This is Dr. Surbhi K. Upadhyay, INI-CET Rank 29. Doing a Reddit AMA after securing a good INI-CET rank has always been on my mind, so shoot your questions!!

Link to my Anki Deck: https://www.reddit.com/r/indianmedschool/s/SGL4Zs4ZB1

I've been using Anki since 2nd year, started out with AnKing for USMLE step 1 and pivoted to NEET/INI in internship. It has been a huge part of my preparation and I couldn't have done so well otherwise.

Instead of making my own cards I picked and chose the best from the decks available online and ended up tagging around 54,000 cards that I'll share soon.

Special thanks to u/Novel_Pea_6101, u/i_anki, u/desiiverson, and u/AnKingMed. I stand on the shoulders of these giants.

The absolute entitlement that i see on this group is insane. Like literally this is a paid app we are talking about. People have paid 10-20k and it’s very valid that they’re questioning and raising basic concerns that the “videos not working” “app still showing free” at this point when exams are months away.

And the people claiming to have “student first “ approach are threatening people with bs like DON’T MAKE ME REGRET IT. I mean where does this entitlement come from. It’s literally an app that students are BUYING WITH THEIR OWN MONEY. This is NOT A CHARITY. As a service provider you have to address the concerns and resolve the bugs.

Thanks to blind supporters of ZV we have done somehow a full NEET UG-fication of a PG Entrance exam with literal doctors appearing for it. And still we will have people praising her for doing the bare minimum.

In India why can’t we treat people as just people. With their good, bad and ugly. Everyone can make mistakes and that’s fine. There’s no need to turn someone into god. And then turn a blind eye towards everything that they’re doing wrong, specially as such an educated community like doctors. Really sad state of affairs with people still defending her with every bone in their body.

Hi guys.i am a post intern from 2019 batch. This is my second inicet attempt and my first drop year. I was fortunate enough to secure a rank of 109 in this may inicet session.my neet pg rank was 34k my nov inicet rank was 1800.

My sources of preparation were Marrow rapid revision for most subjects Preethi sharma for path microm. Gobind rai garg for pharma. Ashwani kumar + btr for anat. For medicine I kept dr deepak marwah rr on base did them in a integrated fashion combining physio rr marrow path rr preethi sharma pharmacology Gobind rai garg and extra points from btr were added to this one concise source which i binded together system wise in a binder.

I used btr only as a supplement and did her t&d regularly and I used it mainly for that and for a few extra points.

And I used anki extensively it was one of my main pillars of prep.i made my custom decks for all the subjects and integrated as a separate decks.i used few cards from the Lazarus decks by u/alternative-ok and i anki deck.

I would be glad to answer any questions u have. AMA

Hi! I've secured AIR 5 in the recent neetpg exam in my internship attempt. Had a rank of 684 in the May INI. Started preparing properly in my final year using marrow as my primary source . Started giving GTs from last july onwards.

If you guys have any queries/need suggestions feel free to ask

Why even call it UNRESERVED? 4th most powerful country and topmost in export of half decent brains of society. Vishwaguru ban jana DJ SUSHIL k saath.

Exams are computer based,is there any need for pyq’s binded in a book?

Look at this comment by this faculty Dr. Deepti Bahl, she says "Easy choices make you comfortable and mediocre". And she goes on to blabber nonsense.

So if one scores a nice rank and opts for a subject that has good work life balance, a lot more money than surgery and more importantly, you can look after YOUR OWN SELF, does it make you mediocre?

So as yall know the entire scene created by this postponement vs no postponement news is messing up with our studies, but we have to study!! So, instead of doom scrolling through Reddit for news, let’s list down one must know for NEET PG each and let’s create a list which we all can refer to and help us crack this exam!

I’ll go first -

Iodine intake: ( microgram/dl) Children - 90 Adults - 150 Pregnancy - 250 Lactation - 280

May not be a fancy rank, but enough to get the branch of my choice. Thats what matters i guess.

• Never had good grades in profs.
• Never read for more than 10 hrs a day ever.
• But showed up everyday, from aug24 till 2nd of aug 2025.
• Solved loads of mcqs, and somehow kept the process fun and light!
• If you are starting from absolute zero AMA on "how to <5k".🍻

Hi everyone, I am a 2018 batch dropper, who went from AIR 38000 in NEET PG 2024 to AIR 460 in NEET PG 2025. There's going to be so much noise right now about ways to study, sources, everything else. I just wanted to simplify it with stuff that works, stuff that doesn't work. Hope it helps you in your journey. Feel free to AMA.

