Hey prerak! Great tip. Doing anki in a single deck does take up more time. But the only reason for that is the cards are repeated (in 15 or 25 mins) if we answer "again" or "hard". Don't you think going through the effort to revise those weak cards is better than just finishing a small deck that'd still have weak cards due but we'd have finished the deck by the time they'd reappear? Also if you use a single deck you don't know what to expect (kind of like random timed mode) which is better for recall. What would you suggest?
These are both GREAT points. Here is my answer: 1) When you do things with this method, you WILL HAVE some predictability (the cards in the deck about Breasts will be related to Breast pathology). However, I will argue that when you have a LOT of cards, this predictability is not going to harm you. On the USMLE, they usually make it pretty clear what organ system is affected (Cr will be through the roof if Kidney, discharge from breast if breast, etc.), and so you never really have trouble knowing what system is affected. Where the trouble comes is understanding HOW that system is affected (the specific disease process within the organ system). 2) And yes, if you do this method, you may side step quite a few cards that you have "trouble" with. But, again, when you have A LOT of cards, this side stepping is fine because I had MULTIPLE cards that would approach a concept from MULTIPLE angles. Thus, for me, if I didn't get a card one way, I could always start approaching it another way since that's what my cards were designed to do. Also, idk about you guys, but when I have specific cards that give me trouble, it takes a REALLY long time to learn them and that often ends up wasting a lot more time. This is also why Anki has a "leech" function that suspends a card if you don't understand it repeatedly because even the algorithm knows that, if you're spending too much time on one card, you're taking time away from other cards that might be easier for you to understand! Hope that helps :)
Quick q - I do my anki in multiple decks like you have it set up and it definitely goes faster. Was a little confused on how you broke your 1000 card decks into smaller decks? did you just put a review limit of 100 and then change it to 200 and so on? I have decks per system and will have 300 GI + 100 pulm + 150 renal etc per day but I just didnt get how you went from having 1k in week 4 USMLE deck and then doing 100 at a time. hope that makes sense lol
Also a great question. So, I actually had this massive deck of 15K cards initially and I just literally took 1K cards at a time and moved them to a new deck. If you watch the video, you'll see I have subdecks called "USMLE Block 1" -> "USMLE Block 2" etc. Those specific decks were not broken down by any specific category, but just a 1000 in a row that I took from the overarching 15K deck.
Hi Prerak- this is good advice. Question- right now I’ve been adding UWORLD to FA but have been finding it cumbersome. I think I’d like to switch to making anki over concepts I’m missing, but would you recommend continuing FA annotations? I’m struggling with effectively reviewing my UWORLD blocks
I'm not in Med school, I'm in Primary Care Paramedic school, and like how you divided your cards up into those further sub-divided decks! But I've heard people say its better to put everything in one deck (I have it by class) and that way you aren't expecting certain cards to appear per individualized topic (Like how you have Pathoma Breast, you're expecting the cards to be on that specifically, where as my Theory class encompasses all anatomy systems, treatments and disorders, so I'm not solely expecting anatomy of one certain system if I sub-divided my decks the way you did). Or did you only sub-divide your decks that way for USMLE studying?
There is nothing wrong with doing that caus its better organised and what You can do is just make a random deck and then put everything under it and now you can press that random deck and it will give you cards randomly from all the decks you put under it Thats what i do at least.
Could you share some advice on how you actually wrote a Uworld (missed question) card. For me the problem that I have now is that I am writing everything in my anki cards and there getting super long.
Hey Prerak! What is your recommendation to the following situation. Tomorrow I have 4 Pathoma videos to watch and the amount of cards referred to them is 250 cards. But my daily limit is 150 new cards to be added. Would you divide 150 (my daily limit of new cards to be added) by the number of videos? In this case, 37 new cards for each video (even though you know you're not going to make all the cards.
Hello, I started uworld before dedicated and I have about 1k questions left and I will start dedicated in about 3 weeks. I have already made many cards for the questions I have gotten wrong and added them to subdecks within zanki. My interval for Zanki is 6 months and the total deck size is 30K. Should I also shorten this interval to 1.5-2months when i start dedicated or just alter the intervals for the subdecks?
Hi Prerak! Thanks for the great content! Current M1 here. I was wondering if you have any tips/advice for prepping for boards along side course material? Is there anything that you did along side your courses that you found to have really helped when it came to your board prep during dedicated (or anything specific with anki that you found to pay off in the end) ? Just trying to be a bit more proactive now that we're all attending medical school online haha. thanks for your help!
Hey! I know I'm not Prerak, but something I've been doing is correlating whatever the content being taught in lecture to Pathoma, BnB, or Sketchy. Then I would just watch those videos, unsuspend the specific cards from AnKing (by tags), and do them. Near exam time, I would briefly study the lecture powerpoints. Let me know if you have any questions.
![[USMLE STEP 1]: Should I Do Two Passes of UWorld or Another QBank (Amboss, Kaplan, etc.)?](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_3ihLFrTs8E/mqdefault.jpg)
Hey prerak! Great tip. Doing anki in a single deck does take up more time. But the only reason for that is the cards are repeated (in 15 or 25 mins) if we answer "again" or "hard". Don't you think going through the effort to revise those weak cards is better than just finishing a small deck that'd still have weak cards due but we'd have finished the deck by the time they'd reappear? Also if you use a single deck you don't know what to expect (kind of like random timed mode) which is better for recall. What would you suggest?
