 Hey everyone, I hope you're well. Welcome back to my channel if you're new here My name is seppy and in today's video as you can guess by the title This is one of my most highly requested videos I'm going to be basically Opening my exam results, and I'm gonna be showing you guys how I revised for my medical school exams this year So I am a fourth year medical student. So in the UK med school is five years and Yeah, I've done four of them now So I'll be going into my final year next month Which I'm very very excited about But yeah, I thought that I would do like I've watched before people were opening their results and in my university results come in two bits so after a week you get past fail and then Beyond that like a few days later. We got kind of a breakdown of our results and My kind of result breakdown came through so I thought that I would go through it with you guys So fortunately, I passed my exams my exams were in two parts So the first one was the written paper though why is Katie's a year specific knowledge test? And the second part was the oski, which is the clinical skills part And that's why you basically do like practicals and you show to an examiner On a patient or a simulated patient basically an actor how you would Like respond to each scenario So for example, you could have like pregnant ladies coming in or someone with tummy pain coming in or you get someone with Eye pain sudden loss of vision headaches all of these things so my exam results came through and so for the written apart I think the past mark every year on average I don't know what it was this year is about 50% and I got 60 So I was way past the past mark. Thank the Lord and for the oski I got an average of seventy two point two percent across the across fourteen stations so there's fourteen stations that you do practicals on and Yeah, I I got seventy two point two so out of fourteen stations. You can fail five and you I think the average number to fail this year was One yeah, but the average past mark for oski again is about fifty percent. So I did well above the average I think I got top twenty percent But I'm not a hundred percent sure if I did get the top twenty percent of my year group But I'm pretty sure I did so I'm very very happy with that so they kind of break it down for us and Yeah, like I got like eighty percent seventy seven point five seventy two point five fifty five eighty ninety one point three ninety seven point five a hundred percent seventy six point three seventy fifty Forty three point eight and sixty seven point five. So yeah, it all balanced out to seventy two point two percent and Yeah, I'm really really really beyond happy with that. So I am going into my final year now, which I am ecstatic about and yeah, I think that I I've been a lot of work for it. So I'm really really happy with the results I Think overall when you add up so when you add up the sixteen seventy two point two I kind of hit like around sixty five percent Which should put me like in the fifth desal so medical school. They like rank you in desiles so top desal the top ten percent of the year group and bottom desal like the bottom ten percent performing of the year group and I think I would probably be sitting around fifth with sixty five percent But but I'm not too sure Because they haven't sent that out that information out to us yet But I'm really happy with that Every year I try and like beat my my school from the previous year because my only competition is myself I know we get ranked against each other and on Unfortunately, I do see it in university. I do see people Seeing each other's competition and I think it's really sad in my opinion because the only person in life Who should be a competition is you? You should only look back at yourself and see what you did and what you can do better next time So yeah, that's that's pretty much my goals is to always do better than what I did last time And yeah, I'm really really happy with my results So now talking about how I revised for these exams. So like I said is two parts So 50% of my grade came from the multiple choice papers and those two papers each one had a hundred marks and The second part my results came from my Practical which was 14 stations five of them were 15 minute stations and nine of them were 10 minute stations So I'm mostly gonna focus on how I revised for the written stuff. If you guys want me to do a Revision on oskies so the practical stuff then let me know But I don't know how helpful that would be because I know that the way I revised for the written stuff would be really good for GCSEs and A-levels even so what I did was I've got my notebooks here So I have two notebooks and these are both are literally filled with my notes So my exams are in July and I started revising Properly like hardcore in April So I do some work throughout the year like a couple of hours a day for about four days a week But because I go to university on placement full-time So I go from 8 a.m. So like minimum 3 30 usually 5 p.m. So that's quite a long day. So to come back and revise full-time afterwards is Too much for me to do for the whole year. I feel like I'd burn out So I started revising full-time from April. So from April. I would Literally go straight to the library after placement and I would stay till about 11 p.m 10 11 p.m. Or I would come home and do that revision, but usually I like to go to the library reason being is because First of all the journey home can distract you and then when you get home you forget you need to revise That's one of the reasons I do it. The second is that there's no noise in the library But at home even when I want to film a video There's always someone who wants to make noise and the slightest noise will distract you and Thirdly being around other people who are studying and not on their phones and stuff will stop you From going on your phone and being distracted So I think it's a really good environment to rise in if you have a library and you've never tried it out I recommend trying out because you know it's sitting in silence and just getting your work done You're so much more productive Another thing that I do is I take breaks, but the first sitting so when I first go to the library and sit down I try and sit for as long as I can without like without taking a break because that is when you're most productive So the first sitting is when you're most productive after that you're gonna need regular breaks So usually I can do my first sitting for I've done for up to like two and a half hours three hours And then I'll need a break I'll go get a coffee or like a snack or something like that And then I'll come