Some people are missing the point of The Final Step. They are getting something out of it, but they could be getting so much more if they used it the right.
I want to be sure you get the most out of your copy.
The Final Step is not designed as an assessment tool. You can use it as one, but you’re not getting the most out of it if you do. If you read a section, then use The Final Step to test yourself at the end before you move on but never come back to it, you’re leaving a lot on the table.
TFS isn’t the best tool for assessment. It is the best tool for spaced repetition and memorizing material.
Spaced repetition is a powerful, simple, proven method to memorize information.
When using spaced repetition, you cover a topic. Then you review it again at some short interval. Then again at a longer interval. Then again at a longer interval yet.
Let’s say you cover ENT in The Final Step. Then 30 minutes later you do it again. Then 3 hours later you do it again. Then the next day you do it again. Then 3 days later you do it again.
That’s how you lock it in.
The Final Step also uses unprompted recall. Meaning I don’t give you multiple choice answers. You have to pick the answer out of your brain. That is a lot more work. It isn’t the same as your PANCE/PANRE – again, not an assessment. It makes you work harder to build up those neurons for remembering. The harder you work, the more you remember.
The short single step nature of the questions makes it so that you can use spaced reposition and it doesn’t take you forever. TFS makes it possible to fit it all in.
Even if you’re not using The Final Step (and why wouldn’t you be???) you need to be using spaced repetition and unprompted recall in your studying.
It will skyrocket your scores and help you hold onto that stuff you can never seem to remember. Think vaccinations and developmental milestones.
Brian Wallace