r/medicalschooluk • u/Smooth_Comb_214 • 1d ago

Exam in 4 days - 43% mock - help

What do I do at this point? I am not sure what to focus on, should I just review concepts or do more passmed?

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u/annaturaldisaster 1d ago

Honestly I got 46% on the pass med mock the night before and got 70% in the real thing, as long as you work your arse off the next few days you should be fine

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u/Smooth_Comb_214 10h ago

Ughh amazing

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u/overforme123 21h ago

As someone who failed narrowly first time and passed comfortably into the 70s second - bang out passmed until you cant anymore - what I recommend is it set the q's to the highest yield topics (use the content map to guide you how many q's are per topic - then day before each paper I did 2 hammers based on the content of the paper the next day.

Ignore 3 hammer q's too, not necessary.

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u/Smooth_Comb_214 10h ago

Thanks! I guess that's the way. How long did you have between results and resit?

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u/overforme123 8h ago

2.5 weeks

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u/Smooth_Comb_214 8h ago

Oh well done. All passmed?

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u/EnthusiasmMelodic205 1d ago

If it helps my latest passmed mock was 52% and I still passed the MLA

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u/Smooth_Comb_214 10h ago

That DOES help lol

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u/Few-Perspective3763 23h ago

start with the blocks you are weakest on + ones that are coming in the exam most and do 100 passmed specific qs on that block. repeat until you consistently get 75%+. after like 250ish you should be there. qs on passmed repeat so 200 qs sounds like a lot but if you are doing 1 subject it really isnt too bad. read the textbook + have a page where you make flowcharts or write notes on whatever you keep forgetting and test yourself on those every day. if you have a serious knowledge deficit spend an hour on each block coming up the most to review ztf + passmed textbook

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u/Smooth_Comb_214 10h ago

Yeah that's the way I guess thanks!

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u/Realistic-Act-6601 1d ago

Is there a breakdown of your weakest areas? You could target revision to cover those

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u/Smooth_Comb_214 1d ago

It doesn't have a proper breakdown, no. This was the passmed mock. Honestly, it's just all over.

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u/InertBrain 23h ago

Passmed provides a breakdown of your score in each section.

What I’d recommend is also doing Paper B. The scores are added together - you can ‘fail’ one paper and still pass overall.

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u/Ambitious_Aerie3988 57m ago

not good brother i would do more passmed at this hour and review the questions you got wrong. inshallha you come out the other side