Final leg

A boxing poster I saw somewhere said that Ali trained 1000 minutes in the gym for every minute of his fight, or something like that. Someone asked me a while ago how amazing I might possibly be on tests if I trained for 1000 hours, and while I can't really put a number on how much time I've used up training for this upcoming board exam, I can put a number on how many questions I've done in order to prepare for the exam.

The practice question bank for the exam is 1360 questions. I've gone through the entire bank once, then I did all the incorrect questions (700). So let's call it 2000. Then I reset the bank and did all the questions again (another 1360) and this time I only got 337 or so wrong. Drilled that down to 250, so 3360 + 80 = 4160 or thereabouts. By the time I'm done, I will have practiced 4400 or so questions for the exam from the bank. Then there was that one day where I did 180 questions on the practice exam from the National Board of medical examiners, so that brings the total to 4600. Then I did 200 questions from the other practice exam sponsored by the test prep bank company, so now that's 4800 questions. That's more than ten times the number of questions that are on the actual exam. Not too shabby if I do say so myself, even though most of the questions are a repeat pass through the bank.

Then there's the case scenarios, where a patient comes in with an illness and you play doctor on a computer simulation, ordering tests and getting results in and ordering treatments and surgeries and typing in hospital orders, watching patients improve etc. There are 12 on the exam, and I've done 84, so that's a fair number of them. I'll have another 20 done by the time test day rolls around.

So much test prep. I feel like I should be ready. Too bad I barely exercised or ate well this entire time. I feel like the fat guy in the tub from Blade. I don't look like the guy though, and I've seen similar in real life so I'm glad I'm still doing something right in that arena.