Struggling with med school - Exams

Hi everyone,

I’m really struggling with medical school, and I’ve recently failed an exam because I find them so difficult. No matter how much I try to study, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of content, and I don’t know how to retain everything effectively. It’s really knocking my confidence, and I’m starting to wonder if I’m cut out for this.

Has anyone else been in this situation? How did you get through it? Any study tips or advice on how to cope with the stress and revise or ace the exams would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Reply 1

Physician

Original post

by Rookiee

Hi everyone,
I’m really struggling with medical school, and I’ve recently failed an exam because I find them so difficult. No matter how much I try to study, I feel overwhelmed by the amount of content, and I don’t know how to retain everything effectively. It’s really knocking my confidence, and I’m starting to wonder if I’m cut out for this.
Has anyone else been in this situation? How did you get through it? Any study tips or advice on how to cope with the stress and revise or ace the exams would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

I suggest you try to study with other students to see what they are doing. But medical exams are mainly multiple choice style of assessment, aren't they? And you are mainly only assessed on the lecture and seminar material, aren't you? Do they give any past paper questions? Do you attend all classes?

Reply 2

Rookiee

Thank you. I will try and study with others. Yes, the exam was multiple-choice, and I attended all my sessions and prepared thoroughly. However, the questions were much harder than expected. I’m not sure if this is typical for my medical school, but we haven’t even covered the GI tract yet, and it wasn’t part of the exam prep—yet there were definitely questions on it. There also seems to be a lot of content in the exams that isn’t covered in our lectures or materials. There are no past papers and they suggest we don’t use pass-medicine either.

Reply 3

Rookiee

Original post

by Physician

Are there any revision resources you know of that can help with these sort of tricky exam questions?

Reply 4

Physician

Original post

by Rookiee

Are there any revision resources you know of that can help with these sort of tricky exam questions?

I think you should speak with some of your lecturers and personal tutor. From what l have heard from past medical students is that the lecture material should be enough to comfortably pass the course for a 2.2 degree classification in general. Some of the medicine revision books covering multiple choice exams might be useful. But definitely speak with the lecturers who set the exams for advice on how to prepare for the tests. Perhaps revising the material from lectures and revision books in the mcq format could help.