These are both GREAT points. Here is my answer:
1) When you do things with this method, you WILL HAVE some predictability (the cards in the deck about Breasts will be related to Breast pathology). However, I will argue that when you have a LOT of cards, this predictability is not going to harm you. On the USMLE, they usually make it pretty clear what organ system is affected (Cr will be through the roof if Kidney, discharge from breast if breast, etc.), and so you never really have trouble knowing what system is affected. Where the trouble comes is understanding HOW that system is affected (the specific disease process within the organ system).
2) And yes, if you do this method, you may side step quite a few cards that you have "trouble" with. But, again, when you have A LOT of cards, this side stepping is fine because I had MULTIPLE cards that would approach a concept from MULTIPLE angles. Thus, for me, if I didn't get a card one way, I could always start approaching it another way since that's what my cards were designed to do. Also, idk about you guys, but when I have specific cards that give me trouble, it takes a REALLY long time to learn them and that often ends up wasting a lot more time. This is also why Anki has a "leech" function that suspends a card if you don't understand it repeatedly because even the algorithm knows that, if you're spending too much time on one card, you're taking time away from other cards that might be easier for you to understand!
Hope that helps :)
This is such a smart tip! I'm going to use this for my classes so I don't spent so much time on Anki :)
is it possible to underline the text and not the cloze deletion?
Can you do a video on why you decided to pursue an MD/MBA? What did the application process look like? What are the advantages of an MBA?
Quick q - I do my anki in multiple decks like you have it set up and it definitely goes faster. Was a little confused on how you broke your 1000 card decks into smaller decks? did you just put a review limit of 100 and then change it to 200 and so on? I have decks per system and will have 300 GI + 100 pulm + 150 renal etc per day but I just didnt get how you went from having 1k in week 4 USMLE deck and then doing 100 at a time. hope that makes sense lol
I think its smarter to have decks by system. All new knowledge should be put in that particular system.
Also a great question. So, I actually had this massive deck of 15K cards initially and I just literally took 1K cards at a time and moved them to a new deck. If you watch the video, you'll see I have subdecks called "USMLE Block 1" -> "USMLE Block 2" etc. Those specific decks were not broken down by any specific category, but just a 1000 in a row that I took from the overarching 15K deck.
@@PrerakJuthani gotcha that makes sense and you would just do 10 sets of 100 on to finish that 1k deck I'm assuming?
What add on you use to get those colored decks
Hi Prerak- this is good advice. Question- right now I’ve been adding UWORLD to FA but have been finding it cumbersome. I think I’d like to switch to making anki over concepts I’m missing, but would you recommend continuing FA annotations? I’m struggling with effectively reviewing my UWORLD blocks
I'm not in Med school, I'm in Primary Care Paramedic school, and like how you divided your cards up into those further sub-divided decks! But I've heard people say its better to put everything in one deck (I have it by class) and that way you aren't expecting certain cards to appear per individualized topic (Like how you have Pathoma Breast, you're expecting the cards to be on that specifically, where as my Theory class encompasses all anatomy systems, treatments and disorders, so I'm not solely expecting anatomy of one certain system if I sub-divided my decks the way you did). Or did you only sub-divide your decks that way for USMLE studying?
There is nothing wrong with doing that caus its better organised and what You can do is just make a random deck and then put everything under it and now you can press that random deck and it will give you cards randomly from all the decks you put under it
Thats what i do at least.
See my response to the question I pinned! Hope that answers it for you :)
@@PrerakJuthani you don't take notes, do you?
Lol I figured this same thing out also. Currently was premed for a long time and now switched to nursing school. Little small decks is the key.
bro when you graduate you still gonna stick to this extreme schedule?
Could you share some advice on how you actually wrote a Uworld (missed question) card. For me the problem that I have now is that I am writing everything in my anki cards and there getting super long.
Hey Prerak! What is your recommendation to the following situation. Tomorrow I have 4 Pathoma videos to watch and the amount of cards referred to them is 250 cards. But my daily limit is 150 new cards to be added. Would you divide 150 (my daily limit of new cards to be added) by the number of videos? In this case, 37 new cards for each video (even though you know you're not going to make all the cards.
do you do the reviews in 1 sitting, or space it out throughout the day?
Hello, I started uworld before dedicated and I have about 1k questions left and I will start dedicated in about 3 weeks. I have already made many cards for the questions I have gotten wrong and added them to subdecks within zanki. My interval for Zanki is 6 months and the total deck size is 30K. Should I also shorten this interval to 1.5-2months when i start dedicated or just alter the intervals for the subdecks?
Hi Prerak! Thanks for the great content! Current M1 here. I was wondering if you have any tips/advice for prepping for boards along side course material? Is there anything that you did along side your courses that you found to have really helped when it came to your board prep during dedicated (or anything specific with anki that you found to pay off in the end) ? Just trying to be a bit more proactive now that we're all attending medical school online haha. thanks for your help!
Hey! I know I'm not Prerak, but something I've been doing is correlating whatever the content being taught in lecture to Pathoma, BnB, or Sketchy. Then I would just watch those videos, unsuspend the specific cards from AnKing (by tags), and do them. Near exam time, I would briefly study the lecture powerpoints. Let me know if you have any questions.
This is a clutch tip!
hello! what add-ons do you use to have all those colors and numbers beside your decks? thank you in advance
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Michael Ben. Saleh thank you bro!
@@gerardolanza8134 Music för medical students for maximum concentration
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12 decks, 100 cards > 1200 cards, 1 deck
a lot of psychology at play here! gonna use this tip