Thanks again for a great blog post. I have been practicing your pathohysiology-chronology and stand-alone question technique to practice reasoning through Uworld questions and reducing my unforced errors. It goes really well when I do this on tutor mode (I make almost no unforced errors, and virtually all mistakes are due to knowledge gaps). It’s hard to translate this to an actual timed environment, however, where I find I run out of time even on straight forward questions and make many unforced errors due to not having time to reason through it or check my gut assumptions. I don’t actually write out the chronology or the stand-alone question in timed practice, but I do try to think through both in my head as I’m answering questions. So the problem I have is that it takes me significant time to think through the problem and develop a stand alone question (even mentally), and this kills the clock on most questions (even easy ones). I haven’t been practicing this for very long (about 15% through Uworld), but I just want to know if my speed is something I’ll likely improve with more practice, or if there’s something else I should do to get faster?

Thanks!