New Podcast Miniseries Answers Your Top Questions About Studying and Test-Taking In Med School 

In our newest podcast miniseries, we dig into the most common questions we get asked about studying and board-style test-taking in medical school. In Part 1, we dig into a top question we hear all the time: “With regards to medical board exams, are good test-takers born, or are they made?” We examine the “nature versus nurture” argument to see if bad test-takers are born or made. 

“When we talk about test-taking at this level, I'm not interested in test-taking tricks or deductive reasoning strategies. That stuff is all invalid in my book. Test-taking at this level should be about cleaning up the test-taker's ability to interface with and show what they know on boards. Being a good test-taker means you consistently plug into a question and read it accurately, without adding or losing key information while drawing the correct inferences using the parts of what you know. In some manner, the good test-taker narrows the choices by eliminating options that are partially false and then choosing the safest remaining answer choice.”

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