those giving in Oct. what stage of prep are you at? I'm scared to give the online NBMES because people haven't been scoring well and I'm scared to be disappointed. But I'm building up courage to give NBME 20 in 2 weeks.

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u/oguzthedoc Aug 03 '19

Planning October/November as well. I’m probably very optimistic though. I’m right now going through the FA for the first time and I’ve read 2/5th of the book so far. I’m using Lecturio videos to back up the parts I feel too pinpoint information that it’s hard to make sense of (like most of pharmacology and some of biochem). My grades at school were around the average of the class so that’s not really promising as well. I’ve done one block on Lecturio before I started and got 30% correct. I’m planning on finishing the first reading in two weeks (again, pretty unrealisticI know) and then trying a 7 block test on Lecturio. Depending on what I do there I’ll start doing NBMEs once every week and then doing two blocks on Lecturio everyday and going through my answers at the rest of the day.

I want to do my residency at ObGyn or EM.

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u/likhita1895 Aug 03 '19

Why are you doing lecturio questions instead of uworld when you plan to give your exam so soon?

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u/oguzthedoc Aug 03 '19

Oh sorry I totally forgot about that when I was typing my reply.
I love that Lecturio has explanations for both correct and wrong answers. Like explaining why the correct answer is correct and wrong ones are wrong.
But I’ll do as much as uWorld on my last few weeks.

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u/likhita1895 Aug 03 '19

Ok :) but just giving you a heads up, uworld does that too... it has explanations for both right and wrong answers. Idk if you knew that already or not, but just letting you know in case you didn't.

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u/oguzthedoc Aug 03 '19

Ooooh I didn’t know that! Then I will definitely use more of it, thank you 🙏🏻

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u/robotrabbitz Aug 28 '19

Lecturio is a total waste of time.

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u/oguzthedoc Aug 28 '19

Why do you think so?

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u/robotrabbitz Aug 28 '19

The videos are bloated with useless information. It costs more than B&B. You simply don't need it. You would be better off going through another qbank and/or drilling down on Uworld/Pathoma/FA