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What's up, everyone? Dr. Zeeshan here.
So this podcast episode is a little bit different.
It's more. What I see going on around me as
you can imagine with how many students I deal with on a
regular basis that I see certain things that students do that
really is troubling in the sense that it does nothing but hurt
you. And in no way.
Is going to help you and what do I mean by that?
Well, have you ever caught yourself saying?
Oh, what did you get on the test?
Like what was the stuff that you got on this test or on my last
test? For those of you that are
repeat, test takers. I got this and my friend told me
that they got this topic on their exam and and they saw a
lot of this in a lot of mental health, in a lot of maternity.
Look who cares. Who cares?
I promise you every single test is going to be different than
the next or different than the previous, or different, from
your peer, or your fellow student or friend.
It's all different. It's a pool that the board's use
of thousands, upon thousands of questions and it's random.
So you don't know if the test that you're going to get is
going to be similar to somebody else's or similar to your
previous tests. So, just focus on content, those
of you that know that come to my weekly.
Resumes that are enrolled in the on-demand lectures that have
done the course. With me that listen to my
podcast regularly. I'm all about content and these
are board exams. So they're not going to be one
specific subject, and I can it all mental health and I can all
maternity. You don't know what you're going
to get. They also going to throw stuff
at you that you don't know that you've never seen before because
they want to see if you can logically deduce, the answer and
how your critical thinking skills.
Azhar so focus on test taking skills on top of that content.
And the other thing that I would recommend is Stop close or stop
counting the select all that apply.
It doesn't determine whether you passed or not at this point in
my career. I've seen people that have had
all 145 questions and they had nine.
Pass. I've had people that have had
98, go on to our Instagram. And look at one of our students.
Her name is Nurse Amna, and she was in my course, and she had 98
out of 145 pass. So I think it's like psyching
yourself out, and it mentally harms, your ability to progress
and get to where you want to be at, which is that level of
preparedness knowing that, I'm going to walk.
In doing as much content as I need to know knowing that it
doesn't matter what somebody else got or what I got before.
Because if I know my content who cares, The other thing that I
hear all the time is, oh, you know, what?
Doctors eicu world is specific and the boards are vague.
Well answer me this, if you were to know, heart failure inside
out. I don't care how you asked me a
question about it, vaguely, or specifically, I'm gonna get it,
right. So knowing content is the number
one thing that you can't avoid, you can't avoid.
That's why I'm consistently adding new content to our
course, because look the more, the more, you know, the better.
And it's not just about memorization.
You truly have to understand it. And and that's a key issue that,
a lot of people don't understand.
You can't memorize things and then I Talk about that when I
talk about the seven reasons why people fail.
So just some fallacies, just some myths that I want to kind
of debunk. Some things that I also want to
show you that students are out there doing that.
Maybe, you know, you're guilty of it.
I know I was guilty of it. You know, I would ask you all
the time. You know, what was the topic
that you got, or what did you see on the boards?
It's all different. It's all different.
So, stop asking, 20 different people what they saw on their
exam, stop, you know, focusing on what you You got on your exam
last time and focus on the upcoming exam.
The focus is what's in front of you, what's coming up and
getting ready for that. Don't dwell on other people's
exams. Don't dwell on your own exams.
Stopped trying to count to select all that apply.
I mean, maybe as a talking point.
Oh, I got this many silly card, apply, but it really doesn't
determine whether you pass or not and then forget about the
vagueness and the specificity of a question, just know your
content and you're going to get it right.
Have good tasting strategies. You will get it right?
Know that. I'm going to know half of your
exam and that test taking strategy.
For instance, for me. I teach my students a method.
So you guys all have access to that.
So the method kind of keeps things organized.
It shows you how to break down questions, knowing that you're
not going to know half of your exam, knowing your medical
terminology, very important, breaking down words and
understanding what they mean. And and these are the types of
things that are going to get you to this exam.
So stop psyching yourself out. Nonetheless.
I thought I dropped this. A little quick podcast for you
guys. Hope you enjoy.
See you at the free weekly Zoom. Take care.