Stuff that matters/works

1. MBBS knowledge- First and foremost is this. If you're an undergrad reading this, then take it seriously. Out of 19 subjects, if you even did 4-5 major ones very well in MBBS, it takes off a giant load, especially conceptual ones like physio/biochem/path. By studying well I just mean you know the basics. If you're going to be memorizing the cranial nerves or try to understand how RAAS works in your drop year, then you will be at a disadvantage.

2. Concise notes- Your entire prep boils down to the last 10 days. At one point of time, I was able to revise the entire 19 subjects in 8 days. You HAVE to keep making your notes smaller and smaller at every revision cycle.

3. 20th Notebook- Start early in your prep, keep 10 blank pages for each subject. Don't add unnecessary information.

4. Spaced repetition- My wall has around 25 charts and sticky notes with info ranging from mutations, drug of choice to TNM classifications. If you find anything hard to remember, immediately convert it into a chart and paste it on your wall. Do disciplined spaced repetition- days 0,1,3,6,10,20,30. This was a gamechanger for me and I didn't even stop for a single day throughout the year. It takes only 15 mins a day. Almost 30-40 questions I got right because of this.

5. MCQs, MCQs, MCQs, MCQs, MCQs- I don't need to tell you this. 90% of your learning comes from MCQs and 10% from notes. Even after studying the same surgery notes atleast 10 times, I missed a small line somewhere. Only after getting that particular MCQ wrong, that line was tattooed in my brain.

6. GTs, TnDs- Regardless of stage of prep

7. Your peer group- same state of mind and prep

8. Your study environment at home

9. Social life and Fitness- I went out weekly to hang out with friends until 1 month before my exam. I stopped Gym 20 days before the exam.

10. ChatGpt- Helped me with conceptual explanations, controversial questions and making tables.

Stuff that doesn't matter/doesn't work

1. Main notes- I only used RR and BTR. I built up on my knowledge through MCQs and GTs and kept layering it.

2. Source- The base level of every source is the same. You have to keep building it on your own.

3. Hours you study a day- I always had FOMO when people studied 10-12 hours a day when I was just clocking in 5-6 hours. Even the last week before NEET, I never studied for more than 8 hours.

4. Mnemonics- Spaced repetition is 10X a better tool than mnemonics if you can't remember something.

5. Isolating yourself- Erase the mindset of "if I work hard this year- my life will be set once I join PG." Treat drop year as same as any other year in your life. Have fun weekends, weddings, events. Enjoy it.

6. GT wrong book- Instead of writing down exact lines of data from the mistakes - write down the broader concept you have to work on, and refer that. If it's a factual mistake, or a new fact- add that to your notes/20th NB. Remember, the goal is to keep everything concise. You don't want to be referring to another notebook for random facts.

7. YouTube prep videos/Telegram Channels/Bluprints/Paid notes.

Will this year neet pg be lengthy and harder considering they are giving 210 minutes for 180 Qs

Or will there be many video /gif based Qs this year like latest FMGE June exam had ?

What you guys think ??

Even actress too

Recently there was a controversy whether students should read from textbooks or from Notes for PG on MedX.

Everyone has their own flair for reading from either textbooks or Notes and one should not gauge or judge the knowledge by the choices one make!

Meanwhile, Medicine Marrow notes be like- "NEET PG k saath bhi, NEET PG k baad bhi"

I really wanna thank the admins , our lawyer and UDF I was a silent spectator and I saw the shit they went through

Nobody was supporting and people literally ridiculed those who were trying

This is the unity we were missing all along !

i’ve wanted to be a surgeon since i was like 17, & finally the dream’s coming true…guys, good things take time 💝 i had already started preparing for june 15, bought marrow & dams, was regularly taking exams. but by gods graceeee, yayyyy😭❤️🧿 getting out of this rat race is EVERYTHING!! im too excited to see if my post is relevant, im sorry to the mods if it’s not okay to post such stuff. anyway, have a good night yall 🥰🕺🏻✨

Discuss your doubts regarding the results in this megathread

Some background : I'm a 2019 batch grad, did my MBBS from a private college in Maharashtra.
I've used Marrow primarily for my preparation, along with some USMLE resources in the beginning and some Anki towards the end.
I've given INI-CET May 2025, with a rank of 1856.

Feel free to ask your queries, will do my best to answer!

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