All your passive reviewing cannot tell you whether you can pass your board or not. Only testing can assess quantitatively your chances. You have to complement comprehensive reviewing with intensive and repeated test taking. Continuous self assessment promotes retention of learning and strengthens power to recall. These are the qualities you need when you are taking the actual board.
The most effective preparation for the board combines two essential components: Reviewing and Testing.
Our method starts not with random, haphazard, direction-less reviewing but with testing with a purpose: testing to discover what you still remember correctly from your college days and what you have forgotten. Basically, you take tests to refresh your familiarity and understanding of lessons you have previously learned. Testing identifies subjects you are strong in, and more importantly, where you are weak.
We emphasize testing because it is far more effective than passive, random, and direction-less reading of review materials, watching youtube videos, listening to lectures because testing requires your mental effort, your active participation, to retrieve and recall subject and lessons from your mind. Passive reviewing is just like mental spoon-feeding which is easily forgotten.
Intensive and repetitive testing enables you to measure your progress. Test scores are valid metrics that assess your preparation and chances of passing. If you cannot measure what you are doing, you cannot improve on it. Our software pulls out digital records of your test results so you can measure your improvement and validly assess your chances of passing the board.
Only when you can pass our tests consistently will you have the confidence to take the board without any apprehension or test anxiety.
Comprehensive Reviewing + Intensive, Methodical, and Repetitive Testing = Passing the Board