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RE: ... And Back to Days Again! 🥴

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Sleep is important, there's no way I could go back and even try to do nights. I'm too damn old! Review courses are always a good idea, and get your hands on as many questions as possible. The key to all medical based tests is questions. Study is great, but the questions force your mind to think. On those tests they give you all these questions that test how well you take tests, not your knowledge. Even at the boards level, which is stupid. It's an industry, a way for boards to make money. Ideally that want you to fail once or twice so you have to pay to take it again. Bunch of crooks in my personal opinion!

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Absolutely, once you learn how to take the test, the rest becomes easy. I'm not the strongest test taker, and my practical knowledge exceeds my test-taking ability. That said, my knowledge base is also not as complete as I would like, and some of the facts I pick up in these review courses and practice questions are useful, and that's the true value proposition for me.

I will say that for the initial exams (i.e. the pre-licensing ones), the questions were terrible! They did not reflect practice at all. I recognized this from nearly the beginning. However, I find the questions for the specialty exam to be better and somewhat more reflective of our practice (even if not always applicable due to various logistics). I actually feel these are more useful, and thus I don't find them a complete waste of time - just tiring, haha.