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alright, so i'm finally done with the test.. definity feel relieved but unsure of my performance.. and like the rest, i've been readin this listserve for the past month so thought i'd contribute...
heres some general points that i got out of the test
1.) its not THAT bad.... and take it from me... i was startin to freak out last week, just feelin as if i kept forgettin everyting i read and that i just couldnt study all this.... i was goin thru qbank questions and even tho scorin 50-70% seemed like it was about 'average' of what everyone else was doin... i couldnt help feelin like that was such a low score and indicative of 50-30% more of stuff that i didnt know.. basically, i was really worred about takin the test and fearful of all the horror stories.
so my advice to others would be that its not THAT bad and dont freak out
2.) give that... it is PRETTY bad.... haha... what i mean by that is that, there are a good percentage of questions that were just like wtf.... personally, i agree with some other posters who suggested that the test was nearly 1/3rd easy you kno it right away, 1/3 narrow down to bout 2 and just guess, and 1/3 that went over my head even after i read it twice, so i just had to make my best guess.
3.) you really cant "study' that much for the test..... i kinda agree w/another poster who said some of the test was based on 'common sense' knowledge.... so in that sense, its hard to study and prepare for it. also... a good amount of the questions were presented in chart/graph form and its not really something you 'studied'. honestly, i feel like studyin first aid did not help that much.... the 'high yield' points werent really what was tested... its hard to explain, you just gotta take it for yourself.
4.) i will have to say to be careful and read thru all the answer choices tho... because.. just off the top of my mind, there was one question which i coulda gotta wrong had i not re-read the all the answers again.... i guess i cant post the specific answer.. but i will just say it had something to do with knowing the actual acroqnam (sp??) of something.... for example... if you kno that TSH was the asnwer... but didnt know TSH stood for thyroid stimulating hormone.. as opposed to somethign like thyroid suppressing hormone... then you may have gotten it wrong.. so just be careful.
alright... my specific test....... i got very little pharm.. or at least felt it was little... of what i did get, most of it was first aid... althouh not all... physio... kinda difficult on some questions... nothing really stated out like adolesterone increases Na reabsorptiaon.. instead, itd be something like a person on such a diet and what happens to his extracellular volume/osmolarity/etc.
path... not so bad... although some were kinda hard too... like the question would present a patient who was sickle cell and hypertensive, then ask about something relating to an organ pathology. again, 1/3rd would be pretty easy... etc
micro/immuno... not bad .. i think first aid is sufficient. had about 5 questions or so that required knowin classifications such as virluance factors/lab tests.. other than that it was mostly disease presentation.
biochem... hardly any quesitons.. i think there was 10 or so.. not many lysosomal/glycogen either.. what i had was mostly regulatory enzymes.
anatomy... this section i blew off.. cuz i didnt really get to study for it... ended up w/bout 15q on them... 4 of which had to do with the circle of willis... oh wellz
behavior... this was the suprise section for me... it felt like there were at least 3 quesitons eeach block that asked a 'what do you say to the patient' scernio... but there were kinda difficult i think... nothing that match exactly like the examples given in first aid/ BRS Beahvior.. so i just made my pick.... but id say some of the quesitons were stupid... one i rem, required knowin the difference between a 'core gender identiy crisis' versus 'transvetisim'?! see... thats just a example of something that you really cant study.
anyways.... i guess thats it... went by fast.. pray that i passed.. i had high expections before i started studyin, but as it got on (6 months) i just burnt myself out and i think worried too much about it... so main advice is to just try your best and study the main diseases and then just take the sucker.
heres some general points that i got out of the test
1.) its not THAT bad.... and take it from me... i was startin to freak out last week, just feelin as if i kept forgettin everyting i read and that i just couldnt study all this.... i was goin thru qbank questions and even tho scorin 50-70% seemed like it was about 'average' of what everyone else was doin... i couldnt help feelin like that was such a low score and indicative of 50-30% more of stuff that i didnt know.. basically, i was really worred about takin the test and fearful of all the horror stories.
so my advice to others would be that its not THAT bad and dont freak out
2.) give that... it is PRETTY bad.... haha... what i mean by that is that, there are a good percentage of questions that were just like wtf.... personally, i agree with some other posters who suggested that the test was nearly 1/3rd easy you kno it right away, 1/3 narrow down to bout 2 and just guess, and 1/3 that went over my head even after i read it twice, so i just had to make my best guess.
3.) you really cant "study' that much for the test..... i kinda agree w/another poster who said some of the test was based on 'common sense' knowledge.... so in that sense, its hard to study and prepare for it. also... a good amount of the questions were presented in chart/graph form and its not really something you 'studied'. honestly, i feel like studyin first aid did not help that much.... the 'high yield' points werent really what was tested... its hard to explain, you just gotta take it for yourself.
4.) i will have to say to be careful and read thru all the answer choices tho... because.. just off the top of my mind, there was one question which i coulda gotta wrong had i not re-read the all the answers again.... i guess i cant post the specific answer.. but i will just say it had something to do with knowing the actual acroqnam (sp??) of something.... for example... if you kno that TSH was the asnwer... but didnt know TSH stood for thyroid stimulating hormone.. as opposed to somethign like thyroid suppressing hormone... then you may have gotten it wrong.. so just be careful.
alright... my specific test....... i got very little pharm.. or at least felt it was little... of what i did get, most of it was first aid... althouh not all... physio... kinda difficult on some questions... nothing really stated out like adolesterone increases Na reabsorptiaon.. instead, itd be something like a person on such a diet and what happens to his extracellular volume/osmolarity/etc.
path... not so bad... although some were kinda hard too... like the question would present a patient who was sickle cell and hypertensive, then ask about something relating to an organ pathology. again, 1/3rd would be pretty easy... etc
micro/immuno... not bad .. i think first aid is sufficient. had about 5 questions or so that required knowin classifications such as virluance factors/lab tests.. other than that it was mostly disease presentation.
biochem... hardly any quesitons.. i think there was 10 or so.. not many lysosomal/glycogen either.. what i had was mostly regulatory enzymes.
anatomy... this section i blew off.. cuz i didnt really get to study for it... ended up w/bout 15q on them... 4 of which had to do with the circle of willis... oh wellz
behavior... this was the suprise section for me... it felt like there were at least 3 quesitons eeach block that asked a 'what do you say to the patient' scernio... but there were kinda difficult i think... nothing that match exactly like the examples given in first aid/ BRS Beahvior.. so i just made my pick.... but id say some of the quesitons were stupid... one i rem, required knowin the difference between a 'core gender identiy crisis' versus 'transvetisim'?! see... thats just a example of something that you really cant study.
anyways.... i guess thats it... went by fast.. pray that i passed.. i had high expections before i started studyin, but as it got on (6 months) i just burnt myself out and i think worried too much about it... so main advice is to just try your best and study the main diseases and then just take the sucker.