HELP-3rd yr BHAM uni exams, depression :<

[GSoroz2008]

Hi All,

I am in need of urgent advice. My fried is in his 3rd year at brum uni and he has re-sits in CLS and IMS. He has failed and has to re-sit in about 2 weeks. Both of the exams are MCQ.

He has always followed a method of parrot fashion revision; and he has failed one year and had to resit it. If he messes up again he is in deep deep trouble.

For anyone who has sat these exams what can he do? he tries to revise all the lecture notes [i.e. memorise them] but gets confused between terms as they're very similar.

He is always insistent on trying to do parrot fashion revision but then has not MCQ practice. I have told him to do lots of MCQ questions;but he says that these questions are year 5 level so finds them too difficult. Given that he has his CLS and IMS exams from the 27th May, 28th May can ppl advise please?

He is struggling on his therapeutics within IMS, and infections within CLS.

Please please advise, his has lost all confidence and i fear this could tip him into severe depression. Family support is minimal as his parents feel he is stressing them.

GSoroz2008

[GSoroz2008]

In addition, he says that there are no exam papers to practice with. what MCQ practice do ppl advise? As an indicator he is taking 40 mins to parrot fashion revise lectures and to to 3 hours on the technical areas. He is literally doing parrot fashion revision. please help, i really fear for him.

[chicken66]

Has he tried talking through the subject areas with other people? Has he tried going through the 'hard' MCQ questions with other people, by doing them together they may work out the answer, and also get the hang of how the med school want them to think whilst answering. This may also increase his confidence (which'll help when he's in the exam)

In the exam has he thought about reading the MCQ question, trying to answer it and then looking at the answers (use a plastic ruler to sheild the answers).