back and recuperate or I'll sit outside the library with my friends have a little chat And then after that I do like an hour and a half and then like a half an hour break or 20 minute break and like that cyclical Just because you always want to be like focused You don't want to lose your focus and if you sit down too long You'll end up looking at your notes, but you won't actually be focused on your notes if that makes sense So let me show you guys my notes So So I am a spider diagram queen I love making spider diagrams and when I go back through my notes I look at you just highlight everything that's important and I use colors. I think colors really help a lot and I write all the key information So what I do is I use textbooks to get the information that I need and the textbooks that I use a lot of You guys asked me so I use the Oxford handbook of clinical specialties I'll put a little picture here and I also use the Oxford handbook of clinical medicine again I'll put a picture right here and I use that to make my notes and when I'm making my notes I don't rush to make notes I like to read through make sure I completely understand it and then I'll move on to the next topic so each topic so for example each Specialty can take me about two or three weeks to two weeks I would say to make notes on so to make notes on all of gynecology took me about a week and a half because I Really loved that placement. So it was easier for me to absorb it But psychiatry took me like three weeks because it's a concept that took me longer to kind of grasp But then once I got it, I was happier with it. So those are the textbooks that I use That's how I make my notes. I make spider diagrams and then closer to Exam time I can look back at my diagram and kind of highlight everything that's important Or even the day before it's really good for going back and seeing what's important Now how I consolidate my memory is once I've made these notes. We have a website That's available all over the world. You guys can check it out called past medicine comm and Pass medicine comm is basically a question bank with like 5,000 questions. I'm not sponsored or any way affiliated I wish I was because like it's freaking awesome And yeah, so I heard about it through people at uni and I got it and you pay I can't even tell you how much you pay, but it's nothing more than like 25 pounds for like Six months or a year or something like that. So it's not it's fairly inexpensive for how many questions you get 5,000 questions So they have questions on each specialty. So they have all of medicines or gastro hematology infectious diseases all of that and Cardiology rest and then they'll have each specialty as well. So like gynecology obstetrics women's health ophthalmology neurology, so they'll have all of these questions and for each Specialty, they'll have about 300 questions. So once I'd made all of my notes I would do all 300 questions and it gives you like feedback on like if you get a question wrong right underneath it Like almost like a textbook bulletproof version. It'll tell you like all the facts about that Topic that you got wrong and you can make notes from it and that's what I would do and then I also had Along with my textbooks. I had the question book for my textbooks so the Oxford SS and progress books and I bought those and I did all of the questions for the clinical specialties and I did some of the questions for clinical medicine but not all of them Simply because of time I didn't manage to do all of those questions But I would that was really good for me when I take the train There's no reception. So I can't use like an online website So I would use the tech that book of questions to consolidate my memory and yeah from that I did about 700 questions from past men. I would say I did about a few thousand questions like two three thousand questions Probably yeah this year. I think every year I do about two three thousand There are some people who just study from past medicine So they there's about five thousand questions on there and they'll do it like three times But I feel like that wouldn't work for me I like to read from the textbook and understand the subject rather than be a question spotter who just kind of picks up from the mark scheme because in real life as a doctor You know, you're not going to be able to question spot things in my opinion But what whatever works for each person at the end of the day? We were all working towards the same thing So I just thought let you know what some people do so yeah, that's pretty much how I studied for my exams and Yeah, so I made notes. I Read it when it's before the exam, but in the meantime in that time frame I did questions and that is how I consolidated my memory and Overall, I got past mark like I said average across the written and the the practical I got sixty five percent past mark, which I'm very very happy with I might you guys might think that's quite low But like I said the past mark is usually around fifty percent So technically I got fifteen percent by the past mark which usually puts me back on the fifth That's how I think But I'm not a hundred percent sure So yeah, I'm really really happy with that like I said, I've been very very open and honest with you guys I like being open and honest with you on my channel and Yeah, you know Please be kind and don't be mean in the comments about it But yeah, I'm very very happy with what I did Also, if you go to university in the UK and you study different subject like you study I don't know like history or law or something Then you guys would be graded like first-class two one two two all of that So when I say sixty five percent a lot of you will be thinking else like a two one level But yeah medicine is graded in a different way So I hope that you guys found all this really useful if you did then please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to me down Below on my channel. I don't just talk about medicine if you guys have been following for a while You know I do vlogs. I'm actually going away next week. So it's gonna be a travel vlog of mykonos Which I can't wait to share with you guys And I basically record my whole life. So med school Exercise fitness everything that you can imagine So if you have any videos you want to see as well Even if it's not medical related or if it is let me know down in the comments and I will love to film it for you guys Don't forget to count my socials that always linked down below in the description box But I'll write across the screen too. It is Persian bunny on Instagram and sepi samoy on snapchat I love you all so so so much and I'll see you next time. Bye